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Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by jdenning »

For people suffering from tinnitus, here is a technique that greatly helped me:

1. Place your hands over your ears such that your fingers are on the back of your skull - thumbs should be on your neck and middle fingers at the base of your skull.

2. Tap your middle fingers on the base of your skull repeatedly for ~30 seconds

It apparently doesn’t work for everyone, and it’s not permanent, but for me it greatly reduces the “volume” or stops it entirely.

I have no idea what the explanation is, but it’s free, safe, and you can try it right now.

Hope that helps! Tinnitus sucks.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by zimpenfish »

BOSIG wrote: post #49
epolanski wrote: post #5

I've got tinnitus, 38 male. Got it randomly one day this summer. It's impossible to describe how depressing it is to hear a sound non stop in your ears, night and day, wherever I go or whatever I do, it just never stops. The brain started filtering it out a bit after months, but it's always there and you're often reminded of it when you're in a slightly more silent environment. There are days where it becomes especia…

I got a high-pitch ringing tinnitus when I was about 18-20. I went from being a person that falls asleep in But no matter how cliché it sounds, it does get better with time. The brain does get better and better with filtering it. I also discovered that my tinnitus gets worse with caffeine, stress and lack of sleep. In periods when I live a overall "healthy" lifestyle in respect to sleep, stress, food, working out etc…

> But no matter how cliché it sounds, it does get better with time.

For some, perhaps, but mine (25+ years) has not improved one jot. At best I've learnt to manage it with masking sounds (thanks to MyNoise) but it's always there waiting for a quiet moment.

Might be to do with how well your general auditory circuitry was working in the first place, mind - e.g. I've always had the "two noises at once tend toward garbage in my brain" problem (which made most social conversations almost impossible. FUN TIMES.) Given that implies my brain was already fairly borked for auditory processing, that might have an impact on whether it can eventually cope with tinnitus and/or whether it is more susceptible in the first place[0].

[0] Although I am 99% sure it's due to a large amount of loud gigs in small venues without any ear protection causing "mechanical damage" tinnitus.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by Kinrany »

mynameisash wrote: post #3

I'll save you about 30 ad views: > The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REM), might suppress the brain activity that leads to tinnitus.

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Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by kylecazar »

idiotsecant wrote: post #67
nozzlegear wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so I've never had any negative feelings associated with it. As a kid I just thought it was natural that everyone's ears would ring all the time and would get louder when it was quiet. My ears are ringing right now as I write this. Then I developed pulsatile tinnitus in my early 30s, which means I can hear my heartbeat in my (right) ear at all hours of the day as well.…

I'd say i'm sorry to hear about your 60 beat per second heart rate but by the time you read this you are surely dead. RIP

60 bps is a fine HR, if you are implying it isn't

Edit: WHOOPSIE DAISY

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by mattmanser »

borski wrote: post #70
microtonal wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so I've never had any negative feelings associated with it. As a kid I just thought it was natural that everyone's ears would ring all the time and would get louder when it was quiet. My ears are ringing right now as I write this. I don't know if I have tinnitus. I had strong ringing in my ears every now and then as a kid. I once told a classmate about this, who said I…

You have tinnitus.

That's not really tinnitus, I used to have that before I got tinnitus.

Tinnitus is like 30-50 times the volume of that, depending on how rundown I am or whether I have a cold. For me it's predominantly in one ear, though does sometimes change.

What he's describing is fairly normal and is just to do with blood pressure in your ears, from what I've subsequently read.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by toast0 »

kylecazar wrote: post #95
idiotsecant wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say i'm sorry to hear about your 60 beat per second heart rate but by the time you read this you are surely dead. RIP

60 bps is a fine HR, if you are implying it isn't Edit: WHOOPSIE DAISY

Heart beat is usually measured in bpm. All the charts top out at 200. 360 bpm is certainly problematic for a human.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by degoldman100 »

Mine started whilst I was skateboarding with in ear headphones in listening to slayer full volume, had a big slam with headphones in, left side of head hit the floor and had a loud ringing in my ears ever since.

Always had trouble falling asleep though, ever since I was a young sperm.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by arcanemachiner »

mattmanser wrote: post #97
borski wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have tinnitus.

That's not really tinnitus, I used to have that before I got tinnitus. Tinnitus is like 30-50 times the volume of that, depending on how rundown I am or whether I have a cold. For me it's predominantly in one ear, though does sometimes change. What he's describing is fairly normal and is just to do with blood pressure in your ears, from what I've subsequently read.

A clear example of the No True Tinnitus fallacy.

> Tinnitus is a condition when a person hears a ringing sound or a different variety of sounds when no corresponding external sound is present and that other people cannot hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

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