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Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by mieubrisse »

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…

Try this

1. put your thumbs on your ears

2. rotate your hands so your index fingers are on the base of your skull, middle fingers just above

3. now put your index fingers on your middle fingers and "snap" them down on the muscle at the base of your skull some 10-15 times

4. if your tinnitus goes away or reduces, it's caused by muscle tension instead of nerves

This blew my mind when I first tried it, but looked into it and it makes total sense: we all work on computers all day, necks get fatigued, and the impact forces the muscles to contract until they force-release, alleviating the tension-caused tinnitus.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by ramoz »

sgt wrote: post #72
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…

A lot of people hear a slight hiss. Is that tinnitus? Faint enough that it's not noticable 90% of the time.

For me, it's a very distinct ringing. Like in the movies when there's some explosion/shock scene and there's a very persistent ding that happens after the explosion or whatever - it's what I hear constantly.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by mbsa7 »

Towaway69 wrote: post #105
arnonejoe wrote: post #58

Just reading the title made my tinnitus come back.

Someone explaining their tinnitus symptoms made me realise that I had tinnitus for years. Until then I didn’t “hear” it because I just assumed it was normal. Since then, I’ve realised that tinnitus is contagious! So I prefer not to talk about it just in case I pass it on.

For some reason this experience you are describing reminds me of a passage in "One hundred years of solitude" where a character is said to fall in love with a woman that only exists when she is needed.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

#154

Post by ymhr »

mieubrisse wrote: post #151
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…

Try this 1. put your thumbs on your ears 2. rotate your hands so your index fingers are on the base of your skull, middle fingers just above 3. now put your index fingers on your middle fingers and "snap" them down on the muscle at the base of your skull some 10-15 times 4. if your tinnitus goes away or reduces, it's caused by muscle tension instead of nerves This blew my mind when I first tried it, but looked into i…

I’m struggling to visualise this, do you have any references with images?

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by nickphx »

ymhr wrote: post #154
mieubrisse wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try this 1. put your thumbs on your ears 2. rotate your hands so your index fingers are on the base of your skull, middle fingers just above 3. now put your index fingers on your middle fingers and "snap" them down on the muscle at the base of your skull some 10-15 times 4. if your tinnitus goes away or reduces, it's caused by muscle tension instead of nerves This blew my mind when I first tried it, but looked into i…

I’m struggling to visualise this, do you have any references with images?

sounds similar to a masseter muscle massage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnV7wUxst0

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by antoniojtorres »

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…

Got it a few years ago. In my 30s as well. God how it used to bother me, i’d have the whitest noises to the point where it depressed how loud it all was, white noise included.

Went to the doctor, did all those rounds. Once I saw the endemic existence of CBT and other psychotherapies as treatment it dawned on me that I might have to reconsider my relationship with this.

In reality I just got used to it and live with it. I have a tiny white noise sound that is always on my headphones while i work that is just enough and that covers me most of the day, but honestly even if I sit in an electric car that is fully stopped and it’s as loud as it’s gonna be, I notice it, absolutely, but it doesn’t really cause distress anymore.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by jryb »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #64

As somebody with tinnitus, forgive me, this seemed instinctively obvious. A very bad night of sleep raises the volume of the tinnitus substantially. Stress does the same.

It’s been well known for as long time, the news here is the specific biological mechanism, which may open up new areas of research.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by KittenInABox »

carlesfe wrote: post #81
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 do hear my heartbeat from my left ear. The ear doctor said that the ear can be sensitive to the blood flowing from nearby arteries, and that there's nothing to do. Stress affects the heartbeat volume. I just got used to it, but it can be annoying sometimes, especially when you're trying to enjoy the silence. The doctor also told me that it's not an ear problem, but rather a brain problem. The brain is supposed to f…

This is the first time I heard that this is an issue where the brain isn't filtering out noise properly. This explains why I have had tinnitus, the sound of breathing, whooshing in the ears from my heartbeat, etc. audible to me for as long as I've been conscious and have never understood why everyone else seemed to be really disturbed by what I consider to be supremely normal. Except I also have a sensory processing disorder that makes my brain unable to filter input well so I also come off as sensitive to touch and able to pick up smells well. Because I grew up with all this though I have normalized it enough to function.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by Bombthecat »

carlesfe wrote: post #81
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 do hear my heartbeat from my left ear. The ear doctor said that the ear can be sensitive to the blood flowing from nearby arteries, and that there's nothing to do. Stress affects the heartbeat volume. I just got used to it, but it can be annoying sometimes, especially when you're trying to enjoy the silence. The doctor also told me that it's not an ear problem, but rather a brain problem. The brain is supposed to f…

Wait... This is not "normal"? I thought everyone has that...
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