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An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
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#122My anecdote:
I assume I have fairly severe tinnitus at this point. It was in part exposure to loud noises over the years (military), but I think chemotherapy really did me in the past year as tinnitus has become more bothersome than ever; caveat I tend to register and take interest in anything physical after cancer.
Its a constant beaming sound - I hear it right now. I can go most of the day distracting away from it, but there is no great aid or distraction when trying to go to sleep.
The closest solution has been trying to cancel it out with mobile apps that allow to you build custom frequencies (white noise generators) but they aren't perfect its not something I really have been able to become accustomed to using.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems more likely to be a gut microbiome issue, which would make sense considering it can be caused by antibiotics and people tend to get it as they age which your microbiome health tends to decline as we age too.
No, it's definitely insufficient faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Which totally makes sense since sometimes sinners get it, and we're all sinners, aren't we?!
Job did not have faith in Jesus (Job 9:33), but tinnitus is not among Job's listed afflictions. I'm pretty sure tinnitus is caused by reading too many books: since your theory is wrong, by process of elimination, mine must be right.
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#124Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#125I accidentally did something similar, but there’s a significant cost. Got tinnitus at 15 and over time my brain filtered out the sound. Unfortunately one of the tones was in the upper vocal range so I then developed trouble understanding people with higher-pitched voices as some syllables would be entirely filtered out. Second is that I stopped paying attention to sounds that aggravated it. This caused me to gather m…
That's the real problem with hearing loss: if you compensate by raising volume across the entire spectrum of sound to compensate for a few frequencies, you slowly make yourself more and more deaf.
And I suffer from a notch in my hearing where speech is generally found, so I hear clinking glasses and shuffling chairs far easier than people. It's aggravating for everyone involved. If you're lucky enough to afford hearing aids, you'll soon discover hearing aid companies know the best fidelity comes from high discretion and narrow band amplification. And they're pricing hearing aids accordingly: the more and narrower the bands, the higher the price. Also aggravating.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy crap this works! I've the loud high-pitched type all evening and i've just used your method to reduce its volume significantly! Thank you!
You can also try this trick which works for me You place the palms of your hands on the sides of your head or over your ears and then drum/tap your fingers on the back of your head. After about 10-15 seconds, it will stop the ringing.
Nice move! This reduced the high pitched noise, but I still sense a general overall ambient signal ready to increase.
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#12735 year old male. I developed tinnitus in my left ear only after covid last December. It's been constant since December 21st, 2023. I have an amazingly huge level of empathy of anyone dealing with this - the first few days were some of the longest of my life. Through it all so far, it's amazing how little we seem to know about tinnitus - TL;DR my doctors have said we don't have any great answers for it. Thanks for po…
Same here, was 39 when it happened, 41 now. It was very troubling at first but you adapt. I no longer doubt anybody suffering from long-covid. I used to be very skeptical, like “chronic fatigue” and “fibromyalgia”, but when a cold does permanent damage to your hearing you realize how different COVID really was
I hope you’ve changed your mind about chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia as well. They’re also post-viral diseases.
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#128I've had a mental visualization I've used to control tinnitus flares for about 20 years now - i.e., "biofeedback". I image the entire soundscape (what I'm possible of hearing) as a long, thin line which is warbling a bit, as I'm hearing things right now -- like the line in an oscilloscope. The present tinnitus represents itself as a sharp spike in this visualization, the location dependent upon its texture (sharp pin…
I don't have tinnitus, but I do have this thing where when I'm falling asleep, my eyes (despite being closed and in a dark room) will start to feel like they are looking at a brighter and brighter light. This is very irritating for me. For that I usually open them really briefly and imagine some kind of equilizer level-set thing happening and that makes it dark behind my eyes again. I wonder if there is a way to do i…
You may be experiencing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
I have read a few anecdotal experiences of people allowing these kinds of hallucinations to continue and they have reported that they can become quite vivid and even interactive. Maybe try waving your arms around when this happens to see if it goes away? That should indicate if it's sleep-related or not.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy crap this works! I've the loud high-pitched type all evening and i've just used your method to reduce its volume significantly! Thank you!
You can also try this trick which works for me You place the palms of your hands on the sides of your head or over your ears and then drum/tap your fingers on the back of your head. After about 10-15 seconds, it will stop the ringing.
Holy crap, just tried it and it worked! Thank you! Mine has started to get bad the last year, and especially at night. Driving me CRAZY!
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#130I had an interesting experience a few months ago. I seem to be incorrectly remembering it as percussive tinnitus - all I can find now is pulsatile tinnitus. Whatever it's called, it was a tapping in my ear at about 120 bps, only noticeable when going to sleep. It was possibly caused by a bike fall, very jarring to the body, no head contact, and disappeared after two or three weeks.
I had that in one ear for 2-3 years. By pulsatile tinnitus I assume you mean the loud "whooshing" sound that is in sync with your heart beat (hearing the blood flow basically). Doctors were pretty ignorant about the phenomenon, I gave up. It was not constant either, would go away for a few hours, start again for another few hours - repeat. One day, it stopped and never came back. Pretty mysterious.
It wasn't whooshing or heart sync'd. I'm not sure it was pulsatile, I'll have to search again. It was like a 120 bpm metronome - tap, tap, tap, tap, ...