I solved mine by chronically exposing myself to very low noise during sleep - wearing good earplugs in an already silent room. To the point where you can hear your eyeballs move etc. I guess this may be where the link to good sleep comes from, which implies a quiet sleeping environment
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#122I'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…
Avoid complete silence (a bit of white noise or other background sound helps to mask it for some people), and try to avoid threads like this. Anything that makes me actively think about tinnitus is the absolute worst trigger, suddenly making it seem really loud after barely noticing it for weeks/months. The brain definitely seems to get better at filtering it out over months/years though, at least until something mak…
Same with itching. Reading about itching can trigger days long events for me.
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#123I first got it in 2015 after playing Fallout 4 almost nonstop for the entire weekend. The game ran poorly and the low stuttery fps caused a massive migraine in my head. I took Tylenol and went to sleep and woke up with it ringing in one of my ears which eventually moved to both. The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it. My brain eventually figured out how to t…
> The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it.
Unfortunately that is the truth of it. Sometimes tinnitus can be traced to other parts of the body, but more often it seems to be caused by the brain acting up. And we just don't have enough knowledge about the brain to fix things like that, so all you can do is try to habituate.
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#124Earlier 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
You’re thinking of one beat per second, i.e. 60 beats per minute. 60 bps is not possible, but if it were, it wouldn’t be survivable.
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#125As 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.
Not sure about stress, but definitely have the same exp re sleep. If I’m tired the ringing is very noticeable, when I wake up early after a late night it can be deafening. But besides from noticing it being “louder” it seems to go away, or I just ignore it.
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#126I have a mild case of tunnitus, and I can only blame myself. When a rock venue was packed, I gravitated to the area right in front of the speakers - where I also always had a good view of the band.
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#127The opening sentence “Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment” does not mean what they think it means. Unless this is a very niche kink.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Got it similarly. 7-8 years ago. Probably from ANC. It used to feel loud, now I have to remind myself to hear it. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
You're killing me with your acronym. That's a recurring thing here, so don't feel bad.
Active Noise Cancelling (headphones, earbuds etc.)
It probably doesn’t cause tinnitus, but people grasp at straws about this kind of stuff.
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#130I'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 wont call it anecdotal evidence but i am told, in "traditional" Greek medicine,tinnitus is a symptom of constipation. Its told you fix constipation, your ringing ears will get fixed. I know its not 100% but try to fix your bowel movement if it isn't working properly already.
Who could have imagined that “traditional” Greek medicine was bullshit?
Tinnitus sufferers tend to experience symptoms their entire lives. Do you genuinely think that they’re all walking around continuously constipated for decades?