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Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by fouc »

meowface wrote: post #146
fouc wrote: post #142

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The cochlea is like a snail-shell shaped organ, lined with hairs. When the sound wave - or more specifically the vibration - reaches a bunch of hairs, they in turn fire a bunch of neurons. The distance the sound wave travels into the organ is related to whether it is a high pitched or low pitched sound. The hairs are essentially "dumb", they only trigger the neuron firings when they detect the vibration. So regenerat…

If I'm not mistaken, though, hair cells aren't really "fungible" / identical, right? >Auditory hair cells are specialized along the length of the cochlea to respond to specific sound frequencies. ... Each of our roughly 16,000 hair cells is dedicated to a narrow frequency range. These cells are ordered along the basilar membrane according to the frequencies they detect. [1] In that sense, they're dumb in terms of jus…

they should be identical/fungible, it's the location that corresponds to the sound frequency, the nerves to be triggered are in the walls of the cochlea, underneath the hairs.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by goku99 »

Tipewryter wrote: post #148

A question to the people among you who have tinnitus: When you put a finger in each ear and create overpressure or underpressure, does the pitch change? Does it change when you clench your teeth? Is it louder on one side then on the other? Maybe there are different types of tinnitus that we could describe better if we had some dimensions/categories like the above in which we could categorize our specific type of tinn…

Yes Yes No

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by coupdejarnac »

galaxyLogic wrote: post #99
modeless wrote: post #78

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To clean your ears yourself you need something like this: https://www.japantrendshop.com/coden-ear-scope-13000-standar... I thought it was ridiculous when I first saw it but I took a chance on it and it is actually a great product. You can clearly see everything and clean without damaging your ear. If you've ever had to go to the doctor to clear a blocked ear, you need one of these. With occasional use (~once/month)…

I immerse my head and ears in hot bath-tub. When I get out I put my little finger into the wet ear and then fast pull it out which creates some suction in the ear which sucks the water out and I think also some vax.

Yikes. As someone who's had two tympanoplasties, I would NOT do this.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by vldr »

Corinthian wrote: post #147

This is going to sound silly to most people, but I've been suffering from Tinnitus for a long time. This technique won't cure it but it certainly brings relief for me, to the point where I can ignore it. When my Tinnitus is particularly piercing, I imagine it as a radiant bright white line in my head. I then mentally begin to reduce the radiance of the light until it is gone. This dulls the sound immensely, I'm still…

There are several of these kinds of mindful/imagination techniques.

https://rewiringtinnitus.com/ also provides some in book and audio form, where you visualize your tinnitus as a knob you can turn or a person making the noise.

Doesn't really work for me though, though sometimes it does seem like I can "tune" my tinnitus a bit.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by Corinthian »

vldr wrote: post #154
Corinthian wrote: post #147

This is going to sound silly to most people, but I've been suffering from Tinnitus for a long time. This technique won't cure it but it certainly brings relief for me, to the point where I can ignore it. When my Tinnitus is particularly piercing, I imagine it as a radiant bright white line in my head. I then mentally begin to reduce the radiance of the light until it is gone. This dulls the sound immensely, I'm still…

There are several of these kinds of mindful/imagination techniques. https://rewiringtinnitus.com/ also provides some in book and audio form, where you visualize your tinnitus as a knob you can turn or a person making the noise. Doesn't really work for me though, though sometimes it does seem like I can "tune" my tinnitus a bit.

Interesting, thank you.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by ldarby »

galaxyLogic wrote: post #141
ldarby wrote: post #116

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That's risking rupturing your ear drum.

Well I think I do it gently enough. Have there been any reported cases of pulling your finger out of your ear breaking the eardrum?

I can't find it now but I read a story, in I think in https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu, about a man and woman having sexy fun times. The woman's thighs were wrapped around the guy's head, she orgasmed, her legs spamsed, and because of the sweat her thighs formed a vacuum seal on both his ears and ruptured one or both of them.

There are plenty of other stories about ruptured ear drums though: https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/search?q=eardrum&restrict_sr=o....

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by meowface »

fouc wrote: post #151
meowface wrote: post #146

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If I'm not mistaken, though, hair cells aren't really "fungible" / identical, right? >Auditory hair cells are specialized along the length of the cochlea to respond to specific sound frequencies. ... Each of our roughly 16,000 hair cells is dedicated to a narrow frequency range. These cells are ordered along the basilar membrane according to the frequencies they detect. [1] In that sense, they're dumb in terms of jus…

they should be identical/fungible, it's the location that corresponds to the sound frequency, the nerves to be triggered are in the walls of the cochlea, underneath the hairs.

Ah, thanks, that makes sense, and makes me a lot less worried about potential negative consequences.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by m463 »

dylan604 wrote: post #42
m463 wrote: post #25

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I remember once in college I was sitting at a table with some friends studying. One said, "how can you guys study with that light humming like that?" And sure enough, one of the overhead fluorescent lights had an electrical humming coming from it. And it became hard to study from that moment forward.

Never hang out with an audio mixer. They point out some many noises in day-to-day life that I have just tuned out or never even noticed. Once they point it out though, I can't not hear it. To be fair, I'm that way about video and compression pointing out to people how shitting cable quality is. I'm a TV sales rep's worst nightmare.

There was one movie I was watching and I noticed the sound of a (propeller) plane flying overhead. I wouldn't normally have noticed this, except I was wearing headphones. I couldn't help but wonder if they noticed. and if so - did someone said - "screw this, we're not reshooting the scene."

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Post by sumedh »

vram22 wrote: post #140
dmoy wrote: post #90

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Oh wow that is amazing I also get mild tinnitus for the last 6 or so years due to earwax (once it got completely blocked and I had to go to the doctor to have them irrigate it back out). I don't use cotton or any scraping right now, but I do use the same stuff the doctor used to irrigate it every once in awhile, to middling effect. Maybe I'll try out that ear scope thing.

In India a common practice is to go to a doctor (G.P.) who uses a foot-long syringe to irrigate your ears with warm water. It is supposed to soften the wax which then either comes out by itself when you tilt your head (lying down) after the syringing, or can be removed easily by earbud etc.

> In India a common practice is to go to a doctor

The vast majority of poor and lower middle class Indians dont go to a doctor, they just go to an ear cleaner who sit on the streets and will do the job for you in 5 to 10 minutes for a dollar or two.

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