Isn't tinnitus about certain tissues/bone pressed against each other?
An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
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I may be having this now, E-Tube tinnitus due to seasonal allergies and inflammation, likely worsened by prior earwax/infection/COVID factors. It's been 3 months of pulsatile tinnitus, this week I am finally waking up in silence some days, but it returns by the afternoon.
Can people close to you hear your tinnitus as well?
I don't believe so. Maybe I should buy a stethoscope and check. I've been referred to an ENT but the waitlist is stupidly long, in Canada.
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And now, you are manually breathing.
manual blinking you can't stay in one place for long without moving to a different pose something on your body itches (your nose?) manual swallowing
Now your feet feel trapped and uncomfortable inside their shoes.
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Same. I also ended up getting dry/itchy inner ear and was given a steroid oil to put in my ear and to my surprise it also helps out my tinnitus for a day or 2 after using it.
Would you mind sending me a link to the oil? Or is it prescribed?
It's prescribed...fluocinolone acetonide oil
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I'm having unilateral pulsatile tinnitus, and it's been 3 months so far. My doctor thinks its often just eustachian tube seasonal allergies, and so gets better on its own slowly. The steroid spray I've been using for months just hurts my nose. It was pretty constant up till this week, now for several mornings I wake up all clear! What relief! But it comes back over the afternoon. I really hope it improves on this tra…
I hesitate to recommend this because of how woo woo it sounds, but... I had terrible pulsatile tinnitus (both sides) for over a year and half. I went to doctors, specialists, tried steroids, the works. I had to sleep with headphones to drown it out. Eventually my wife suggested I try craniosacral therapy. After the first session it started to get a lot quieter and even would "stutter" out for short periods of time. A…
Actually that's a good idea... My parents are literally ENT doctors so one thing they told me to try was simple neck massages/movements. Basically cradle the back of neck with your fingers, then slowly tilt head up and down. It improves blood flow, releases muscle tension, etc., and there's a chance this or the CST that you mention can help with some forms of tinnitus. Now that you've reminded me, I'll keep trying it, thanks!
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#156I have had several audiologists begin their speech of “as you may know tinnitus is from damage to the ear due to loud … “, well mine is from Covid. I read about a study a few years ago that focused on shocking the tongue and its nice someone followed up on it. They described one year of relief post treatment. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201015173126.h... Bimodal neuromodulation combining sound and t…
I got mine from a diving (snorkeling/free diving) accident. Barotrauma damaged my cochlea. I think Covid played a factor too. I was severely congested recovering from Covid at the time.
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#157If you’re worried you have tinnitus you can also be hearing air conditioner units whine or even the fridge.
I spent some time in the middle of what I’ll call the Mexican outback during the winter - everything is dead. There’s nothing at night, not even bugs. I could hear the blood pump in my ears. Pretty neat. No lights or stars either. The closest to ‘deadening silence’ I’ve ever been.
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#158If you’re worried you have tinnitus you can also be hearing air conditioner units whine or even the fridge. I spent some time in the middle of what I’ll call the Mexican outback during the winter - everything is dead. There’s nothing at night, not even bugs. I could hear the blood pump in my ears. Pretty neat. No lights or stars either. The closest to ‘deadening silence’ I’ve ever been.
From my experience the reverse is much more common - that's what people THINK they're hearing when they actually DO have tinnitus. CRT whine was big one in the 90s/early 00s.
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#159I'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…
Ladies and gentlemen, it works
Crazy right? Even if it’s just suggestion, I’ll add that it worked for me the first time I tried it seconds after reading the post.
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
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I have it only if the room is too quiet. Any reasonable level of background white noise makes it go away.
Does everyone not have ringing in their ears when they really pay attention? Or like when they are trying to go to sleep? I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood. Still have to this day, same intensity. During the day it does not bother me, nor do I notice it. But if I pay attention, it feels pretty loud.
> I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood.
I can remember being about five or six years old and hearing the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence" and I thought my tinnitus was what they were talking about, and that everybody had it. I cannot remember a time when I didn't have it. Since it has always been with me, it doesn't really bother me. I feel bad for people who get it later in life and for whom it is a very large annoyance.