Why is everyone here having tinnitus in their left ear? Including myself.
huh... me too
Tinnitus Neuromodulator
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#182A bunch of people with tinnitus in their left ear. That's kind of weird. That's what I have. Anyone with tinnitus only in their right ear? And yeah, I've had it since the early 90's and it mostly only bothers me now when someone brings it up. Thanks Hacker News!
Right ear here.
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#184I've had tinnitus in my left ear for about six months now. I was hoping it was the result of an earwax impaction or something, but after having several specialists look at my ears, test my hearing, and getting an MRI to check for tumors, the overwhelming medical consensus of the cause appears to be "I dunno", and at this point I have given up on it being temporary. About 95% of the time, I can fairly easily just tune…
A message of hope. I got mine in my 30's too. The first week I thought I was going crazy, and this was the end of my life. I was shocked, I couldn't go to work for a whole week. I then saw a doctor who said to me: "Man, I've got tinnitus since 20 years and I barely hear it anymore. The more you accept it, the more it'll fade." A decade later, my own experience is exactly this. I accepted it as one of the body malfunc…
I have had it since I was a teenager like 30 years ago. Honestly, I do not notice it unless someone points it out. Yes it is always there but there is nothing I can do about it so I don't worry about it.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
A message of hope. I got mine in my 30's too. The first week I thought I was going crazy, and this was the end of my life. I was shocked, I couldn't go to work for a whole week. I then saw a doctor who said to me: "Man, I've got tinnitus since 20 years and I barely hear it anymore. The more you accept it, the more it'll fade." A decade later, my own experience is exactly this. I accepted it as one of the body malfunc…
It's very much like eye floaters. They are always there, but you can tune them out most of the time.
my floaters showed up when i was 14- it was kinda shocking and scary at the time to be a freshman in high school and suddenly there were massive sensory disturbances in my eyes. ophthalmologists would just say to ignore them. apparently there's a pretty crazy surgery where they remove all the vitreous fluid from your eyeballs, but instead i decided to follow the ophthalmologist advice and they pretty much stopped bothering me.
tinnitus seems similar. maybe in the future there could be some kind of functionally guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure that could dull out some of the malfunctioning percept, but for now probably the best bet is to ignore it.
on a related note in interesting auditory neurotechnology, vestibular implants seem pretty cool!
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#186Periodically my tinnitus will disappear. When it does, it often takes a bit of time to consciously figure out what’s different and then I realize my constant buzzing companion has gone away. The last time it disappeared I had a head cold and congestion and that was enough to provide glorious, complete silence.
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#187I've had tinnitus in my left ear for about six months now. I was hoping it was the result of an earwax impaction or something, but after having several specialists look at my ears, test my hearing, and getting an MRI to check for tumors, the overwhelming medical consensus of the cause appears to be "I dunno", and at this point I have given up on it being temporary. About 95% of the time, I can fairly easily just tune…
Did you have Covid a short while before noticing? One of the not uncommon but under reported side effects is permanent hearing loss, which associated fallout such as tinnitus.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can get earplugs that only lower the sound quality a tiny bit these days. I bought some from the drum shop and they’re great. As you say, $20 or so to avoid lifetime ear damage is a very very good investment. I feel like concerts aren’t quite so loud these days too, maybe audio gear quality is better and the sound engineers don’t feel the need to turn it up quite so loud.
Earasers is one brand. Concerts are still pretty loud. I wish I took better care of my ears as damage is pretty much irreversible.
Me too. My lifelong tinnitus is the result of standing too close to a monitor at a single loud concert. If I’d worn earplugs just that once I’d never have got it.
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#189The white burst generator reduces my tinnitus for a while. It’s less effective than it used to be, but when the silence part of the cycle starts, I can hear my tinnitus drop in volume.
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteBurstsNoiseGenerator....
Neuromodulator certainly masks my tinnitus, but doesn’t reduce it. Sometimes I feel like it’s a little worse when I turn off the sound.
Mynoise.net is great though. The speech jammer is awesome in noisy places, and layering noise and thunderstorms helps me work. I’m a happy subscriber.
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#190I started having tinnitus right after a COVID infection. it's not too bad, only one ear and it comes and goes pretty quickly. For me the COVID correlation is 100%, but I haven't found too much literature about it and wonder if anyone experienced it as well
Partial hearing loss is a not uncommon side effect of COVID infection, and tinnitus a not uncommon side effect of hearing loss. Anything that causes inflammation in the wrong areas can do it, but COVID is the main one right now and why audiologists are busy. There is a steroid treatment that apparently can help if prescribed almost immediately (48 hours?), but it didn't help in a family members case.