I’ve noticed that my tinnitus increases significantly with intense exercise, specifically exercises that affect the neck/shoulder area like pull ups.
If you have tinnitus, it’s worth a try to massage or work on relaxing those areas.
Tinnitus Neuromodulator
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#192My tinnitus is at 14khz, so every tone in this generator is too low.
Do the sounds actually need to match in pitch? My understanding is these sounds attempt to stop your brain noticing or perhaps generating the tinnitus, rather than masking the noise with something louder (like people do with a fan or noise generators)
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#193I'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…
I have found notch therapy to be quite helpful. It's basically where you tune a note to your exact tinitus pitch and then create white noise that has every khz EXCEPT your pitch. Then you listen to the notched sound at about the same level or slightly higher than your tinnitus. So, basically your "tinnitus" is notched out of the sound. The theory is it can retrain your brain to not produce the fake sound. I also just…
There are expensive apps and devices to create notched music or white noise. Fortunately, there are also free YouTube videos with noise notched for different frequencies. Identify your tinnitus frequency using one of the web-based tone generator tests, then find and bookmark the video notched for your frequency.
I like “tinnitusreliever610”. TBH, I haven’t found the notched noise to be any more relief than full spectrum white or pink noise.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a strong Tinnitus on one ear after an ear surgery for 8 years now. And I usually don‘t notice it for months at a time, even though it is there all the time (thanks for reminding me :p) So it’s not as bad as it might feel in the beginning. I‘m mostly bothered by my hearing being generally impaired by it. It sits at ~9kHz but it somehow still makes it significantly harder to comprehend voices.
how did you came with ~9kHz number? I want to know my own LoL
Just search online for tinnitus tone generator tests.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had tinnitus before I knew it was tinnitus - I thought it was normal. I literally thought that everyone had a constant sound in their ears. It was not until someone explained that they had tinnitus and told me their symptons that I suddenly realised that I too had tinnitus. Since then it's become harder to ignore it but on the other hard, its nice to know that it's not normal and that others can truly hear nothing…
I've had it as long as I can remember. Like you, I thought it was normal. When I was a little kid I thought that was what the Simon & Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence" was talking about. Since I suspect I've had it since birth, it doesn't bother me. It's just something that is. I feel bad for the folks who get it later in life and have trouble with it. My neighbor got it a few years ago and it keeps him up at nig…
> Since I suspect I've had it since birth, it doesn't bother me. It's just something that is. I feel bad for the folks who get it later in life and have trouble with it.
100%. I remember being rather young - maybe 5? - and listening to the deafening sound of ringing in my ears when laying in bed. Never knew that quiet was supposed to actually be quiet.
I wish I didn't have it, but I've literally never not had it, AFAIK.
Possibly unrelated: I can fall asleep within a minute of laying my head down, almost every single day. Built-in white(ish) noise machine?
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Kids told me that I am losing my hearing. So I went to hearing lab. When I told doctor that I have tinnitus in left ear for almost 10 years, he recommended lorazepam in tough times… that it works. :)
Note - Lorazepam is one of those drugs which causes dependance if you use it regularly. If you find you need it often, get a substitute which is safe to use all the time.
So... what? Everything causes dependence one way or another. What is the point of a substitute to "use all the time". It even reads funny to me. I would like you to explain what you meant by that. And what would you recommend as a great substitute of benzodiazepines (that are effective AND safe to use at all times)?
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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've always been someone who hears high pitched noises that "normal" people don't. I'm also in my 30s, and I'm sure those "teenage alarms" in Japan would work on me. I was the one who would walk up to a CRT and turn it off when everyone else thought it already was. What helped me accept (and ignore) tinnitus was realizing that I had already grown accustomed to tolerating that sound indoors. When's it's something you…
That's actually not tinnitus but (from what I've been told) cochloreal hyperacusis, another form of hearing damage.
I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.
I can still hear old CRTs in my forties, although it's less maddening now. They had those mosquito devices, that are intended to repel kids, for a while at a shopping mall near me. They repelled me very effectively as well.
A friend once thought it was funny to try the 15.000Hz silent ringtone on me, although I had told him not to. It made me react without conscious input and I nearly broke his phone.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always been someone who hears high pitched noises that "normal" people don't. I'm also in my 30s, and I'm sure those "teenage alarms" in Japan would work on me. I was the one who would walk up to a CRT and turn it off when everyone else thought it already was. What helped me accept (and ignore) tinnitus was realizing that I had already grown accustomed to tolerating that sound indoors. When's it's something you…
That's actually not tinnitus but (from what I've been told) cochloreal hyperacusis, another form of hearing damage. I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months. I can still hear old CRTs in my forties, although it's less maddening now. They had those mosquito devices, that are intended to repel kids,…
> I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.
Holy crap! I'm not alone! And now I have a name for it. They've always freaked me out and I don't even know how to describe it to people.
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#199I thought I was alone but there is so many comments I wonder how much people is there and if it’s really random or if there is common sources like some stress, airpods or some kind of psychoacoustic event. I have like 3 different frequencies and it « exploded » in a stressful event at work. I always thought it was music all day with AirPods but it might be stress actually because everytime I’m tired and stressed it’s…
Stress and "posture" are certainly big contributors. Any kind of pressure on the veins and nerves around the ear can cause tinnitus, which includes the muscles in your neck, many of which attach to your shoulders. Sitting at a desk all day, or looking down at a phone, is probably a big contributing factor for many of us.
Stress can also cause us to subconsciously clench our jaws, which again can contribute.
Feeling stressed or fatigued certainly lowers my mental tolerance for annoying bullshit like tinnitus.
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#200I have low pitch rumbling in my right ear. MRI was useless. Hearing test "perfect". Its hard to sleep without background noise. I think its a damaged blood vessel in my brain or neck: veinous stenosis.
It could well be that. An MRA and MRV could confirm or rule out those suspicions. If the damaged vessel can be found, it might be treatable by stenting.
Check out whooshers (dot com) or /r/pulsatiletinnitus for two supportive communities with some good advice.