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Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by Arch-TK »

brandonmenc wrote: post #159
Arch-TK wrote: post #29

I've had a low grade (although who knows, it's not like I can hear someone else's tinnitus to compare) tinnitus for as long as I remember. For my childhood I thought it was just normal to hear this noise when there was no external source of other sound. Honestly, I never felt particularly negative about it. I guess if you never know what true silence sounds like, you never know what you are missing.

Same. I'm half convinced it's something like blood vessels too close to sound receptor thingies in my ear. Or something similar. I had a hearing test done a few years ago and my hearing is actually slightly above average for my age. It would be nice to not have it, but whatever.

My hearing is still great, and I haven't noticed it deteriorate (I'm 29, and I've always been careful with my ears as I value having good hearing). I can hear switching noise (from power supplies) and those animal/human deterrent devices.

I don't think my tinnitus is from hearing damage.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by roninski »

For me, getting tinnitus was most likely me being dumb and standing right in front of a massive wall of speakers without earplugs, when I went to see The Bug performing. It was somewhere around 2010 and I wasn't nearly as aware of what it could've caused as I am now. I got this ringing in my right ear ever since, and just learned to live with it.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by PeterStuer »

DrSiemer wrote: post #197
bsimpson wrote: post #80

Earlier 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,…

CRT's and coil whine used to drive me crazy as well. It was the number 1 factor in any electronics purchasing descision.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by golem14 »

glimshe wrote: post #36
guilamu wrote: post #23

Earlier 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.

Do check your eye pressure regularly -- if high, you have a higher chance of detached retina, and in that case more floaters all of a sudden warrant an immediate drive to the ER. This can apparently happen when youi fall or hit yhour head. Once that happens, up only have so much time to reattach the retina before it dies off. According to my eye doctor.

[Of course this is not be used as medical advice, as your LLM for that ;)]

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by butler14 »

tombert wrote: post #6

I'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…

Another message of hope: I'm mid-late thirties and had the exact same. Daily tinnitus from December 2024 through to around August 2025.

I went through MRI etc to no avail.

Then one day I felt something (extremely deep in my ear) just 'release', like a tube unblocking or pressure equalising. And the sound went away and (fingers crossed) hasn't come back since. This was after daily issues for 8-9 months solid.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by IndySun »

tombert wrote: post #6

I'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…

There are lots of interconnecting bits inside and around the ear, and with that in mind...

Can you try something? Find a very quiet place, one where you do hear the tinnitus.

Move your jaw as far to left, and then to the right, and notice if the tinnitus stops, changes, or alters at all.

Next, get a firm hold of your earlobe of the tinnitus ear, and pull and hold it away and at various angles from your head; you can do this earlobe move separately or in combination with the jaw movements.

Do any positions improve the tinnitus?

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by spoiler »

guilamu wrote: post #23
tombert wrote: post #6

I'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've had tinnitus since... At least my early 20s. Or that's the first time I found out about the concept. Until that point I assumed it's background noises everyone experiences.

I only notice it when it changes abruptly (very rare), but otherwise I just tune it out

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by sumedh »

janmo wrote: post #20

The only way to temporarely get rid of my tinnitus (completely gone or at least very reduced for up to 30 seconds) is to listen to this beep tone from 8 to 12 KHZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k apparently the phenomenon is called residual inhibition. If only there was a way to make this work permanently...

I dont hear anything about 13K Hz while my kid claims he can hear it :(

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by pasc1878 »

glimshe wrote: post #36
guilamu wrote: post #23

Earlier 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.

I have both,

No you can't tune them out.

They are always there, sometimes if you are very lucky you can get engrossed enough not to have them as the first or second thing on your mind

But it is always in the top five you never can tune them out you have always be aware as not to to certainn things.

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