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A search of the comments shows 79 hits for tinnitus and zero for magnesium . If you suffer tinnitus, look into magnesium supplementation. Studies show people with tinnitus have low magnesium and anecdotal evidence suggests magnesium helps reduce symptoms. https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/tinnitus-and-magnesium
We should be cautious about suggesting unproven remedies.
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The best advice I ever got about my tinnitus was from my mom, who has worse tinnitus than I do: "just forget about it". I know that might sound difficult, but honestly, just try. When you notice it, reassure yourself that it's not really a big problem, and then turn your attention to other things. If you are successful with this, eventually you will only notice it when you remember that you have it and listen for it.…
>just forget about it I personally think this is great advice. I just imagine that the noise is the firing of my synapses.
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>just forget about it I personally think this is great advice. I just imagine that the noise is the firing of my synapses.
It's interesting advice. I don't even consider myself as "having tinnitus". However, if I sit in a quiet room and concentrate I can certainly hear a background whine. I feel like I have always had that. Is that tinnitus?
With that said, my advice to you is, don’t do that. ;) Maybe you have it, maybe you don’t, so probably best to just ignore it, because it’s not a problem unless you start paying attention to it.
Interestingly, having this conversation on HN has made mine more noticeable, so, I better move on too!
Does anyone know if this can finally be a treatment for tinnitus? I would love to hear silence again.
I've got pretty bad - although not constant - tinnitus in my left ear after a particularly loud NYE too late in life. What I find interesting though, is that I distinctly remember as a young kid living in the countryside that I found it impossible to hear absolute silence. I distinctly remember sitting on a bale of hay on a bright summer's day with not even a breeze and the quieter I perceived things, the louder a 'T…
I've always asked myself - how could I get this if I always had good hearing? Is this even anyone's fault? How could a child have tinnitus when it had no real chance to get it? This entire post+comments has me almost in tears - my tinnitus gets unbearable e.g. when I'm stressed, panicking or overstimulated. It helps to know someone shares my pain, even if this treatment won't become available in my lifetime. I'm used to having stuff playing in the background anyway, it's just the times when I can't drown it out when it's the worst.
PS: BTW, something interesting happened to me recently: I recently visited a retro game museum while on vacation. Being obviously filled with old TVs, the noise was nigh-insufferable for me, but I pushed through because retro games is my thing. We spent ~1hr there and after we left, I felt like my own TV noise was somehow better for the day. Weird.