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Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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Well, lying down on a bed or a sofa, and putting a big bowl of ice water on the side. Then immersing the head slowly at first, into the ice water. The nose, is facing the sky. Then alternate between the two ears, putting them as deep as possible into the water. There is no problem in breathing, because the nose is always out of the water. The first days of doing that, you will go right to sleep after the cold water a…

Oh, haha, I was really imagining it wrong :') Thanks!

The reason i am doing it, is to smooth out any wrinkles on my face. Not that i have many, one or two, but the ice cold water completes smooths out the skin.

I found out accidentally, that it treated a very mild case of inflammation in the ear i had, for over a year.

I probably had the same inflammation 6 years back, and i was in a lot of pain. I went to see a doctor, and he didn't want to prescribe any antibiotics, because the antibiotics for the ear are the strongest of all, due to poor blood circulation around the ear. Anyway, i convinced him for the contrary and he prescribed the antibiotics, 3 days later my ears were working properly again.

The last year however, a similar inflammation on the same spot appeared, but very mild. Almost no pain at all. Just a very small discomfort in the area sometimes. Well the ice cold water for an hour, it treats it completely every time.

The reason i am doing it however, is to smooth out the skin. That's a lot more important.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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At least for me, ignoring it seems to work as well as ignoring eye floaters seems to. They're there, but I can filter them out to the point where I forget that they're there. That's it. It's not permanent, but I can forget it's there.

Yeah just gotta accept that your body gradually deteriorates.

I know some people have really bad tinnitus, and that's different, but typical mild tinnitus is almost completely ignoreable after a while.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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I've had ringing in my ear, but never more than a day or so. I figured I read the comments here to see if there were any interesting anecdotes, and now my ears are both ringing quite badly after just a couple comments and thinking about the condition. Just going to drop this comment and get out!

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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I had horrible tinnitus for three months. I couldn't hear anything out of my right ear. Foolishly, I went to see Inception with it. That was so disorienting. My audiologist said I was SOL and there was nothing to do about it. A few months later, I went to see a nurse practitioner about something unrelated. The ear came up and she wrote me a Rx for a steroid just to try it and see what happens. Two weeks later, I went…

I would love to know what steroid this was.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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Wait, what? Why? So you just come up every minute for breath or something? It sounds interesting! Not as a tinnitus relief, just the practice of doing this.

Well, lying down on a bed or a sofa, and putting a big bowl of ice water on the side. Then immersing the head slowly at first, into the ice water. The nose, is facing the sky. Then alternate between the two ears, putting them as deep as possible into the water. There is no problem in breathing, because the nose is always out of the water. The first days of doing that, you will go right to sleep after the cold water a…

For what reason do you do this?

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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I’ve had tinnitus for about one year now. There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil. My hearing was tested by an Audiologist and my hearing was normal. The “sound” I observe is high pitched. Using a tone generator I matched it to around 16,500 Hz. Interestingly, if I play that tone I get temporary relief on the order of 2-10 minutes. As far as I understand my tinnitus is the result of something goi…

Were you born premature? Did you get any head damage or injuries growing up?

Do you notice any difference when you stretch, and specifically, are looking up and have your head back? I've noticed the ringing stops for me at that point. But I also have a high pitched, 24x7 bi-lateral ringing. I've had it my whole life.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil. That's not what this recent book [1] says, at all. In Ducth, but [2] is a translation of the main point in an interview. As far as I'm aware, this guy is rather far away from snake oil. What is true though is that not all audiologists are caught up yet. Which is a bit weird because I already read about multidisciplinary approach working a couple of years a…

> "My message is not to learn to live with that beep, but to train your brain to classify that sound as harmless, allowing you to forget about it" This is essentially what I do. I've had it tinnitus for some 20 years now. Both ears, a constant high pitched ringing. Most of the time I honestly don't notice it, even in quiet rooms. As soon as something reminds me about it, or I'm trying to listen for something quiet, o…

Exactly the same for me. I’ve had it for as long as I remember and chalk it up to going to too many punk rock shows as an angsty teen (and never wore ear plugs because I was “too cool”).

It’s always there for me but I usually forget about it and only notice it when something draws my attention to it.

According to an app I’ve used on my phone (Mimi Hearing Test), I have about 14db HL in each ear.

Somewhat related, but I just cannot follow conversations in a noisy environment, like a pub. All the background noise and chatter just washes out the voices of people I’m around.

Anyway, I now bring earplugs every time I go to a show.

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