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Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by jacquesm »

atombender wrote: post #201
jacquesm wrote: post #164

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Now that is interesting, thank you for giving me a new angle to look into. Never thought that there might be a relationship with other things other than just my ears. I know I can make it instantly worse by clenching my jaw, so that should have been a hint already.

When you say clench, do you mean clench the muscles (i.e. as if biting down), or do you mean jutting your jaw forward? There is a well known phenomenon among people with (at least some types of) tinnitus that moving the jaw forward increases the sound, but that this also makes the tinnitus go away for a bit. The way my ENT explained it, it has to do with how your brain calibrates sound. Pushing the jaw forward makes…

Biting down.

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Post by AstroJetson »

glimshe wrote: post #40
nozzlegear wrote: post #34

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I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so I've never had any negative feelings associated with it. As a kid I just thought it was natural that everyone's ears would ring all the time and would get louder when it was quiet. My ears are ringing right now as I write this. Then I developed pulsatile tinnitus in my early 30s, which means I can hear my heartbeat in my (right) ear at all hours of the day as well.…

Eye floaters are like that. They don't go away but you get used to them being there.

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials.

Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

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Post by eszed »

AstroJetson wrote: post #212
glimshe wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eye floaters are like that. They don't go away but you get used to them being there.

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials. Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

Really? I asked my last ophthalmologist if there was anything to be done about my severe floaters, and he said "no", and that I'd just have to live with them. What's the name of the procedure you had, and what are the downside risks?

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Post by necovek »

eszed wrote: post #213
AstroJetson wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials. Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

Really? I asked my last ophthalmologist if there was anything to be done about my severe floaters, and he said "no", and that I'd just have to live with them. What's the name of the procedure you had, and what are the downside risks?

I believe there is also "Laser vitreolysis", which seems somewhat disputed.

I have similar issues and 5 years in, problems are only getting worse (perhaps combined with pigment dispersion syndrom making it worse, but not on the path to glaucoma, at least not yet).

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Post by cclark505 »

Aeglaecia wrote: post #203
dusted wrote: post #191

I've long suspected that (at least my own) tinnitus was a neurological phenomenon, seeing how it's always been with me at various "levels of presence", from imperceptible to so loud I can't hear anything else, I've always felt it as an "inner sound".. Had multiple hearing tests, and nothing in particular showed up. It's also weird because it changes somewhat in frequency, both down to frequencies my 40 year old ears…

out of all the people in this thread, you seem the most likely candidate to appreciate the following - tinnitus symptoms are often conflated with hearing sensitivity. if you can see auras, then id say your tinnitus symptoms arent indicative of tinnitus. search up brain wave frequencies and look at images. id wager you are hearing yourself, especially during changes of frequency. as well, just prior to sleep, you migh…

I have Ménière’s disorder and had a few short episodes of vertigo before one finally got me discombobulated. I woke up one morning and couldn’t get my extremities to function. Couldn’t tell up from down. It took about 8 hours for it to completely go away but then I realized I had lost most of my hearing in my right ear and half in my left, and had constant tinnitus and dizziness. I went to an ENT and learned that there is nothing I could do as there is no cure for Ménière’s. I have gotten better at dealing with the tinnitus and don’t notice it unless the train whistle or the lion roars start. I keep hoping one day that I will read that someone has found a cure! Ah well, hope springs eternal!!

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Post by bamboozled »

For some reason I started getting tinnitus when I am sick with some sort of sinus infection / cold or flu. Usually I don't sleep very well when I'm sick so that might be part of it.

The first time I got sick and it started, I went walking around the neighborhood looking for the source of the noise until I realized I had tinnitus. Sounded like some kind of distant earth works / resonance thing.

Really feel for people who have it permanently.

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Post by bananamerica »

epolanski wrote: post #5

I've got tinnitus, 38 male. Got it randomly one day this summer. It's impossible to describe how depressing it is to hear a sound non stop in your ears, night and day, wherever I go or whatever I do, it just never stops. The brain started filtering it out a bit after months, but it's always there and you're often reminded of it when you're in a slightly more silent environment. There are days where it becomes especia…

Consider using a TRT[1] Tinnitus hearing aid. It was prescribed me by my ENT doctor and it provides me with great relief. My Tinnitus is persistent and extremely loud. Loud enough that I couldn't get use to it even after many years. I'm not sure what would be the procedure for you to get one in your country. It is not a cure, but it made my life immensely better. I wished I had gotten it sooner. Good luck!

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[1] Tinnitus Retraining Therapy

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by Aeglaecia »

cclark505 wrote: post #215
Aeglaecia wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

out of all the people in this thread, you seem the most likely candidate to appreciate the following - tinnitus symptoms are often conflated with hearing sensitivity. if you can see auras, then id say your tinnitus symptoms arent indicative of tinnitus. search up brain wave frequencies and look at images. id wager you are hearing yourself, especially during changes of frequency. as well, just prior to sleep, you migh…

I have Ménière’s disorder and had a few short episodes of vertigo before one finally got me discombobulated. I woke up one morning and couldn’t get my extremities to function. Couldn’t tell up from down. It took about 8 hours for it to completely go away but then I realized I had lost most of my hearing in my right ear and half in my left, and had constant tinnitus and dizziness. I went to an ENT and learned that the…

im sorry to hear that, some of my family members have inner ear disorders and the nausea/vertigo sounds terrible. the original comment isnt targeted at those like yourself who unfortunately must deal with damaged peripherals ... but still there is a chance it could apply. may i ask whether you ever noticed ringing in your ears to be correlated with a change of mental state? examples of this chage would be arriving at a big realisation, or commencing relaxation, or performing meditation.

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Post by SirMaster »

glimshe wrote: post #40
nozzlegear wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so I've never had any negative feelings associated with it. As a kid I just thought it was natural that everyone's ears would ring all the time and would get louder when it was quiet. My ears are ringing right now as I write this. Then I developed pulsatile tinnitus in my early 30s, which means I can hear my heartbeat in my (right) ear at all hours of the day as well.…

Eye floaters are like that. They don't go away but you get used to them being there.

Eye floaters can definitely go away. I believe they can break up and break apart and dissipate or be absorbed by the body a bit. Or maybe they just float way off to the side of your vision where you don't notice them anymore.
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