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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 marand23 »

rheng wrote: post #55

I also have been suffering from tinnitus a little over a year now. It definitely has impacted my sleep, especially my mornings. It's the first thing I think about when I wake up. I've been following the work of Auricle Inc., a company commercializing decades of neuroscience research out of Dr. Susan Shore's lab at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure: I have spoken to their CEO about potentially helping with…

Thanks for supporting tinitus research. It gives me some hope that there will be a treatment someday.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by tim333 »

stacktraceyo wrote: post #219

AirPod pros noise cancellation gave me my tinnitus. Just as a warning to others be careful. There’s an apple support page with lots of people complaining about the same thing.

It's interesting. I guess the algorithm moves the pod diaphragm to try to oppose external noise but must push the ear drum out of it's design range.

I have tinnitus. My theory of how it arises is the bit of the ear that converts spatial movement to electrical signals - some hairs tied to an ion channel basically - gets moved too far and breaks the thing in such a way that the channel jams open.

The noise pro stuff may be worse than regular loud noises as the ear recognises loud noises and tries to protect itself but may not do that with the noise cancellation movements.

(diagram of what the gear looks like https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B97801237494750...)

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Post by Salmoneo »

I'm 35. I've got tinnitus since I was 9/10 years old. The insurgence of my tinnitus is interesting: I got it after sleeping an entire night with a television static after watching a VHS. Another interesting aspect is that the aforementioned insurgence happened in 2 phases: I went asleep watching a VHS and the subsequent static sound made me hear a ringing sound for a while (some days IIRC) then disappeared; a week after that I went asleep again in the same way (vhs, static etc) and from that moment onward I always got a ringing. It sounds like when you turn on a ctr tv. Initially I was kind of alarmed. No one believed me and I found the existence of the condition after many years on tv or internet. My brain filter the sound most of the time so I live with the condition.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by margaritaP »

I am a 69 yr old female. I don't remember a time without tinnitus, even as a child. In the last two years I had a couple of scary episodes where the whooshing, whistling, ringing ,buzzing, heart pulse became a HORN. In my right ear. It was driving me crazy, making me cry because it wouldn't stop. Nothing would cover the noise. I ended up at a neurologist. I found out I had a cyst in a pineal gland, that I didn't know about. But no answer to the horn sound, migraine and nausea. eventually after about a week it stopped. The second time was only a day. It is a frustrating ongoing situation, but I guess others have far worse problems.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by gpvos »

microtonal wrote: post #43
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.…

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. I don't know if I have tinnitus. I had strong ringing in my ears every now and then as a kid. I once told a classmate about this, who said I…

I have something similar, I tend to describe it to people as a light tinnitus. It's a permanent high tone, but I don't usually notice it unless it's very silent around me or I intentionally tune into it, and even then it's not very loud. Never mentioned it to a doctor. I think I know which loud disco I got it from when I was about 7.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by jaybrendansmith »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #118
jaybrendansmith wrote: post #84

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This is my experience. It normally doesn't bother me, and I didn't think about it until I read this article, so now it is driving me crazy. Please let's stop posting articles about Tinnitus unless the article describes a CURE. Thanks.

Perhaps you could learn to not read those articles?

Don't think of an elephant.

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by firemelt »

rheng wrote: post #55

I also have been suffering from tinnitus a little over a year now. It definitely has impacted my sleep, especially my mornings. It's the first thing I think about when I wake up. I've been following the work of Auricle Inc., a company commercializing decades of neuroscience research out of Dr. Susan Shore's lab at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure: I have spoken to their CEO about potentially helping with…

so its like lenire machine?

Re: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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Post by firemelt »

RockstarSprain wrote: post #63

Personal anecdote: removing a lower wisdom tooth that was close to the jaw nerve nearly cured my tinnitus back in the day. The surgeon dentist was really surprised by this and could not evoke any similar cases in their practice before mine.

I think I should remove my wisdom tooth too
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