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Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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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 ma…

Interesting. Thanks for that

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I’ve had it for almost 6 years. I’m fairly certain it can be solved by a simple laser to the blood vessels in my ear, but doctors refuse to even try it. My tinnitus started as hearing my heartbeat for over a year before it turned into a screeching noise. It makes complete sense to me that blood vessels in the ear are the primary cause, considering how many ailments can cause new blood vessel growth… why has nobody ev…

Hearing your heart beat like this can be a sign of an arteriovenous fistula in the brain.
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