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Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I have really strong tinnitus either when: - I did not sleep enough - I wake up in the middle of my sleep - I drink a lot of alcohol - There is a lot of noise arround me - In few cases it's just random and get stronger for no apparent reasons

I notice it when I've stayed awake too long, and am exhausted. So I agree.

Meh. I notice it most when the insomnia is acting up and I lay in bed waiting for sleep which doesn't want to come.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I've been following frequency therapeutics as well. I don't think the Neuromod treatment would provide much help to me. My tinnitus does not bother me in any meaningful way. The bothersome thing for me is hearing loss. Noisy environments interfere with my ability to hear conversation. Some frequencies I simply cannot hear. Some noises, cheap/bad audio in the higher frequencies for instance, actually hurt my ears. When the hair clippers get close to my ear, it is nearly painful. A lot of people think that is odd because hearing loss should mean I don't hear it. As a musician and audio lover, I would pay a relatively large amount of money to have normal hearing.

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I debugged my own Tinnitus, most doctors don't know anything and don't care about it. It turned out to be related to my neck, so I wonder on what subset of Tinnitus sufferers this treatment is even relevant. A short story about my debugging after frustration with the conventional medicine. One day after I came back from work it started in one ear, lasted for half an hour and went away for few minutes and came back to…

Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue? (and was it fixable!) EDIT: @mrtksn, thank you for editing and elaborating your post.

He died of a sore neck.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have really strong tinnitus either when: - I did not sleep enough - I wake up in the middle of my sleep - I drink a lot of alcohol - There is a lot of noise arround me - In few cases it's just random and get stronger for no apparent reasons

I notice it when I've stayed awake too long, and am exhausted. So I agree.

That's how it started for me, now it is constant. I'd look into high frequency hearing loss if it becomes more persistent.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I've been following frequency therapeutics as well. I don't think the Neuromod treatment would provide much help to me. My tinnitus does not bother me in any meaningful way. The bothersome thing for me is hearing loss. Noisy environments interfere with my ability to hear conversation. Some frequencies I simply cannot hear. Some noises, cheap/bad audio in the higher frequencies for instance, actually hurt my ears. Whe…

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Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I've often wondered why sometimes it's worse than others. It's always there. I always hear the ringing, but most times I can ignore it, but there are other times it just seems so much louder. I would like to know what all those triggers are so I can try to avoid them. Some are obvious - real loud noises, heavy exercise, etc, but others not so much.

Same here, my awareness of it comes and goes, but I swear the effect itself varies from time to time. I seem more likely to notice the ringing if there's white noise in the background, like from a fan or AC, but it's just a theory.

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I debugged my own Tinnitus, most doctors don't know anything and don't care about it. It turned out to be related to my neck, so I wonder on what subset of Tinnitus sufferers this treatment is even relevant. A short story about my debugging after frustration with the conventional medicine. One day after I came back from work it started in one ear, lasted for half an hour and went away for few minutes and came back to…

Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue? (and was it fixable!) EDIT: @mrtksn, thank you for editing and elaborating your post.

Sorry, I posted prematurely. Now I completed the story!

Re: Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

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I've been following frequency therapeutics as well. I don't think the Neuromod treatment would provide much help to me. My tinnitus does not bother me in any meaningful way. The bothersome thing for me is hearing loss. Noisy environments interfere with my ability to hear conversation. Some frequencies I simply cannot hear. Some noises, cheap/bad audio in the higher frequencies for instance, actually hurt my ears. Whe…

Took me a while to understand based on my own hearing loss that it's not about decreased sensitivity to sound. Hearing is about sound volumes that occur between two limits: The threshold of sensitivity (above which you discern that the sound exists), and the threshold of pain (above which the sound is painful). Between those limits lies hearing.

In age-related "hearing loss," the threshold of sensitivity rises while the threshold of pain stays the same or even decreases slightly. So the range of volumes you can comfortably discern becomes narrower. This explains why simply increasing the volume often does more harm than good. What's really needed to treat hearing loss is frequency-specific volume compression.

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