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

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Post by bloopernova »

upghost wrote: post #271

I hope this comment reaches anyone suffering from tinnitus. My tinnitus is so bad that I’d … well good news is, I found a great way to manage my brain melting tinnitus. Step 1: YouTube-dl this blessed sound: https://youtu.be/8indTo2ykPw?si=izyTOg4gYvnfsqZs (Plz tip the guy) (You should be able to tell just by listening to the sound that it immediately cuts out the tinnitus— if this sound print doesn’t work for you, t…

How loudly are you supposed to listen to that sound? Like, at the threshold of hearing, or blasting it, or something in between?

Thank you for sharing it, I am hopeful it helps me :)

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

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Post by bigDinosaur »

vorpalhex wrote: post #289
ryandrake wrote: post #285

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> I’ve had tinnitus for about one year now. There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil. Half of the 200+ post comment section reads like those bottom of the barrel YouTube ads with the AI generated voices: "Try this secret trick to cure your [condition]." It seems to always happen when someone comes here to ask for opinions on disease, food, health or fitness. People, don't go to HN for medical or n…

Tinnitus may have a psychological component. Many people, in this thread, talk about reducing or removing alcohol and having improvement. Alcohol does very weird things to sleep and the stress cycle. One of the things that occasionally freaks people out is that magical talismans, regardless the magic.. actually work - at above placebo! In fact, even fake magical talismans.. work.. at above placebo.. Psychological thi…

The fake magical talisman is the placebo, so it cannot be superior to the placebo. At least I'm not sure of any useful study to demonstrate anything about real talismans if you're not using the fake one as a placebo.

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

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Post by the-dude »

bayindirh wrote: post #178
maccard wrote: post #174

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Have you any citations for this? This is exactly the sort of stuff people are to about about when referring to snake oil

Citations? I remember the prescriptions and Doctors' notes for the diet itself. He had to endure through IV drug treatments at home, was not able to sleep for 17 days because of the given drugs. I remember cooking everything without salt (then buying reduced sodium salt for some time because he missed the taste of it to a certain degree), stop buying sparkling water, how my father tried to cope with the remaining tin…

Could you elaborate on the sparkling drinks? Do you know of a rationale?

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

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Post by sschueller »

lightweb wrote: post #257

Yes. I stopped eating refined sugar and drinking any alcohol and my 90% hearing loss in one ear + tinnitus has gone away in about 3-4 months. I was suffering with it for years. I also had all mercury fillings removed by a specialist with the correct equipment and procedures.

The diet thing is interesting as I have noticed if I drink too much coffee I get a slight tinitus.

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

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Post by karmajunkie »

bayindirh wrote: post #227
ayewo wrote: post #222

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You've provided more than enough "citations" for your contribution and I learned a thing or 2 from it. Thank you for sharing it. To address the gp point, your original comment would have been fine without the last 2 sentences (unless of course diagnosing tinnitus is your occupation): > Dad went through acute hearing loss twice. They banned salt during recovery. Your tinnitus is related to blood circulation in the ear…

You're welcome. I'm glad that helped. I have written the comment like that, because the GP provided an example relating his tinnitus to salt intake, and I know that scenario from my dad, so I have written that with confidence. If I was not sure, I'd not write a comment at all. :) Health and metabolism are serious subjects, and I have more than enough experience to not make any recommendations based on low-confidence…

Not to impugn your own expertise and experience, but realize that the internet (and generally HN) are literally filled with people who a) say the same thing; and b) spout off a firehose’s worth of nonsense, ask the time.

citations let your reader judge your ethos and credibility in the absence of personal knowledge of you.

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

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Post by jhallenworld »

Try eliminating all background noise, especially white noise sources like fans. Give it a few days.

I have some degree of tinnitus (I'm sure it's damage from that Metallica concert..), but I mostly don't notice it unless triggered. White noise triggers it. One office I worked in had white noise generators which made it worse and worse. New office does not have them, now no problem.

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

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

upghost wrote: post #277
burnte wrote: post #275

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I'm thrilled it works for you and I'm sorry yours is so bad. Mine is average I'd guess, but I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I've had it since early childhood so I think I learned to tolerate it better, I can mostly ignore it these days. So I'd just say to…

Oh yeah, I’d give anything to hear the real silence again. Someone sent this to me as an FDA treatment that’s new, but I haven’t tried it: https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/ I’m hoping for some “silence tourism” once in awhile!

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