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An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by cpeterso »

incomingpain wrote: post #2

cricket sleep music seems to be the common go-to cure. But an elevated one to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke2BopotSIU

I use pink noise (it's less harsh than the cricket white noise) notched to my tinnitus frequency. There are some studies asserting that notching the noise may reduce your brain's sensitivity to your tinnitus frequency.

https://treblehealth.com/notch-therapy-tinnitus/

https://audionotch.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@tinnitusreliever610/videos

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Post by dkarras »

closeparen wrote: post #40
grugagag wrote: post #20

I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

I have it only if the room is too quiet. Any reasonable level of background white noise makes it go away.

Does everyone not have ringing in their ears when they really pay attention? Or like when they are trying to go to sleep? I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood. Still have to this day, same intensity. During the day it does not bother me, nor do I notice it. But if I pay attention, it feels pretty loud.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by throwaway63467 »

grugagag wrote: post #20

I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

Same for me, I think I probably had it since a young age (lots of middle ear infections) but it seemed normal to me so I didn’t realize it was unusual until much later in life. I freaked out about it for a few years but realized it was and will always be there and didn’t bother me before, so I pretty much went back to it not bothering me anymore.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by TillE »

joe_the_user wrote: post #42
grugagag wrote: post #20

I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

This comment is as useful as posting to a thread on clinical depression that when you feel down you sing a little song.

There's absolutely nothing you can do about tinnitus except adjust to it. You really do just have to relax and accept it, and it essentially fades into the background. That's literally the best treatment available.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by jijijijij »

hanniabu wrote: post #34
hooverd wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO there's not research into it as a brain issue. Especially in medicine where we pretend there's a clean biological separation between provider specialties.

It seems more likely to be a gut microbiome issue, which would make sense considering it can be caused by antibiotics and people tend to get it as they age which your microbiome health tends to decline as we age too.

No, it's definitely insufficient faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Which totally makes sense since sometimes sinners get it, and we're all sinners, aren't we?!

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by archsurface »

I had an interesting experience a few months ago. I seem to be incorrectly remembering it as percussive tinnitus - all I can find now is pulsatile tinnitus. Whatever it's called, it was a tapping in my ear at about 120 bps, only noticeable when going to sleep. It was possibly caused by a bike fall, very jarring to the body, no head contact, and disappeared after two or three weeks.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by wruza »

joe_the_user wrote: post #42
grugagag wrote: post #20

I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

This comment is as useful as posting to a thread on clinical depression that when you feel down you sing a little song.

It's really one of the most true things about tinnitus. It takes a while to put your mind in order to accept it, but once you're done, the problem goes away (but tinnitus never does).

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by penneyd »

jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #19

35 year old male. I developed tinnitus in my left ear only after covid last December. It's been constant since December 21st, 2023. I have an amazingly huge level of empathy of anyone dealing with this - the first few days were some of the longest of my life. Through it all so far, it's amazing how little we seem to know about tinnitus - TL;DR my doctors have said we don't have any great answers for it. Thanks for po…

I've always had it somewhat but COVID late last year definitely kicked it up a notch for a while, it did fade back to essentially being unnoticeable after a couple of months though. Hope yours fades too, it's a nuisance for sure.
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