I suffer from it in my right ear, I discovered some foods exasperate it.
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The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
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#52Constant dog-whistle in my right ear for the last ten years+.
Perceived sound is constant, but effect ranges from insignificant basic condition to friving me up walls, and keeping me awake at night.
Never really did the loud music stuff, and no headphones/earplugs, really. A grinning, idiot colleague once emptied a huge bucket of glass bottles into a container where the broke and shattered as I was standing right by. Felt my ear flattening, and that was the start of it.
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#53I've been treating my occasional tinnitus with a combination of neti pot rinsse with the valsalva maneuver. It's mostly gone since I started doing this every so often.
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#54My tinnitus is usually not bad enough to be bothersome, but when it gets painful, I listen to https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera... That's not just noise, it does... something... that provides instant relief. That site also has a great variety of background sounds which you can adjust and combine in myriad ways.
Definitely trying this next time I feel my tinnitus getting worse. It hasn't been too bothersome, seems to be the consequence of some cisplatin chemo I had to do years ago. Thanks for the link!
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you're describing is spasming of the tensor tempani muscle.
What I'm describing is very location dependent, just as sound waves will be louder depending on your proximity to their half or full wavelength. I don't doubt there can be internal explanations for some sounds, but what I experience is often dependent on location within a few feet, with some spots being much louder than others. Also, I'm not always the only person who hears it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
I get that a bit late at night, I think from the noise of the fridge compressor motor that reverberates against the wall. If I put in an earplug it stops.
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#56The first rule of tinnitus club is... don't talk about tinnitus. Because then you remember you have it and start hearing it again. Had it about a decade now, I can ignore it most of the time.
I hate this. I always thought that if I had some ailment I would research everything about it and try fix it. I still do that with tinnitus, but when I do I'll hear it.
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#57I had it for a couple months earlier this year and it was terribly annoying. My ENT took all sorts of images (CAT, MRI) and in the end just gave me some strong antibiotics in the ear. After a few days I was like, what is wrong, and realized it was gone. Of course there are many reasons but in my case it was some oddball bacterium.
Could you tell us a bit more? How did the doctor establish that bacteria was the problem? I started having problems after having something like a flu, with thick yellow stuff coming out of my eyes. The ear doctor I saw didn't have many ideas.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know why this works? Because it jostles the sternocleidomastoid muscle which connects to the base of your skull behind your ears. If this technique cures/helps your tinnitus its because you probably sit/stand with bad posture. You can attain more lasting results by regularly stretching that muscle (massage/pull on it). This will not cure hearing-loss related tinnitus. Personal experience: this not only cured m…
Do you have a source for this? It seems dubious that tapping a muscle 50 times would be an effective treatment for muscle strain.
...isn't that sort of what a massage is?
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#59I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. Most days I don't even notice it, it probably helps that I listen to music for 12 hours a day, but even sitting in a quiet area without music it's not intrusive unless I focus on it.
Oddly enough though, it really flares up when I'm stressed, especially if it's emotional or relationship stress. I'm not sure why that is. It never really gets "bad" in that it causes me distress, but it gets very noticeable.
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#60I have a theory that everyone experiences some form of tinnitus, but only some are bothered by it. It's like when you start thinking too deeply about how your intangible mind controls your body, it can be rather suffocating, as there is no escape from the unanswered sense of emptiness that thought can generate. Similarly with tinnitus, once you start focusing on it too much, it feels like like something you can't esc…
As tinnitus can be measured using hearing tests I think we have a pretty good understanding that it's not a universal condition.