Tinnitus
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- Nairn2
I've suffered from tinnitus in my left ear since a fairly loud New Year event a few years ago, when my partner and her best chum insisted in shouting into my ear every time they wanted to talk, which given we were all a little high on E was all fucking night. I spent the entire evening protesting that they shut the fuck up a little, to no avail.
For the first few months it was incredibly bad and I was seriously pissed off at how it had arisen. Given time my brain gradually tuned it out most of the time, but sometimes it'd flare up again.
Strange thing is, ever since I was a kid I've felt like it was impossible to ever hear perfect silence. Being a country kid, I remember when there was no wind or noise about and the quieter it got the more a certain pitched tone would kick in to fill in the void. I suspect it's a natural response to silence - some sinal proessing trick, aggregating a white noise to enable better pick up of discrete noises, or something. Tinnitus is that response, broken.
Blood pressure might have something to do with forms of it too. I know I get a different type of tinnitus if I've been slouching around for a while and I can 'feel' blood pumping around my ears, resulting in a lower toned form.
Also - and the reason (finally) I'm responding here now - my case of tinnitus has ramped up massively these last few days, as a direct result of swimming and, I presume, air pressure changes from flying. It's been a long time, you cunt. Not happy to hear you again.
- i just read your previous post earlier and was gonna ask if it had let up any...kingsteven
- i get an sudden biiinnngg that fades off occasionally but have been very lucky.kingsteven
- playing in loud bands for years and rarely use ear plugs, some lads i play with have it bad now to the point i'm sure it affects their playing...kingsteven
- haha holy fuck - what a bore am I, I made pretty much the exact-same long-winded post already, 4 years ago.Nairn
- @king - yeah, it pretty much went away 'until I noticed it again' on occasion, where it'd bother me for an hour or two before I forgot to notice it again.Nairn
- but think it's far easier to damage your ears listening to recorded music in headphones or at clubs because it has less dynamic range/ higher average level.kingsteven
- Ha. I'm guessing it was NYE at the end of 2016 when I got it bad. How fucking fortuitous. Nngh.Nairn
- hahaha. had my first post-lockdown rehearsal last week and it was terrifyingly loud, gonna take heed of these stories fo sure.kingsteven
- Got mine in the infantry - too much loud shit ...thankfully my hearing is fucked now too! LolStatic_Line
- heh, that's the spirit! Although at least yours was 'won' for a good reason...Nairn
- LolStatic_Line
- Lol the blood pressure thing is interesting, I intuitively checked my temperature noticing that it has become worse during the heat. Hmmsea_sea