Tinnitus
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- Nairn0
A potential treatment for some forms of tinnitus?
- sted0
15-16 years old: CRT display + desktop machine hdd + loud music from earplugs
24-30 desktop machine hdd + loud music from earplugs
30-35 desktop machine hdd + blood pressure
35+ blood pressure
- the buzzing after a loud concert is just your ear telling you "bitch, stop going to these shitty concerts"grafician
- ^p.s. it was not intended for you sted, it was general advicegrafician
- yeah but those usually go away after 2-3 days.sted
- ^yeah! it's not tinnitusgrafician
- so sted are you 35+ dammit mangrafician
- Signs you're getting old, lol!OBBTKN
- yeah i'm 30 inside :Dsted
- grafician1
AGAIN it has to do with blood pressure, fix your blood pressure, the tinnitus will decline damn
- plash1
I've had tinnitus all my life. something like 30 years ago i experienced head trauma and became deaf in my right ear, the other sparked tinnitus.. older i get the louder it seems and now that i have a child, it totally gets worse the more stress i become.
- I agree with the stress factor plash. These days lots to add to that list.sea_sea
- garbage0
I was born with a heart murmur, so I've had pulsatile tinnitus my entire life. I also have your standard grade tinnitus from going to so many shows.
@NonEntity's post, I only started noticing it when I saw the thread was bumped. It is my silence.
- NonEntity3
One of the earliest anechoic chambers was designed and built by Leo Beranek and Harvey Sleeper in 1943. Their design is the one upon which most modern anechoic chambers is based. In a lecture titled ‘Indeterminacy,’ the avant-garde composer John Cage described his experience when he visited Beranek’s chamber.
“in that silent room, I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward I asked the engineer in charge why, if the room was so silent, I had heard two sounds... He said, ‘The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation.’”
After that visit, he composed his famous work entitled 4’33”, consisting solely of silence and intended to encourage the audience to focus on the ambient sounds in the listening environment.
In his 1961 book ‘Silence,’ Cage expanded on the implications of his experience in the anechoic chamber. “Try as we might to make silence, we cannot... Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.”
Good ol' story about John Cage and non-silence
https://intelligentsoundengineer…
- dbloc2
I actually get it when I'm dehydrated. Not sure what that means, except the fact that I need to drink more water.
- i_monk1
I found out earlier this year mine's due to a bone spur encroaching on the ear canal.
- 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
- microkorg0
Worth a £20 try for you guys with tinnitus.
Also for people without tinnitus it seems too, these help to take away the edge from sounds that would normally 'alarm' and 'stress' us which in turn should make us calmer.https://www.flareaudio.com/pages…
- I have these in my ears now. They seem to help a little a few hours in.sea_sea
- Great stuff! How do they fare for making sounds 'less harsh' like they claim. I don't have tinnitus but was thinking of getting them to tame noises...microkorg
- ...like kids screams etc when you're feeling a little rough ;)microkorg
- Lol honestly the first day I was hearing sounds that I hadn't before. They seem to filter sound differently for sure. They feel like they're going to fall outsea_sea
- They're ok. I bought another pair that I found on Amazon for cheap with decent reviews. They're high fidelity earplugs. I like these better if what you want...sea_sea
- Is to filter out the extra noise. https://www.amazon.c…sea_sea
- The flare sit more comfortably but the etymotic actually plug the ears and filter sound clearly. You get surround sound ears. Takes a bit getting used to them.sea_sea
- grafician0
Ok, so if you're inside your home, and you hear the buzzing, can you go unplug your AC and check if you heart it again after?
Some ACs if not all of them - when on idle - or just plugged - not when working ofc - they make this buzzing sound that really resembles tinnitus.
Also check your blood pressure while at it...
- sea_sea1
Anyone find anything that gives any relief? I know this isn't Google, just searching for real experiences.
- Mine flares up most at night when it’s quiet - I try to keep some background noise on most of the time! ...audiologist I went to said there’s no cure...Static_Line
- ...but I can “train” my brain to ignore the ringing with some masking device/contraption/w... thingStatic_Line
- I've read moving near nature or a forest helps a bitOBBTKN
- Yeah heard about the training the brain concept. Thanks for the reminder I'll look into that.sea_sea
- I'm ready for a nature move no doubt. The city can be quite overwhelming at times.sea_sea
- sea_sea3
Ringing in my right ear is driving me nutz lately. Got a pair of flareaudio calmer ear buds after reading some unexpected good results from people with tinnitus. I've worn them a few days a few hours each time. If anything I feel calmer due to the way it filters noise. They helped a little so far. I'll fkn try anything at this point. X(
- monoboy1
That'll explain why my Mum would say "is that wedding bells I hear" every time I brought a girl home.
- Sorry.
- Ianbolton0
I had a mastoidectomy replacing the infected anvil, stirrup and hammer in both ears with prosthetic ones. Since then I've had tinnitus.
To be fair, I can only hear the loud ringing when I turn the music off.
Apparently it's caused by damaging the tiny hairs in the inner ear.
- HomeCreative0
In my right ear, I developed an 'apparent' form of tinitus.
I can hear my pulse which sounds like walking on fresh snow in that goes in time with my heartbeat.
It's never ending, gets louder when I'm stressed and drives me insane and worst of all makes me want to go snowboarding :(
- that could be ear wax or water. get them pro cleanedfruitsalad
- there are pro ear cleaners?Gnash
- craigatkinson1
I've got two young kids so I don't know if I have tinitus or not. I guess you should have kids.
- pass the ncraigatkinson
- don't get it. and pass to having kids.lvl_13
- no offense to people that have kids. just not my style.lvl_13
- detritus0
So after a particularly noisy NYE party (that I didn't even want to go to) it now looks like I've joined you lot and now have permanent tinnitus.
Yaay.
- pr21
Does QBN does vimeo links?
or go to the website:
http://shoulderthelion.com/