Tinnitus

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  • 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
  • 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
  • i_monk1

    I found out earlier this year mine's due to a bone spur encroaching on the ear canal.

  • dbloc2

    I actually get it when I'm dehydrated. Not sure what that means, except the fact that I need to drink more water.

    • yeah water helps with regulation of blood pressure...grafician
    • Yes. It's hot here, been feeling dehydrated. Just trying to pin point what triggers mine and the heat seems to be a common factor.sea_sea
  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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
  • grafician1

    AGAIN it has to do with blood pressure, fix your blood pressure, the tinnitus will decline damn

    • This post is elevating my blood pressure. lol xDsea_sea
    • Absolutism is pointless here - it's been repeatedly stated here that there are different types of tinnitus, *some* of which are blood pressre-related.Nairn
  • 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
  • Nairn0

    A potential treatment for some forms of tinnitus?

    https://www.lenire.com/