Tinnitus fucks up with my mind

  On 10/4/2014 at 7:10 AM, delet... said:

oh god, just reading the thread title reminded me that it's there. I'm so lucky that it's high pitch and mostly in the left ear and not super loud.

just a quick question, are you able to attend concerts and whatnot? did you get tinnitus from noise exposure?

I had temporary tinnitus really bad one time from an incredibly loud show the day prior and had gotten INCREDIBLY stoned the following evening. I was tripping out insanely badly about my hearing and stuff. Ever since then that moment has always been in my mind. I turn music down if I can, and I always bring earplugs to shows. To be honest you can hear the show much more clearly with earplugs in most of the time anyways.

I too, have constant tinnitus. sometimes it gets really bad and can feel the phasing inside my head, other times its so loud, it almost sounds like feedback. sometimes, there is an extraneous freq or a few, and then they blend into the usual ringing pitch, that's strangely nice, but rare enough to be a bit scary.

doc said something about high blood pressure inside my head, I had to take a bunch of tests, but then I missed the appointment.

also smoking dope, fucks my throat badly sometimes, then the tinnitus rises...sometimes I see pink hahaha

p.s. some of the guy's suggestions above really blew my mind, got to chew them s l o w l y

also, in the aaa, sean booth suggested listening to computerworld :] he suffers from tinnitus too

  On 10/5/2014 at 6:58 AM, rekosn said:

p.s. some of the guy's suggestions above really blew my mind, got to chew them s l o w l y

also, in the aaa, sean booth suggested listening to computerworld :] he suffers from tinnitus too

damn sean has tinnitus too? I've been listening to tons of chain reaction / rhythm & sound / loscil / stars of the lid since I got mine a week ago, helps tremendously.

  On 10/5/2014 at 6:06 AM, jellyrajah said:

 

  On 10/4/2014 at 7:10 AM, delet... said:

oh god, just reading the thread title reminded me that it's there. I'm so lucky that it's high pitch and mostly in the left ear and not super loud.

just a quick question, are you able to attend concerts and whatnot? did you get tinnitus from noise exposure?

 

it's probably from years of bashing away at acoustic guitar, and environmental noise at work. I wasn't really a big concert attendee and i never really played my music loud when i had a stereo or on my headphones, because i had good hearing, i can hear all the details, and we know all about tinnitus so why ruin it. Well lol it got me anyway. As for being able to go to gigs, it seems ok. I saw com truise in september and it didn't fuck with me. Even my bloody valentine was ok, although that was so fucking loud that i held me hands over my ears, hahah. What is the point guys, turn it down, no one can hear my snarky comments. heh [-; ;-]

  On 10/6/2014 at 1:27 AM, delet... said:

 

  On 10/5/2014 at 6:06 AM, jellyrajah said:

 

  On 10/4/2014 at 7:10 AM, delet... said:

oh god, just reading the thread title reminded me that it's there. I'm so lucky that it's high pitch and mostly in the left ear and not super loud.

just a quick question, are you able to attend concerts and whatnot? did you get tinnitus from noise exposure?

 

 

 

it's probably from years of bashing away at acoustic guitar, and environmental noise at work. I wasn't really a big concert attendee and i never really played my music loud when i had a stereo or on my headphones, because i had good hearing, i can hear all the details, and we know all about tinnitus so why ruin it. Well lol it got me anyway. As for being able to go to gigs, it seems ok. I saw com truise in september and it didn't fuck with me. Even my bloody valentine was ok, although that was so fucking loud that i held me hands over my ears, hahah. What is the point guys, turn it down, no one can hear my snarky comments. heh [-; ;-]

 

thanks for your reply. it's been about six days for me and it seems like mine is getting a little harder to hear ( i can just barely hear it in my left ear if i plug up my ears and concentrate) so hopefully this might not be a permanent issue? guess i'll find out soon enough.

Sorry to all who have tinnitus, I have been dealing with it for about 6 years now. It was terribly annoying at first and there is never a time I can't hear the hissing and ringing, but somehow I have learned to ignore it for the most part. There is no known cure, and any treatments are unproven - none of the things I have tried work.

It was mentioned earlier, the best way to cope with tinnitus is to always have sound in the background, just loud enough to drown out the tinnitus.

  On 8/12/2014 at 8:03 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Walmart now stocks homeopathic ear drops that supposedly reduce ringing. If I'm trying to sleep & it's loud, I put my pinkies in my ears for 1-2 minutes, take them out & it's greatly reduced for a while.

Homeopathy: It's not the ingredients that cure, it's the number of times the ingredient was diluted. The less of the original ingredient, the better. In other words, homeopathic remedies are >99.99999999999999999999999999999999% water mixed with between zero and one molecule of bullshit.

I have a bunch of weird ear issues which sort-of come under tinnitus. I have a cholesteatoma in one ear, and in that ear I can normally hear a very low-pitched rumble, like what you'd get by leaning your head against the wall while you're sat on a train or plane. Might be "objective tinnitus", i.e. being able to hear my own blood flowing.

Also I have either patulous eustachian tubes or superior canal dehiscence in both ears, which means I constantly hear my own breathing in a Darth Vader like fashion, and a low-pitched echo of my own voice, both at dizzyingly loud volumes. Sounds from my body are apparently able to enter my middle ear and echo around it. I can "turn it off" for about 30mins at a time by sucking air out of my middle ear, but it always returns. Weird shit. I should make a track about it. If only I could sample it!

Eraserhead is anti-tinnitus.

  On 12/29/2014 at 5:14 AM, VIII said:

 

  On 12/27/2014 at 10:12 PM, Tricone RC said:

I have a bunch of weird ear issues which sort-of come under tinnitus. I have a cholesteatoma in one ear, and in that ear I can normally hear a very low-pitched rumble, like what you'd get by leaning your head against the wall while you're sat on a train or plane. Might be "objective tinnitus", i.e. being able to hear my own blood flowing.

 

 

Also I have either patulous eustachian tubes or superior canal dehiscence in both ears, which means I constantly hear my own breathing in a Darth Vader like fashion, and a low-pitched echo of my own voice, both at dizzyingly loud volumes. Sounds from my body are apparently able to enter my middle ear and echo around it. I can "turn it off" for about 30mins at a time by sucking air out of my middle ear, but it always returns. Weird shit. I should make a track about it. If only I could sample it!

 

wow! i hope you can recover from this. how did you develop it?

 

i guess i should count my blessings, because my new tinnitus is nearly gone! i turned off my fan at night, and the hours of "silence" seemed to have helped. also, some loud-ish acoustic music may have reset whatever brain feedback was present (or at least that's my hypothesis). yay.

ye what is it about "brain feedback"? do you mind elaborating

  On 12/29/2014 at 5:14 AM, VIII said:

wow! i hope you can recover from this. how did you develop it?

 

i guess i should count my blessings, because my new tinnitus is nearly gone! i turned off my fan at night, and the hours of "silence" seemed to have helped. also, some loud-ish acoustic music may have reset whatever brain feedback was present (or at least that's my hypothesis). yay.

 

I've had the PET/SCD my whole life (well, I remember having it when I was a toddler anyway). The cholesteatoma has developed over the last couple of years

That's weird that yours is set off by identifiable sounds/events, with most people it's just something that gradually comes and goes am I right?

So glad I don't have this condition. A favorite radio personality Ian Punnett has this so bad that he had to stop doing radio shows. I always wear protection when around loud noises. I want to hear well until death.

mine comes and goes but i tend to get it the worst during silent times like when I'm on the computer and the only noise is the ambience from the air conditioning.

at first it feels like someone is walking up to me and then the piercing high sets in and i can pretty much fade it out by like somehow morphing the pitch to coalesce with another noise in the room.

  On 12/24/2014 at 2:57 AM, VIII said:

A family member was doing dishes and two plates struck together loudly - I could feel the sound vibrating in my inner ear ;_; A few isolated loud sounds and headphone listening may have led to it. its been present for about a week now... I hope it goes away - haven't been able to listen to music since it started ringing...

I don't have any ringing, but I do have this phenomenon ("sharp" sounds like clicking plates causing scrapey feels in my ear) from time to time. It's pretty annoying, for sure.

But anyway, yeah, some resting of the ears might be in order for you. I find that helps me a lot with mine. Also (perhaps, hard to say), being well-rested, not too caffeinated, eating well, etc. You know, the usual crap.

Fuck tinnitus. Yeah stress seems to play a really important factor. Sleep depravity too probably

Yup, I agree: FUCK TINNITUS. Ever since I have it my enjoyment of music is at 60% of what it used to be :(

Watching this probably won't help, AT ALL

Agree with the meditation / anti-inflammatory foodstuffs - anything that reduces your baseline anxiety will help, so MDMA isn't a long term solution.

I did read about sound therapy, which you can administer yourself through an app these days - just go about listening to your tunes as normal through one of the many smartphone apps https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/sound-therapy 

  On 12/16/2016 at 11:37 AM, Claudius t Ansuulim said:

Watching this probably won't help, AT ALL

To be honest, a month ago when I thought that I will become deaf because the tinnitus was so strong, I watched this movie and it actually made me feel better.

That movie made me aware of the phenomenon, and I instantly became aware of the symptoms in my own hearing. I've brutalized my ears over the years; growing up around houses being constructed, going to raves, metal shows, and festivals where I'd stand as close to the fucking pa as possible, being in some incarnation of a loud drunken noise band since I was 13, feeling complete and total bliss in passing out in front of a guitar feeding back into stacks of amplifiers. And then this movie comes along and I start to think "maybe you should ease up a bit, eh?". Not really, though. I got paranoid about it for probably a good year or two, then I just kinda forgot about it. Still blast music, but more as a weekend warrior, and I make sure that I supplement my diet with plenty of birds and wind through trees. Also don't ever never ever wear headphones, vibrations too close to the precious bits. Another decent reference to the phenomenon:

  On 12/15/2016 at 3:48 PM, Dpek said:

Yup, I agree: FUCK TINNITUS. Ever since I have it my enjoyment of music is at 60% of what it used to be :(

I developed this new sound recently where the tinnitus is sidechained to music lol. Sooo fucking annoying!

Chemotherapy (cisplatin in particular) can give you horrible tinnitus and can permanently fuck up your perception of certain bands in the high end of the spectrum.

While I was getting chemo I kept having these awful tinnitus/vertigo attacks, where I'd hear a loud high ringing that seemed to be moving, shifting from one ear to the other, throwing my coordination off like crazy. Usually accompanied by a feeling of pressure in my head. I read that hearing problems could be permanent, it really freaked me out. Luckily it wasn't in my case, ears work fine now! (afaik)..

I'd still get little aftershocks of it for a while afterward, a few weeks fine and then a sudden ringing attack rushing through my ears for a few seconds. Very disorienting!

Some days ago I was drunk + weed + MDMA + a massive amount of synthetic cannabinoids and it caused something like tinnitus. It felt like there was a constant stream of rubber coming out of my ears and certain frequencies appeared as glowing light balls before my eye. I thought I was going to be numb as the noises in my ears were so fucking loud and my vision changed so dramatically but I was just high as fuck. Eating infamous amounts of meatballs rescued me from that feeling, maybe that helps for you too. feel bad for anyone who has this their whole life. It really sucks

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damn i'm getting it in my right ear, been about a week like this. time to switch up from crappy iphone headphones

I have it, what i would categorise as mild?

I cannot hear silence and therefore most nights would sleep to music/white noise/podcasts or sometimes background noise is enough.

It is extremely aggravated by alcohol. I hope they find some cure or relievement before mine gets worse.

I've looked up multiple avenues for causes, because I've had mine as long as I can remember. The causes I could find:

• Long exposure to loud noises (possible, I went to concerts since I was under 10)
• Short extreme exposure to extremely loud noises (blaring speakers, gunshots etc. also possible I went to some clubs with poor acoustics that compensated by just playing really loud.)
• Tight muscles in the neck, can be relieved by stretching neck muscles to alleviate your ears and associated ear hair floccules being distorted. (I found some relief from the stretches)