Tinnitus - the sound of Silence

RedViking said:
This usually happens once or twice a week for many many years now, but it goes away after 30 seconds or so if I do the suction cup thing with my hands.

So what I experience now is exactly that but it goes on for hours. Last night was in the right ear, woke me up at 3 and started going away around 6:30. But the usually constant ringing is super loud as well. If I could describe it in decibels, around 75-80 db.
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I find if I hold my nose closed and then blow, you know like what you do on an aeroplane that tends to help a lot.
 
Tomtomtom said:
What do you guys get at https://onlinetonegenerator.com/hearingtest.html

Goes quiet at 16 kHz for me.
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I wonder with these tests how reliant you are on the hardware/software to actually output the tones though.

I only hear up to around 13,000 Hz on my AirPods Pro, might go pull out my Sennheisers later which I know go up to 28,000 Hz...but even then you don't know if the DAC supports it fully.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I find if I hold my nose closed and then blow, you know like what you do on an aeroplane that tends to help a lot.
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in diving terms its referred to as "equalizing" and is crucial to avoid popping your ear drums while diving down to 25-40m.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I wonder with these tests how reliant you are on the hardware/software to actually output the tones though.

I only hear up to around 13,000 Hz on my AirPods Pro, might go pull out my Sennheisers later which I know go up to 28,000 Hz...but even then you don't know if the DAC supports it fully.
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Yes, who knows, definitely not a substitute for a lab test but afaict DACs are not really an issue. Anecdotally anyway, Sennheisers on my PC, phone speaker and earphones all give me the same 15.5-16 kHz upper limit so it would be a weird coincidence if this was the hardware not just my hearing.
 
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Phase-shift tinnitus treatment: an open prospective clinical trial - PubMed

We report on a novel treatment for tinnitus using phase-shift pure tone sound treatment in patients with predominantly pure tone tinnitus. Thirty-five patients with pure tone tinnitus unresponsive to all previous treatment were enrolled in the study. All patients were treated three times in one...
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Thirty-five patients with pure tone tinnitus unresponsive to all previous treatment were enrolled in the study. All patients were treated three times in one week. If the patient noticed an improvement, the therapy was continued for six weeks with a home device customised to their specific treatment frequency. Twenty-one of the 35 patients (60%) responded positively to the initial therapy sessions.
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Not sure I buy it but apparently it is a thing.
 
The hearing aids I wear seems to work for that "eeeeeeeeee" noises. See a hearing specialist
 
Try eating Brazil nuts - they have high levels of selenium, and have been known to help with tinnitus in some cases. They seemed to help a bit with my mothers tinnitus after a few days. I think the selenium helps alleviate inflammation. Just be aware they have some of the highest amounts of naturally occurring radiation in food, due to the depth of the tree's root system... :/

Also try zinc and/or manganese supplements, they've also been known to help in some cases. As have some other types of supplements.

Its unlikely that the root cause is dietary, but they may help or provide some relief - or give you some indication if your diet is possibly exacerbating the condition.

I know some people on the audio forums I frequent also reckon that certain foods trigger their tinnitus as well, so it may be worth researching the dietary aspect a bit.

Edit: also check if any medication you might be taking is ototoxic - even aspirin for e.g can cause ototoxicity
 
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RedViking said:
I swear I can rip my head off my shoulders just now. It's so bad I wake up with a panic attack.

It's always been there, communicating with space, a broken radio, unknown frequencies. But lately I wake up and the noise is deafening. It's usually if I have infection in my ears, mouth or jaw which aggravates it.

The excessive lower pitched "eeeeeeeeeee" seems to go away after about 30 minutes of banging my head against the wall. But the higher pitched noises stick around 24 hours and louder than usual.

I thought it might be the new earphones I use for noise cancelling, but I don't listen to music and the inverted frequencies shouldn't be loud. Then I remember I haven been struggling with neck pain
this last while, so maybe it is that.

Doesn't help that the night is so silent. Need some white noise.

Ggggggggggggggg... Eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee.... Gggggg... Eeeee....

3:00 am....
3:30 am......
And the noise just continues.
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Here, listen to this:
 
Just a quick one on my experience with tinnitus. About 15 years ago I decided to give up drinking Coke due to all sugar. A few weeks later the ringing started. A lot of Googling later I learned that aspartame is evil stuff and should be avoided. So that took TAB off the list of drinks as well. Took about a month for the ringing to stop.

This may someone that reads this thread.
 
Have been living with mine for years. It's at least manageable, but very consistent and nothing I do really changes how severe it is - it's always just a constant zzzzz.

I use white noise as a sleep aid. Have an automation set up that automatically turns off my bedside lamps and starts playing white noise on my Airpod mini when I plug my iPad in at night.
 
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