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This reminds me of the technique that went viral via Reddit a couple of years ago: https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief-relief-from-you
by mjlee 7y ago
This reminds me of the technique that went viral via Reddit a couple of years ago:
https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief-relief-from-your-1794093023 https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...
I don't suffer from tinnitus, but I know people who do and some of them have said that this helped them.
- jitendrac 7y agoTrust me, It never helped me. Edit: never knew telling your experiences gets you downvotes.
- swinglock 7y agoI don't trust you. It works for me.
- jplayer01 7y agoTrust me, it didn't work for me.
- TrinaryWorksToo 7y agoI don't trust that you've read your own mind.
- jitendrac 7y agoIf it works for you that is great, but It does not work for me. and I don't have any reason to make you believe it.
- weltensturm 7y agoSo don't tell us to trust you?
- Finnucane 7y agoIt seems like the technique described would be unreliable and dependent on the nature of the damage causing your tinnitus. Also, at best it offers only momentary relief, though when tinnitus is bad that seems like that's worth a little effort in itself.
- ralmeida 7y agoWhy exactly should we trust you?
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- senectus1 7y agoworks for me for about 2 mins... then it comes back
- jitendrac 7y agoReally nice to hear it. Do you also have hearing loss like me?
- diffeomorphism 7y agoIf you had written "It never helped me" that would have been telling your experience. "Trust me, it never helped me" is entirely different.
- dspillett 7y ago> never knew telling your experiences gets you downvotes I think this case is more specific than that: expressing personal experience as something that must therefore be true for everyone often gets you downvotes, at least here, unless you experience agrees directly and completely with local group-think (and even then some who disagree with the local group consensus will downvote without explanation). Frame personal experience as personal experience that might inform others usefully, rather than framing personal experience as solid undisputable globally applicable fact. You'll likely still get some downvotes of course, no matter what you say or how you frame it.
- swinglock 7y agoThe answer is much simpler. Before the comment was edited, it said "Trust me, it never worked", which does not describe a personal experience but dismisses everyone else's.
- diego_moita 7y agoI trust you, it never worked for me too.
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- jgalentine007 7y agoI have bad tinnitus in both ears and doing the trick works for me, for about 60 seconds. I don't do it often because it makes me sad how much better that 60 seconds feels.
- kupopuffs 7y agoyou're getting downvotes because your original comment sounded like a general fact ("it never worked." (probably not your intention).
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- nnone 7y agoAlso called "Beating the Heavenly Drum" https://allendaleacupuncture.com/2018/04/20/beating-the-heavenly-drum-qigong-exercise/ https://allendaleacupuncture.com/2018/04/20/beating-the-heav...
- service_bus 7y agoI remember reading this on reddit as well and all of the comments were saying the same as the article. It works momentarily, but that's it. Not enough to provide any actual relief and does nothing for the situation long term. It's more or less a party trick for people who are suffering from this.
- papreclip 7y agoIt works for about a minute, then the tinnitus gradually creeps back. The brief experience of being tinnitus-free is refreshing, but it's not a quality of life improvement for which I would constantly perform this exercise or wear a vibrating headband
- gowld 7y agoThe OP device is a mechanical version of the same thing.
- sethammons 7y agoHad never heard of it, thanks for the link. Just tried it. I think it muted the tinnitus to about 20%! Pretty good. Though, it only lasted about a minute. Back to normal now.
- zzzeek 7y agothis sounds exactly like what the linked product does. applies cranial vibration behind the ears.
- yosito 7y agoI wonder if that works for motion sickness too. Going on a cruise soon. I'll have to try it.
- mjlee 7y agoFrom my experience, seasickness can be countered by: Getting on the upper deck for fresh air Having a full stomach If all else fails, sleep Seeing the horizon vs focusing on a fixed point on the ship helps some people and harms others - experiment to see what works for you. The other thing I've found is if you let it get bad you'll be in trouble until you get ashore. Take measures to fix it before it gets bad. This might include drugs - I'd always take dramamine if sailing into bad weather. Also, everybody gets seasick eventually. Anyone who claims they don't simply hasn't been in a rough enough sea for long enough yet. There's no shame in taking care of yourself. One last trick - ships have a metacentre that they rotate about. Ask a deck officer where on the ship you can get closest to it - it's the point where the movement of the ship will be minimised.