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I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.
by grugagag 3y ago
I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.
- PcChip 3y agoI feel the same way - I forget I have it until I read about it, then i can hear it again (unless I've had too much salt or caffeine or something)
- jbkkd 3y agosame - I noticed it again as I was reading this article
- neilv 3y agoWhat I was told: salt, caffeine, alcohol, and stress. (I check sodium on the Nutrition Facts of packaged food (it's usually high), don't touch even decaf, don't touch alcohol, and try to minimize the bad kind of stress that has no constructive solutions.)
- brewdad 3y agoWell I’m 3 out of 4 pretty consistently. I’ve lived with tinnitus since early childhood. I guess I’ll continue to live with it.
- burnte 3y agoYep, I've become excellent at ignoring it, only about 2% of the time does it get bad enough to be bothersome or noticeable. I always comment on these "this will make your tinnitus go away" posts with be careful, you may find it makes the times you can't use the device or product even worse because now you have a taste of real silence!
- bluescrn 3y agoYeah, similar here. The brain seems to do a pretty good job of 'tuning it out' most of the time after a while. But as soon as you start thinking about it, it's there and louder than ever.
- joecot 3y agoThe #1 cause of me remembering I have tinnitus is seeing articles about tinnitus.
- veyh 3y agoAnd now, you are manually breathing.
- 2cynykyl 3y agoBetween laughing, then forgetting how to breath, then laughing at that, I nearly passed out. Thanks!
- konstantinua00 3y agomanual blinking you can't stay in one place for long without moving to a different pose something on your body itches (your nose?) manual swallowing
- diego_sandoval 3y agoNow your feet feel trapped and uncomfortable inside their shoes.
- dandanua 3y agoI didn't know I had tinnitus until I read about it.
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- digbybk 3y agoI mostly notice it only when I meditate. I also notice that my nose hurts.
- closeparen 3y agoI have it only if the room is too quiet. Any reasonable level of background white noise makes it go away.
- dkarras 3y agoDoes everyone not have ringing in their ears when they really pay attention? Or like when they are trying to go to sleep? I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood. Still have to this day, same intensity. During the day it does not bother me, nor do I notice it. But if I pay attention, it feels pretty loud.
- throwaway63467 3y agoApparently 60-80 percent of people can hear a sound like a faint buzzing or hissing when inside a perfectly anechoic chamber but Tinnitus is more noticeable in regularly quiet environments.
- alfiedotwtf 3y agoI’ve always wondered this. This sound which when reading about these low sound rooms, turns out to be blood flowing through the ears. Your brain is not getting any stimulation so amplifies your hearing - is this what tinnitus is but just significantly louder and all the time?
- throwaway63467 3y agoThat’s pulsatile Tinnitus but what most people hear is more a buzzing or high pitched continuous tone.
- alfiedotwtf 3y agoAh. Thank you, good to know
- technothrasher 3y ago
- joe_the_user 3y agoThis comment is as useful as posting to a thread on clinical depression that when you feel down you sing a little song.
- TillE 3y agoThere's absolutely nothing you can do about tinnitus except adjust to it. You really do just have to relax and accept it, and it essentially fades into the background. That's literally the best treatment available.
- jdminhbg 3y agoThe entire reason this comment chain exists is that someone has built a better treatment than just adjusting to it.
- wruza 3y agoIt's really one of the most true things about tinnitus. It takes a while to put your mind in order to accept it, but once you're done, the problem goes away (but tinnitus never does).
- throwaway63467 3y agoSame for me, I think I probably had it since a young age (lots of middle ear infections) but it seemed normal to me so I didn’t realize it was unusual until much later in life. I freaked out about it for a few years but realized it was and will always be there and didn’t bother me before, so I pretty much went back to it not bothering me anymore.
- bsimpson 3y agoI had a mental health crisis when I first realized I had it (triggered by a really bad audio mix at a concert and some rando chastising "you're gonna fuck up your hearing" when I didn't have earplugs). A few months followed of "oh shit, is my life experience permanently broken now?" and all the bad feelings that connotes. I was in a really bad place. I've always been someone who can hear electronics - when CRTs are popular, I'd know if one was in the upcoming room while I was still in the hallway. At some point, I realized that I heard all sorts of minor sounds just by existing in my apartment, and that tinnitus isn't much different than that. Helped me chill out about the whole scenario. My mom taught me "lean into the good, and you'll feel more of the good; lean into the bad, and you'll feel more of the bad." That's certainly been my experience with tinnitus. Letting yourself panic and gloom about it is the worst part of having it. If you don't assign valence to it (don't let it be good or bad, just a thing you experience), it loses its power to drive you mad.
- palla89 3y agoAm I the only one that hear tinnitus only when sleeping and if I yawn a LOT I can finally remove it?
- throwaway63467 3y agoProbably jaw related, you should have it checked. Can be a posture problem.
- palla89 3y agoThanks for the advice!! it could be totally be that!
- jozzy-james 3y agothat’s great for you, i have to sleep with sound - the silence is not deafening, but the hum/etc is when it is silent
- germandiago 3y agoSame most of the time. But the first two weeks were hard man...