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Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
- jmclnx 8mo agoI remember reading somewhere a Doctor found a way to 'cure' ringing in the ears temporarily for almost a year in some people by doing something with a tuning-fork. But after that article I heard nothing more. I just looked it up and seems it may not be a reliable method.
- bookofjoe 8mo agoI vaguely recall that tuning fork remedy as well
- Aboutplants 8mo agoI have a coworker that swears by certain sound baths to remedy his tinnitus. It “cures” him for 10-12 months and then he just goes back.
- wcoenen 8mo agoI can play a pure sine wave tone with a tone generator app, and dial the frequency up until it precisely matches my tinnitus. I originally did this just to determine that frequency. But I noticed a side-effect: if I then turn off the tone generator, my tinnitus would disappear! Unfortunately that effect only lasts for a minute or less, so it is not really practical to get relief this way.
- bookofjoe 8mo agoThat is fascinating.
- magnetic 8mo agoThat's called "residual inhibition". Note that I would be careful about using pure tones for too long. Pure tones end up focusing the energy in your cochlea towards a small area of hair cells. Since these cells don't regenerate, it may be wise to avoid overstressing them.
- wcoenen 8mo agoThanks! I didn't know it was a known phenomenon. Now I know what to google. My tinnitus is fortunately not super loud; it's only noticeable when it's relatively quiet, or I'm blocking sounds (with ear plugs, or noise cancelling headphones without input, etc.). So it's not like I habitually blast my ears with loud sine waves out of desperation. But I can imagine it may be different for other readers, so that's a good caveat.
- ajb 8mo agoDon't know about the tuning fork one, but there is a method where by if you poke some muscle on the back of your neck repeatedly, it stops for some people. This is apparently due to that muscle being the thing that makes a noise, and poking it eventually physically exhausts it temporarily. Obviously that only works if that's your cause.
- closewith 8mo agoMasseter and suboccipital muscle massage that I read about on Reddit of all places instantly reduced my subjective tinnitus by maybe 90% about five years ago. It's not permanent but lasts months and has worked for me for years. I now need near total silence to hear the tone, and it completely resolved the condition as a daily problem for me.
- mynameisash 8mo agoI'll save you about 30 ad views: > The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REM), might suppress the brain activity that leads to tinnitus.
- bookofjoe 8mo agoI'll do even better — here's the original 2022 paper: https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/4/3/fcac089/6563428 https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/4/3/fcac089/6563...
- bookofjoe 8mo agoI thought you were exaggerating so I went back and counted: I stopped at 50 and I wasn't even CLOSE to reaching the end of the page!!!
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- bookofjoe 8mo agoAn analogy: they're sort of like chronic tinnitus. After a few years you don't even notice them.
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- epolanski 8mo agoI've got tinnitus, 38 male. Got it randomly one day this summer. It's impossible to describe how depressing it is to hear a sound non stop in your ears, night and day, wherever I go or whatever I do, it just never stops. The brain started filtering it out a bit after months, but it's always there and you're often reminded of it when you're in a slightly more silent environment. There are days where it becomes especially loud and falling asleep you'd just like to cry or something. Don't wish it on anybody.
- yesitcan 8mo agoYou just haven’t habituated yet. Source: have tinnitus for 2.5 years. Got used to it after 1.5.
- nurettin 8mo agoGot it similarly. 7-8 years ago. Probably from ANC. It used to feel loud, now I have to remind myself to hear it. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
- tjoff 8mo agoFrom ANC? Active Noise Cancelling? Doesn't seem to be a thing?
- nurettin 8mo agoYes it feels like I got it from ANC. Might not "be a thing", just coincided with my ANC use. It is my data point.
- Tsarp 8mo agoDid it start around the covid/ WFH time? There are a few theories 1. Airpods or ANC 2. WFH ->. Less movement -> stiff muscles around neck and head -> head trasnfer frequencies changing 3. Covid vaccine
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- getnormality 8mo ago> researchers found that ferrets that developed more severe tinnitus also showed disrupted sleep. Hold up. How do we know when ferrets have tinnitus???
- the_mitsuhiko 8mo agoThis way: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4411996/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4411996/
- harywilke 8mo agoI kinda get it now, it's more of a way of studying induced deafness at certain frequencies that might be similar to the effect of tinnitus. If your tinnitus is at say 13khz, and someone turns on a sound at that frequency, you don't react to it because your mind is effectively masking it. I once played my tinnitus tone from this site https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ for my partner, when i turned it off i had the odd sensation that i couldn't tell if the sound actually stopped or not. I used to get some temporary relief from dialing in the tone on that site and listening it to a few minutes.
- cryptonector 8mo agoHey, I know my tinnitus frequency now!
- wpollock 8mo agoIf they're Greek ferrets, apparently they become constipated. :-)
- m3kw9 8mo agoAnd sleep is related to air way/jaw/tongue/bite issues which causes mouth breathing and sleep apenia. Get it checked out by your dentist
- bookofjoe 8mo agoI doubt most dentists know more about sleep apnea than you do. Look elsewhere.
- glimshe 8mo agoI don't have tinnitus (as in "chronic tinnitus") but sometimes I hear it for a few minutes after I have a poor night of sleep...
- nabbed 8mo agoIn my 20s and 30s, I used to turn on the TV to cover up my tinnitus so I could fall asleep. The TV probably didn't help the quality of my sleep, so maybe that's why my tinnitus got progressively worse (especially in my right ear). Once I got a TV with a sleep timer, I would set it so the TV wouldn't be on all night. My tinnitus is much worse now, but I don't have a TV in my room anymore, so I just play a podcast on my iPad. That tiny built-in speaker doesn't really cover up the tinnitus, but the voices lull me to sleep (which is probably what the TV was doing all along).
- cassepipe 8mo agoA friend of mine who had it at night and who is not a smoker realized that smoking a cigarette would calm her tinnitus and allow her to sleep. Anyone had a similar experience with cigarette and/or nicotin ?
- ericpp 8mo agoI first got it in 2015 after playing Fallout 4 almost nonstop for the entire weekend. The game ran poorly and the low stuttery fps caused a massive migraine in my head. I took Tylenol and went to sleep and woke up with it ringing in one of my ears which eventually moved to both. The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it. My brain eventually figured out how to tune it out and now it associates the sound with silence. Now I've developed it again after feeling depressed and blasting music in my car. The new version crackles and alternates tones in my left ear. I have a doctors appointment coming up to hopefully figure it out. There is a new expensive treatment for it called Lenore which works by playing sounds and stimulating your tongue at the same time. Those pathways are located close together in the brain and by stimulating both at the same time, it's supposed to train it to filter out the noise.
- bigstrat2003 8mo ago> The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it. Unfortunately that is the truth of it. Sometimes tinnitus can be traced to other parts of the body, but more often it seems to be caused by the brain acting up. And we just don't have enough knowledge about the brain to fix things like that, so all you can do is try to habituate.
- tim333 8mo agoTom Blomfield, the Monzo guy / YC partner fixed his with that https://x.com/t_blom/status/1810459463725588861 https://x.com/t_blom/status/1810459463725588861
- yesitcan 8mo agoIt’s spelled Lenire.
- posix_compliant 8mo agoSleep is one of the only things I’ve found can actually improve the tinnitus I’ve had for almost 3 years. Every other tactic I have is essentially avoiding making it worse.
- rheng 8mo agoI also have been suffering from tinnitus a little over a year now. It definitely has impacted my sleep, especially my mornings. It's the first thing I think about when I wake up. I've been following the work of Auricle Inc., a company commercializing decades of neuroscience research out of Dr. Susan Shore's lab at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure: I have spoken to their CEO about potentially helping with their funding, although my primary concern is getting their product to the public). Instead of just masking the sound, their device targets the root cause using bimodal neuromodulation. It pairs specific audio tones with mild electrical pulses to the jaw/neck to desynchronize hyperactive neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. Here are the two papers that cover the underlying science, and go over the efficacy: The foundational mechanism and Phase 1 trial showing how it induces long-term depression (LTD) in the brain circuitry: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aal3175 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aal3175 The Phase 2 double-blind, randomized clinical trial results showing significant reductions in tinnitus loudness and burden: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2805515 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
- xtracto 8mo agoDr Shore device has been decades in development. It's been all the rage in r/tinnitus , r/tinnitusresearch and T. Facebook groups. Still according to people that have tried it, it's no silver bullet. I've had tinnitus for 25+ years and followed a lot of science. At some point some Brasil researchers found a drug that reduced tinnitus volume as a secondary effect. There wrote papers about it, but unfortunately, nothing came of it.
- marand23 8mo agoThanks for supporting tinitus research. It gives me some hope that there will be a treatment someday.
- firemelt 8mo agoso its like lenire machine?
- rheng 8mo ago
- altairprime 8mo agoI’ve been using my tinnitus to evaluate whether I got enough sleep or when I’ve become tired for years, so it’s nice to randomly trip over validation here that the link is universal to and not just a hyperlocal mutation. Thanks for posting this. I suppose I wouldn’t have noticed this if I was trying to tune out tinnitus, but I’m just used to it? Not like anything is every quiet (my hearing is hyperactive), but, like, the tone and volume of it right now is “insufficient sleep but circadian forced us awake” so I need to be particularly measured and chill if I drive while it’s this loud.
- arnonejoe 8mo agoJust reading the title made my tinnitus come back.
- Towaway69 8mo agoSomeone explaining their tinnitus symptoms made me realise that I had tinnitus for years. Until then I didn’t “hear” it because I just assumed it was normal. Since then, I’ve realised that tinnitus is contagious! So I prefer not to talk about it just in case I pass it on.
- mbsa7 8mo agoFor some reason this experience you are describing reminds me of a passage in "One hundred years of solitude" where a character is said to fall in love with a woman that only exists when she is needed.
- OptionOfT 8mo agoWhat's interesting for me is my tinnitus is off when I wake up, and then all of the sudden it turns on. Very weird.
- owlninja 8mo agoI've had it for nearly 20 years, and I know it came from an incident shooting firearms with not enough (none) protection. Most days I don't think about it anymore. However if I am tired or stressed, it seems to turn up to 11. I've read many people get depressed or they can't get over it, luckily I seem to deal with it alright, but wouldn't wish it on anyone. Protect your hearing!
- Neekerer 8mo agoIve had almost the exsct same experience. I dropped 100+ rounds through my mosin one day stupidly without hearing protetcion, and have been listening to my electric crickets ever since. It isnt distracting at this point but would be nice to turn off eventually.
- RockstarSprain 8mo agoPersonal anecdote: removing a lower wisdom tooth that was close to the jaw nerve nearly cured my tinnitus back in the day. The surgeon dentist was really surprised by this and could not evoke any similar cases in their practice before mine.
- tim333 8mo agoIt's interesting that worked. It reminds me of Scott Adams' story where he lost his voice due to spasming and got it back through surgery that cut one of the nerves involved. (https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/spasmodic-dysphonia-rendered-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-nearly-speechless-for https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/spasmodic-dysphonia-re...)
- firemelt 8mo agoI think I should remove my wisdom tooth too
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 8mo agoAs somebody with tinnitus, forgive me, this seemed instinctively obvious. A very bad night of sleep raises the volume of the tinnitus substantially. Stress does the same.
- ramoz 8mo agoSame experience here.
- spl757 8mo agoSame
- amelius 8mo agoSo perhaps the connection is sleep -> stress -> tinnitus?
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 8mo agoit's really hard to say though, because stress = poor sleep in my case, so there is a chicken-egg problem
- interloxia 8mo agoFor me it's stress -> bruxism (day and or night) -> tinnitus.
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- ElCapitanMarkla 8mo agoNot sure about stress, but definitely have the same exp re sleep. If I’m tired the ringing is very noticeable, when I wake up early after a late night it can be deafening. But besides from noticing it being “louder” it seems to go away, or I just ignore it.
- NooneAtAll3 8mo agoas always, the devil (and research) is in the details it seems that these researchers think it's non-REM sleep that helps in prevention, not just sleep in general
- dahart 8mo agoThis sometimes makes my tinnitus go away temporarily: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteBurstsNoiseGenerator.php https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteBurstsNoiseGenerator.... And this I can sometimes use to pinpoint my tinnitus tone(s): https://generalfuzz.net/acrn/ https://generalfuzz.net/acrn/
- PeterStuer 8mo agoI got tinnitus from a failing Toshiba notebook hard drive. I can not sleep without masking noises. A real washing machine or dishwasher is S-tier, but more often than not the C-tier fallback has to be monotone Youtube autoplay lectures.
- uptown 8mo agoSugar or alcohol kicks mine into high gear.
- m463 8mo agoI've heard other people say this. Wonder if the root cause is inflammation, which might go up with stress, bad sleep, bad diet, etc
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- jdenning 8mo agoFor people suffering from tinnitus, here is a technique that greatly helped me: 1. Place your hands over your ears such that your fingers are on the back of your skull - thumbs should be on your neck and middle fingers at the base of your skull. 2. Tap your middle fingers on the base of your skull repeatedly for ~30 seconds It apparently doesn’t work for everyone, and it’s not permanent, but for me it greatly reduces the “volume” or stops it entirely. I have no idea what the explanation is, but it’s free, safe, and you can try it right now. Hope that helps! Tinnitus sucks.
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- degoldman100 8mo agoMine started whilst I was skateboarding with in ear headphones in listening to slayer full volume, had a big slam with headphones in, left side of head hit the floor and had a loud ringing in my ears ever since. Always had trouble falling asleep though, ever since I was a young sperm.
- Sytten 8mo agoThe best thing I did to help with my tinnitus what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. If you perceive the sound as something dangerous than it bothers you way more. Like others pointed a bad night sleep definitely increases the perceived sound. Also the stress in the shoulders doesn't help.
- Towaway69 8mo agoOne thing I recently realised is that sticking my head under water makes my tinnitus basically disappear. At least I don’t “hear” it that intensely. Unfortunately I don’t live near a coast so this is something I can regularly tryout.
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- Marsymars 8mo agoI have, I think, probably the most benign tinnitus I could imagine. I randomly get something in my head that sounds pretty close to coil whine, but definitely isn't coil whine — I've had it when I'm in the depths of the wilderness with no electronics. It typically lasts less than 20s and I can go months between occurrences.
- kiririn 8mo agoI solved mine by chronically exposing myself to very low noise during sleep - wearing good earplugs in an already silent room. To the point where you can hear your eyeballs move etc. I guess this may be where the link to good sleep comes from, which implies a quiet sleeping environment
- YZF 8mo agoI also have good experience with wearing ear protection in a quiet room. But I haven't been disciplined enough about it. My probably wrong rationale is that part of the issue is hearing loss and reducing the volume retrains your brain to be able to process smaller signals.
- euroderf 8mo agoI have a mild case of tunnitus, and I can only blame myself. When a rock venue was packed, I gravitated to the area right in front of the speakers - where I also always had a good view of the band.
- ctmnt 8mo agoThe opening sentence “Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment” does not mean what they think it means. Unless this is a very niche kink.
- chopete3 8mo agoThats what I thought when I first read it. I don't this is something that people look forward to in dreams. Or possible to imagine in dreams. There are limits to dreams.
- returnInfinity 8mo agoWhenever I get less sleep, tinnitus gets really bad.
- nowittyusername 8mo agoGot mine after my first Acid trip (still don't know if it was real acid). Its not debilitating for me, just annoying. So yeah, be careful out there folks. The Acid trip was very cerebral though and I consider it to be an important experience in my life so I am kind of on the fence that it might have been worth the trade off....
- gbraad 8mo agoI thought it was raining on our trip to venice: "you hear that dear, quite nasty rain". She looked at me puzzled, but hadn't noticed what I really heard. The next day was obvious... This now 15+ years ago. Some days it is bad, some days I hardly notice. It does not affect me that much: still hear near pitch perfect (work on music stuff as hobby), mostly a consistent hiss which can get annoying sometimes as it can distracts, mostly can ignore it. Some people can't, maybe lucky? Edit: Local doctor just once told me:just listen to music to drown it out, don't over do.... Keep enjoying it. never seeked further help.
- tim333 8mo ago>the ferrets that developed tinnitus showed overly responsive brain activity to sound I wonder how you tell if a ferret is experiencing tinnitus? I did ^F on the paper for ferret but didn't find anything.
- palla89 8mo agoFor me it's a strange experience: I notice it almost only when ready to sleep, by day even if I focus to check if I can hear it I don't. And when I'm hearing it at about bedtime, I start yawning continuously and very "strongly" because after some tries, it disappears. Do someone has an explanation to this?
- jokoon 8mo agoI've heard a scientist say tinnitus also happens after waking up from a nap, not from a night's sleep Can confirm
- e40 8mo agoYes!! Sometimes it's much worse when either I don't get a full night's sleep or I wake up from a short nap. The latter is almost guaranteed to make it really bad.
- benrapscallion 8mo agoMight be related to neck stiffness on very cold nights.
- abbadadda 8mo agoI’m sitting in a restaurant and didn’t notice the ringing until I read this article… but it is there. Usually I only really consciously notice it while falling asleep, never really thought anything of it.
- dusted 8mo agoI've long suspected that (at least my own) tinnitus was a neurological phenomenon, seeing how it's always been with me at various "levels of presence", from imperceptible to so loud I can't hear anything else, I've always felt it as an "inner sound".. Had multiple hearing tests, and nothing in particular showed up. It's also weird because it changes somewhat in frequency, both down to frequencies my 40 year old ears can register and up beyond what I can actually hear when doing a test.. But especially the coming and going and how it seems affected to level of tiredness or amount of sleep I got.. Of course, reading the article made me aware of it and now it's loud than before.. I've had strong symptoms of adhd my whole life, but never thought much of it (except as a lack of self dicipline and general failure of a broken robot to impersonate a real human), but as demands on my performance rose to real-adult levels with a young child and duties beyond not dying, I decided to tell the doc how it had generally felt like to be myself, at which point I was referred to someone with a specialty in broken brains, and we quickly agreed that while I wasn't going to become normal, certain stimulants at least provided me with sufficient energy to carry out most of the functions expected by an adult member of society with actual responsibilities. And so, over the past.. more than a year, I've gotten to experience a little bit of everything as my brain gets to oscillate between being slightly oversaturated to absolutely drained of certain neurotransmitters in a way that at the same time feels slightly unsustainable and the only alternative where I get to not be absolutely miserable all the time. The point of that story, being, these "phantom precepts", fits the bill somewhat well. I've always had a very conscious experience of common neurological phenomenon which are naturally present but largely-unnoticed by many (auras, visual snow, floaters, phosphenes, tinnitus, afterimages) so I'm probably a bit one the sensitive side, and, the medication seems to have a quite interesting effect on these as well, among them, I noticed the ABSENCE of noticing my clothes touching my skin.. I am no longer acutely aware of the cooling sensation of inhaling air through my nose, and I rarely hear the beat of my heart in my ears.. Maybe the weirdest effect is on saccades, in a conversation, looking from one person to the next seems to be as instant as before, but the blur of my eyes moving between points of focus is gone, it's kind of jarring, just poof, one picture, then another.. nothing in between. I now seem to be able to influence my attention somewhat, that is, to do whatever that cognitive regulation is called, so that my focus shifts to a subject I need to do but have no interest in doing (oh wait, that's why I got the medication), but it does make me wonder, if tinnitus is just one of the more obvious (and therefore common) neurological processes that "pokes through" maybe perception of sound and attention (and maybe therefore also conscious experience of sound) have evolved to be more strongly linked (because if you notice the predator sneaking up on you, you get to not be eaten). Maybe this stronger link is why tinnitus is so obvious, and maybe sleep is instrumental in regulating consciousness, so if consciousness is differently regulated, or less regulated, maybe it's easier for the phenomenon to "seep through".
- pengaru 8mo agoI can cause tinnitus by pinching my nose, closing my throat, and manipulating my throat to pressurize my skull.. like one does to "pop their ears" after changing altitudes to hear/speak properly again. If my ears start ringing like I feel tinnitus has arrived, I've found it goes away by cycling this pressure a couple times. YMMV
- bamboozled 8mo agoFor some reason I started getting tinnitus when I am sick with some sort of sinus infection / cold or flu. Usually I don't sleep very well when I'm sick so that might be part of it. The first time I got sick and it started, I went walking around the neighborhood looking for the source of the noise until I realized I had tinnitus. Sounded like some kind of distant earth works / resonance thing. Really feel for people who have it permanently.
- stacktraceyo 8mo agoAirPod pros noise cancellation gave me my tinnitus. Just as a warning to others be careful. There’s an apple support page with lots of people complaining about the same thing.
- tim333 8mo agoIt's interesting. I guess the algorithm moves the pod diaphragm to try to oppose external noise but must push the ear drum out of it's design range. I have tinnitus. My theory of how it arises is the bit of the ear that converts spatial movement to electrical signals - some hairs tied to an ion channel basically - gets moved too far and breaks the thing in such a way that the channel jams open. The noise pro stuff may be worse than regular loud noises as the ear recognises loud noises and tries to protect itself but may not do that with the noise cancellation movements. (diagram of what the gear looks like https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B9780123749475000535-f53-02-9780123749475.jpg https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B97801237494750...)
- stacktraceyo 8mo agoInteresting. Thanks for that
- tsoukase 8mo agoTinnitus might be the simplest debilitating disease. It's sad that no therapy, even alleviating, is available. I always thought that tinnitus is caused by a "rusted" acoustic nerve wire (here it's coexistence with hearing loss) no central mechanism is evolved. Linking non-REM sleep phase to tinnitus production is unexpected.
- bob1029 8mo agoI think it's more about stress (cortisol). I find that regular exercise and avoiding things like coffee and Red Bull goes a long way. Stimulants set me off really badly.
- vldr 8mo agoThis is what helped me not be bothered about my Tinnitus anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjDBOJfMfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjDBOJfMfY The article briefly links to another article that Tinnitus triggers your fight-or-flight response and I agree. You need to get rid of this instinctive response by moving it more into your awareness. My life is so much better now.
- nikolay 8mo agoI got my tinnitus from sitting next to a desktop computer with high RPM SCSI drives. I wonder if it is caused by senescent neurons.
- p5v 8mo agoI sleep badly, and have had tinnitus since I was a kid.
- Salmoneo 8mo agoI'm 35. I've got tinnitus since I was 9/10 years old. The insurgence of my tinnitus is interesting: I got it after sleeping an entire night with a television static after watching a VHS. Another interesting aspect is that the aforementioned insurgence happened in 2 phases: I went asleep watching a VHS and the subsequent static sound made me hear a ringing sound for a while (some days IIRC) then disappeared; a week after that I went asleep again in the same way (vhs, static etc) and from that moment onward I always got a ringing. It sounds like when you turn on a ctr tv. Initially I was kind of alarmed. No one believed me and I found the existence of the condition after many years on tv or internet. My brain filter the sound most of the time so I live with the condition.
- margaritaP 8mo agoI am a 69 yr old female. I don't remember a time without tinnitus, even as a child. In the last two years I had a couple of scary episodes where the whooshing, whistling, ringing ,buzzing, heart pulse became a HORN. In my right ear. It was driving me crazy, making me cry because it wouldn't stop. Nothing would cover the noise. I ended up at a neurologist. I found out I had a cyst in a pineal gland, that I didn't know about. But no answer to the horn sound, migraine and nausea. eventually after about a week it stopped. The second time was only a day. It is a frustrating ongoing situation, but I guess others have far worse problems.
- shumakriss 8mo agoDoes anyone know of research relating to sleep apnea, CPAPs, and tinnitus?
- toddmorrow 8mo agoI get 10% veteran disability for it. the best time to file a claim is now because they'll change the rules soon and eliminate this benefit
- tom_m 8mo agoWait so like the constant high pitch squeal/hum is tinnitus? I just thought I was hearing electronics.
- hnrodey 8mo agoNo, at least not for me. More like the ringing in your ears after a loud concert. 24/7. Every day.
- cyager81 8mo agoI’ve had it for almost 6 years. I’m fairly certain it can be solved by a simple laser to the blood vessels in my ear, but doctors refuse to even try it. My tinnitus started as hearing my heartbeat for over a year before it turned into a screeching noise. It makes complete sense to me that blood vessels in the ear are the primary cause, considering how many ailments can cause new blood vessel growth… why has nobody even considered this as a cause to tinnitus? If i could clearly hear my own pulse/heartbeat, then maybe just maybe it’s because a blood vessel was forming extremely close to the inner ear… but nobody will help me, because American doctors are only concerned about their paychecks than they actually care about helping anyone. All of that blood rushing through my ear, shaking the inner ear bones, etc, has destroyed about 80% of my hearing in my right ear… i really wish there was a doctor out there that actually cared enough to help me try to end it… it’s game over if it ever spreads to my other ear too and nobody is still willing to help me…because i will go insane if this begins permanent surround sound with both ears screeching inside my head.
- erentz 8mo agoHearing your heart beat like this can be a sign of an arteriovenous fistula in the brain.
- tobmlt 8mo agofuck me. I have had ridiculous insomnia since 2020. I have had tinnitus on and off since 2015/16 Incidentally this is also when my insomnia first showed up.