What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)

https://www.audionotch.com/blog/2015/06/24/what-are-the-most-common-tinnitus-frequencies/

by walterbell • 3 years ago

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ggm• 3 years ago

8 years later an update would be fascinating. Would overtones and frequency doubling or splitting or harmonising account for any of this?

themodelplumber• 3 years ago

And did that YouTube cure ever really work? A remedy that was going around some years ago, I think involving doing something to the back of the head...

talesvin• 3 years ago

If it's that tapping in the back of the head for like a minute you're talking about, it seems to work for some people and just temporarily the tinnitus always come back. I've tried it a bunch of times and i worked for me only once for example.

twangist• 3 years ago

1920 Hz in my case. I had tinnitus after I got rear-ended at a stop light. Decades later, it still recurs once in a blue moon, lasts for a mere 10-15 seconds then vanishes when I tell myself repeatedly "nothing is playing 1920 Hz".

disantlor• 3 years ago

I can relate to the last bit; I sometimes have (or notice) tinnitus when going to bed. I try to think about what frequency it is exactly and it seems like the direction attention to it causes it to go away (or at least get much more quiet)

lisper11• 3 years ago

1920 Hz in my case

How do you measure that?

kadoban4• 3 years ago

You can just use a program that plays adjustable frequencies and shift it up/down until it matches.

rajsandhu• 3 years ago

https://onlinetonegenerator.com/ simply does what it says, and tells you the frequency, while this one, https://www.tinnitracks.com/en/matching# gives you a test that takes a few minutes, which I found worth the time.

yc-kraln• 3 years ago

Really sorry to hear that.

When I worked for Daimler, I was surprised to learn that all of their cars ship with something called "PRE-SAFE Sound" which, when it detects that you might be in a crash (i.e. at the point when the seatbelts are pre-tensioned), it plays a loud-ish burst of white noise through all the speakers, triggering your ears' automatic response which disconnects your ear drums. This means that when the actual (very loud!) crash happens, your hearing is saved. They developed this in the 90s when, after the advent of airbags, they saw that most injuries from moderate car crashes were hearing related. (Here's a video with some cool detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTmLYY-Z2rc)

I always thought it was a huge shame that 1) this technology isn't required/mandated for all cars and 2) Mercedes doesn't advertise this more

kloch• 3 years ago

The crash itself isn't usually that loud but airbag deployment can be 170 db which is very dangerous to hearing.

walterbell2• 3 years ago

Could a phone accelerometer achieve comparable detection response and play a warning sound?

qball• 3 years ago

This means that when the actual (very loud!) crash happens, your hearing is saved.

The loud part is not the crash itself, but the airbag deployment; it's as loud as a rifle shot because, fundamentally, it is a rifle shot. That's bad in open air; it's way worse in a confined space where that pressure is going to persist for a much longer period of time.

The combustion gas needs to fill the airbag coincident with your face being mashed into it at high speed, and mechanical suppressors slow down the gas so that won't work; using the acoustic reflex (as Daimler clearly does) to get that extra 15 dB of protection means the difference between maximum safe exposure and permanent damage.

I'm surprised that this sound doesn't start playing right before the similarly-explosive pretensioners are fired, since they're also pretty loud, but perhaps they figure it's part of the way to prompt the reflex.

Paul-Craft• 3 years ago

That is absolutely amazing. I would have never thought to do such a thing. It's kinda too bad this sort of feature is inherently restricted to more modern, "smarter" cars.

Any idea how many peoples' hearing has been saved by the type of technology?

mderazon3• 3 years ago

I have something similar. I got mine after my first COVID infection. The infection was mild, but my sense of smell was gone for a week and i was left with a tinnitus

jabits• 3 years ago

Same with me. Did not know this happened with other

somedude8952• 3 years ago

Decades later, it still recurs once in a blue moon, lasts for a mere 10-15 seconds then vanishes

Not trying to minimize your issue, but is it really still considered tinnitus at this point? I ask because I've been getting this regularly, probably on a weekly basis. It's not a big deal, because it also lasts for only 5-15 seconds or thereabouts, but I've never considered to actually call it tinnitus.

taejo• 3 years ago

AIUI tinnitus is the name of the symptom, not a specific disease, and it's still tinnitus whether it occurs occasionally, frequently, or constantly.

bradknowles• 3 years ago

Mine is at 8900hz.

provenance• 3 years ago

Tinnitus can be close to a pure sine wave at one freq or can be a wide band whooshing or noise, or many other variations of timbres with their own freq ranges

I don’t play or enjoy music anymore, no more power tools, etc

Protect your ears

1letterunixname2• 3 years ago

Absolutely. If you go out to a bar, nightclub, or concert: bring good earplugs always.

For using power tools, always protect ears, eyes, lungs, and anything else you want to keep.

SoftTalker• 3 years ago

Anecdotally I've noticed that music at concerts and bars is not as loud as it was in the 1980s. I went to a Rolling Stones concert in the late 1980s and was practially deaf for several hours afterwards. Saw the Who like 10 years ago and it wasn't close to painfully loud. Don't see near as much live music in bars as I used to but it also seems to be turned down compared to what used to be done.

BitwiseFool• 3 years ago

I know I'm not the target market for bars and nightclubs but I've always hated just how loud the DJ's play the music. What is the point of going to a social atmosphere when you can barely even talk to someone without shouting? Who actually enjoys ear splitting music?

JayStavis3• 3 years ago

I had a pretty brutal headcold a few years back and for about two weeks afterwards I had what I described as "supersonic hearing" though my doctor called it tinnitus.

I could hear my neighbor's garage opening a block away in San Francisco and had a frequency sensitivity that was totally abnormal. It was also really painful so I'm glad I got my normal hearing range back.

nonethewiser• 3 years ago

Hmm I didn’t think that was tinnitus. Maybe symptoms are broader than I thought. I wonder if that’s what I have.

I had a bad sinus infection that has mostly healed. Sometimes I can hear this very low rhythmic beating in my ear. It’s like someone banging on my furnace or doing some sort of distant construction (banging on sheet metal). I can even hear it with noise canceling headphones on (but no music, that drowns it out). The rhythm makes me wonder if it’s my heartbeat somehow.

For a long time I thought it was distant construction but I’m in a very rural area with no construction around, and I’ve noticed it over the span of months. It’s either something like tinnitus or maybe my neighbor is tunneling under my house.

rocketbop• 3 years ago

It likely is your heartbeat. I had a similar thing for a long time. Advice would be to try and forget about it, and it will go away. The more attention. You give it the more prominent it will become.

I think the brain tends to filter the body sounds out of our consciousness in general and sometimes it sort of forgets to, or becomes rewired to notice or focus on something that is normally filtered.

ksaj• 3 years ago

This is straight-up tinnitus. Ever since I had ear surgery, I have various types of tinnitus. When the low form started, it reminded me of an idling diesel engine. But of course I mainly get the kind that is easy to mistake for cicadas. Sometimes I've had static sounds, too.

When I was still healing, I would also get phantom choral voices! That was really disturbing. It usually was triggered and filtered by the bathroom fan, so I basically got to crap in a heavenly soundscape, lol.

1970-01-01• 3 years ago

This is called hyperacusis, and it's related to tinnitus. Hearing the door bell, unrolling a strip of packing tape, or even walking down a busy street can make you feel physical pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis

JayStavis3• 3 years ago

TIL. I was semi-hoping someone would fill in the gap! At the same time I'm wondering why the heck my doctor won't tell me these things.

stephenitis• 3 years ago

Thank you, this describes me!

I have been trying to describe my hearing symptoms to people and I could only say that I thought I was more sensitive than almost all of my peers. I thought it was because I was mildly on the spectrum(this is listed as an associated condition)

I will try to get a doctor to confirm if possible.

It doesn't cause me physical pain but certain many sounds will cause great discomfort in my life. It also keeps me from good sleep because I can't tune out sounds.

I wear earplugs to concerts and have a decibel monitor app on my phone.

I enjoy producing music in my free time and also enjoy taking the occasional psychedelic. Which is probably making it worse.

rewgs2• 3 years ago

I have this, as well as multiple very loud permanent tinnitus tones. The latter sucks, but hyperacusis ruined my life, as well as stopping my career as a (I think it's fair to describe myself this way) promising film/video game composer dead in its track.

It is the most horrible condition you can ever imagine. I'm over two years in and am only recently back to being able to live a somewhat normal life, but I easily get "setbacks" due to loud sounds. In the hyperacusis community it's well known that these can become your new normal -- it's happened to me multiple times.

Protect your ears and try your best to not get concussions, folks. Though I can't confirm that one or either is the cause, it's my best guess and is good advice anyway.

unvs• 3 years ago

Thanks for this. I remember having this as a child, where the sound of walking down the stairs at home would be painful and almost threatening. It hasn't returned since then, thankfully.

IIAOPSW6• 3 years ago

I have an uncle that has this funny habit of answering the door before you ring the bell. That sounds impressive until you learn how many times a day he opens the door and no one is there. He's schizophrenic. The cost of increased sensitivity is a higher false positive rate. If there were no drawbacks, evolution would have given us heightened senses 100% of the time.

I'm not suggesting you had any sort of psychiatric issue. I'm sure your increased sensitivity was very real and very grounded in realistic expectations of reality. But, are you sure that there were no false positives that came with the heightened sensory experience? Did you ever check that the thing you recognized as a garage door opening down the block was in fact a garage door opening down the block? Could it have been some other subtle sound you normally don't pick up on?

JayStavis3• 3 years ago

On the garage door bit, yes I actually did confirm this.

With that said, was certainly hearing all sorts of things that I didn't know what they were, typically very low frequencies. Another comment mentioned my own heartbeat which I could hear, and I couldn't go into work for a few days due to how painful and distracting ambient noise was.

For the duration of the period I was wearing noise-canceling airpods, and it was the only way trucks passing by outside wouldn't make me wince.

No history of psychiatric issues fwiw, but have had my share of ENT irregularities (I can't properly equalize while diving, for example).

1letterunixname2• 3 years ago

It sounds like REEEEEEEEEEEEEE constantly.

Also have SCDS in my left ear: I can "hear" my left eye move.

excalibur• 3 years ago

Oh you'd love it if I would post my personal tinnitus frequency here so you could target an attack for my ears specifically and.... hack me or something. Not gonna happen, I'm onto you ( ͡⎚﹏ ͡⎚)

TeMPOraL• 3 years ago

Yes, what people call tinnitus is really just being able to hear your individual interlink frequency in the collective consciousness.

DoreenMichele3• 3 years ago

Someone with an entire wardrobe of tinfoil hats has entered the convo.

;)

anderspitman• 3 years ago

I occasionally play live music and after a particularly loud show started looking for ear protection that wouldn't muffle things too much. These are both popular suggestions:

https://eargasm.com/

https://www.etymotic.com/product/er20xs/

cameronh90• 3 years ago

I can hear the music at a live gig far better with a good set of musicians ear plugs. Live music is often so loud that it seems to get distorted within my ears, but the ear plugs bring that under control. The fact that I can hear properly for the next day or two is a bonus.

I do find it unusual, though, that I can still feel the bass in my chest even though the music is no longer unbearably loud.

copperx2• 3 years ago

Note: You can still get hearing damage through conduction. If you can feel the bass in your chest, you might want to add more distance between you and the loudspeakers.

JenrHywy• 3 years ago

I go to concerts pretty regularly and have had both- the eargasms are much more comfortable and sound better. That said, the Etys are very durable - mine lasted for something like 20 years

totetsu• 3 years ago

I have had a Tinnitus tone for as long as I remember. I always do well on hearing tests and it doesn’t bothers me really. Someone on HN once mentioned a technique of tapping the back of you skull to give temporary relief. It works surprisingly, but for me it just shifts the frequency of the tone up a bit. I’d be interested to test if this shift is just perceptual or if it could be measured

000ooo0002• 3 years ago

I know the skull tapping method you mention but unfortunately I only get very temporary relief using it - 20 or so seconds - and it's quite an unpleasant experience, if we are thinking of the same method. Mine is: hands over ears with fingers wrapping around back of head such that middle finger tips just touch, lift index finger on to middle finger, press index finger down hard onto middle finger and slide it off such that it quickly slaps the back of the head/neck (similar to a standard thumb-index finger clicking motion). Repeat this for 10-20 seconds using both hands to get about 30 taps. It's loud, not quite but almost painful, and doesn't provide very long relief for me so I don't use it much.

bhasi3• 3 years ago

It is temporary relief for me as well. More like a gimmick than a solution.

dontlaugh• 3 years ago

It works for maybe a second or two for me.

dalmo32• 3 years ago

Just tried that. Sounds like switching channels on old tube TVs.

bhasi3• 3 years ago

Is this thing legit?

ttpphd• 3 years ago

Hi waves I am a hearing scientist. There is not enough information provided in this write-up to judge the data. Take it with a big grain of salt. There could be UI/UX factors that are not accounted for which could swamp out any sort of meaningful information about tinnitus perception, for example.

000ooo0002• 3 years ago

Have you had much exposure to tinnitus research? Is there much promise showing, assuming there is some going on, in terms of an eventual treatment?

bhasi3• 3 years ago

Thank you so much for the reply! I am apprehensive about trying this app out for fear of inadvertently causing my tinnitus to increase.

walterbell2• 3 years ago

What's the current method recommended by hearing scientists / audiologists?

dmtroyer• 3 years ago

Funny, I'm right at 8000Hz like the peak of their distribution. I've had tinnitus for years but never knew the frequency until now.

andrewmcwatters• 3 years ago

Not a paid shill, but Loop Experience Plus Earplugs are really great. If you plan on going to a concert, they're a good option, or any other hearing protection specifically designed for concerts.

anttiharju• 3 years ago

The thing is the carrying case is super small and easy to lose unless you attach it to something big.

alainchabat2• 3 years ago

I developed tinnitus a month ago after a flight. I was sick and coughing right after the plane, but this time, I didn't equalize the pressure in my ears as I usually do. A day later, I noticed the tinnitus. Two weeks ago, I went to see an ENT doctor who prescribed steroids and medication to improve blood circulation around my ear for two weeks. He said it might be because of the flight, and I should try to get rid of it as soon as possible, otherwise my brain would think this is the "new normal".

I think now the condition is better. Now hear the ringing sound from time to time, not every night, but sometimes during the day when I get tired, angry, or think about it. I hope this condition goes away soon.

idontwantthis2• 3 years ago

Do you know what the blood circulation medication was?

alainchabat2• 3 years ago

Nicametate citrate 50mg, I take it 2x a day

Stating the obvious: check with a doctor before taking them

ttyprintk• 3 years ago

It can go away.

Even though I’ve had it precisely since a particular flight, doctors don’t want to ascribe causation. Otitic bachtrytrauma has come up.

WanderPanda• 3 years ago

Is it actually gone, or do you just don't think about it? I have a quite loud tinnitus at 9 kHz but I still don't even think about it for stretches of weeks and even months. But when I'm made aware of it it's always there (even if there is loud background noise)

steakburger• 3 years ago

I had this exact same issue. Always had a mild tinnitus but a new prominent tone developed after a severe ear infection resulting from the same lack of equalization. It was a real rough few months. It got a little better. Then randomly a few years later that prominent tone just kind of disappeared one day. Now I’m back to baseline where it has to be extremely quiet for me to hear my tinnitus. Hearing is weird, just have patience

IIAOPSW6• 3 years ago

That 20khz one tracks for me. Sometimes if I over caffeinate I get that. I think the neurological explanation is right. Its as if certain brainwaves are leaking into the region meant to represent sound waves.

edb_123• 3 years ago

Mine is a deep sinus tone around 50-60 Hz. The amplitude varies between the days/sometimes between the hours. Pretty annoying, even though it's most prominent in quiet environments, and I can imagine having a loud high pitched tinnitus would perhaps be worse.

comradesmith• 3 years ago

Are you sure you’re not hearing something real from the electrical grid?

genewitch• 3 years ago

this immediately struck me as a possible example of "The Hum"[0], although that is said to "peak at around 40hz"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

And on the main topic, i occasionally have ringing ears, and about 90% of the time i know why (usually a loud engine that i wasn't wearing protection near), but 10% of the time, like during a quiet weekend at home - it appears out of nowhere. I am not sure what my frequency is, but it's well over 1khz.

pier253• 3 years ago

I have mild tinnitus. It's super high in frequency, very close to my threshold of hearing around 13k or so (I'm 44). I mostly only notice it when putting on headphones (without anything playing). Also sometimes if I'm in a really silent room but that's not a daily occurence.

It started about 2-3 years ago, weeks after my first COVID shots. I don't know if these event are related or not but there's mounting anecdotal evidence that more research is needed.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/covid-va...

Some weeks ago I started taking some mushrooms (lions mane, etc) and niacin or nicotinic acid (a form of vitamin B3). Not niacinamide which is also another form of B3. I'd say on average my tinnitus has been reduced by 30-40%.

dahart4• 3 years ago

It generally kinda seems like maybe inflammation or other kinds of bodily stress increase tinnitus symptoms. Getting sick and having a shot have that in common, along with various accidents and other medications. Research into tinnitus tiggers is needed, but we have to be a little careful about implying the Covid vaccine can cause it, without comparing it to other things or to not taking the vaccine, since even though the shot might trigger an increase in symptoms, it appears getting Covid is even more likely, so the shot may be the route that is far less likely to trigger tinnitus. It also might be almost any sickness vs almost any vaccine.

My tinnitus did seem to get worse right after my first shot, while I was feeling crummy, and then went back to normal. (It also gets worse when I’m low on sleep, sometimes when I exercise, and when it’s quiet.) A friend believes he got tinnitus from the Covid shot - but he’s ~50 and that’s when a lot of people first notice tinnitus. A huge problem with tinnitus is often you have it for a while before you notice it. I’m pretty sure I just didn’t become aware of my tinnitus until it had been there for months or years. It’s not surprising that an event that increases the symptoms might be blamed or associated with tinnitus, since you’re more likely to notice it, even if the condition was already there.

ShadowBanThis015• 3 years ago

I protect my hearing and do a lot of audio work. My symptoms definitely coincided with COVID shots. Furthermore, my girlfriend developed them as well at the same time (we got our shots at the same), but we didn't mention them to each other until after mine became severe after my last booster.

Two hearing specialists confirmed that this is a true relationship, which is being suppressed in the media and in public. People, even experts in the field, are afraid of being "cancelled" for decrying this serious vaccine risk. And rightfully so. I've been reported and shadow-banned for simply making these statements and posting the links I provided above (which go to a research paper and mainstream news sources).

The initial symptom after the COVID shots was occasional sudden attenuation of hearing in one ear, accompanied by a high-frequency tone. These both diminish over the next minute or two.

After my second booster (which she did not get), my symptoms became severe and continuous.

ShadowBanThis015• 3 years ago

"It started about 2-3 years ago, weeks after my first COVID shots."

After experiencing hearing loss and tinnitus following my last COVID booster, I have seen two of the top specialists in the country, who were quite vehement in assuring me that this is a "true agent" and that information on it has been suppressed.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/covid-va...

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/can-the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443418/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220523/Pfizer-COVID-19-v...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tinnitus-rare-sid...

Facebook group for victims, with several thousand members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/265035901879921/

clsec3• 3 years ago

I had mild tinnitus for years that I believe I got working w/loud machinery & going to lots of concerts (clubs are actually worse because you are more likely to stand next to the speakers). The morning after my second Pfizer mRNA shot I awoke to what amounts to a miniature jet engine inside my ear. It has persisted for 2 years & has been extremely stressful and disconcerting.

After a long time (during covid) I was finally able to see my PC who sent me to an audiologist for a hearing test. The audiologist only found slight hearing loss at high frequencies in my left ear (the ear closest to the CNC machines I used to work with). She said she didn't see anything else abnormal & asked if I wanted an MRI to see if it could find anything. I agreed. The MRI found nothing wrong with my ear or eustachian tube.

I've reported it to VAERS and have been sort of following Gregory Poland, MD [1](director of Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group), who also got tinnitus from his first mRNA covid shot. The issue definitely needs research.

Dr Poland, along with others, have recently released a couple of reports [2,3] saying that we need a new roadmap for covid vaccines. I agree!

Also, I used that tone generator site that someone else posted and it seems that my jet engine screams at about 18000 Hz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Poland [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2... [3] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cidrap-unveils-roadmap-a...

Edit to add VAERS website. If you suspect you got tinnitus from an mRNA vaccine please report it here: https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

pier253• 3 years ago

Thanks for the info.

it seems that my jet engine screams at about 18000 Hz

It's impressive you can hear that frequency. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

codingrightnow• 3 years ago

Before I got my first and only COVID vaccine two years ago I'd had vertigo on and off here and there over the years. 15 minutes after the shot, after not experiencing vertigo for a year, I was pulled over on the side of the road, and have been suffering ever since. The same thing happened to a relative. I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all and think overall the vaccine was probably positive, but we aren't getting close to the full story on side effects.

mderazon3• 3 years ago

Mine started right after COVID infection. I was already vaccinated but got a very mild COVID. First sense of smell was gone and then tinnitus started.

coupdejarnac• 3 years ago

A few years ago, I had an iOS app that did audio notch therapy for tinnitus. Does the therapy actually work? For some people, maybe. From what I remember, the research papers I read on the subject indicated the therapy can help. I conducted a small study with the audiology dept at a local university, but I didn't reach any useful conclusion. In the end, I suspect notch therapy ends up working similarly to masking therapy (using white noise or other sound to cover up the tinnitus).

concerned_2• 3 years ago

Unfortunately, rather than tinnitus I have misophonia, and I can hear ice melting. No treatment or cure. But I would bet at least some cases of subjective tinnitus are actually people who have super hearing abilities.

musesum2• 3 years ago

well, I used to have super hearing. Had a hard time being around CRT displays because the flyback transformers were really really loud. Now, with age, I get a phantom limb tone of 16KHz. [1]

Coincidentally, the peak notch in the OP was the 1st subharmonic of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_transformer

TT-392• 3 years ago

Does not being able to be around CRT displays because of the noise make qualify one as having super hearing? Pretty sure a good percentage of the population have that problem

eps2• 3 years ago

This is very common though, isn't it? Every child can hear a tube TV running when muted. Dog whistles too and all. And that's not even at the top of kids hearing range.

eps2• 3 years ago

By chance - not ice cubes in a glass of water making a hissing sound?

concerned_2• 3 years ago

No the slight crackling. Also even though I live in a detached house, I hear my neighbors morning alarms going off. One time I had to walk into the warehouse of a local newspaper because they bought new forklifts that made a high pitch sound when they were in reverse, and the guys riding the forklifts had ear protection and it was vibrating the windows of my apt a half mile away. They turned the sound off only after weeks of calling the police.

I used to play in a symphony orchestra as a professional and I suspect that studying my whole life to listen to a pin drop has led me into this place.

thamer• 3 years ago

Trying the most commonly reported frequency of ~8,000 Hz on a tone generator[1] provides a good example of how distressing this can be. If you give it a try, I would recommend you turn the volume almost all the way down before pressing play.

[1] https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

exodust• 3 years ago

Nice link. I was able to roughly match the tinnitus in my left ear to somewhere near 12,000 Hz. Mine is a constant super high-pitch so difficult to match exactly. Surprised I could still hear the generated tone that high.

WarOnPrivacy• 3 years ago

I'm with you. 11.5khz (faded-in, early 50s). The chart has a small dip to the 40 line there. Not significant but I'll take specialness wherever I can find it.

My GP has a theory it's due to damage to my eardrums, from the tubes put in when I was a gradeschooler. Dr was a bit of a butcher but it was the 'deference to authority' age so all the adults were fine with him.

albrewer• 3 years ago

I hadn't thought of doing this; I just informally tested mine to find I've got a dead zone between ~13kHz and ~14.5kHz. I can hear the sound above and below that range - it fades out, then back in as I move higher in frequency.

DoreenMichele3• 3 years ago

PSA -- because articles about anything tinnitus-related typically result in people discussing home remedies or the like -- for some people tinnitus is indicative of magnesium deficiency.

aitchnyu• 3 years ago

I'm stressed by losing my job and I have symptoms (muscle pain, tiredness, insomnia) that I self diagnosed and treating with magnesium pills. When will the tinnitus be gone :-)

DoreenMichele3• 3 years ago

When will the tinnitus be gone :-)

I have no idea. It would depend in part on how severe your deficiency is.

I have one anecdotal report that their tinnitus did clear up, but it took a few years to go away completely.

rendall• 3 years ago

I have a whole concert of tinnitus frequencies. It is not a single tone. I don't remember when it started, but it has been there for decades.

I've read that tinnitus is akin to phantom limb syndrome, the brain compensating for missing frequencies it no longer hears. Happily, I can ignore it, but it's always there.

cpeterso• 3 years ago

I listen to notched pink noise videos on YouTube because they mask my tinnitus and help me concentrate. People have posted white/pink/etc noise videos with notch filters to match a range of different tinnitus frequencies. I don’t think the notch has helped me, but if I’m already going to listen to pink noise, I might as well try the notched noise.

ShadowBanThis015• 3 years ago

Mine started after a COVID booster (which is finally being recognized as a cause, too late for many of us). 9 kHz.

mderazon3• 3 years ago

Don't feel bad, mine started after COVID infection so you might have gotten it anyway

spaceman_2020• 3 years ago

Mine started after an unnecessarily prescribed dosage of gabepentin. It's supposed to go away in a few weeks after withdrawal, but 3 months later, I still have it.

ShadowBanThis015• 3 years ago

Wow, that's interesting, considering that gabapentin has been experimented with as a possible remedy for it.

I hope it goes away for you.

Night_Thastus• 3 years ago

I wish there was a cure for it. Unfortunately as a child my father took me to semi-frequently to a night club he worked at, and I had no hearing protection. I have had tinnitus ever since. It varies in severity based on seemingly a lot of conditions (orientation, physical activity, mood), but most of the it's not too awful luckily.

Still, it sucks that we may be a more than my lifetime away from really finding a solution.

y-c-o-m-b• 3 years ago

I have "somatic tinnitus" where I can change the tone, frequency, and sometimes make it disappear altogether for a few days. This is a working theory, but it's supposedly caused by inflammatory arthritis (spondyloarthritis) in my cervical spine and other areas compressing nerves and arteries. I can also move the ligament in my C8-T1 spine, which causes all sorts of side effects but it can also resolve or make worse my tinnitus for several days. Sometimes just moving my neck towards one shoulder can also resolve or make worse my tinnitus.

It's been like this for almost 10 years now with the worst of it starting about 5 years ago. Not many doctors are familiar with this condition, so as you can guess, I get a lot of looks like I'm crazy but it's legit happening. Not to mention this is the least of my neurological concerns. The US healthcare system thus far has been hugely disappointing in giving a damn beyond "yep, looks like you have to live with this forever".

wcoenen• 3 years ago

I tested the most common frequency reported with a tone generator app, and 8000 Hz indeed seems to match my tinnitus.

More surprisingly though, the tinnitus _also_ disappears (but only for about 10 to 20 seconds) when I stop the tone generator.

CommanderData• 3 years ago

Tinnitus is an interesting one to me. I've read so many of people's theories and anecdotes and have suffered myself for the last 11ish years.

The hearing system is complicated, we still don't know why tinnitus happens. The cochlear cannot be observed medically without destroying it (perilymph).

My running theory is our hearing synapses severe for numerous reasons. Concussion, viral infection, loud noises, jaw compression. But the most interesting to me is.... People that have ear wax build up and no obvious middle ear or inner ear trauma can develop tinnitus. I think there's a much bigger connection between the body, mind and cochlear than we think.

We've been focused on inner hair cell regeneration but a paper I read recently suggested hair cells have the ability to recover. The connection between these and the auditory nerve are disconnected potentially as a protection, why these aren't reestablished is a bit of an unknown.

The good news is there is research being done to regrow these synapses, some results in nice of course. The brain may need to relearn the connections. I have quite a firm believe it's these synapses that need therapeutics.

I do wish we threw more money into hearing, it's an essential sense to the world and loosing it has an detrimental impact on society. It's not fair people wake up with sudden deafness without explanation, or following a flu or vaccine etc.

If I had a few billion this is one area I would fund and have a good idea who would receive said funds.

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