Mine started the first night I was laid up with COVID November 2020 and has remained since. It did get better briefly about 2 months ago but is back worse than ever. Typical example was tonight, woke up at 3.30 because of it and rarely manage to get back to sleep.
Mine started the first night I was laid up with COVID November 2020 and has remained since. It did get better briefly about 2 months ago but is back worse than ever. Typical example was tonight, woke up at 3.30 because of it and rarely manage to get back to sleep.
Mine came on several years ago, perplexing as I'm not a loud listener and not too many crazy concerts as a kid. The good news is my hearing (audiogram documented) is fairly normal for age and I can still enjoy music immensely at reasonable volumes. Of course avoid > 75 dB and attend to overall health, sleep etc... Lastly, mindfulness / meditation to learn to "hear" the "whoosh" but not engage too deeply with it at the expense of the music has definitely helped me back burner tinnitus' distracting impact on music enjoyment. YMMV of course.
Mine came on several years ago, perplexing as I'm not a loud listener and not too many crazy concerts as a kid. The good news is my hearing (audiogram documented) is fairly normal for age and I can still enjoy music immensely at reasonable volumes. Of course avoid > 75 dB and attend to overall health, sleep etc... Lastly, mindfulness / meditation to learn to "hear" the "whoosh" but not engage too deeply with it at the expense of the music has definitely helped me back burner tinnitus' distracting impact on music enjoyment. YMMV of course.
Generally the treble frequencies are first to be lost with older age (presbycusis > 50 years old). A 17 year old is gonna hear treble very differently from a 70 year old.
Also some folks suffer from noise induced hearing loss (occupational/leisure induced), and they lose the 4/6 kHz areas more than other frequencies - this is cause the hair cells that transmit these frequencies are found nearer the outer ear and are the first to die with prolonged loud noise.
Generally the treble frequencies are first to be lost with older age (presbycusis > 50 years old). A 17 year old is gonna hear treble very differently from a 70 year old.
Also some folks suffer from noise induced hearing loss (occupational/leisure induced), and they lose the 4/6 kHz areas more than other frequencies - this is cause the hair cells that transmit these frequencies are found nearer the outer ear and are the first to die with prolonged loud noise.
This is informative. I was worried at first when I got mine 2 months back and in my early thirties. I'm not sure if it was attributed by teeth grinding
Mine hasn't. My ears have rang since October 1987 from the time I wake up till I go to sleep.
I'm lucky though. It's the same noise and volume level in each ear and doesn't bother me at all. I made up my mind early on I wasn't going to let it bother me.
I have good hearing and it sounds as loud as the music I listen to through headphones, but does not interfere with the music or my hearing.
I have tinnitus in both ears but my right ear more so the last 8-years.
I woke up one night to the ringing in my right ear, it was overwhelming and annoying, still there in the morning. Long story short it never went away and becomes louder/softer day to day, full-size headphones and loud volume trigger it to become worse temporarily (usually a day or 2).
But what I've learnt is once you've had it a few weeks, months your brain as second defense is very 'smart' at learning to block it out (ignore it) it becomes the new normal and you tend not to hear it unless its really aggravated (by headphones etc) or its late at night and lastly if you happen to think about it, like reading threads on the topic.
I read somewhere that not all low level "ringing" is tinnitus and some actually can be considered normal. We're so used to have noises around us, but even I, in fairly silent room hear a slight ringing that I'm not so convinced can be considered a "condition". I don't know, like when you close your eyes at night in dark room, one does not perceive it as complete pitch black. One probably has nothing to do with the other...
It's not as simple as that. There's various possibilities that's going on underneath, but for sure it's something within the auditory system. Could be inflammation there from jaw related stuff, etc.. The thing is, medical practioners are only limited to their specialty scope and usually not consider what maybe going on outside their scope. Which is the big problem with doctors. This is why we get bogus diagnostics at times.
Medical field is very complex with many different branches/specialties/facets, and sometimes conditions overlap or are connected, and dr may only specialize in one scope and not figure out the overlap.
In our body, there's a lot of cause and effect relationships that's not in a single region (or just one facet of a region), but can be related in different regions. Therein lies the problem with dr specialties that cannot figure out to address certain issues.
For tinnitus, would you go to a hearing specialist? Would they know what is the cause? Let's say it was TMJ. The hearing specialist would not know since they do not specialize in head/jaw related stuff. Only focused on a facet of hearing.
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