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that's pretty hard for me to understand. I find it almost always VERY interesting to listen to conversations of other people, but it is almost never possible to hear what other people says. However, once I could hear two people talking over a beer as they were sitting outdoors on a quiet street...

I would not say I have tinnitus today. But I had tinnitus a few days ago. A tremendously annoying tinnitus. A new sound I have never heard before. Not sure how to explain that sound. Rather low-frequency with a regularity of about one or two minute interval when I heard something like...

That's a good attitude. Science can develop only when people remain critical. The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.

Correction: Expose the mice to a sound wave (pure tone) centered at a frequency f, with a short gap of silence. Mice who startle when they hear the sudden gap of silence do not have tinnitus at frequency f, while those who do not startle by the gap of silence are assumed to hear a tinnitus...

Expose the mice to white noise with a short gap of silence. Mice who startle when they hear the sudden gap of silence do not have tinnitus, while those who do not react to the gap of silence are assumed to have tinnitus. See figure 1 in...

I think a pill can cure tinnitus just as much as a pill can cure a broken leg. For the broken leg nobody objects to me when I say that it should be kept straight and not be exposed to any small twists or bending. For tinnitus NOBODY agrees with me when I say that this might be cured in exactly...

This is exactly my point, and that is why these psychiatrists do so much harm when they spread their ideas all over the world, which makes any tinnitus sufferer look mentally weak to everyone.

One gets tinnitus. May want to get rid of it. Eventually one may contact health care. But there what one learns it is completely harmless and nothing to bother about. If the message is not clear, one may be sent to psychiatrists explaining the same thing. Here on Tinnitus Talk, people may think...

From my own experiences fresh sound-induced tinnitus with a sudden onset may disappear after two weeks, exceptionally after three weeks. If that does not happen, then chances are not so bright. However, it depends on what you do. One time I got a heart-beat tinnitus sound caused by listening to...

My tinnitus has improved to the extent that it has more or less disappeared. However, that does not mean I can enjoy ordinary life. Actually today I heard some deep vibration sound caused by the noise exposure after having been out in the city, gone by subway and so on. I can not live an...

Nobody understands the importance of silence, regardless if you have tinnitus or not. Today I walked into an ordinary restaurant (not a pub) that played music. - Can you turn down the volume? - No, we cannot do that. Get out of here! I got a new job in an office that had a ventilation in the...

Dear Professor David Baguley, I would like to define tinnitus objectively as a sound one hears at a certain frequency and at a certain dB level that may or may not vary over time. If one wants to lower the tinnitus dB level, can this happen if one locks oneself inside a sound isolating chamber...

First of all I shall stress very importantly that I do NOT have hyperacusis. I like and enjoy noise and have no difficulties whatsoever with exposing myself to noise in the following sense. I enjoy loud noise, if I forget about worrying about the effects it will have on me later as I get into a...

Thanks a lot for the new input and potential help you provided. No, you see buying a smartphone would not help me as I then need to pay a monthly fee to use it, and furthermore, I need to educate myself how one uses a smartphone, what its proper name is, smartphone, iphone, mobile phone, or...

Indeed they don't, since the cancellation effect depends on the frequency of the sound wave. So it is not useful as a hearing protector in an arbitrary environment, however it may serve a function in cancelling out part of the jet engine sound, which a big deal when one shall be sitting in an...