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I've been looking at what's on the net about the brain and the best easy stuff I found is called "Searching for the mind" by Jon Lieff MD. There are many aspects to the functioning of the brain and I had hoped to find something to explain tinnitus at a deep, technical level because it's only...

Thank you Kolisar.

I've seen somewhere on this forum a set of sound recordings other than the three excellent examples by Stink, Blair 14 and Stephanie 19115 in which simulated sounds covering a wider range of sound patterns were shown. Does anyone remember this or could anyone please point me in the right...

Thanks Danny Boy. Very helpful BBC article. I tried to get the other references' articles but couldn't.

Our maths lecturer not spoke only in broad Glaswegian (I'm a Londoner) but was used to having a "wee" dram of the good stuff at lunch times. Need I say any more?

I love dreary, rainy, cold, windy days. We get a lot of that in England. Raiz3R is absolutely right in my opinion. The warmest I can tolerate is 18 deg C. The trouble with our climate is the awful humidity. That comes through being surrounded by sea that's never far away.

In most music there are several instruments or voices playing, often making different frequency sounds. The concept of harmony is based on the ratio of various ones. 2:1 is an octave and is regarded as a perfect harmony. 3:2 is the next, then 4:3 and so on, each one being slightly less...

I play the sax and I've been getting loud noises in my right ear for years from the trumpet section! I also have T.

I'm a Christian too but belief doesn't help solve the problem of how to cure T. To find a cure we must first know what causes it at the microscopic scale. For a reasonable complete answer to the question of what causes T please refer to the following:- The Pathophysiological Mechanism of...

Hello teacher34. I agree that T may well begin in the brain. For a reasonable complete answer to the question of what causes T please refer to the following:- The Pathophysiological Mechanism of Tinnitus. Jae Ho Chung and Seung Hwan. Lee Hamyang Medical Review 2016:36:81-85. This is in English...

Hi Thierry. For a reasonable complete answer to your question of what causes T please refer to the following:- The Pathophysiological Mechanism of Tinnitus. Jae Ho Chung and Seung Hwan. Lee Hamyang Medical Review 2016:36:81-85. This is in English and gives good references. It isn't very...

What frequency were they using?

The first time I fired a .303 rifle in the RAF the sudden noise gave me a whistling in my right ear which lasted three day and nights. The RAF gave me no earmuffs or earplugs when I fired the gun and I think it was negligent of them. What ear protection do American soldiers wear in battle? Do...

I agree that stem cell therapy may one day cure tinnitus and as a sufferer I welcome the idea. But I'm also aware that the signals that cause tinnitus could be coming from neurones in the auditory area of the brain. I don't see how stem cells could cure that. Could someone please explain.

Why is it good that there is no cure now?

I sometimes wonder whether a period of suffering tinnitus shouldn't cause the brain's auditory neurones to enhance or depress their interconnection strengths, as appropriate, so as to suppress the effects of over active sensory machinery such as nerve hairs and other auditory neurones and...

Why were you experimenting with loud noises? I got my right hearing damaged by the sudden loud noise from firing a rifle. It created a continuous whistle which lasted a couple of days then stopped, permanently. Or at least it did so for 60 years, when I had a bad inner ear infection called...

Pulsatile tinnitus apparently means that the sound beats in time with the heart. In my dictionary the word "somatic" means "relating to the body as distinct from the mind." Does this mean that pulsatile tinnitus is related to the mind?

I just found out that to be called pulsative the tinnitus has to beat in step with your heart, which mine doesn't.

And it isn't called pulsative unless it beats in step with your heart, which it seems yours doesn't.

Thank you Candy and GregCA. That confirms that I do not have pulsatile tinnitus. So in that case since I do have tinnitus is what I've got called somatic?

Is Coleoptere saying that causes of deafness such as hair follicle damage of the inner ear are the only cause of tinnitus?

What is the definition used for "pulsatile" when we discuss pulsatile tinnitus? Sounds are usually very complex things, with many component frequencies. A low frequency could be described as pulses. There can also be two different frequencies present and that situation can cause new...

I found an article by Dr Albert Edge of Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmity in which he thinks that stem cells taken from the damaged hair follicles of the inner ear might lead to their regeneration and thus to a cure for deafness. He has already made it work in...

A heart beat is two beats that occur one immediately after the other I think, isn't it? Something about the upper ventricle and the lower one both beating? So would you say that your tinnitus pulse rate is the rate at which these beats follow each other or is it your heart rate? I experience one...

I get the blocked ear effect but in my case that's because I went deaf in that ear following Meniere's disease. I'm trying to find out whether I've got pulsative tinnitus or the other type. How much time is there between the pulses in your case, very roughly? In other words can you describe what...

I'm no expert but it occurred to me that if you look at the construction of the inner ear (online etc) you will notice the liquid in the 3 balance tubes. When you turn your head this liquid must move up one or more tubes so as to tickle the hairy nerve endings and thus send a signal to the...

Thanks anyway Kathryn. Melike, it sounds like my problem but with no sound. The ENT specialist at Addenbrooke's told me that my trouble could possibly be caused by a small muscle in my ear and that to stop it fluttering they could cut it in half. But because of my age and the medications I take...

I take it from the enormous number of replies that nobody knows the answer.

I get a noise in one ear when I have "nerves," probably anxiety. Loud passages in speech trigger it off. It sounds as if someone has dropped a pile of books, making a rrruuummp sort of noise. This consists of a short sequence of individual thumps. I can feel it too. I hate it. Sometimes the...

JasonP, I have a noise something like rocks falling but the spacing between the pulses is wider. The audiologist told me that to try and stop it they could cut a tiny muscle deep within the ear, but no guarantees of course. So far I haven't had the operation done because of my age, (81), and...

Very interested in your discussion. I get a noise in one ear when I have "nerves," probably anxiety. Loud passages in speech trigger it off. It sounds as if someone has dropped a pile of books, making a rrruuummp sort of noise. I can feel it too. I hate it.

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Sorry - I'm using this reply slot as an edit, as there is no other edit facility provided. I should have said the hearing loss stayed with me for 61 years. I'm 80 years old now.

I first got tinnitus in my right ear when I fired an army rifle while wearing no ear defenders. I blame the army for that. A whistling stayed with me for about three days and nights but although it went away eventually, unknown to me my high frequency hearing response was down. I was 19 years...