- Nov 5, 2022
- 344
- Tinnitus Since
- Mild since 1982 - then Severe Oct 2022
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Microsuction (Oct 2022)
Is she NHS or a private audiologist, would you be comfortable naming her? It's just that I am looking for someone with experience in neurosensory disorders, and being an audiologist is a bonus.Yep, Bristol, England.
It's a well thought out theory. I have bad hearing loss that I have had for many years, and have struggled to hear what people have been saying for decades. Partly due to being hard of hearing but also my brain heard the voice but couldn't make out the words. My ears and a vertigo type problem have been an issue for a much longer time than tinnitus, but considering the bad condition my ears were in, I guess it's no surprise it's hit me hard.I've got a few thoughts on digital audio and of course none of this is scientific and only my observations through reading countless posts by forum members.
The first thing I've noticed is that the majority of the people I've seen who experience issues with digital audio also have some degree of hearing loss. I've seen some posts where members had issues with digital audio only initially and I don't recall them mentioning much in regards to if they had hearing loss or not. It would be interesting to have a poll on this as there isn't much in the way of research into it.
Which brings me onto my second observation, those who complain of being reactive to digital audio tend to also be reactive to everything else anyway. This includes myself, my tinnitus, as far as I'm aware, will change characteristics regardless of the noise exposure I have. But it's a lot less apparent outside, maybe this is due to the quantity and diversity of the ambient noises.
It may be that we notice the reactiveness all the more prominently when it's digital audio due to the fact we're in a quiet home and the digital audio is the dominant source. I've contemplated watching TV outside and see if I notice as much of a difference with the ambient outside background noise.
You make a good point of being reactive to most things. I guess I can sit in a home office and work all day but the moment I have a work call, boom - the moment I step outside, boom. But if I have a conversation face to face, no problem, typing on the keyboard, no problem, making food, no problem, dropped a toilet yesterday, no problem.
I guess the frequencies play a part here too as I'm not reactive to everything.
Does your tinnitus return to baseline after the event - for example if you are out and tinnitus is spiked, does it fall back to baseline when you step indoors?
Mine does not, if I go outside it will spike and when I come back inside it will continue to be spiked for at least the rest of the day. So I notice my spikes more in a quiet room but this is in general either after being outside or digital audio of some kind.