Mild Tinnitus... Still Deeply Disturbed
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I also dont hear it in the shower of running tap. But do you hear it when listen to music or watching tv?
If the volumes low as I used to have it yeah I do hear it a bit. Used to have it on very low, now I've turned it up a bit to hear the small sound details over the tinnitus.
First time I noticed something was wrong with my hearing was listening to a show week after my incident. There was a sound that wasn't quite right, so I started examining my hearing in great detail and noticed the tinnitus. Never lost focus of it after that and kept finding new sounds.
Edit: Listening to music I don't notice the tinnitus, but I do hear certain notes of some songs sound like a bad tone, hollow, like the detail is missing. I don't listen to music much anymore because it depresses me, the quality is flawed and I miss the silence between songs. I always anticipated and felt a great release on a song's ending, that's just missing now.
@Vincent R , you sound like a private eye or journalist.^^
I suppose you are right. I wouldn't want an Tinnelec implant either; unless it's a cure for T with a 90% success rate.
I'm not keen for drugs. And somehow I highly doubt that there will ever be a drug that solely addresses the neurons in 'one' auditory cortex. In general all drugs effect the whole brain; and body. Let alone the long-term side effects that degenerate the body. Personally, I think we need a fix. Something that wipes out those goddamn crazy neurons.
Have you tried any meds so far?
I wonder what temporal bones @ResonanceCEO was drilling.
His drug delivery system using a pump, though, sound very invasive.
'the drugs will be here in five years or less.' I don't know but I heard something like that when they first discovered HIV. And there is still no cure.
I do NOT like what Claus Richter is doing. They use cats as guinea pigs. They shouldn't do that! They could use humans, there plenty of them.
If I understand it right they just try to develop the next generation of CIs with laser lights instead of electrodes. Still, it is an ultra invasive operation.
I just think the cochlea is way too tiny for being repaired; no matter the damage inside. We would need nano-robots to enter the cochlea if we really wanted to fix it. I mean, c'mon we can't even cure paraplegics and those nerves are way bigger than the ones in the cochlea and way easier to access.
It's all a lost cause! I think the only chance we have is to fixing the root of the problem: the brain. As long as nobody is trying to figure out how to remove what is causing the noise and pain there will never be a cure for T, or we have to wait for the nanotechnology century, which might be in a few hundred years. So not our time.
Today, like all days, is a very bad day for me. All I can think of is suicide.. but reading your words make me cry and smile. Thank you.
Or maybe you did find them but just forgot that those are the people you were looking for. But yes, it's very hard and maybe unlikely. Perhaps in the afterlife for a short while.
I suppose you are right. I wouldn't want an Tinnelec implant either; unless it's a cure for T with a 90% success rate.
I'm not keen for drugs. And somehow I highly doubt that there will ever be a drug that solely addresses the neurons in 'one' auditory cortex. In general all drugs effect the whole brain; and body. Let alone the long-term side effects that degenerate the body. Personally, I think we need a fix. Something that wipes out those goddamn crazy neurons.
Have you tried any meds so far?
I wonder what temporal bones @ResonanceCEO was drilling.
His drug delivery system using a pump, though, sound very invasive.
'the drugs will be here in five years or less.' I don't know but I heard something like that when they first discovered HIV. And there is still no cure.
I do NOT like what Claus Richter is doing. They use cats as guinea pigs. They shouldn't do that! They could use humans, there plenty of them.
If I understand it right they just try to develop the next generation of CIs with laser lights instead of electrodes. Still, it is an ultra invasive operation.
I just think the cochlea is way too tiny for being repaired; no matter the damage inside. We would need nano-robots to enter the cochlea if we really wanted to fix it. I mean, c'mon we can't even cure paraplegics and those nerves are way bigger than the ones in the cochlea and way easier to access.
It's all a lost cause! I think the only chance we have is to fixing the root of the problem: the brain. As long as nobody is trying to figure out how to remove what is causing the noise and pain there will never be a cure for T, or we have to wait for the nanotechnology century, which might be in a few hundred years. So not our time.
Today, like all days, is a very bad day for me. All I can think of is suicide.. but reading your words make me cry and smile. Thank you.
Or maybe you did find them but just forgot that those are the people you were looking for. But yes, it's very hard and maybe unlikely. Perhaps in the afterlife for a short while.
Hi @NiNyu, I know it feels impossible, I'm so sorryDon't give up though, I promise you, I felt like it was impossible, too. I, too, was and am extremely emotionally and physically sensitive person - especially to sound.
I apprciate your kind words.. but I am so lost. I am so tired and exhausted.. this torture is killing me.. I can't fathom why nature is that CRUEL.. it is beyond my comprehension.
If any neurosurgeon likes to experiment a lil.. my brain is ready for surgery.
Mine is exploding when showering or running the tap. So be grateful that you have it mild.
MemberHi NiNyu, I definitely said all of those things at one time. I promise you so many of us have, there is hope.
I would recommend going to talk to someone, I went to a great psychiatrist in the beginning. The talking admittedly didn't help for a while - I was too scared and alone and angry feeling, but he helped give me meds to sleep and manage the stress and anxiety which was destroying me. It can give you just a little break as your body habituates. Yoga helped me a lot and another psychologist helped as well. You might want to check out Dr. Hubbard. He's on the forum and he also has T himself and was once very bothered.
Take care and know that we're all here for you. If you want any resources of doctors to see or call, I found a lot of people during my first year. I'd be happy to pass on the names etc. to you (or anyone here) just reach out in a private message.
So you are saying that if you dont hear it in the shower or running tap you have it mild?
It's probably mild if that's true. I'd think it's severe if you can't avoid it's presence in any waking situation. Though I'm not sure what the kind people only hear when plugging their ears is called.
@sandra72 , I don't know, maybe yours is not mild but something in between. But definitely milder than mine. I think mild T is a T that you can only perceive in a silent room. So it has little impact on your ability to function, and is nearly inaudible in places with ambient sounds.
There are T sufferers here who had it first mild and then it all got worse they might be able to make a better definition. Anyhow, if you can mask your T with silent music or can't hear it over running water that's a good thing. Well, I wish I could do that..
There are T sufferers here who had it first mild and then it all got worse they might be able to make a better definition. Anyhow, if you can mask your T with silent music or can't hear it over running water that's a good thing. Well, I wish I could do that..
Rina
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I'm new here and my T started 4 weeks ago... First 2 weeks I eas suicidal.. Crazy, depressed and lost. Could not sleep or eat.. I lost so Mucho weight... But this past week I have been doing better.... I started to go out with my kids.. And honestly I don't hear T much when out unless it gets very quiet... Or driving ... I still hear it and it bothers me at night, but I found a sound of birds singing over a water stream that mask T very well and in able to sleep for hours straight.. Well unless my kids wake me up when crying ...is my T getting better? Perhaps.. Am I habituating? It seems too soon but possible... Is my attitude towards it now positive? Absolutely!!!!! We all have a lot of things to live for.... @NiNyu ... There is always hope and the brain is a wonderful tool... Maybe if you start saying more positive things about your life and even T and reset the annoyed by it mind set habituation will kick in and things will get better... Just a thought!
@NiNyu it is very strange. There are day's, somethimes weeks that my T is low and i only hear it in silent. But my t can also be loud and then i hear it over the tv. I dont know why this happends but if i only knew than mayby i can work on in. My hearing is fine. The dentist said its tmd. I always have pain in my neck and shoulders but i have that for over 20 years. Mayby thats also why i have T. I really dont know.
Rina
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Rina
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I was a journalist once. By the way, that's the first happy smiley I've seen you use.
I generally agree with this, but the AM101-stuff seems to work for some at least. Here's what OddV says:
It's helped me... Cured, no... Habituated and a lot quieter, yes.
Drugs appearantly can surpress the T-sound somewhat, which makes it easier to live down.
For a complete cure, they must be pinpointed somehow. Drugs will never be able to do that.
I considered asking him, but the fella has importent work to do, so I didn't want to bother him.
Yes, but he has added another brick to the building.
I notice you write "them" not "us".
Well, if you think about it, the bottom line will always be the input from the ear, which means the activity in the cochlear nerve. I agree repairing nerve injuries in the cochlea seems like science fiction, but if you can artificially stimulate the cochlear nerve to make up for messed up signals, the problem should be solved. It will require a tool versatile enough, of course.
You seem to suggest brain surgery that removes the offending neurons, or at least isolating them by cutting their connections to the rest of the brain. Maybe that would be an option as well.
Today, like all days, is a very bad day for me. All I can think of is suicide.. but reading your words make me cry and smile. Thank you.
I find that sincerely touching, but given your present predicament, offering you anything less than a solution must be seen as a shortcoming.
Maybe. There are at least two suspicious cases, who have that special kind of crazy, so to speak.
With very strong bonds, maybe. Or the divine forces of the Universe throws us around as they bloody well please.
I knew you were.^^ Moreover, you are well-read.
Yes, offering me anything less than a solution must be seen as a shortcoming. I do need a complete cure! Or at the very least a drug that provides real silence, even if it's a short-term fix.
Hopefully this new brick of your Dr Frankenstein friend isn't collapsing the whole building to the ground. Do you know this toy a little horse mounted on a wooden button? When you press the button from underneath, the horse collapses to its knees. That's what the drug delivery pump might look like.
I can't identify myself with humans anymore. Maybe I never did. I was more cat than human. And I thought I had nine lives. Hey, you are the crazy cat here.
But even that means invasive skull drilling.
If they can't address the cochlea they definitely could address the brain. It's way bigger, way more likely that they could successfully treat our generation. As said, I'm up for it.
Oh, I love that! Very well put. ~hug I want to be thrown around. Now!
Yes, offering me anything less than a solution must be seen as a shortcoming. I do need a complete cure! Or at the very least a drug that provides real silence, even if it's a short-term fix.
Hopefully this new brick of your Dr Frankenstein friend isn't collapsing the whole building to the ground. Do you know this toy a little horse mounted on a wooden button? When you press the button from underneath, the horse collapses to its knees. That's what the drug delivery pump might look like.
I can't identify myself with humans anymore. Maybe I never did. I was more cat than human. And I thought I had nine lives. Hey, you are the crazy cat here.
But even that means invasive skull drilling.
If they can't address the cochlea they definitely could address the brain. It's way bigger, way more likely that they could successfully treat our generation. As said, I'm up for it.
Oh, I love that! Very well put. ~hug I want to be thrown around. Now!
Thank you!
Well ...
I've experienced a few moments of complete silence, alas, they haven't "stuck".
Quote from OddV in the thread about the AM101-trials.
No telling how it would end up on the next place, but you should be free from concern while you're being thrown at least.
