What Is Silence?

[nogood]

Silence.. I miss my quite time my solitude..
worst part for me that this T is wht is left of 3 month struggle over life and death, and occutional thoughts of susicde.

 

[Codaz]

Silence is slowly coming back as T goes down.
Every week my TMJ improves so is my T lowered. In the beginning of T (may 2014) there was no such thing as silence, as I heard it even over loud train traffic or within the shower as the water sound totally distorted

 

[Rhea]

silence is - an unattainable fantasy .....for me at least

 

[MichaelM]

Silence is....when not thinking of my ear.

 

[inadmin]

I'm not sure how my criticism of LLLT got into this conversation, @yonkapin
Folks, think back to before tinnitus, back when you had your silence. You've never even heard of the word tinnitus, OK? Does anybody recall thinking a whole lot about silence back then? I realize we all appreciated the quiet times. But it wasn't something we particularly focused on, was it? Wasn't it more like something we sort of took for granted? I, for one, never thought much about the concept of silence. Why would I? Why would anybody other than a sound engineer spend much time thinking about silence??? Until tinnitus, that is.

Dr. Stephen Nagler

There's a saying "you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone" - so you "treat" silence like something that's natural - you don't pay special attention to it, correct.

BUT when it's gone - and the total alien sound that "haunts" you everywhere you go, and ALL the time, makes you focus/obsess on the absence of silence. Now it's not just silence of course per se, it's the peace of mind that you've being robbed of brutally.

 

[Dr. Nagler]

There's a saying "you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone" - so you "treat" silence like something that's natural - you don't pay special attention to it, correct.

BUT when it's gone - and the total alien sound that "haunts" you everywhere you go, and ALL the time, makes you focus/obsess on the absence of silence. Now it's not just silence of course per se, it's the peace of mind that you've being robbed of brutally.

Well stated, @inadmin. Indeed, that's an excellent description of how things were for me.

But here's the thing. Habituation (TRT in my case) returned my silence to me and returned my peace of mind as well.

I am all for finding a cure for tinnitus. But until the day of that cure arrives, if it ever arrives, I do not see any reason to suffer one more month, one more week, one more day, one more hour, or even one more minute than is absolutely necessary. Whether it's TRT or some other pathway to habituation, I cannot make my message any more clear than that.

Best to all -

Dr. Stephen Nagler

 

[noisebox]

Silence for me was walking at night when snow had freshly fallen.