Muffled Hearing + Ringing in Right Ear; how to make it stop?
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dpbird90 said:
Quick update; my hearing isn't muffled any more, but I can hear the tinnitus slightly more in the right ear. I've had it as long as I can remember in both ears, but since my hearing went dodgy in the right ear its more hearable in that side, but of course when there is other background noise its not as hearable.
You'll probably find your hearing still hasn't come back 100% in that ear, thus the tinnitus is relatively louder against the background noise you can hear. It took over a week before my ear felt 'right' after I started the antibiotics.
King Herald said:
dpbird90 said:
Quick update; my hearing isn't muffled any more, but I can hear the tinnitus slightly more in the right ear. I've had it as long as I can remember in both ears, but since my hearing went dodgy in the right ear its more hearable in that side, but of course when there is other background noise its not as hearable.
You'll probably find your hearing still hasn't come back 100% in that ear, thus the tinnitus is relatively louder against the background noise you can hear. It took over a week before my ear felt 'right' after I started the antibiotics.Tinnitus.
My Mistress, my nemesis. my constant companion.
The reason we hear tinnitus is part of being human, we can't help it, but not all suffer from it. You know when you are in a room full of chattering people, you can't make out what anyone is saying, it's all background noise, but if someone says your name you hear it? That is tinnitus in essence.
The brain is trained to hear familiar noises, tinnitus screws with that brain function, so you have to try and retrain your brain, or at least help it along.
The very best way to do it is (in quiet times, when tinnitus really rears it's head) have a very low background noise going on, so in bed you may have a very quiet radio on that your ears have to 'try' to hear, that will kill your tinnitus. If that isn't practical, then it's headphones with the same, very quiet radio or music.
It has to be very very quiet, that's the key, this makes your brain focus on the sound, and pushes the tinnitus out.
I suffer from sevear tinnitus day in day out, and nothing has helped. I have had this for 18 years now and with my first child on the way I am facing the biggest battle of my life, undoing all the stupid self help I tried to finally go to sleep every night.
I managed this by using alchohol, and now I am paying a massive price.
The sleep, even lookin back on how I handled it, and looking forward into the pain I now face, was still worth it.
Tinnitus. I could write a book.
My Mistress, my nemesis. my constant companion.
The reason we hear tinnitus is part of being human, we can't help it, but not all suffer from it. You know when you are in a room full of chattering people, you can't make out what anyone is saying, it's all background noise, but if someone says your name you hear it? That is tinnitus in essence.
The brain is trained to hear familiar noises, tinnitus screws with that brain function, so you have to try and retrain your brain, or at least help it along.
The very best way to do it is (in quiet times, when tinnitus really rears it's head) have a very low background noise going on, so in bed you may have a very quiet radio on that your ears have to 'try' to hear, that will kill your tinnitus. If that isn't practical, then it's headphones with the same, very quiet radio or music.
It has to be very very quiet, that's the key, this makes your brain focus on the sound, and pushes the tinnitus out.
I suffer from sevear tinnitus day in day out, and nothing has helped. I have had this for 18 years now and with my first child on the way I am facing the biggest battle of my life, undoing all the stupid self help I tried to finally go to sleep every night.
I managed this by using alchohol, and now I am paying a massive price.
The sleep, even lookin back on how I handled it, and looking forward into the pain I now face, was still worth it.
Tinnitus. I could write a book.
tossbag said:
Tinnitus.
My Mistress, my nemesis. my constant companion.
The reason we hear tinnitus is part of being human, we can't help it, but not all suffer from it. You know when you are in a room full of chattering people, you can't make out what anyone is saying, it's all background noise, but if someone says your name you hear it? That is tinnitus in essence.
The brain is trained to hear familiar noises, tinnitus screws with that brain function, so you have to try and retrain your brain, or at least help it along....
Well, there is more to it than that. Nobody seems to know exactly what causes tinnitus, and there may be more than one cause. Some specialists say it is damage to the ears, the actual mechanism that creates the electrical 'sound' message, others say it can be caused by a fluke in the nerves that transmit that information about noise to the brain. Somehow telling it there is some noise when in fact there is nothing, stray electrical currents, static.My Mistress, my nemesis. my constant companion.
The reason we hear tinnitus is part of being human, we can't help it, but not all suffer from it. You know when you are in a room full of chattering people, you can't make out what anyone is saying, it's all background noise, but if someone says your name you hear it? That is tinnitus in essence.
The brain is trained to hear familiar noises, tinnitus screws with that brain function, so you have to try and retrain your brain, or at least help it along....
But, like you say, you can learn to tune them out, to just get used to them, the way you can get used to the roar of traffic when you live near to a road, the way some people can sleep happily with a dog barking outside their window.
I hear my bells ringing, my tuning forks humming, my sparrows singing, all day, all night, but I can usually choose whether I listen to them or not. Sometimes I feel them get louder and louder until I feel I literally can't stand it any more, but I try to think happy thoughts, try to drive it away, back to the happy place.
I work offshore, where there is a non stop rumble of background noise, night and day, so coming home after five weeks to a house that can be dead silent some days can be pretty horrifying.
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