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Probably Pendulum in Chicago, couldn't hear a damn thing after I left.
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Probably Pendulum in Chicago, couldn't hear a damn thing after I left.
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Oh this is great for the forum's reputation. What do those eggheads over at ASR know? They're all deaf for crying out loud!
Sorry... what did you say?
(Couldn't resist....)
I blame the chainsaw's noise and the drag racing cars that I saw 5 years in a row in Spokane Washington. The top fuel cars and funny cars are very very loud.
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It's why we rely on measurements so much. How else would we know?
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So, it is NOT necessarily always genetic or the onset via some ear trauma?
[the loud sound that my espresso machine' steam wand makes worries me but not enough for headphones, yet.]
Is there such a thing as that "Mind-over-Matter (if you don't mind/it don't matter) thingy that deals partially with tinnitus in our processing unit?
Heck I am not even sure if the tones are generated (to begin with) by the brain... like asking the fox to mind the hen-house?
Oh never mind...
I think there are a few other ASR threads discussing tinnitus.
[the loud sound that my espresso machine' steam wand makes worries me but not enough for headphones, yet.]
Is there such a thing as that "Mind-over-Matter (if you don't mind/it don't matter) thingy that deals partially with tinnitus in our processing unit?
Heck I am not even sure if the tones are generated (to begin with) by the brain... like asking the fox to mind the hen-house?
Oh never mind...
I think there are a few other ASR threads discussing tinnitus.
Yes, and the concrete grand stands that people sit on shake and vibrate from the noise. At least it feels like it.
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One audiologist told me that it's like your ears screaming in pain ... It apparently originates with damage to the Cochlea which is part of the inner ear.
Cochlea - Wikipedia
I blame playing drums in a rock band, rehearsing in a very small bunker room with naked concrete walls, although I had no Tinnitus back then. It was horribly loud but I didn't care about my ears at that age (early 20ies) 
... and now it's too late
... and now it's too late 
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BINGO! Thank you for the link. Mine end up being much higher (14K range, I think). During the test, I notice that the tinnitus noise "interferes" with my ability to hear past 14.5K Also, what's weird, is that after the test, the tinnitus noise can be modulated if I'm slightly turning my head from side to side.
P.S. I think trying to find out what was the upper limit of my hearing (end up turning the volume almost all the way up on the computer and listening via Sennheiser HD660S) has aggravated tinnitus and now, 10 minutes later, noise is slowly going down.
I wish I read the warning on the site before I started testing my hearing. LOL.
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I voted 'Occasionally' - I notice it only in dead silent environments, concentrating hard, and usually right after waking up, not during the day.
I first thought I f***ed myself for life after I played suicide having watched some idiotic movie. I was ~10yrs old and shoot a plastic toy gun (luckily with no pellet in) into my right ear. I hadn't noticed they shoot in the temple, not the ear But the tinnitus went away after several days IIRC. Super scary though.
Then there was the Venetian Snares gig a few years ago, when I was close to nausea from the noise. Yet there were ppl with no hearing protection just dancing right next to the speakers... also a few days with ringing.
And then the Ciśnienie gig last year. The band is great, amplified jazz/post-rock fusion (lotsa distorted strings & guitars - check this track for example). But someone thought it was a good idea for them to play on the lower deck of a barge, essentially a tin can. It was super uncomfortable and the tinnitus lasted a week.
I wear hearing protection to most gigs, but had a lot of trouble with it, as to me most plugs attenuate waaay to much, killing the whole enjoyment. I tried musician plugs from Marshall, Thunderplugs and Alpine, among others - all too 'strong'. I recently bought the Rooth plugs from Drop (the 9dB version), and this is finally something I can recomend. I wonder if there are even lower grades available, like 6dB for instance. Couldn't find anything like that, recommendations welcome
I first thought I f***ed myself for life after I played suicide having watched some idiotic movie. I was ~10yrs old and shoot a plastic toy gun (luckily with no pellet in
) into my right ear. I hadn't noticed they shoot in the temple, not the ear But the tinnitus went away after several days IIRC. Super scary though.Then there was the Venetian Snares gig a few years ago, when I was close to nausea from the noise. Yet there were ppl with no hearing protection just dancing right next to the speakers... also a few days with ringing.
And then the Ciśnienie gig last year. The band is great, amplified jazz/post-rock fusion (lotsa distorted strings & guitars - check this track for example). But someone thought it was a good idea for them to play on the lower deck of a barge, essentially a tin can. It was super uncomfortable and the tinnitus lasted a week.
I wear hearing protection to most gigs, but had a lot of trouble with it, as to me most plugs attenuate waaay to much, killing the whole enjoyment. I tried musician plugs from Marshall, Thunderplugs and Alpine, among others - all too 'strong'. I recently bought the Rooth plugs from Drop (the 9dB version), and this is finally something I can recomend. I wonder if there are even lower grades available, like 6dB for instance. Couldn't find anything like that, recommendations welcome
I used your first LINK and didn't seem to help my tinnitus at all...until I started to read the comments. And just like that-no more ringing in my ears, just the sound of me laughing out loud!
'Sounds' like cochlea-bound tuning forks are in working order... but in reverse a receiver gets a polarity reversal and becomes a damn transmitter?
I am sooooo lucky, I never got it; because I did "all" the things that have been posted for the onset of tinnitus.
I even rode motorcycles for five decades but always with earplugs, although they are banned in California (unless RX'd).
a receiver gets a polarity reversal and becomes a damn transmitter?I am sooooo lucky, I never got it; because I did "all" the things that have been posted for the onset of tinnitus.
I even rode motorcycles for five decades but always with earplugs, although they are banned in California (unless RX'd).
Excellent suggestion. I had very mild tinnitus since I was a teenager even though I was always pretty careful with my ears owing to they were pretty sensitive to loud noises for as long as I can remember. It was pretty mild such that I had to be in a basically silent room in order to notice it. A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and now on medication it's very nearly gone. I say very nearly gone because I'm also on a medication (loop diuretic) that can cause tinnitus. It still only shows up once in a while. If you're taking one of those and have a lot of ringing, talk to your doctor about maybe a lower dose. Opioid painkillers can also affect your hearing. I'm sure there are more.
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Wow ... so far 83% of those who voted are reporting tinitis. Almost half are reporting that it's continuous.
I sure didn't expect that.
I sure didn't expect that.
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Several years ago; when I was rear ended at a stoplight I had it for some time after that as my neck healed.
Then, controversially, after a couple injections in the last few years I had it really bad for a 3 weeks and less bad for about another 3 weeks after each one. After those I had a few times it was bad enough it would keep me awake at night. For about 2 weeks each of those times I simply couldn't listen to any music at all because the tinnitus would overtake the music every time. Two doctors scoffed at me when I complained about it after the first shot and so after it faded to being minor, I figured they must be right and it wasn't connected... I didn't even bother with seeing a doctor the second time. This seemed to help short bits of time.
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