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I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

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The #1 cause of me remembering I have tinnitus is seeing articles about tinnitus.

And now, you are manually breathing.

Between laughing, then forgetting how to breath, then laughing at that, I nearly passed out. Thanks!

manual blinking

you can't stay in one place for long without moving to a different pose

something on your body itches (your nose?)

manual swallowing

Now your feet feel trapped and uncomfortable inside their shoes.

I didn't know I had tinnitus until I read about it.

I mostly notice it only when I meditate. I also notice that my nose hurts.

Same for me, I think I probably had it since a young age (lots of middle ear infections) but it seemed normal to me so I didn’t realize it was unusual until much later in life. I freaked out about it for a few years but realized it was and will always be there and didn’t bother me before, so I pretty much went back to it not bothering me anymore.

I had a mental health crisis when I first realized I had it (triggered by a really bad audio mix at a concert and some rando chastising "you're gonna fuck up your hearing" when I didn't have earplugs). A few months followed of "oh shit, is my life experience permanently broken now?" and all the bad feelings that connotes. I was in a really bad place.

I've always been someone who can hear electronics - when CRTs are popular, I'd know if one was in the upcoming room while I was still in the hallway. At some point, I realized that I heard all sorts of minor sounds just by existing in my apartment, and that tinnitus isn't much different than that. Helped me chill out about the whole scenario.

My mom taught me "lean into the good, and you'll feel more of the good; lean into the bad, and you'll feel more of the bad." That's certainly been my experience with tinnitus. Letting yourself panic and gloom about it is the worst part of having it. If you don't assign valence to it (don't let it be good or bad, just a thing you experience), it loses its power to drive you mad.

I feel the same way - I forget I have it until I read about it, then i can hear it again (unless I've had too much salt or caffeine or something)

same - I noticed it again as I was reading this article

We need an adblock filter for tinnitus

I think we're fine, this little exposure is probably a part of acceptance.

What I was told: salt, caffeine, alcohol, and stress.

(I check sodium on the Nutrition Facts of packaged food (it's usually high), don't touch even decaf, don't touch alcohol, and try to minimize the bad kind of stress that has no constructive solutions.)

Well I’m 3 out of 4 pretty consistently. I’ve lived with tinnitus since early childhood. I guess I’ll continue to live with it.

I have it only if the room is too quiet. Any reasonable level of background white noise makes it go away.

Does everyone not have ringing in their ears when they really pay attention? Or like when they are trying to go to sleep? I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood. Still have to this day, same intensity. During the day it does not bother me, nor do I notice it. But if I pay attention, it feels pretty loud.

Apparently 60-80 percent of people can hear a sound like a faint buzzing or hissing when inside a perfectly anechoic chamber but Tinnitus is more noticeable in regularly quiet environments.

I’ve always wondered this. This sound which when reading about these low sound rooms, turns out to be blood flowing through the ears. Your brain is not getting any stimulation so amplifies your hearing - is this what tinnitus is but just significantly louder and all the time?

That’s pulsatile Tinnitus but what most people hear is more a buzzing or high pitched continuous tone.

Ah. Thank you, good to know

> I always thought everyone had it because I had it since childhood.

I can remember being about five or six years old and hearing the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence" and I thought my tinnitus was what they were talking about, and that everybody had it. I cannot remember a time when I didn't have it. Since it has always been with me, it doesn't really bother me. I feel bad for people who get it later in life and for whom it is a very large annoyance.

I've always wondered that too. In very quiet rooms I hear quite intense ringing. I have distinct memories as a young child of wanting a fan turned on in my bedroom at night because of the sound of silence was ringing. It seems like what people describe as tinnitus, but... I don't seem to have any of the hearing loss that is always described as causing tinnitus. I can quite clearly high pitched noises such as CRT monitors and ultrasonic mosquito repellent. I don't have a history of working with loud equipment or going to concerts, and in any case that doesn't explain why I would hear it in childhood. It all doesn't quite correspond with with a lot of the causes and symptoms I hear described.

Yep, I've become excellent at ignoring it, only about 2% of the time does it get bad enough to be bothersome or noticeable. I always comment on these "this will make your tinnitus go away" posts with be careful, you may find it makes the times you can't use the device or product even worse because now you have a taste of real silence!

Am I the only one that hear tinnitus only when sleeping and if I yawn a LOT I can finally remove it?

Probably jaw related, you should have it checked. Can be a posture problem.

Thanks for the advice!! it could be totally be that!

This comment is as useful as posting to a thread on clinical depression that when you feel down you sing a little song.

There's absolutely nothing you can do about tinnitus except adjust to it. You really do just have to relax and accept it, and it essentially fades into the background. That's literally the best treatment available.

The entire reason this comment chain exists is that someone has built a better treatment than just adjusting to it.

It's really one of the most true things about tinnitus. It takes a while to put your mind in order to accept it, but once you're done, the problem goes away (but tinnitus never does).

Same most of the time. But the first two weeks were hard man...

that’s great for you, i have to sleep with sound - the silence is not deafening, but the hum/etc is when it is silent

Yeah, similar here. The brain seems to do a pretty good job of 'tuning it out' most of the time after a while. But as soon as you start thinking about it, it's there and louder than ever.

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