Tinnitus • Page 2

neilka 3 Jun 2020 11:57:36 24,021 posts
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Mustard around the auricle.

Deleted user 3 June 2020 11:57:37

Zerobob wrote:
I went to get a hearing test done at the hospital and my hearing is practically perfect, apart from I can't detect the very highest frequency in my right ear.

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As one gets older the higher frequencies tend to dim. What frequencies did you get to?

Razz once played a trick where he played a frequency tone in the 15to 16 kHz range and it was interesting to see who was bothered by it and who wasn't. Some people couldn't hear it at all.

The thing that damages hearing the most is prolonged listening. At, I think, 89 dB and above is where damage starts to occur. There is a scale one can find if you are interested. Ear protection on construction sites is for this reason. My dad has bad tinnitus due to using an open cab digger for years.

Deleted user 3 June 2020 11:59:04

Apparently there are ways to train oneself to dim or iradicate the frequencies. It is something to do with frequency masking but I can't quite remember the technique.
anephric 3 Jun 2020 12:02:46 5,274 posts
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Thats what they do in the therapy - find an external frequency that matches the frequency you're 'hearing' and try to get your brain to ignore it.

nickthegun 3 Jun 2020 12:06:17 87,711 posts
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I get literally the opposite end of the spectrum. I get a low pitched rumbling for days at a time. Like the noise you hear when youre a few hundred feet away from a nightclub or a distant airplane taxiing.

The first night I got it, I was going around the house like a mental trying to work out where the music was coming from.

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