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@LinearLineman been thinking about your comment. I must say I’ve not hear of that but the ear is such a complicated part of the body.
Yeah, Jack, it’s hard to describe and comes and goes. Been ok lately.
this man was partly responsible for my ongoing ear damage scenarios some decades ago
@JackRubinacci , thanks for the video, your words, and that you made your book available to us!
I must say I'm going through the worst period of my life with tinnitus
I feel utterly desperate.
My tinnitus started more than 20 years ago, I was about 25. I broke my leg and after 3 days of laying in a quiet room I started hearing a roar. First I thought it comes from a kind of machine running on the next floor above my room, but finally found out it's not. It's coming from my brain.
I hoped the roar will go in a few days, but it stayed. I couldn't stay in quiet environment for longer time withouth getting nervous, frustrated, etc. Later I found out that after a few hours of driving in my car I can get rid of the roar for 1 or 2 days, but it always came back after.
By the time (and after it turned out it is not because of tumor in my what I was afraid of) I got used to it and didn't bother me anymore. It has also turned out that I developed a 25-30dB hearing loss in my left ear at frequencies 500Hz and below. Desipte this loss seems to be huge, I don't really notice it. Even if I put my headphones on the music sounds balanced. My brain compensates the loss.
But after 20 years of 'peaceful coexistence' with my tinnitus the next shock came a month ago. My left ear has started to be hyper-sensitive in a way to some low volume, low frequency (I think less than 500Hz) sounds. These sounds trigger a roar or a hum in my left ear. Similar roar that I have with my tinnitus for 20 years, but this one is much louder and it's not being triggered by the silence (as in case of a 'normal' tinnitus', but the sounds. It's like a kind of inverse sidechaining
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I go crazy when I hear our dishwasher running in the kitchen for exampe
But the worst of all is that I've not been able to make music for a month. Low frequency notes from my synths are triggering the hum in my ear. I'm really desperate, and I don't know what to do.
The only place I can listen to music without this roar/hum is when I'm driving. The sound of the engine somehow eliminates the sensitivity.
The interesting is that I have periods (usually a few hours) when this extra sensitivity goes away almost completely, but it always returns.
If I'm ok in the evening for example and I can go to bed in 'silence' then the morning is terrible again.
2 weeks ago I had almost a complete weekend without suffering this sensitivity (I did some gardening).
I visited a doctor I got some medication and have an appoinment for an MR by the beginning of the next month, but I don't expect it will reveal something that can be cured.
Maybe it's a mental symptom of the more than 1 year isolation due to the pandemic.
Any advice is welcome.
Anyway I scheduled a jam session with some musician friends for next week, hope I can manage it.
Excuse me for the long post, I'm just frustrated, worried and I felt good that I could share my story.
Hello mate. Sorry you going through this.
First thing I would say is you had 20 years of habituation so there’s a good chance you might go back to that. It takes time and patience and also not to panic in the mean time, over the last 18 years of having t I have habituated and lost habituation many times . The more it happens the less i hold on to it. So you’ve got to remember that.
In the mean time I would recommend ear plugs in all loud environments. And Sound therapy apps when things get tough. These allow your brain time to readjust to the new situation which will eventually help you.
Also do things you like doing. The more distracted you are the less tension you will feel and the less you will notice it .
Lastly remember you are not alone. There are many many people in the same position as you.
I have a book that’s just come out called a Musician With Tinnitus. Where I give tips for musicians with t. It’s on Amazon .
Also I did a podcast interview on a large channel recently where we talk extensively about being a musician with at . Here 👉 https://www.workingclassaudio.com/wca-334-with-jack-rubinacci/
Stay strong 👍
Jack
@JackRubinacci, Thanks for your reply! Your words heal or at least give some mental support to deal with the situation.
The extra challege is to find the activites that help and find out which ones make things worse (beyond the obvious ones of course).
I tell you an example, 2 days ago I went cycling to distract myself. It took more than an hour, the uphill part was exhausting, but I enjoyed it overall. I thought it helps, but when I got home my tinnitus was worse than ever.
And to be on-topic I'm still looking for the way how to make music again without worrying about that it might make my tinnitus worse as some notes, drum punches trigger the hum in my ear. The weird thing is that if I listen it loud I don't hear the hum, but if I put down the volume a hear it again.
Anyway I keep trying to habituate to the new situation, but still hope that one day this sound triggered tinnitus will go as quick as it came.
Nice...
I had both my covid jabs before this sound sensitivity tinnitus came.
About 10 years ago I developed hyper sensitivity and ringing in my ears over a long weekend. I was looked in my room the whole weekend. Event my laptop fan was too loud.
I eventually found out it was linked to theeth grinding at night. After seeing a ear specialist who could not find anything wrong with me, my family doctor send me to my dentist who identified the problem and fitted me with a nightghuard. That helped tremendously.
More research have helped me identify with that theeth grinding is often linked to a Magnesium deficiency. I use Natural calm magnesium that helps a lot.
I hope this can help you.
@ecou, thanks for the tip, I have already started taking magnesium 3 weeks ago. The other thing that came to my mind is my snoring. My wife is frequently complaining that my snoring is terrible.
What kingpd do you use? I found that their is lots of difference in magnesium brand and type. The glycinate is a lot more expensive but absorbed better by the body.
Magnesium citrate 250mg. Only a few tabs left in the box and I was about to buy a new one, but now I can switch to the glycinate version.
I appreciate your efforts to help professional musicians who have this issue. I’m one of them, the result of a bad show gig with a pit monitor too close to my left ear, and I forgot my earplugs. Played trumpet one handed half the time with a finger from the other hand in one ear, but had some damage from the 2 hour ordeal anyway. Mines not bad 99% of the time, but it acts up when exposed to prolonged loud noise.
Just want to express thanks for caring.
Dav
Thanks man I appreciate that and I’m sorry you had that experience. I been there myself and thats why I’m super conscious of having 2 to 3 sets of plugs with me at shows. Just cause I know what its like.
@JackRubinacci dropbox link is missing? Is there another link to your PDF?
Hi there. I took that free book down as i released the book on Amazon- but I now have a free help guide on my website www.helpmytinnitus.com …it’s free to download
You will also find all my latest interviews on there. I’ve been interviewed multiple times on some large podcasts and YouTube channels about tinnitus. The links are also on this website.
Feel free to get in touch
Jack
the only thing that has helped my tinnitus so far was accepting it will never go away. that's what made it go away. It is always there but it blends into the background perfectly now.
I almost had what google translate tells me is called "acute hearing loss" in english...getting nauseous and confused at a concert (no, I was perfectly sober as a 14-15 year old youngster on his second concert ever...having sneaked in was enough of a natural high, lol), then waking up the next morning, all high frequencies gone, a physical feeling like there was cotton in my ears, that then resolved into tinnitus and weeks-long utter panic... after I made my peace with it, i still have it but no longer suffer from it.
It can even be relaxing now and helps me slip into sleep quickly when I allow myself to be engulfed by all my different ear sounds... the high pitched ones that are like old TVs, the sinus-sounding mid-frequencies that are almost a bit shy to come out and the general soft white noise.
There was a super stressed and unhealthy phase in my life where I could sometimes even hear the blood flow in my ears...woosh, woosh, woosh, woosh...
This is similar to what I talk about in my tinnitus books.