Some progress have been made with this study about understanding tinnitus and how one can hear in normal spl environnment but have troubles when it comes loudy for instance.
There are specialized on loud sounds nervous connnexions if I understood well that rule loud spl and that are easily damaged. They hope to discover therapies one day or another.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46741-5
There are specialized on loud sounds nervous connnexions if I understood well that rule loud spl and that are easily damaged. They hope to discover therapies one day or another.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46741-5
When the fine 'hairs' that support the ear drum get broken as mine have, (the cause being a JBL compression driver that was overloaded within a few inches of my ear; 130db at feedback frequency), they hang free in mid air and give the whistle/whining sound at whatever frequency they resonate at.
Prevention is what must be done, with education as there is no cure.
Visitors understand why I always have a radio or music on in the backgroud at all times. Otherwise, I cannot sleep with the noise from my damaged ears.
Prevention is what must be done, with education as there is no cure.
Visitors understand why I always have a radio or music on in the backgroud at all times. Otherwise, I cannot sleep with the noise from my damaged ears.
Wow, yours is the first explanation I have come across that describes the mechanics of tinnitus. Which begs the question, does it then originate in the brain or the ear?
I'm googlin it right now!
Okay, very complex topic.
I'm googlin it right now!
Okay, very complex topic.
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It has been called an early indicator of diabetes in some cases, so if it is not linked to high levels of ambient sound / noise, get your blood glucose checked.
There are noise cancelling headphones and white noise generators used for treatment, homeopathy works in my case.
There are noise cancelling headphones and white noise generators used for treatment, homeopathy works in my case.
To get a 120dB dynamic range of the ear, the creator had to use different sensing strategies for the ear. At the very low sound level it uses the superregenerative receiver concept. The hairs are resonating by themselves and tiny disturbances influence the generation. So the ear itself generates a noise. The name for it is autoacoustic emissions. In newborns it is being used to establish in an early stage if a baby can hear.
At higher sound levels the energy is high enough to directly activate the haircells . In hearing damage the superreg portion of our hearing is not functional. Hearing aids use amplification and compression to compress all sounds into the 60-100dB remaining sensitivity range. Tinnitus can be explained that the superreg principle has become unstable when not excited. Tinnitus can also be caused by substances that are toxic to the ear nerves like antibiotics, kinine, or lime disease bacteria.
At higher sound levels the energy is high enough to directly activate the haircells . In hearing damage the superreg portion of our hearing is not functional. Hearing aids use amplification and compression to compress all sounds into the 60-100dB remaining sensitivity range. Tinnitus can be explained that the superreg principle has become unstable when not excited. Tinnitus can also be caused by substances that are toxic to the ear nerves like antibiotics, kinine, or lime disease bacteria.
Im very similar, caused rather differently was oxy lancing open a spout on a rotary furnace, we had used up our man18(18 oxygen bottle cage) so was using single bottle instead which takes a different connection/hose.
Me being young dumb and full of ... didn't safety check the hose, the lance blocked up as it broke through into the molten metal bath which in turn blew off the hose from the bottle about 2' from my right ear(its like 2~3000psi).
Turns out some numb nuts had split the hose so they shortened it and used a small hose clamp to hold it on and not the proper compression fitting that will take that kind of pressure.
If you've never seen an oxy lance when lit it looks like a sparkler that's 20' long and 3/8" dia, its a mild steel tube that you light up by placing the tip into some burning char or coal and feed it pure oxygen until the metal tube starts burning, then you place it where its needed and open up the oxygen flow its hot enough to melt clay or the furnace refractory if your not careful!
Yes full body PPE is worn... except ear plugs until my incident happened.
Little trivia for you, this rotary furnace was for separating lead from arsenic and antimony from slag off a softening furnace(As and Sb makes Pb very hard and brittle), the majority of As/Sb would be fumed off and the lead tapped out into 4T moulds this lead still high in As/Sb so it was sold off to make hard lead bullets somewhere in the USA.
There is also evidence that continuous use of Ibuprofen can cause it. I think this happened to me about 8years ago when I was taking the max daily dose for over week after tooth extraction and during the night it started in my left ear and has been present ever since.
Thankfully it is quite low in volume and doesn't disturb my sleep and isn't intrusive during waking hours.
Thankfully it is quite low in volume and doesn't disturb my sleep and isn't intrusive during waking hours.
A tennis friend of mine is suffering rather with tinnitus.
His is a high pitched sound rather like a 6 or 8 KHz test tone he says.
He's tried zinc supplements for 6 months.
No change.
He then found this YouTube guidance on a set of exercises to relieve tension in neck, jaw and ear / inner ear area.
He's found them to be something of a revelation.
Not quite as instant as 30 sec but after doing the full set and then repeating the finger hammering and ear pulling ones over and over he did get relief in the form of lowered intensity of the tinnitus and over some weeks doing them regularly, he has enjoyed times of no and very low tinnitus discomfort.
The trick he found was to do the finger hammer in sets of 30reps over and over until relief it partial relief is found.
Then throughout the day, at times he says he has no tinnitus sometimes hours after the reps.
The further exercises are aimed at longer term.
It will be interesting to follow his progress.
This won't fix ear hair damage like in the early posts discuss but there are it seems more than one contributing factor to the onset of tinnitus.
Tension being one?
Here's the video
His is a high pitched sound rather like a 6 or 8 KHz test tone he says.
He's tried zinc supplements for 6 months.
No change.
He then found this YouTube guidance on a set of exercises to relieve tension in neck, jaw and ear / inner ear area.
He's found them to be something of a revelation.
Not quite as instant as 30 sec but after doing the full set and then repeating the finger hammering and ear pulling ones over and over he did get relief in the form of lowered intensity of the tinnitus and over some weeks doing them regularly, he has enjoyed times of no and very low tinnitus discomfort.
The trick he found was to do the finger hammer in sets of 30reps over and over until relief it partial relief is found.
Then throughout the day, at times he says he has no tinnitus sometimes hours after the reps.
The further exercises are aimed at longer term.
It will be interesting to follow his progress.
This won't fix ear hair damage like in the early posts discuss but there are it seems more than one contributing factor to the onset of tinnitus.
Tension being one?
Here's the video