ONLY WAY TO FEEL THE NOISE IS WHEN IT'S GOOD AND LOUD
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I was trying to describe what my tinnitus sounds like, and I told my wife that it's "like the sound a CRT TV makes but louder". She had no idea what I was talking about. Turns out she can't hear sounds in the 15khz range; which is at the top of the human audible range anyways.
I wish I could tell my younger self to turn the volume down on his headphones and wear ear protection around heavy equipment. Too late. Now I've gotta live with this high pitched whine for the rest of my life. Thankfully mine doesn't bother me most of the time.
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Or genetic. Dad’s side of the family all has it including my 100% deaf sister. Fun.
Do you have issues with vertigo? Huey Lewis was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, which is often signaled by tinnitus and vertigo.
Nope. Zero. I was a tree climber as a kid.
Alice in Chains nightcore 24/7 for me
For me that's badly played hardcore punk with an extremely loud drummer :/
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WHADDYA SAY?
It would probably end up sounding the same or similar because it would be years worth of clubs and live music and band practise and listening to music in my earphones too loud all jumbled up together and playing at the same time.
Well, the Tinnitus is bad enough as a high pitch ringing in my ears. If I had to listen to a jumble of music, explosions, engines, artillery, industrial machines and various other loud noises in high pitch non stop, I would blow my brains out.
Motorhead. Still sounds rad.
Power tools, 80's hair metal, youtube videos when windows would randomly reset the volume to 100%
I have this and had it for years. Didn't know what it was called until my old boss told me about it. It's going, it's similar to having bad eyes, it's the way you recieve sound info now always has that high pitch.
I try to meditate or add background noise.
Hard to pin down proportionally, but there’s a solid chance I’d just be hearing a P-Funk concert 24/7.
High pitch Crash Worship? Now they sound like some of their opening acts.
Right now I have chipmunks singing "Expresso Macchiato" in my brain.
Saw some very loud bands and DJs in venues way too small a few years ago right after covid. I've had tinnitus ever since. It sucks, but I only really hear it late at night when I'm going to bed and there's no noise. Factory life means I'm working around loud noises all day, but this current shop I'm working at is miles better than the one I worked at for 7 years.
What's odd is I never got it pre-covid and I definitely used to push my luck even more back then. Maybe getting covid a few times changed something, my friend's brother just permanently has tinnitus from getting covid.
There was one night in particular though that I still remember, my ears were ringing the day after. Usually they'd tone down by the 12 hour mark. The second day, I was like oh shit this is probably permanent. It was, that was in 2021. I definitely sulked in my feelings a bit after that, and now I wear ear protection to every concert. It's just not worth it to damage my ears further.