<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Well, we don't know why tinnitus occurs in the first place. Here is a hypothesis of mine: the brain in general likes a certain level of stimulation. (the need is stronger in extroverts than in introverts, hence the seeking for stimulation that is stronger in the extrovert). Go above that level and the brain starts inhibiting input to get down to an acceptable range, or you turn the TV down, or something. Go below and the brain wants more.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Enter deafness: I was hit when I was six and it busted my eardrum. That meant that less stimulation got in that ear.. I do hear my chronic buzz in that ear. Is my brain trying to compensate for lost sound? One more clue: the tinnitus is strongest when I wake up and lessens as I move around and do things and hear noises I am making starting the coffee etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Now why a new ring would start in the middle of nothing is a puzzler, but making a lot of noise does make it quit. I have read where white noise devices are sold to sufferers like me and apparently they work because of the ideas above.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Why the one I have that doesn't quit doesn't quit is another puzzler. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 2:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Date: Tue, August 15, 2023 15:14<br>
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I did try, bill w, but my tinitus is chronic buzz and it did not help.<br>
Now for unexpected sudden new things it does seem to help. Odd.<br>
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Why does that work? Does it readjust the cillia hairs or what?<br>
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On Tue, August 15, 2023 13:08, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> The pronunciation, btw, is TINN' i tus. (pronouncing it as Tinn I' <br>
> tus confuses it with an infection, whose name would end with 'itis).<br>
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> TWice today I have had a ring started in my ears - one left and one right.<br>
> I did the trick of rubbing each ear forcefully for 10 seconds or so <br>
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> This trick does not work on chronic rings. I have one appearing in my <br>
> left ear which does not seem to change with anything I do.<br>
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> Have any of you or the people you might have told tried this trick? <br>
> Did it work? It is working well for me,esp. for the rings that start <br>
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> get them to stop almost immediately. bill w<br>
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