[ExI] FW: [Fwd: Re: tinnitus revisited]

[William Flynn Wallace]

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.

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.

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.

Why the one I have that doesn't quit doesn't quit is another puzzler.
 bill w

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 2:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Regards,
> MB
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] tinnitus revisited
> From:    "MB" <mbb386 at main.nc.us>
> Date:    Tue, August 15, 2023 15:14
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> I did try, bill w, but my tinitus is chronic buzz and it did not help.
> Now for unexpected sudden new things it does seem to help.  Odd.
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> Why does that work? Does it readjust the cillia hairs or what?
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> Regards,
> MB
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> On Tue, August 15, 2023 13:08, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> > The pronunciation, btw, is TINN' i tus.  (pronouncing it as Tinn I'
> > tus confuses it with an infection, whose name would end with 'itis).
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> > TWice today I have had a ring started in my ears - one left and one
> right.
> > I did the trick of rubbing each ear forcefully for 10 seconds or so
> > and the ring went away.
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> > This trick does not work on chronic rings.  I have one appearing in my
> > left ear which does not seem to change with anything I do.
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> > Have any of you or the people you might have told tried this trick?
> > Did it work?  It is working well for me,esp. for the rings that start
> > up.  I can
> > get them to stop almost immediately.   bill w
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