Ive suffered with it for quite a while, for longer than i can remember. Recently its been really bugging me after a bad cold. Any other fellow forumites suffer from it at all? Must be some, considering the type of music we enjoy.
Tinnitus, Anyone?
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Radd
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I often hear it when I'm trying to go to sleep at night in the silence. Some nights are worse than others and so far it hasn't been horribly bad but when it's at it's worst, I freak out a bit in my head as it's kind of scary.
Yeah, i'm freaking out quite abit right now, kinda making me feel sick. Just want to sleep but too scared to go to bed. Grrrr.....
Radd
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I would say not to worry about it. Try to relax and think about something boring and chances are it will be gone in the morning.
JeffTD
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I've heard that sleeping with earplugs in can improve the condition - the theory is that with the earplugs in, your brain gets used to the ringing, so that all other noises are louder when you take the earplugs out. Kind of desensitizing your brain into thinking the ringing is just white noise.
Tried that, didn't work. Now I just go to sleep with music playing, or enjoy the soothing, repetitive blur of radio static, or something like that.
Jeff
Jeff
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Yeah I go to sleep with a fan going. I find it's the best noise for me because I tend to focus to much on music and can't get to sleep, and I find a fan nicer then white noise or something like that.
JeffTD
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I regularly fall asleep to Blackwater Park or Dismantling Devotion \m/. So soothing, especially the latter.
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I fall asleep to Blackwater Park all the time. Although most of the time it's not when I'm trying too.
Heh. Actually I like that CD the joke was just too easy.
Heh. Actually I like that CD the joke was just too easy.
JeffTD
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Haha i know what you mean... it's super chill-out type metal, to me.
I just find if I don't have music going, my mind wanders too much, and I don't get any sleep.
I just find if I don't have music going, my mind wanders too much, and I don't get any sleep.
Razorjack
Bass Behemoth
I've had it for about 18mths now, if you search back you will find my original thread from when I first noticed it.
The worst thing for me was coming to terms with the fact that my favourite songs are "enjoy the silence" and "the sound of silence" and I will infact never hear silence again, how fucking ironic!!
The worst thing for me was coming to terms with the fact that my favourite songs are "enjoy the silence" and "the sound of silence" and I will infact never hear silence again, how fucking ironic!!
Torniojaws
They call me Juha
That would work nice too, if my regular table CD player wouldn't have a horrible low frequency hum whenever it's on
uke:
aberration
Black/Doom/Crust/Hardcore
Go to the doctor and ask him/her about having your eustacean tube flushed. That might be the culprit.
Went to the docs and E.N.T specialists and all have told me that i pretty much just have to live with it. Years of ear infections, scarred ear drums and abuse from gigging/rehearsing without protection. When you say get the eustachian tubes flushed, you mean syringing, right? Unfortunately i can't have that done with the amount of scarring on my ear drums, for people that have had T tubes/gromits, it is too risky.
KeithRT99
BOOSH.
i wear earplugs when i sleep. i think it helps, but i still get ringing, and now i feel like my ears are more sensitive to highs.
Tinnitus sufferer here. Gigs can be painful even with plugs. Certain sounds even at a low volume at just the right (wrong) frequency fuck me up. 30% hearing loss in my right ear courtesy of me being a fucking idiot and playing somewhere near 700 gigs and never standing anywhere other than to the left of the drummer and not wearing plugs.
aberration
Black/Doom/Crust/Hardcore
Weak...I'm really sorry to hear that.
The lesson here for folks who don't yet suffer from tinnitus is ALWAYS WEAR HEARING PROTECTION.
The lesson here for folks who don't yet suffer from tinnitus is ALWAYS WEAR HEARING PROTECTION.
kev
Im guybrush threepwood
Nebulous
Daniel
Haha, I have the drummer problem too. I'm even thinking of wearing earplugs when i play folk gigs too, just so I don't fuck my right ear up.
I haven't been to a metal gig without earplugs for about a year now. Not going without them either.
