• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    It’s less awesome when you’ve got elevenitis after a life in the trades. Wear your earpro kids!

    • candyman337
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      51 year ago

      Pretty sure I have tinnitus from my eardrum bursting as a toddler, and now they tell me it’s not normal to have ringing in your ears when it’s quiet

      • @UtMan1988
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        71 year ago

        Yeah I only found out when I got tested for vertigo. They put you into a sound proof room, and it was the loudest sound I ever experienced.

        The Sound Of Silence is deafening

  • DreamButt
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    91 year ago

    The background noise of your existence demands to be acknowledged

  • tuto
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    91 year ago

    Tinnitus ftw

      • @paddirn
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        91 year ago

        I hear it very infrequently, it comes maybe every couple of months, seemingly at random, and it will be a fairly loud eeeeeeeee ringing sound. Then it just fades away after a few seconds and I continue on, wondering what our alien overlords have uploaded into my skull this time.

      • silly goose meekah
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        61 year ago

        Apparently a very slight case of tinnitus is just very common. Most people just don’t get it diagnosed because it’s not necessarily so bad that it is distracting.

      • DessertStorms
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        31 year ago

        I have sensory processing disorder and can absolutely hear electronics, so not necessarily

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Tinnitus sucks!

    But for anyone new to it - something helpful for me is to know that tinnitus/the ringing itself can’t physically harm you or anyone you care about.

    • @samus12345
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      21 year ago

      It can harm you mentally if it’s loud enough.

  • @Jimmyeatsausage
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    11 year ago

    For mine, background noise helps. Silence sometimes feels deafening, but even something as simple as sighing can - for lack of a better word - recalibrate my brain to how soft the ringing is…but with nothing to compare it to, it seems to just get louder and louder.

  • Hank
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    Tipp von einem Menschen bei dem es piept: lasst die Finger weg von In-Ear-Kopfhörern und besorgt euch Musiker-Ohrstöpsel für laute Events.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    tin-ite-us or tinnit-us, everyone?

    Most of the academics I’ve heard discuss it go with the second pronunciation (soft “i” throughout) but it just looks to me like it should be a hard “i”.

    To my mind it would get the “hard” power from the downstream “u”.

    Also I’ve seen a presentation saying transcranial magnetic something or other can help reduce it. Basically you’ve got “phantom limb” symptoms for your damaged ear parts, and they were able to turn it off or down with magnets.

    • @samus12345
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      21 year ago

      The correct pronunciation is “tinnit-us”. “Tin-ite-us” comes from misinterpreting the “-itus” as “-itis”, meaning “inflammation of.”

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m just a dude from the USA and I use both pronunciations!

      Tin-ite-us is my go to but I’m trying to get away from it. It makes it sound like it ends in “-itis” when I say it. This makes it sound like an inflammatory disease, which it isn’t necessarily.

      Tinnit-us feels off to say, but it doesn’t imply the “-itis” part, so I’m going for it!