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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

MAWP… MAWP…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The background noise of your existence demands to be acknowledged

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wait is this actually what tinnitus is? I thought everyone heard that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello tinnitus my old friend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

My ears are ringing once again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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