Tinnitus Seems Somehow Linked to a Crucial Bodily Function

Science Alert ^ | June 28, 2025 | Linus Milinski et al., The Conversation

[decal]

Why not just say “sleep” instead of “crucial bodily function”?

[laplata]

I have hundreds of crickets chirping in one ear.

I hope the hearing aids help you.

[Resolute Conservative]

As uncle Leo said, “Somebody answer the damn phone!”

[pas]

I will try the veal.

[pas]

Mine has not changed in the 10+ years I have had it.

[enumerated]

So it sounds like a limb?

[crusty old prospector]

I didn’t see it either. There was a thread about a month ago about a new device that you could purchase from an audiologist for around $4,000 that if you wore it for about a month, it would cure you. I am waiting for it to get down to $1,999.

[Williams]

There is some treatment for pain I believe where the patient is given a rubber(?) hand and they pretend it is an additional limb, and this distracts them from their pain.

Wonder if we can train the brain to ignore the tinnitus. Certainly seems you can be distracted from it under certain conditions.

[NH Red]

Sitting here with my hearing aids on and the Bells of Saint Mary’s ringing in the background. Hearing aids did not help diminish my tinnitus.

[Red Badger]

Yes, I ignore it for the most part of the day..................

[Mean Daddy]

There are many forms of tinnitus. I no longer have it but my manifested as an echo. Listening to people wasn’t bad but couldn’t listen to music for several months.

[Nea Wood]

Wow, can you post the link to the thread? Thanks!

[Red Badger]

Mine is mostly crickets, millions of crickets.

But on some days it’s ‘Gregorian chants’!...............

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Reverend Wright]

I got mine after some horrible cold/flu about a dozen years ago.

[crusty old prospector]

Go do an Interweb search (or google, if you prefer) on Lenire.

[EVO X]

Tinnitus patients also spend more time in light sleep. Simply put, we believe that tinnitus keeps the brain from producing the slow-wave activity needed to have a deep sleep, resulting in light and interrupted sleep

I have mild tinnitus. It comes and goes. Every once in a great while I will hear a phantom knock on the door or my cell phone ringing while sleeping. Weird.

[TexasGator]

“or my cell phone ringing while sleeping. Weird.”

I sometimes hear that. One ring.

[TexasGator]

“Go do an Interweb search (or google, if you prefer) on Lenire.”

“NO KNOWN CURE”

[Salvavida]

Amazing how EFAs take away tinnitus. Back to my coffee. *sip*