Is the ear too complex for humans to understand? Is the hearing aid industry covertly killing people who make any real progress? Does nobody give a fuck? What's the deal?>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Just like car companies operate, if its cheaper to pay out over injuries than fix the problem then thats the solution
>>64883573WHAT ?
>>64883573Treatments are starting to come out. I managed to cure my tinnitus caused by a .308 shot by using neuromodulation over the course of 8 months. It used to be audible 24/7 in everyday life and needing active masking to sleep, now I don't even notice it if I don't really listen for it in a completely quiet room.
>>64883574is this a bot? or just someone completely retarded and unable to comprehend the question>>64883573https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23312516/https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215253120hair cell regeneration is being studied, and sounds fairly close to realityprobably ~5-10 years out if the route that is currently being taken turns out to be the correct one
>>64883676Is neuromodulation tricky? Did you have to get the hang of it before its benefit began to accumulate?
No, we have a pretty good idea of how the ear works. Fixing it when your cilia die and fall out is rather the problem.
>>64883781Retard thats EXACTLY what they do.
>>64883848The tricky part is pinpointing the exact frequency of your tinnitus. You need a proper examination by an audiologist and the frequency can change over time. Mine shifted from ~3300Hz to 3000 during treatment. You also need discipline to listen to the tones several hours a day.
>>64883573They're deaf to the pleas.
>>64883573Ear snail
>>64884318that's the turbocharger
>>64883873The exact mechanisms of tinnitus are not known with a great degree of certainty. Some people are born with it, some people get it from loud noises, others are exposed to loud noises and don't get it.
>>64883573More important question: Why does cleaning your ear with a Bobby pin feel so fucking good?
>>64884559>not known with certaintyThe prevailing theory that damage for whatever reason causes the brain to fill in the now missing sensory channel with white noise is all the sense that needs to be made. I would suggest the mechanism has parallels with visual snow. Maybe not crossing lines or the same roadways, but some parallels.>>64883573The only time i notice my tinnitus anymore is when I see people talking about it. When people stop talking about it i forget it's there. Haven't noticed my tinnitus in months.Stop talking about it :/
>you have a fucking snail in your ear and a tiny bone hammer vibrates against it and hair growing inside turns the vibrations into nerve signals your brain interprets as soundyou can't even make this shit up. and to think some people think we evolved from amoebas.
>>64883676>by a .308 shotWas this one single shot? Or just overtime shooting without ear pro.
So, when I get drafted, should I just wear earplugs? But then I won't hear what' coming at me...
>>64885089> The only time i notice my tinnitus anymore is when I see people talking about itSame. The brain is very good at hiding unpleasant stuff, it does the same thing with smells.Before having guests over, go outside for a minute and re-enter your house to check for smells.
>>64883573my uncle told me he could breathe through his ears once when I was a child and I spent all summer that year trying to learn how to do it, and even ended up succeeding, spending >5 minutes under water with only my ears to breathe through. I have no idea how I didn't go deaf. Oh wait maybe it was that little ring thing they put in my ear, looking it up it's a tympanostomy tube. Holy crap I can't believe I was able to breathe through these things. That's crazy. I wonder if anybody has one put in on purpose for tactical reasons or something? you know you could pretend to be a corpse or something idk LMAO
>>64885492This nigga breathin through his ear
>>64883573Your hearing loss is not service related!
>>64883885Dafaq can I do when at times I’d have four distinct tinnituses, and at least half would be rapidly oscillating as fast or faster than my pulse. That’s on top of weird increased hearing sensitivity, like when I’d speak in total silence, that will hurt my ears, and depending on the noise I’d apparently hear my own ear muscles (that’s what an ent suggested but he was largely unsure what was going on)What’s bizarre I’d have assumed my hearing would be shot but that was all healthy among other testsAt this stage I’m blaming all this on the interdimensional aliens in cahoots with bigfoot as theyre polluting the brain waves and causing cancers and whatever else too (visual snow is bigfoot dandruff)
>>64885492I was gonna see if I could find similar posts and also an explanation of how (or how well) that worked, but highlighting "breath through his ears" in your post and searching for that gave me this as my first result, so congratulations, pussy snorkeler.
>>64885526ENT is the lowest, cheapest "specialist" medical doctor, they all are retards
>>64885540kek I've never heard of this beforemakes what my uncle said a bit creepier now but whatever
>>64885526Tinnitus is noise from the preamp in your brain. The higher the preamp, the higher the noise. Why is your preamp high? There are two main reasons. Maybe your pickup is a bit damaged (the tiny hairs in your ear) in a certain frequency range. Jackong up the preamp allows you to have still good hearing at the cost of increased noise (tinnitus). Funny thing: the right kind of hearing damage and the right kind of preamp settings can result in better than healthy hearing. Now the other reason is that the muscles in your jaw and neck are connected to your preamp. Bite down hard and probably your tinnitus changes in frequency and loudness. From an evolutionary standpoint that makes a lot of sense: tense up in a dangerous situation and get better hearing. Anything that changes your muscle tone changes your tinnitus e.g. sports, hot showers, cranking your neck in front of a computer. If you don't know the connections it's quite infuriating. Tinnitus often gets better over time by itself (the brain adapts to filter out the noise). Just reeeeeeEEeeeeeeeEeeEeeEEeeeEEelax (kek).Keep in mind: the damage to your ears is already done. Tinnitus is your body's way A: to give you the best hearing experience at the cost of increased noise. Tinnitus is your friend.B: to deliver a warning about the health of your ears.Try to protect your ears from further damage. Hearing damage accumulates over time (hours). It's not only sharp short noises, but also e.g. vacuuming over 8 hours. Give jour ears a rest. Do nothing. Good luck anon.>t. knower
>>64885089>The only time i notice my tinnitus anymore is when I see people talking about it. When people stop talking about it i forget it's there. Haven't noticed my tinnitus in months.Lucky. It must not be very bad. I hear mine any time it's quiet, and sometimes when I'm sleeping drifting in and out of sleep it'll pulsate and keep me awake. I've had mine since early childhood, it's unlikely it's from exposure to noise.
>>64885562Your uncle might still have meant it in the very literal sense, you never know if slang is widespread based on it having just an UrbanDictionary entry (in fact, it having only one entry suggests it's not).
every time I enter this thread my tinnitus starts
>>64884318>>64884517/an/ and /o/ visit /k/
>>64885590thanks for the explanations anon
>>64884517Alternator
>>64886158I only made the long post about the preamp, glad you liked it. If you'd like to know more, check out the Erlangen model of tinnitus development (stochastic resonance).>>64886009eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>64884318I remember seeing that in health class in 4th grade and it pissed me off. "Why the fuck is that inside my body....twice?"
>>64883573It's because your hearing loss is not service-related.
>>64886956You can remove them if you want. It is your body.
>>64885590Interesting post, thanks
>>64883573> Does nobody give a fuck? lol go die for israel your existence is anti-semitic
>>64887648fuck off, retard
You can provide extremely effective active hearing protection that will protect it against effectively all small arms, and distant large weaponry, and for less than $1000 per soldier per five or so years render everyone except artillerymen, tankers, and Carl Gustav crews hearing safe. The problem is not money, the problem is who is paying the money. It is almost certainly cheaper overall, (especially if we’re looking at the perspective of the American government who will consider the productivity and relative well-being of its citizen as an economic consideration) to prevent hearing loss than it is to pay out via the VA and treat it. However, if it is an individual soldiers equipment (being semi regularly replaced on a per unit level) then the money being spent is some of the hardest money for the US military to acquire. When in doubt, welfare is the most likely thing to get more money on a congressional vote. When in doubt, precise material acquisition by individual fighting units is the most difficult thing to satisfy in combat conditions. It’s about where the buck stops. Fighting units always want more money and more equipment all the time and will eventually triage what will further their immediate mission above all other expenditure. Veterans Affairs is the last stop on the chain, it is the last possible place that can spend money to relieve this issue and so it is where the most people who now recognize that they have this issue end up clamoring for money for decades on end. It is the place that the military is more equipped to pay from, even if that cost ends up being a much higher number when all is said and done.
>>64887674I like to imagine the anime girl explaining all this in a literal sense
>>64885492My crazy aunt’s favorite trick was blowing cigarette smoke out of her ear.
>>64888230>deafening yourself in one ear so you can perform a parlor trick for your nephew
>>64888526To be fair, im a slav and she was genuine forrest witch, so she probably had it damaged in some deal with the devil type of shit situation.But yeah it was funny.
