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tinnitus treatment (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by bluemoon@piefed.social to c/health@lemmy.world

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my tinnitus is worsening. especially upsetting is it happened after sitting along at a relatively low-volume karaoke for two hours

now my right ear has worsened. i had grown accustomed to how it was the last decade or so since i had sat in an orchestra, then played some electrical instruments with various people, then had sat around on bad fucking conference talks with obnoxious speakers.

now in this one fucking moment of weakness i join a karaoke and it seems okay then i wake up next day hearing such an awful loud pitched screeching constantly in my ear.

i am literally dissociating and losing track in conversations because of this: i have been everywhere in my answers.

i am so fucking hard of thinking now. it's like a constant distraction from living and thinking and relaxing. please send help

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

When your ear is hit with loud noise your ears make themselves less perceptive to noise and you get temporary hearing loss, but recovering in a quiet place makes this goes away.

So while hearing loss over chronic exposure to loud noise tends to be permanent, if you can try to do the opposite to increase the perceptiveness of your hearing to quieter sounds, your brain may be able to recover the signals better. The cause and the nature of each person's tinnitus is very different, and it's a mix of physical damage to your ear and psychological effect in the auditory processing part of your brain. The former may be irreversible but the latter is where you can improve it by training.