• candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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      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

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        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

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

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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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!