Reading this made me notice it again so thanks I guess.
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I think it might be connected to that Spiderbait concert and not wearing earplugs at the time.
Doubt (edit: the assessment process, not the tinnitus-sleep relationship).
How the hell could they tell if the ferrets actually had tinnitus or not?
Had the same idea. I acquired tinnitus last year and my ear doc after multiple tests said it is all fine and dandy.
Also, duh! Obviously it is connected to sleep. Could anyone sleep with a loud ringing in their ears? Yes, but hardly. And obviously it interrupts sleep and lack of good night sleep will lead to increased stress and depression.
My Tinnitus sprung up on one fateful night, when I was maybe 13 or so years old.
Lots of fighting amidst the family that day made it hard to sleep. I tossed and turned for hours in my bed, combatting this slowly intensifying dread and restless legs (the dread would be best described as similar to the hollowness I felt after my first breakup: the type that you feel).Intermittently begged my parents for comfort, consistently ignored.
Eventually, at ~2:30AM that school night, I was sitting in the floor of my bedroom, a mess of emotions, consumed in an ouroboros of anxiety, trying to calm myself with an I-Spy book.
That’s when the ringing started.
It’s been with me ever since.
Fuckin’ weird how that happened, but yeah I wasn’t sleeping when I should have been when I succumbed to the curse.
Mine is like a high pitch tone of an old CRT TV. I want it gone everyday.
I had scarlet fever when I was six, and when I recovered I kept trying to turn the TV off even when it wasn't on. My parents eventually realized the illness gave me tinnitus. It's so weird to see someone else describe it that way because no one really remembers that sound anymore haha
Right? I've been insisting that somebody must have a TV constantly on somewhere near for a while as a kid.
I have a spectral analyzer installed on my phone JUST so I can pull it out to confirm if it's tinnitus or something in the room. You'd be surprised how often I'm the only person in a room that can hear a ringing sound that actually exists.
Mine, after a Van Halen concert. I'd had ringing in my ears after shows before, but this never quite went away.
I always get some sinus allergy something-or-other in the fall with drainage, sore throat, coughing, and whatnot. This year for the first time, a couple non-consecutive nights, I had what the Internet said was called Typewriter Tinnitus, this rapid, incessant, light tapping somehwere in my inner ear. It was like high-speed Morse Code that never stopped. Thankfully it was only when I was laying on my right side so I just didn't sleep on that side, and it only occurred maybe three nights throughout a week. But even experiencing it that little bit gave me a taste of how unbearable it must be to have something like that all the time, I really feel for all you chronic sufferers, hopefully you can find relief soon.
Gotta sleep with white noise otherwise the ringing will keep me awake. I'm my own creator of it though, tracking cars for a decade+ and being young and stupid not wearing earpro...not worth it people.
Yay science for ferrets! The mice get a break from this one.
Would be cool to make progress. The ringing is annoying.