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francispoon - 05 Oct 2004 04:43 GMT

After a series of treatments, I have brought my t down to a rather
acceptable level over a year period. Currently, I am basically off
medication. However, there are still 3 bad days in a week. On a good
day, the silence is almost 90% while on a bad day the continuous
sea-breezing sound continues to visit me after noon time and stays
with me till I go to bed.

How can I achieve all good days for the entire week? I do notice,
however, that whenever I blow air through my teeth, the t sound does
become softened momentarily. Does that mean the next treatment I
should go for is sound masking?

Appreciate views,

FP

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Charge it to the kids - 05 Oct 2004 05:21 GMT

> After a series of treatments, I have brought my t down to a rather
> acceptable level over a year period. Currently, I am basically off
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> FP

Sounds like you might find some relief with a lifestyle change. Relocate
inland. Keep your mouth open, your teeth clenched, and breath through your
mouth instead of your nose.

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Peter Larsen - 05 Oct 2004 14:51 GMT

> After a series of treatments, I have brought my t down to a rather
> acceptable level over a year period. Currently, I am basically off
> medication. However, there are still 3 bad days in a week. On a good
> day, the silence is almost 90% while on a bad day the continuous
> sea-breezing sound continues to visit me after noon time and stays
> with me till I go to bed.

> How can I achieve all good days for the entire week?

Fix your attitude towards your tinnitus.

> I do notice, however, that whenever I blow air through my teeth,
> the t sound does become softened momentarily.

Tinnitus varies, some of the time the reasons are less obvious that at
other times.

> Does that mean the next treatment I should go for is sound masking?

It is just a noise, real or imaginary. It matters about as much as the
noise of a tram going by, the bells of a nearby church or an old style
clock.

> Appreciate views,

Read the above paragraph again. Sanely (!) lowering the daily noise
exposure is, in my experience, the best way to obtain a long term
reduction of perceived tinnitus, the ability to relax is however a major
part being able to consider it just a noise, so even on those grounds a
active relaxation technique can be relevant. There is also the issue of
muscle tension. My understanding is that Tai Chi addresses both andthat
it is culturally nearby for you, and that it is at least harmless,
something that does perhaps not apply to any and all meditation
practices.

> FP

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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francispoon - 05 Oct 2004 20:05 GMT

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> > After a series of treatments, I have brought my t down to a rather
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> noise of a tram going by, the bells of a nearby church or an old style
> clock.

That perhaps is true of your case but in mine the noise was
accompanied by tangible vibration and pressure developing in the
brain and prior to my current treatment by anxiety developing in my
heart and stomach area. I might have been suffering what someone here
calls 'seizure-related' tinnitus. The latter requires a _medical_
treatment. I managed to have it brought under control after 2
acupuncture treatments. So in a nutshell, ignoring it did not help in
my case. Tai Chi did not help...Habituation was not possible...Now, it
is possible because I have had the treatment.

I will be talking to a sound masking clinic here in Vancovuer. They
help people wear an electronic device in your ear and overtime make
the brain forget the sound.
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> > Appreciate views,
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> Peter Larsen

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francispoon - 05 Oct 2004 20:15 GMT

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> > I do notice, however, that whenever I blow air through my teeth,
> > the t sound does become softened momentarily.
>
> Tinnitus varies, some of the time the reasons are less obvious that at
> other times.

That is what I intend to find out. Human beings would not have gone
to the moon if they had just kept looking at it...

FP
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