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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / November 2003masking
A little funny thing . . . I have been playing a little too mucic lately . . . not loud but enough to fry my ears to more tinnitus. I think I have to relaxe a bit . . take a breake from the music making . . . . and I hope it will go back to normal. I had problems falling asleep and waking up 5 og 6 times during the night. I then put on a wave file in a computerprogram playing that noise like my tinnitus and I then fell a sleep. But this morning when I woke up I realised that i had not played at all . . . . but foold me enough to think that the tinnitus I heard was the sound fra the wavefile. No wonder it masked my tinnitus so well ;) Doesn't that proove at the annoyance of tinnitus i quite objective and subject to the knowing that's it's tinnitus. It's not just the sound but the fact that one know that it is tinnitus. >Doesn't that proove at the annoyance of tinnitus i quite objective and >subject to the knowing that's it's tinnitus. It's not just the sound but >the fact that one know that it is tinnitus. Yes, I think this component is pretty large in most people, it is the feeling that one cannot have any influence over a sensation that is present in the body or mind that can be frightening or heighten the awareness of tension or perception. Jastreboff gives a great example of this when he says that a person goes to a hotel and there is a hissing noise from the heater, and the manager informs the guest of the broken heater and sleep is good. On the other hand, the noise is present and the manager informs the guest that recently several large snakes esacped from a nearby zoo, and the heater is broken, and then the guest finds sleep impossible! The association between the hissing and snakes is too strong, and unconsciously, the guest cannot relax. Annoyance to tinnitus or negative reaction to tinnitus, is both subjective (how we feel about it) and objective (it is a real sound, as sufferers can verify using various technology and repeated trials). Your statement leads to the question of.......does it bother people more once they have been told it is tinnitus? Marsha Johnson, MS www.tinnitustreatment.org > Annoyance to tinnitus or negative reaction to tinnitus, is both subjective (how > we feel about it) and objective (it is a real sound, as sufferers can verify > using various technology and repeated trials). Your statement leads to the > question of.......does it bother people more once they have been told it is > tinnitus? Excactly . . . . . I was a drummer playing in rockbands though the 80 and beginning of the ninties. I did hear of tinnitus . . . that some american rock musician had it, but did think about it much. I even had it sometimes after loud music but fell a sleep and didn't think if it as a problem(it would be gone in the morning). One evening I went to a lecture about tinnitus (some professor) and he brought one who had tinnitus. Actually I think I got my tinnitus very close to that time. When there was a lot of talk about it. An one seem to get to too much tinnitus a lot of time ( or I do ) when I think ohh good. but some time later it wasn't that bad anyway but there will come a time when that feeling come back. Along that same reasoning many fire fighters get T. But they expect it, the older members of the crew all have it so they expect it as part of the job and are not into anxiety when they get it. They can discuss it openly and without concern. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com http://www.hydromedonline.com http://www.tinnnitusrelief.net http://www.hydromedonline.com/presentingthehydropulse/ >Murray Grossan, M.D. >http://www.ent-consult.com >http://www.hydromedonline.com >http://www.tinnnitusrelief.net >http://www.hydromedonline.com/presentingthehydropulse/ STOP ADVERTIZING you insulting fool! "Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool" -- Plato. I am in good company Nathan "Nate" Jessup now accepting fan mail: come_get_to_know_me@yahoo.com Dear Jesper Burch, You may be an ideal candidate for the following technique ; put your tinnitus sound on a cd. Play it in your better ear with a single ear piece. . Reduce the volume. "Allow " your body to reduce the T in your affected ear to match the volume from the CD. Graducally reduce the CD sound volume so your body sees how to match that lower volume. Hope it works for you. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com http://www.hydromedonline.com http://www.tinnnitusrelief.net http://www.hydromedonline.com/presentingthehydropulse/ >Murray Grossan, M.D. >http://www.ent-consult.com >http://www.hydromedonline.com >http://www.tinnnitusrelief.net >http://www.hydromedonline.com/presentingthehydropulse/ STOP ADVERTIZING you insulting fool! BTW, it took me under 10 seconds to tell you this. You are not wasting my time. But you are advertizing products in a support group. It stinks. And what really stinks is that you don't care. "Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool" -- Plato. I am in good company Nathan "Nate" Jessup now accepting fan mail: come_get_to_know_me@yahoo.com |
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