what is loud tinitus ?

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Mantorok - 12 May 2004 19:34 GMT

Hello,

I remember asking this question but I dont think i've been having much
repliesto it, or I backed off from this newsgroup because I belioeve that
when you dont have problems with tT you shouldnt always seeking tinitus
sufferers (well it might sound associal but thats what a doctor told me, and
it actually makes sense in a way).

Anyway: What is loud tinitus.. is it loud when you can still hear it while
you're at the movies, or is it also loud when you let your shower run and
you can still hear it ?

With me when i'm outside i almost don't hear it, I used to have a computer
that masked the tinitus sound but now I have a very silent one and I can
hear the very high portion of it..

m

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terri231@knowspam.mam - 12 May 2004 22:15 GMT

>Hello,
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Depends on your interpretation of loud. It isn't really a sound, but
how it is perceived. If it intereferes with hearing other things, I
would say it is "loud".

Most of the time mine is the same volume as surrounding
sounds--voices, TV, traffic, etc. One person might think that is
loud, but for me that is normal.

Terri

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Jim Chinnis - 12 May 2004 22:33 GMT

"Mantorok" <cosmicmania@msn.com> wrote in part:

>Hello,
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>that masked the tinitus sound but now I have a very silent one and I can
>hear the very high portion of it..

Tinnitus is as "loud" as it seems to you. There are different ways to measure
loudness, and they don't agree.

Susceptibility to masking--which you describe--isn't a very good indicator,
because some tinnitus which seems quiet can still be heard even in very loud
noise and some tinnitus which seems very loud can be masked by very quiet
sounds.

Most researchers seem to feel that matching the loudness to a similar external
sound in the opposite ear (if only one ear is affected) is a reasonable
measure. Generally, such loudness matches produce rather low measures of
loudness (e.g., around 20 dB above threshold). This method does not work for
the extremely deaf and may be hard to pull off for those with bilateral
tinnitus and hearing loss.

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