This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.
wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5
About 3 weeks ago I had a really really bad ear infection, and still haven’t got the hearing I had back! What makes it harder is that the ear infection was in my good ear. I’ve got both hearing aids in but doesn’t make much of difference, other than helping with my balance.
I coped rather well, having to rely on my worst ear which has 95Db loss, but I am getting tired and fed up now. Really fed up!
Even more at work, and to be honest it is started to knock my confidence I have in myself as a worker. I feel like i’m a burden, and I’m not functioning to my best ability. Previously I could just about managed the phones but now I am not using phones which I feel hampers my work as I use phone a lot. I know that my colleagues are understanding, but I still cant help feeling inadequate. Every time the phone rings, it reminds me what I cant do. Hence the knock on the confidence.
I should focus on what my strengths are and what I can do instead…. but it is hard!
Recently my old thoughts have snuck back….. “If only I was hearing”
I am proud of my deafness and what I have achieved, but the old insecurities are sneaking in. I’m awareness this is a result of me being fed up!!! Cant wait to get the hearing I had previously come back.
In opera the lowest vocal range that a tenor can go is called basso profundo. Starting around a year ago I began developing tinnitus, a ringing in the ears like radio static that is often accompanied by hearing loss. In the last two months or so it has gone from a dull buzz that I could ignore to a much louder droning which wakes me up at night. I find the sort of disconnected musing I need, such as when I’m writing, harder now.
Sorry for the lack of activity, but I’m in a mad scramble to finish a huge project (monster girl mash-ups) before GMX/Halloween. So here’s a combination Halloween/hiatus doodle in the meantime! ‘u’ Hiatus should end before Halloween though, since I’ll need to be done with my project *before* Halloween to have it printed in time for GMX. But I’m also just super hype for Halloween so I’ll Halloween it up whenever HalloweenHalloweenHalloween.
I’ll also start posting the mash-ups here and on my sexy Tumblr soonish. I need to make an Indiemade store and put the prints up for sale on there first. I’ll be moving away from Storenvy and to Indiemade in the near future. It’s easier for me to budget for a monthly store fee than to deal with all the increasing per-sale fees that Storenvy has been adding. I now get almost nothing from small sticker sales, and those are my most common ones. X_X
So yeah. A lot going on. (Also been perpetually exhausted and annoyed by tinnitus worse than ever last few months. ;n; If anyone has magical cures, let me know.)
