[Tipewryter]

A question to the people among you who have tinnitus:

When you put a finger in each ear and create overpressure or underpressure, does the pitch change?

Does it change when you clench your teeth?

Is it louder on one side then on the other?

Maybe there are different types of tinnitus that we could describe better if we had some dimensions/categories like the above in which we could categorize our specific type of tinnitus?

[vldr]

I think there are many different forms (probably with different causes). My tinnitus is exclusively on the left and varies in loudness.

Clenching my teeth has always given me a tinnitus-like experience but it never bothered/interested me until I got "real" tinnitus. I understand this form of tinnitus is related to the temporomandibular joint

For me, alternating frequencies give some relieve but fortunately. I use the "tonal tinnitus therapy" app for this. I'm not sure if this is part of the mentioned new therapy (which includes electrical stimulation of the tongue?)

Judging from other peoples experiences, my tinnitus is relatively mild anyway (but still bothers me)

Als, my ENT doctor, when looking into my tinnitus complaints, asked if there's a difference when heartrate increases (and possibly bloodpressure?). This does seem to be an indication of some specific cause. For me it doesn't.

[bluescrn]

There's definitely different types.

Mine is a constant high-pitch whine in one ear, a very constant frequency, unaffected by mouth movements or poking at my ear. Others get very different or varying frequencies, or pulsatile tinnitus - https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/pulsatile-tinnitus

It can seem loud when I'm somewhere quiet, but with a bit of background noise and while focused on something else, my brain seems to manage to tune it out.

(The absolute worst thing for it seems to be reading about and thinking about tinnitus... so it's probably time to go and read something else...)

[goku99]

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