[painted-now]

It took me a long while to figure out that I can make my tinnitus better by pushing by jaw backwards (using my hands).

As I understood it, the ear and the jaw muscle are delicately close. "Pressure" on the ear can somehow cause the nerves to send such signals.

I got prescribed some special training to relax the muscles in the neck and jaw area; still need to start it.

I read that being able to modulate the tinnitus to also be quieter somehow is a good indicator of being able to improve it with therapy.

[nobrains]

My symptoms started along with my jaw crackling. So it seems they are related.

Putting my symptoms here:

- Constant noise in ear

- Also seems like noise / tingling sensation in the brain

- Is higher just when I wake up

- Started along with an infection that went to the ear. Infection cleared up. Tinnitus didn't.

- Been on for a year and a half.

- Its terribly unbearable. Not suicidal level but very close to it.

[KomoD]

> - Its terribly unbearable. Not suicidal level but very close to it.

I feel that, it sucks. For me it started with like a "blocked" feeling, now I'm at the point where it's constant static which makes it impossible to sleep on my side, sometimes my left ear goes "deaf" momentarily and a sharp ring starts and it makes me "zone out" but ends after 15-30s

It's living hell.

[kitsune_]

I have the same shit, it sucks.

[Solvency]

I bet you have a tongue tie. Go get a frenectomy. Do tongue stretches. Get some facial massages.

[hackernewds]

mind elaborating more? I also have horrible sleep apnea that is related to a lazy tongue