Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function
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Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment.

Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it.

The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present constantly, or may come and go.

Neuroscientists at the University of Oxford now suspect that sleep and tinnitus are closely intertwined in the brain.

  • Vupware@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    4 days ago

    My Tinnitus sprung up on one fateful night, when I was maybe 13 or so years old.

    Lots of fighting amidst the family that day made it hard to sleep. I tossed and turned for hours in my bed, combatting this slowly intensifying dread and restless legs (the dread would be best described as similar to the hollowness I felt after my first breakup: the type that you feel).Intermittently begged my parents for comfort, consistently ignored.

    Eventually, at ~2:30AM that school night, I was sitting in the floor of my bedroom, a mess of emotions, consumed in an ouroboros of anxiety, trying to calm myself with an I-Spy book.

    That’s when the ringing started.

    It’s been with me ever since.

    Fuckin’ weird how that happened, but yeah I wasn’t sleeping when I should have been when I succumbed to the curse.

      • FoxyFerengi@startrek.websiteEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        I had scarlet fever when I was six, and when I recovered I kept trying to turn the TV off even when it wasn’t on. My parents eventually realized the illness gave me tinnitus. It’s so weird to see someone else describe it that way because no one really remembers that sound anymore haha

      • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I have a spectral analyzer installed on my phone JUST so I can pull it out to confirm if it’s tinnitus or something in the room. You’d be surprised how often I’m the only person in a room that can hear a ringing sound that actually exists.