Recent content by Nick M

I believe when you press or massage the side of the neck where the jugular vein runs, it stimulates some nerve that reduces your blood pressure and heart rate. I recall a doctor recommended it for anxiety attacks as well.

Some inner ear virus would be my guess. Temporarily lost some hearing for a couple of weeks, then when it got better, I developed tinnitus. I think my hearing is down 5-10% in that ear as well so whatever it was, it did some damage. The tinnitus was exclusively in that ear for about a year, then...

My high-pitched tinnitus gives me a physical sensation of pain/burning and a strange pressure feeling. Makes my eyes squint like hearing an unpleasant sound. When it’s really bad I also get these shock like feelings that shoot between my nose/forehead and brain. I know this is not all in my...

My tinnitus is worse when I have this pounding sensation in my head in sync with my heart rate. After a day or two, this sensation subsides and the tinnitus also subsides and goes to the baseline only to start up suddenly again a few days later or sometimes a few weeks later with a strong...

Yes, depending on where I place the device. At certain places, it sounds like a series of pulsed clicks like dolphins make under water and feels tingly on the site where the probes are touching the skin if I set the power all the way to 5.

Yup, 100% success rate in reducing but not completely eliminating the tinnitus. It brings it down about 80% while I hold the device below my ear and returns seconds after I remove it. The best way I can describe it is the temporary relief some get from doing the finger tapping technique.

First of all, I don't work for or have any financial interest in reliefband. I heard about the device through one of my podcasts I listen to. I briefly read about how it works and thought maybe I could do something clever with it. Reliefband is a watch-like device that you wear on your wrist...

I got the second Moderna shot yesterday. I was hoping one of the side effects would be a cure to tinnitus by pure accident but I’m sad to report no change in tinnitus levels.

My tinnitus was also very reactive in the beginning. As time passed, it became less reactive and the intensity less predictable. The strange thing is that I’ve been able to compare the intensity I have to my wife who also suffers from it and there’s a 70% correlation between my bad days and...

Yup. There are two possibilities for this in my opinion. One is that the feeling is just the neurons firing erratically and it feels like a crawling pulsing sensation. The second is the brain is picking up an external energy source and perceiving it as sound. I’m not an expert in the field of...

Scary stuff. This makes sense. I've also experienced days where the tinnitus is not in the audible range so I don't perceive it as sound but I can feel it as a pressure sensation. These are the days I feel more unstable/drunk compared to days where I actually perceive the tinnitus as sound. One...

Exactly. When I listen to white noise or some sound with any kind of pattern, all it does is cause ear burn for me and the tinnitus still comes through. What I mean by ear burn is when you listen to the sound for a prolonged period of time then stop, it feels like your hearing is muted for a few...

Thanks David. I picked up the 1More earbuds. I'll report how they compare to the Apple ear buds in terms to effectiveness. What's certain is that I've never had a whole week of feeling normal in the past year. I was in this constant daze of inability to focus on anything, inability to sleep...

David, I've been following this thread for over a year. I think I may have contributed to this thread early on but I want to let everyone know that I have been listening to David's audio and it has reduced my tinnitus 90+% in the past week. The first time I tried it was over a year ago with the...

If you own an iPhone and the Apple AirPods, there’s this very good hearing test app called Mimi Hearing Test. You need a super quiet room which is quite hard to find or you can do the test early morning when everyone is asleep and there’s no road noise. Get a baseline result when things are...