How Come Most People Can Be Exposed to Loud Noise and NOT Get Tinnitus?

I’m sitting outside the club eating pizza right now because it’s too loud... and I’m drunk but still want to post this thought..

Isn’t it interesting how the majority of people can go stand beside a speaker every Friday and Saturday night at ridiculous volumes and will never get tinnitus ever.... I wish that were me.

To me that tells me that we have no idea what the cure is, or what the cause is. Research is literally at the same spot it was in the year 1800. Let’s be honest, Lenire doesn’t work. If it did, we’d all be rejoicing and I’d be able to walk into the local clinic and lay $10,000USD on the table and they’d blow me and then fix my ears. Everyone has some degree of hearing loss... I mean it comes with age.

Sucks we pulled the short straw. Have a great night folks.

 

I wonder the same. As I always say, my friends are 35 years old and they go to nightclubs, pubs or shows every weekend, but they never get tinnitus. Weak ears or some brain problem? Maybe we will never know.

 

Never say never. It might just creep up on them some day.

 

Don't forget not everyone has the negative reaction we get. Aren't we special

 

I agree...

 

I would not be so sure.

 

Genietic predisposition, I think. Many members have parents and/or siblings with Tinnitus. My mother has it due to Menire's Diease. Just bad luck, I guess.

 

Life isn’t fair... it sucks. I hope your were wearing earplugs, but I’m glad you are living life!

I doubt even FX-322 will work for everyone... I agree with your drunken sentiments on research... Lenire... etc.

Life is a b!tch and then you die... wow I never realized how prophetic that was when I was younger.

 

I'm not so sure it's mainly genetics. Certain research articles of the past few years seem to indicate that there is a sum of input variables which leads to T once a certain treshold is met in the DCN. Input from hearing, nerves from different areas of the body and specific jaw-related points are apparently all part of this sum. If only one variable is higher than normal, one does not get T yet, but once many issues occur at the same time (e.g. hearing loss + jaw issues + neck muscle tension due to stress), the "normal" DCN input is exceeded and T initiates.

Nothing is proven yet, but this would explain a lot of things: how stress can trigger T (indirectly), how T can naturally disappear (sufficient inputs decreasing), how every case is different with type of sounds, treatment effectiveness, volume, etc.

 

Why do some people with lost limbs/fingers not experience phantom syndromes?

A neurologist needs to solve the riddle.

 

Apparently how much the opposing muscle groups caps the nerve endings after the amputation might be one factor:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-approach-to-amputation-could-reduce-phantom-pain/

If the brain can still sense the stretch of muscle fibers, it doesn't perceive the pain apparently.

Certain etiologies are also more likely to cause phantom pain after amputation (e.g. blood clots) so it seems like maybe the kind of local neuroinflammation (i.e., in the limb, not the brain) that happens before the amputation is likely a factor. I would love to know specifically what genes/conditions lead to more neuroinflammation in one person vs another.

 

You might be surprised to learn a lot of people that do as you suggest, already have tinnitus but it remains at a low level their brain can comfortably ignore for now. This is facilitated during the day by environmental sounds that masked it. They have probably experienced loud ringing in the ears after a night out clubbing and in a day or two, it reduces to low level where it is no longer heard or completely disappears. Be under no illusion, if these people continue to subject their ears to loud music at clubs or use headphones at high volume levels, it is just a matter of time before they develop full blown tinnitus that their brain cannot ignore. Depending on the severity of the tinnitus, they may or may not have to seek professional help with a Hearing Therapist or Audiologist specialising in noise induced tinnitus.

Michael

 

That is the mystery.. someone should do a poll on hearing issues in the family.

for me, my mother has menieres.
Brother had ear issues since he was a kid, always had glue ear.

so I was probably doomed from the start.

 

I never thought I'd get tinnitus but then I did at an older age. Yeah, some people are spared but others may not be as fortunate... they just don't know it yet.

 

Still, most people don't get tinnitus. I know a ton of people who are 50+ and have been to countless loud events in their lifetime and still go all the time (without ear plugs), who don't have an ounce of tinnitus.

 

As far as I recall I haven't ever suffered tinnitus ONCE before mine started this year. Maybe a slight hiss once or twice, but nothing I can genuinely recall - if it lasted more than a few hours I'm 100% sure I would as it's not something you just completely forget.

Ear issues were completely foreign to me until now, my brother got a lot of ear infections as a child but once he reached double digits, all were gone and he hasn't had any issues since. Plenty of loud noise exposure for him too, MUCH more than me. My mother, too, although she had intermittent ringing from an earwax blockage until a few months ago. All things considered I'm the one with the least loud noise exposure in my family, the one who's never had a single ear infection before, and the one who's taken the most care to protect them, yet I'm the one with tinnitus.

Then again, mine is heavily somatic and a few interesting events preceded my onset, literally none related to loud noise exposure as the last one was in mid September 2019 and it came without any tinnitus. (Interesting meaning a fall and possible mild whiplash, an earwax buildup, lots of nasal congestion and intense anxiety and mental and physical fatigue, which may or may not be related to said whiplash.)

But I do agree. It's interesting how some do and some don't, but I guess we can apply that to a variety of health issues.