I would not say I have tinnitus today. But I had tinnitus a few days ago. A tremendously annoying tinnitus. A new sound I have never heard before. Not sure how to explain that sound. Rather low-frequency with a regularity of about one or two minute interval when I heard something like RRrrrrRRrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssss and then it got weak to the point I could not hear it, only to return one or two minutes later. It was tremendously annoying since it was coming and going that way regularly. Of course it had been worse had it been permanent and all the time. It went away. Why I got it? I can promise you by 100 percent certainty that I got it by sitting in a noisy place for about 20 minutes. Not a tremendously noisy place. Just a short subway trip. Without hearing protectors. Since I was thinking like this. Nobody has hearing protector when they go by subway, yet they do not get tinnitus by that. So why should I put on my hearing protectors, when I don't even have tinnitus? I learned from that, and many similar cases, that I have to live as if I had tinnitus, although I don't have it. Since otherwise I will get it. Now that is too hard to explain to anyone, so I simply say I have tinnitus. Period. It makes it simpler, yet it is not true at all. But I think nobody would care to listen to me at all if I did not exaggerate it like that and put it in a simple way.
Also I think that once you have had severe tinnitus, you will be in a weaker state than if you had never had it. Meaning, you are at higher risk of getting tinnitus again. Therefore I think the DEFINITION of tinnitus should be extended so that it's new definition reads:
Tinnitus (revised definition) is the weakness of the auditory system that has been caused by once having heard a severe tinnitus sound. Tinnitus according to this revised definition does not necessarily mean that tinnitus sound is heard at the present time.
It is only very unfortunate that people are so tremendously ignorant of noise and tinnitus and even when they GET tinnitus, health care and everyone advises you to continue a noisy life style. Once I went to an ENT doctor when I had got a pulsating tinnitus that I could hear above every daily sound and all the time. The ENT doctor prescribed me a pill against stomach problems. I gently asked him if this tinnitus could be related to noise. He asked me to elaborate, and I explained that this is a big city and lots of noise on subway and traffic on the streets. No way, was all he replied. I never took those stomach medicines. Instead I went against his advice of continuing ordinary noisy city life and locked myself into my quiet apartment for two weeks in a row in complete silence. Then finally the swashing heart beating tinnitus abruptly one day suddenly just went away, completely. And that without ever noticing any troubles with my stomach.
My point is I don't have tinnitus, I don't have hyperacusis, yet I BEHAVE just like I was the most severe tinnitus patient you could meet. I put on hearing protectors everywhere I go whenever there is noise that exceeds 65 dB. I have to, if I don't want to GET tinnitus. And I really don't want to get that.
Also I think that once you have had severe tinnitus, you will be in a weaker state than if you had never had it. Meaning, you are at higher risk of getting tinnitus again. Therefore I think the DEFINITION of tinnitus should be extended so that it's new definition reads:
Tinnitus (revised definition) is the weakness of the auditory system that has been caused by once having heard a severe tinnitus sound. Tinnitus according to this revised definition does not necessarily mean that tinnitus sound is heard at the present time.
It is only very unfortunate that people are so tremendously ignorant of noise and tinnitus and even when they GET tinnitus, health care and everyone advises you to continue a noisy life style. Once I went to an ENT doctor when I had got a pulsating tinnitus that I could hear above every daily sound and all the time. The ENT doctor prescribed me a pill against stomach problems. I gently asked him if this tinnitus could be related to noise. He asked me to elaborate, and I explained that this is a big city and lots of noise on subway and traffic on the streets. No way, was all he replied. I never took those stomach medicines. Instead I went against his advice of continuing ordinary noisy city life and locked myself into my quiet apartment for two weeks in a row in complete silence. Then finally the swashing heart beating tinnitus abruptly one day suddenly just went away, completely. And that without ever noticing any troubles with my stomach.
My point is I don't have tinnitus, I don't have hyperacusis, yet I BEHAVE just like I was the most severe tinnitus patient you could meet. I put on hearing protectors everywhere I go whenever there is noise that exceeds 65 dB. I have to, if I don't want to GET tinnitus. And I really don't want to get that.
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