Three Hours of Silence

Yesterday evening I was vegging out on the couch, watching a movie, wearing headphones. When I took them off, I felt something strange. After few seconds I realized my T was gone. I mean gone. I closed the window and stood in the room focusing on T, but... nothing (I have unilateral T at left ear). Nothing. I could not believe it. I spent the next three hours enjoying a total silence, something I forgot. It was so amazing!
But I had the feeling that the wonderful silence couldn't last long, in fact this morning T came back as usual...
I don't know why it happened. I am not on any therapy, every now and then I take some supps or vitamins. Yesterday I had a normal day at work, I felt not so tired. I had the same usual amount of coffeine (couples of expressos). The level of the sound through the headphones was low. That's all I can say.

 

That is wonderful.

 

I'm jealous! I miss silence. Hopefully it's a sign of some healing and maybe it'll go...

 

I was thinking about silence the other day and realized it was rare in the world until over the past 75 years or so. Homes are built and insulated better than any time in history. Sitting around a quite house thinking and listening to your T is the worst thing anyone can do.

 

It is a good sign your silence may come back more frequent. The main thing is to not supply any more negative reaction to T, and best is not to either bother with it. Let T be. Let the rest of your life be. Tje less stress about T, the better. When there is a truce bewteen T and you, time will be the magic wand to create such periods pf silence. Congrats. Hope more good time will come for you.

 

Thank you @billie48 if only I could find out the reason of this break a second after I'd share the info on this wonderful forum

 

There was more silence in the past. No. Industrialization, no cars, planes,tv,radio. Mostly horses and trains for transport.

 

The natural sounds of nature from weather, wildlife and insects. It was rare to have the kind of silence we can encapsulate ourselves in today such as a well insulated home. Before the modernization of housing, not even caves where silent enough due to air draft. What do most people mask their T with today? Mostly recorded sounds of nature and white noise.

 

I wonder how people in the past got relief from their tinnitus? Beethoven
Use to pour buckets of cold water over his head.

 

Hard to say if you ever will know the reason. Tinnitus is so mysterious. But that you had this experience, even for only three hours, and it made You happy is what is important. I thank you for sharing. I have had tinnitus for about as long as you. So knowing this is possible made me happy, too.

 

If I remember correctly, he played music to probably cope and then mysteriously pasted away in his 40's. There where probably hundreds of thousands of undocumented people with T when gun powder was introduced to the world. People spent more time outside with natural masking than indoors like we do today. Think about how many talk about T today bothers them the most at home in a quiet room and not so much when they're busy and especially outside?

 

Beethoven lived into his fifties. Mozart died in his forties. Fifth symphony
Is inspired By a bird , probably used nature for masking?

 

My guess is people in the past just learned to live with it. Suffering with various ailments was a regular part of life even in the civilized world, before modern medicine. There was no expectation that you could take a pill, or have a surgery, to make things better in most situations. Darwin had tinnitus, and a host of other miserable chronic conditions, for most of his adult life. He didn't let it stop him from making difficult voyages to unexplored places, and doing research that changed the world.

 

Yeah, I got that too recently. I did 100 pushups a few days ago and after I had 100% silence for the first time since I got Tinnitus. The silence lasted for around an hour but came back eventually.

 

I just did a little running and got some relief. Makes me wonder.

 

Hey Carlo, what a wonderful thing to happen! All the best to you. Rog

 

I have a few seconds of silence every morning just as I wake up and its bliss then the T kicks in

 

Probably a change in blood pressure affects the noise levels of Tinnitus. My Tinnitus always gets louder when I lie down.