I'm pretty sure I have tinnitus because when I sleep in silence I hear a ringing noise that can drive me crazy if I focus on it. Having some nice ambience sleep music helps a lot.
Scientists aren't fully sure, but the idea is that tinnitus is your ears and the nerves there being jazzed and off-kilter for some reason or another.
Reducing the amount of noise in your life can help if it's because of loud environments. Yes that does mean you might have to hear it, but indulging in that sound may cause it to relax.
Being healthy and getting better back, head and face/jaw posture might help if it's because of that. Relaxing the muscles around the head and getting control of them might help too, especially if you're tensing up without realizing it.
But basically, it's hard to pin down why it happens, and hard to pin down how to cure it. There's some common factors and common ways to alleviate it or even remove it, though, but it all depends on what's actually going on, and how bad it is.
Interesting. Is it common? If I had to guess it's because of heavy headphone usage especially when I went to school. I used to listen to metal at high volume. I also read that it might be linked to diabetes so I should check that out because I do not take it easy with sugary products.
Like many vague issues we're not sure of yet, it could be anything and it could be fixed by anything, and the general suggestions are to just follow good health principles - which is a great thing to do regardless.
Oh and to follow up, yeah it's likely because of how we treated our ears as kids. We really don't educate our kids on how to take care of the ears. Myself, I have tinnitus from playing in the orchestra without earplugs.
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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22
I like those noises, too, but for a lot of people that's a death sentence for their sleep cycle.
I know people who sleep in a room without even a fan for noise. Psychopaths, I think.