I suspect you have the common misconception about how hearing loss works. Impared hearing doesn't mean the volume is turned down and needs to be increased. Often times, impared hearing means you can hear some frequencies perfectly fine, but are deaf to some frequencies (usually higher frequencies)
If you are missing hair cells in your ear for a certain frequency, hearing aids can't make you hear them no matter how much they increase the volume for those frequencies. Best they can do is pitch shift them so you hear them at a different frequency.
I suppose I was unclear, i ment in the article they mention some breathing techniques to try to help hearing... But i was curious if any other steps were taken? And if they helped whatsoever.
I asked because their brief discussion on vision quality was " i lied to my doctor as a kid, and in my 30s got eye surgery that was scary and messed with my perceptions!"..... Yet they seemed to skip just using plain old glasses to aide their vision throughout their formative years or even young adult years .... Or maybe that was just a narrative omission.
I was born premature at 2 lbs which caused retinopathy of prematurity. I've used glasses since age 2 and my eyes are prone to complications; having just had cataract surgery in my early 40s .... It seemed to me from the writing the author has an aversion to doctors throughout their life and seeking informed treatment ... But maybe I read the piece wrong...
If they were able to, the author wouldn't have written this article, or would've added it at least.
Tinnitus is a challenging problem because there can be physical causes (like hearing damage from loud music) but there's also a brain component. Certain diseases like MS, concussions, or some types of brain diseases can cause it even if your hearing organs are perfectly fine.
It's possible the author has had damaged hearing from a very young age but based on the wide variety of sounds they're describing, I'm guessing there's more going on than just ear issues. It's possible that these noises are just strange hallucinations of the auditory cortex, like someone hearing voices or sounds that aren't there but expressed less concretely.
As anecdata: an acquaintance of mine was cured of his tinnitus when he got therapy and made life changes to benefit his mental health. It turned out stress and other such problems were causing his hearing issues all along!
As far as I know, there is no known cure to tinnitus as bad as this article describes. In some cases the problematic symptoms can be reduced (people sleeping with a fan on or some white noise generator running to reduce the ringing of the ears is a common example) but the symptoms often come back soon after turning off the noise.
quantumsequoia|2 years ago
If you are missing hair cells in your ear for a certain frequency, hearing aids can't make you hear them no matter how much they increase the volume for those frequencies. Best they can do is pitch shift them so you hear them at a different frequency.
tenken|2 years ago
I suppose I was unclear, i ment in the article they mention some breathing techniques to try to help hearing... But i was curious if any other steps were taken? And if they helped whatsoever.
I asked because their brief discussion on vision quality was " i lied to my doctor as a kid, and in my 30s got eye surgery that was scary and messed with my perceptions!"..... Yet they seemed to skip just using plain old glasses to aide their vision throughout their formative years or even young adult years .... Or maybe that was just a narrative omission.
I was born premature at 2 lbs which caused retinopathy of prematurity. I've used glasses since age 2 and my eyes are prone to complications; having just had cataract surgery in my early 40s .... It seemed to me from the writing the author has an aversion to doctors throughout their life and seeking informed treatment ... But maybe I read the piece wrong...
jeroenhd|2 years ago
Tinnitus is a challenging problem because there can be physical causes (like hearing damage from loud music) but there's also a brain component. Certain diseases like MS, concussions, or some types of brain diseases can cause it even if your hearing organs are perfectly fine.
It's possible the author has had damaged hearing from a very young age but based on the wide variety of sounds they're describing, I'm guessing there's more going on than just ear issues. It's possible that these noises are just strange hallucinations of the auditory cortex, like someone hearing voices or sounds that aren't there but expressed less concretely.
As anecdata: an acquaintance of mine was cured of his tinnitus when he got therapy and made life changes to benefit his mental health. It turned out stress and other such problems were causing his hearing issues all along!
As far as I know, there is no known cure to tinnitus as bad as this article describes. In some cases the problematic symptoms can be reduced (people sleeping with a fan on or some white noise generator running to reduce the ringing of the ears is a common example) but the symptoms often come back soon after turning off the noise.
unknown|2 years ago
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