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Visualize yourself in a quiet, peaceful place such as the mountains where the only noise you hear is a slight wind ruffling the leaves on the trees. Now imagine never having any peace anywhere or at any time because of ringing or buzzing in the ears.
Everyone has experienced a ringing in the ears at one time or another. How would it be if the ringing, buzzing, whistling or humming were constant and never ended?
Before I share with you what has helped me with my buzzing in the ears, let’s talk about these sounds. Most people with T (tinnitus) have a sound they hear that is unique to them and probably is caused by a unique reason
It may be sounds they’ve heard or been exposed to that have injured their ears. It could have been a blow to the ear at one time in their life. In many cases their doesn’t seem to be a good reason at all for tinnitus.
If you don’t suffer from T you may know someone who does and its hard to understand the extent of their pain. There are sites on the web where you can play different sounds that T sufferers experience and that will give you some idea of what these people go through every hour of every day.
Often, many people with T hear more than just one sound and these noises can change. Stress and noise can definitely change the pitch of the sounds and then the malady is even worse.
Tinnitus can be masked which is helpful in many cases. When my T started I used ear plugs at night and if I slept on my worst ear just right, the sounds weren’t as strong. However after a while when the problem became worse, that didn’t work.
I also got software that enabled me to create different background sounds that relaxed me and helped to mask the problem. I love the mountains so created sounds that would be typical mountain noises. I don’t mean chainsaws.
Sleep is a major concern for T sufferers. Lack of sleep is one of the contributors making Tinnitus worse. The worse the condition gets the less sleep you get so the problem can loop totally out of control.
Relaxation techniques have helped me get a decent night’s sleep. Deep breathing and visualization are part of those techniques.
I’ve found that a combination of masking programs, relaxation, a change in diet and other natural remedies have helped my problem. There is no one cure that seems to work for everyone when it comes to buzzing in the ears.
Although I’m not totally free from Tinnitus symptons, the program that I use has been a blessing and made the buzzing in the ears progressively better. I feel that it will eventually disappear altogether. To experience what I’m using visit www.lifewithouttinnitus.info
Original music files are HUGE. So we compress them. After more than a decade, MPEG3 format or “MP3″ has been the alpha dog of the pack of other compression formats. Uunfortunately “compression” means that a lot of the original music data is lost. The more you compress, the more data are lost in exchange for small file size. If your music consists of MP3′s with bit rates less than 192 kbps or equivalent quality in other formats, the music you listen to may be affecting you more than you realize.
How? Well, your hearing works a lot like your eyes. It has a foreground, background, and a focus point. Usually we train ourselves to ignore the background noise but here’s the problem, you still hear them at full capacity. Ears have no lids like the eye nor can it squint when needed. Hearing is on 24/7 even in your sleep. Your body is also affected by sounds that the human ear cannot hear. Vibrations are everywhere. So it has an effect on our health in general.
Now, let’s talk about MP3 compression. When a recognizable quality of an instrument has loss in data, your brain tries to make up for it unconsciously. So the loss of music quality, your brain tries to make up for that. This has a subconscious distress on your brain which adds unnecessary stress. Sometimes, this can even contribute to loss of sleep. If this was too complicated for you to understand, think of it this way… Let’s say you are writing a letter. But you have to fit this letter in a tiny hole so you cut it into several pieces and crumples it so it would fit. On the other side, you have to take the time to undo the crumple and put the puzzle-like pieces back together. The writings are barely legible but you squint your eyes and think to the best of your abilities to try and make out the letter. This is what an MP3 does at an unconscious level. An artist writes a song and “crumples” or “compresses” the song. Bby the time it reaches us, it is far from the original. This causes our brain to compensate. Think of it like a blurry photo you constantly squint and stare at, trying to make out what it is – you know what it is but your imagination and recognition is on at all times.
If you purchase your music online through iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon or others, you should be fine.Their compressions go up to 320 kbps which is fairly close to the original. Y so your brain does not need to compensate. On the other hand, the most popular compression for MP3 Files are 128kbps. Your body may be adding excess stress it does not need. See if you can re-rip or re-download into a higher standard. iTunes Plus allows 30 cent upgrades for older files.
When I was young, we dreaded the visits of my Great-aunt Julia. She would sit on the sofa, prim and proper, with her orthopedic shoes flat on the floor, her heavy support hose camouflaging whatever part of her legs showed beneath her floral dress, her waist thickened under that dress because of the money belt she always wore, and her white hair wound in braids close to her head. We children would be expected to sit primly as well, politely attempting to hold a conversation with her while our mother prepared a meal. The conversation was made particularly difficult since Aunt Julia was fairly deaf. She wore a hearing aid, but her head would have to be turned just so towards the speaker. We would have to repeat ourselves frequently and wince at the screech of feedback when she would turn it up too far.
Too bad Aunt Julia didn’t live long enough to appreciate the advances in hearing aids today. If she were looking today at the hearing aids South Yorkshire audiologists have available, she would be amazed. No longer would she have to tilt her head, as she might choose a programmable device with separate channels set to enhance different frequencies or the capability of amplifying soft sounds. If Aunt Julia was concerned about appearances (although the support hose might belie that notion), she would have quite the array of choices there, too.
The hearing aids East Sussex doctors might prescribe could range from a traditional behind-the-ear instrument to a virtually invisible one deep inside the ear canal. Known as a “completely in the canal” (CIC) hearing aid, this instrument helps reduce the wearer’s impression of talking in a barrel. It would also have helped save the ears of us children, since using a CIC reduces that lovely squealing feedback noise.
Yes, Aunt Julia would have been amazed and delighted at the advances she could have enjoyed in today’s hearing aids. Perhaps when I’m an elderly aunt myself, I can remember and be understanding with my great-nieces and –nephews. My hearing aids from my East Sussex doctor will be so subtle that my young relatives won’t even know I need them. This, of course, will give them less to laugh about. If I can just remember never to wear orthopedic shoes. . .