Mind if I post that link to the vs website? The tinnitus I experience is very sporadic. Sometimes just a few times a year, sometimes several times in a single week but it is always very brief. Much like the few headaches that I get. Very intense but also very brief. In the other cases I've read about, most folks aren't so lucky. Pinpointing the location in the brain is a big stepping stone to a cure, I wonder if they are trying the same techniques on migranes.
vs stands for visual static, or visual snow. It's linked to migraine auras and it comes along with a host of other quirky crap. Tinnitus is one of the many turds.
Basically for me everything looks like it is made from billions of pinpoint dots of rapidly changing colors, quite a lot like tv static but with negative after images and tracers behind moving objects. I've always seen this way so it's not that big a deal but people that start seeing this way later in life have a bitch of a time coping. When vs comes with persistent tinnitus on top of the visual effects it is debilitating for some.
As a regular sufferer of tinnitus, could you answer me a question? (I get it, but only when I'm very tired) Can a sound/signal (low amplitude sine-wave, but anti-phase to the one in your head) be played into your ears to cancel-out the one in your head? (I'd imagine the answer's no, or someone will have done it ages ago!)
You'd be asking the wrong person I'm afraid as I know very little about noise cancellation. Although I've always had tinnitus and vs I only learned those terms recently and used to tell everyone I could see molecules (floaters), and atoms (static) when I was growing up. By the time I reached my twenties and hadn't found anyone who knew what I was talking about I just stopped. From what I've read though there is no sound to cancel out. It is literally just in our heads.
How many of us have symptoms? I get a high-pitched tone, along with a slight numbness, maybe once or twice a year. The event doesn't seem to be triggered by anything obvious - it just starts, runs for about 15 seconds, then stops.
I thought I'd heard about this - but I didn't know where.....
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ReplyDeleteMind if I post that link to the vs website?
ReplyDeleteThe tinnitus I experience is very sporadic. Sometimes just a few times a year, sometimes several times in a single week but it is always very brief. Much like the few headaches that I get. Very intense but also very brief. In the other cases I've read about, most folks aren't so lucky.
Pinpointing the location in the brain is a big stepping stone to a cure, I wonder if they are trying the same techniques on migranes.
Of course not.
ReplyDeletebut, what's vs?
vs stands for visual static, or visual snow.
ReplyDeleteIt's linked to migraine auras and it comes along with a host of other quirky crap. Tinnitus is one of the many turds.
Basically for me everything looks like it is made from billions of pinpoint dots of rapidly changing colors, quite a lot like tv static but with negative after images and tracers behind moving objects.
I've always seen this way so it's not that big a deal but people that start seeing this way later in life have a bitch of a time coping.
When vs comes with persistent tinnitus on top of the visual effects it is debilitating for some.
New areas of research are good news.
As a regular sufferer of tinnitus, could you answer me a question? (I get it, but only when I'm very tired)
ReplyDeleteCan a sound/signal (low amplitude sine-wave, but anti-phase to the one in your head) be played into your ears to cancel-out the one in your head? (I'd imagine the answer's no, or someone will have done it ages ago!)
You'd be asking the wrong person I'm afraid as I know very little about noise cancellation. Although I've always had tinnitus and vs I only learned those terms recently and used to tell everyone I could see molecules (floaters), and atoms (static) when I was growing up. By the time I reached my twenties and hadn't found anyone who knew what I was talking about I just stopped.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read though there is no sound to cancel out.
It is literally just in our heads.
Yes, that's what I was afraid of :(
ReplyDeleteHow many of us have symptoms? I get a high-pitched tone, along with a slight numbness, maybe once or twice a year. The event doesn't seem to be triggered by anything obvious - it just starts, runs for about 15 seconds, then stops.
ReplyDeleteI've got it at the moment, continuous very high pitched buzz (tired, it was a late nate)
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8285518.stm
ReplyDeleteBBC News - Music therapy 'may help cut tinnitus noise levels'
ReplyDeleteNew hope for tinnitus sufferers.
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