Probably because your more focused on the ringing in your eyes.

[removed]

[removed]

[removed]

First noticed it when I heard a single drop of water somewhere down in the plumbing while in the bathroom, thought it was strange I heard that. Mentioned it to my friend with longtime tinnitus last time we were on it and he was like you know what, you're right and my eyesight is a lot better too. His eyes have been really bad since he kicked alcohol. Pretty interesting stuff.

[removed]

Hmmmm, time to do mushrooms again and pay attention to that.

My tinnitus gets SO MUCH WORSE when I put THC into my system it is crazy. If I want to use it to help me sleep I have to eat it and fall asleep before it hits or else I just have such a bad time. If I can time it right, though, then I get a great sleep and it doesn't bother me at all.

The paper points out the following areas: "Participants who experienced childhood sexual abuse showed a significantly smaller cortical gray matter volume in the right middle occipital gyrus, right pars orbitalis, left superior parietal lobule and left pars triangularis regions of the brain compared to participants who did not experience childhood sexual abuse (in the total sample)."“Moreover, we observed a reduced volume in the right anterior cingulate gyrus in patients with major depressive disorder compared to that in healthy participants,” they continued. “While childhood sexual abuse and major depressive disorder affected the cortical volume of the right middle occipital gyrus and anterior cingulate gyrus, respectively, post-hoc analyses showed that even patients in the major depressive disorder group who were exposed to childhood sexual abuse showed a pronounced decrease in the right middle occipital gyrus volume.”

Anterior cingulate gyrus controls behavior regulation, including emotion processing and vocalization of emotion. It's linked to social cognition and our pro-social capacity.

If I understand the article and paper correctly, after suffering sexual abuse, a child's brain has a hard time grounding itself spatially, and is in perpetual fight-or-flight mode. More things are perceived as threats when one cannot ground oneself or others visuospatially. Perspective taking is negatively impacted, as the brain is at reduced capacity to link to working memory and update perception (i.e., once a threat always a threat). Attention regulation is impacted. This helps explain the link to borderline personality disorder and panic disorders, and why victims have a hard time talking about their trauma. The brain changed; it's really not their fault. And it points to PTSD/cPTSD stemming from child sexual abuse as a possible source of widespread ADHD misdiagnoses. It can also help explain one's susceptibility to cults, due to their rigid, repetitive structure; it's predictable, and that predictability is perceived as safe even when it's objectively not.

So then, what's the treatment? Can TMS help rebuild and strengthen pathways to middle occipital gyrus?

I’ve found that it can rev up anxiety and make the tinnitus more severe, but that it makes life with tinnitus more tolerable

Can affirm. But only a little, I think it just helps me block out the, YEEEEEEEERRREEEEEEEEREEEREE!!

I expect the answer will be "both"—anything involving the immune system seems to be full of feedback loops for homeostasis.

Pretty sure the tinnitus and diminished night vision I have is because of my heavy abuse of indazole cannabinoids during college.

I would start keeping track of which strains help and don’t when using the vape stuff, would be interesting to know if there’s a connection in the strains that do help!

I didn't claim to know anything, never even mentioned genetics, I made a speculation. I'm not fighting with you, nor do I even want to talk to you anymore.

Well I am a medical cannabis user and I have bad tinnitus especially at night. And weed does help a lot. I didn't hear the ringing until I was reminded of it reading this headline haha

Also happens for babies suffering from the "cry it out" method. No, they don't just give up and go to sleep, they dissociate rather than continue to face the reality nobody is there to keep them safe, and then fall asleep without realizing it. The same way kids do when their parents are arguing.

My ears ring so much from the concussion. Cannabis calms that. I can watch TV, hear the clock tick and traffic go by.

When it's bad, all I hear is the shifting sand in the breeze. Cannabis calms the anxiety it induces while bringing quiet for me.

Yeah this is crazy. The way I gauge how high I am is how much my ears ring.

b vitamins, iron, and oxytocin also help.

>
>
>
>
>
>
>Long term treatment with high-dose oxytocin (45 IU four times daily) may reduce the frequency and severity of tinnitus, the burden tinnitus symptoms cause patients, and improve their quality of life.

45 people only? That's a pretty low number.

It doesn't help mine, unfortunately. I wish it did.

[removed]

That's great news but I can't use cannabis for professional reasons.

Different note in each ear. One significantly higher in pitch than the other. It reminds me of the noise an old tube powered tv would make just after switching it on.

[removed]