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What is Tinnitus?
In its simplest form, tinnitus is just the sound of your body doing its job. Everything we hear, see, feel, smell and taste sends electrical signals flying through our bodies. Every muscle movement is electricity, every thought is electricity. We hum constantly. We started before we were born and will continue to hum until we die. And because that hum has been there all of our lives and is relatively constant our brain labels it as a meaningless sound.
When we label a sound as meaningless, our brain can file it away into the background so we don’t really notice it.
Why is my tinnitus so loud?
When there is a change in our hearing our brain them switches focus to listen to what might be going on. That might be a permanent change or a temporary change, but it can be enough for our brain to notice that background hum or our body. If your brain then labels the tinnitus as being an important sound, then it will start to listen for it and focus on it.
For a few percent of adults, this leads to their tinnitus becoming disturbing.
What can be done?
If you have disturbing tinnitus, then we start with a thorough assessment of your hearing and auditory system. We then want to measure the characteristics of your tinnitus. We look at the pitch and loudness of the tinnitus, the minimum amount of sound needed to block it out, the different impacts its having on a range of aspects of your life.
With this information we can start to work on a program to give you relief from your tinnitus.
Learn to live with it
That’s kind of true. We cant stop the electrical noise of our bodies. We need those electrical signals to give us all of our sensations, movements, thoughts and feelings. So you do need to learn to live with the sound, but like most things in our lives, we can benefit from support to help us learn HOW to live with it. That’s where we come in.
Want to find out a little more?
If Tinnitus is interrupting your life, book your Tinnitus Consultation online, or contact us to find out how we can help.
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