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> Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2008 12:31 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: TRACING THE HUM/Article Epoch Times(John Dawes)
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> As a rationalist and materialist, Geoff, and someone who's only
> recently tuned into The Hum, I'm interested in your diagnosis of LF
> tinnitus.
That is refreshing ;-!
> Details about tinnitus in general don't bear any relation to my hum (a
> low drone, fluctuating, heard during the night but only on some
> nights,
Similar to mine then . Agree not anything like the sound of common tinnitus.
Tuesdays particularly bad at the moment (I have to get up
> earlier than usual on Wednesdays which could be an explanation),
Following a more stressful part of the week maybe ?
> splutters out often in early hours, as if it's been switched off, no
> obvious external cause. Feels like a vibration in the right-hand
> side of my head, rather than an actual sound - if I 'listen' out for
> it I can't hear it but then it suddenly emerges from the back, rather
> than from my ear.
I sometimes get it in one, and other times in both ears. Last time I had it
in left ear only - when inserting finger it changed from Hum to a physical
spasming.
>I gave up caffeine twenty years ago so this is not
> a contributor but recently I have correlated the sound to be worse
> when I've had alcohol.
I am still on about 5 coffees a day. No Hum at present, but I have regular
tinnitus in my right ear, which I imagine gets worse after a glass or two of
wine .
>I can cope with it better when I've had a
> chamomile tea and some celery and peanut butter (for the tryptophans)
> shortly before bedtime - I still hear it but it is not so bothersome.
> I have never had tinnitus but always had rather sensitive ears - I
> hate thunder and fireworks and have used ear plugs for years. Ear
> plugs make The Hum worse, of course - I have to take them out to
> minimize my awareness of the vibration.)
My ears have become more sensitive to noise in general ( complicated by easy
internal blockage) which is normal with increasing age, evidently.
> This is the best explanation I've read so far though I admit it's not
> very satisfying. When I first started hearing the hum on a regular
> basis about three months ago I was convinced it was external and
> extremely frustrated by my husband's insistence that it was all in my
> head (simply because he couldn't hear it). Having experimented and
> found how much worse it is when I am stressed, tired and drink sodden,
It is especially frustrating when the Hum you hear is so loud and clear that
you cannot believe that others cannot hear it !
> I am more inclined to accept that it might be in my head though I find
> this difficult as it makes me sound a bit of a nutter.
You want to see some real nutters, just hang around here for a bit ! It
certainly is 'in your head', but not in a nutter sense - it is a real sound,
but just not one generated and propagated by he usual means !
> I'm also
> baffled by the way it seems to turn off, as if by a switch - around
> 5.00 a.m. last night. Just wondering if you have found an explanation
> for that part of it in your low frequency tinnitus diagnosis,
I have had it switching on and off every 5 seconds for a few minutes once.
This was around the time of the finger-ear-spasm-thing, but did not seem to
be related to anything physical I was doing at the time ( layiong still !).
> I think the more I have an explanation for The Hum, the more I'll be
> able to dismiss it - at the moment, I try to convince myself to
> believe that I've left the tumble dryer on.
Not helpful, because things like that can cause real measurable audible (by
everybody hums, and just confuse the whole matter.
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