The Hum is back now, since last night, I just can't believe it... after nearly 2 weeks of quiet...
21 юни 2013, петък, 14:31:24 UTC+1, Trev написа: > > Hum much the same Lidia- not like yours. > Glad you have had some relief from it though. > There's a lot in what you say about otoxicity, though. > As we age this becomes more of a reletive burden ,too. > To clarify, my tinnitus is, and always has been, a VHF hiss and is > principally affected by medications for hi BP- and always present, of late. > I have had fluttering ,as in nerve disturbance, but these always stop > within seconds and I've never associated this with hum. > It may be connected, though- now you mention it, but no way to tell. > In my case, I would rather live with the disease rather than a cure by > surgeon :~/ > > On Thursday, 20 June 2013 06:17:16 UTC+1, Lidia wrote: > >> Hi, Trev, how do you do? >> >> I am not completely Hum free, I still hear the Hum with my right ear >> though more bearable for now. I believe that ototoxicity due to some drugs >> and substances make us susceptible to start hearing the Hum. Many drugs and >> substances, including mercury in the teeth and lidocaine, used for dental >> anaesthesia, are ototoxic. That is why children and young people are >> usually not susceptible to the Hum as their ears have not been damaged by >> drugs and other toxic substances. >> >> Further more, there might be (like in my case), a damage to the outer >> hair cells which are responsible for sound frequency modulation and which >> act as a sound pre-amplifiers, thus leading to hearing loss in the high >> frequencies. (The more damaged the hearing, the more chances are that you >> hear the Hum, and even if you are deaf). It is the same as tuning a radio >> to different Hz…For the moment there is a flickering hope that ototoxicity >> can be reversed and the hair cells can be re-grown by stem cells treatment. >> >> On the other hand, tinnitus may be induced by the Hum energy (where it >> applies to the middle ear myoclonus of the tensor timpani or stapedius >> muscle) – imagine the vibration produced in the ear drum by the Hum and the >> impact it has on the adjacent muscles. Tensor timpani myoclonus is >> described by the sufferers as a hellish experience of a slow rhythmic beat >> or pulse (not the heartbeat) or thumping sound and vibration and I have >> experienced this during some grave episodes of the Hum. Stapedius muscle >> myoclonus, on the contrary, results in a high pitched sound and feels like >> a butterfly flutter. It can be recorded by examiners and recordings are >> available on the internet… >> >> TT myoclonus can be managed by some drugs used for temporal lobe epilepsy >> or Botox (not recommended), or successfully stopped by surgical section of >> the related tendon. In this case there are reports that the thumping sound >> and vibration have stopped. No hearing loss has been observed afterwards >> (though it may be expected after such surgery). I wonder whether this could >> be of help (to alleviate symptoms) for Hum sufferers. Knowing that the Hum >> can be heard via a bone conduction, I doubt that a complete Hum alleviation >> can be achieved but still hope… >> >> If the Hum is related to the microwave hearing (and the dirty power), >> then things are even more complicated and this would explain why the soft >> tissues on my head and forehead are vibrating. This would explain also the >> fast hammering sound (not the one discussed above) which some would mistake >> for tinnitus but is only temporary and is also a sign of the Hum. >> >> >> >> >> 19 юни 2013, сряда, 23:58:21 UTC+1, Trev написа: >>> >>> Hi Lidia- sounds like you 've done a lot of probing over your own Hum. >>> You would make a good test subject, I think. pity the Gov't is not >>> likely to do such work. [realistically] >>> I've suffered tinnitus for ages- quite bad now - but mostly due to meds >>> for high BP- it increases liearly with dosages of some types. >>> We had a poster very keen on tinnitus being hum based and never could >>> shift him. >>> I'm quite happy to see them as co-incidental, as you find it - but I >>> think they are separate entities as to their causes. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:17:39 UTC+1, John Dawes wrote: >>> >>>> Over the past month I have constructed a number of detectors all tuned >>>> to the same frequency but having various sizes of mass and spring >>>> constant. >>>> I have observed that the Hum energy transfer, or if you like, the >>>> sensitivity depends upon the size of the vibrating mass. If the mass is >>>> very small or large, the Hum energy transfer is small, there is a response >>>> curve where the energy transfer reaches a maximum. In this experiment the >>>> optimum values were o.3 grams for the mass and 29 Newton/metres for the >>>> spring constant. >>>> >>>> As the concept of these detectors were based on the cilia of the inner >>>> ear it is most probable that the inner ear also has a response curve and >>>> only those people who have cilia tuned to this response curve will hear >>>> the >>>> Hum, others will not. It is also evident that this ratio of mass to spring >>>> constant is not permanently fixed, this will explain why people suddenly >>>> begin hearing the Hum, usually with age, and why others, having heard the >>>> Hum for years, just as suddenly find it gone. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hum Sufferers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hum-sufferers. 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