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.
>>>>
>>>

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