I have had the hum now for ten years in the right ear, and around four years ago I decided to reduce my calcium intake (Warning: as a man I have no problems, but a woman should watch out re: brittle bone syndrome).
The reason I cut down on milk, no cheese (worst culprit), and reduced my dairy products, was reading about the calcite crystal theory of calcium deposits in voids within the inner ear picking up on the hum, and it seemed the best culprit for hearing the hum. Why you ask? Well, the calcium deposits grow with age and depending on what you eat, and if the crystals get in tune with the hum frequency then you hear it in your head, and can even get to feeling it in your spine (if it gets real intense).. This theory seems to agree with two fundimental facts on the hum.... 1...Most people only get the hum at middle age and above....this ties in with the crystals growing with age and tune in at middle age. 2..Many sufferers like myself only get the hum in one ear, so why not the other? Well it depends if a crystal are in tune in the ear, so maybe the other ear is not in tune due to not having a crystal, or crystals not grown to tune size. Anyway after four year experimentation to allow for the variation of hum intensity over a year for comparison, the off days/nights with no hum, the high hum days/nights and the medium to low hum days/nights, overall the hum intensity for me is now controlled to a lower level, and lets me sleep, which is the most important thing and waking up with no headache. On high hum nights I still stick a foam plug in my right ear which helps more. I find that best rather than white noise, fans etc. Note that you can still feel some of the intensity up through the pillow at night, but the 'sound' and feel of the hum is greatly reduced. It takes a while to detox out the amount of calcium on the body, so it takes a number of months before you hear and feel a difference if you try a calcium reduced diet, and if you give in at any time and eat cheese again then you hear the hum intensity back up again,so lay off the cheese, CONCLUSION, I find this reduction in calcium intake really helped me in reducing the 'noise' intensity of the hum, it keep the feel of the hum away from my nervous system, especially using prevention methods like foam plugs, on high hum nights, and my waking up to a headache, and sleepless nights is greatly reduced. You might find trying this out will work for you, I hope it does help you as it did me, by reducing the whole problem of getting a nights sleep as a hum sufferer. (Again a warning to women as stated above, re brittle bones). Cheers Mack -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
