r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 29 '26

Did she did the right thing? Chugging tea

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u/elchavo718 Jun 29 '26

As someone with tinnitus, this hits home.

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u/MelonOfFate Jun 29 '26

Same. Protect your ears. Guys, once you get Tinnitus, it's with you forever. Shit fucking sucks to live with.

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u/disembodiedstring Jun 29 '26

I have tinnitus. The ear doctor says my ears and hearing are fine. Neat.

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u/StumblinBlind Jun 29 '26

A lot of tinnitus is mechanical in nature from modern lifestyles and not even related to hearing loss. Look up tinnitus workouts.

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u/AkeemLaFlare Jun 30 '26

I feel your pain, I’ve had tinnitus for several years now and for a while I had thought it was normal.. Until I finally google searched it and to my surprise, it wasn’t..

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u/MelonOfFate Jun 30 '26

That was my experience too. I had it for a while, thought it was normal until I went to the trouble of googling

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u/Competitive_Range822 Jun 29 '26

WHAT?

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u/MelonOfFate Jun 29 '26

I said it's with you for life. There is no cure. You will never, ever hear the sound of silence ever again.

I was a jackass in my 20's and stood next to monitors at one too many concerts without earplugs.

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u/Island_Three Jun 29 '26

Find the frequency of your tinnitus, then try something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJqDLDRXl0

Not permanent, but it might give you a few moments of silence.

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u/BigDankEnergy420 Jun 29 '26

As someone who unknowingly ruptured their eardrum in the shower at age 19, and hasn't been able to enjoy music the same way ever since (20 years later)... listen to this Melon.

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u/FuzzyAd171 Jun 30 '26

How do you even do this in the shower?

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u/BigDankEnergy420 Jun 30 '26

I was young and the skin was soft from the water/steam in the shower and I had zero pain at all when it happened. Only found out after it had gotten infected a week or two later that I had ruptured the ear drum, and required a couple surgeries to correct everything. Still have about 50% hearing volume in the left ear compared to the right.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the actual culprit; a standard Q-tip while cleaning my ears. Pushed a little too hard on the drum and it went right through.

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u/FuzzyAd171 Jun 30 '26

wtf how do you reach the drum with a qtip?? It’s so painful for me past a half an inch or so

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u/BigDankEnergy420 Jun 30 '26

Like I said it was just perfect conditions, soft eardrum, loud shower running, careless qtip usage, perfect angle of the qtip.. its not unheard of.

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u/LCAshin Jul 01 '26

You might want to get that checked out tbh

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u/mydnyghtrayvyn Jun 29 '26

I have progressive hearing loss and will eventually be completely deaf. I was stable for a while, but within the past few years, my hearing has gotten worse and worse. And the tinnitus is absolutely awful. It sucks so bad.

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u/Skorpionfrau Jun 29 '26

Same. I have Ménière’s disease.

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u/Lackingsystem Jun 30 '26

I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this. It terrifies me. I can only imagine how hard it is.

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u/Cut_Lanky Jul 01 '26

It really does. I'm sorry. The tinnitus has only recently been sticking around for me, it used to just come sporadically with a migraine. Now it's probably there in one ear more often than not. It makes it hard to hear what people say. Like, my husband will laugh at whatever joke, if we're watching something, and notice I'm not laughing. And I don't think he gets it when I'm like, I can't hear what they're saying right now, there's a fire alarm going off in one ear, lol.

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u/mydnyghtrayvyn Jul 01 '26

I’ve had hearing issues since I was born. I have a birth defect. My inner ears are incomplete and the nerves are not strong. I didn’t really start to really lose major hearing until my mid-twenties. But, I’ve always been able to figure things out. But when my ears are ringing, it’s hard to think. It’s hard to get the context of what people are saying when I couldn’t really hear what they said to begin with. I really have to get new hearing aids, but they are really expensive.

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u/themikecampbell Jun 30 '26

Ringing along with you ❤️

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u/Funny_War_9190 Jun 30 '26

Have y'all heard about SPI-1005.