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I haven't heard silence in a decade because of tinnitus, but it would be lovely to achieve.

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Does anyone even know true silence? I thought there was at least some amount of phantom noise only detectible when ambient sounds fall below a certain decibel range. Unless I've missed something and never known what actual silence is.

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I have never, and I assume, will never know anything close to silence. I've had tinnitus in both ears/head all of my life. It's multi-tonal rather than being a single tone. A large part of it is around the 1750 Hz range but it's mixed with lower and also much higher frequency. Even so, I have very sensitive hearing. I can hear external tones just above 13,000 Hz. Anything above that becomes inaudible.

When was the last time you had an insect bite you and what kind of insect was it?

Not a bite but hopefully it falls into the scope, but I believe it was a wasp sting when I was pointing out the hidden location of a nest.

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I live in an area that can have a lot of mosquitoes and what we call "gnats" in the summer time. Gnats usually like to bite the scalp, behind the ears and neck. Last time I was bit was from a gnat.

Isabella, try Googling something like "hertz sound generator" and you'll get something with a sliding scale you can play around with.

I wish my tinnitus was a single tone. That way it would be easy to mask the tone and cancel it out. I think it would be impossible for me to do that with the way my ringing is.

Do you have any poisonous spiders where you live and if so, have you seen any?

There could be, but nobody told me that they were poisonous



What did you refuse to do, that your friends and family want you to do?

What did you want them to do. That they refused to do?

My audiology report looks similar to that, Isabella from what I recall. I had my tests done about five years ago. The last time I saw my hard copy report it was in a drawer at home. I'll see if I can dig mine out if I remember (not at home now).....

Regarding tinnitus: Even though I've had it all my life and I've never known anything close to "silence", I have sympathy for people like you, Isabella that developed it later in life. I used to belong to a tinnitus and hyperacusis forum and it was heart wrenching to hear from so many people that developed tinnitus later in life and were having such a hard time coping with it.

As you know, tinnitus is always there. It never stops. However, I have habituated to mine such that I can go sometimes a day or more where I then realize that I haven't consciously thought about or been consciously aware of the ringing. I then feel very thankful and I take a moment to think of how glorious that time was that I wasn't thinking about my tinnitus.

People who develop it later in life have a much harder time habituating to the noise and sadly, it's not a joke that some of them take their own lives because of it.

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In general I refuse to go places that are going to be extremely stressful environments for me.

I ask my family to stop yelling in the house and sometimes they don't?

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I refuse to eat because I always feel full and everyone keeps trying to make me eat.

What do you want to do before you die?

A lot of things, I guess.

I'd like to help successfully raise my kids before I die. As in, I don't want to die before they're on their own.

I'd like to live long enough, where after the kids have "flown the nest" I could retire and fill my remaining days with things I want to do rather than with things I have to do.

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I guess i want to find love as cliche as it sounds

Which element do you identify with most? (fire, water etc.)

Water. I was able to swim as a toddler and I've always liked swimming. I like the feeling of being underwater, the muted sounds, etc.

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Water because I grew up on boats. I always say if I cut myself open I expect to see blue water in my veins.

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