Hi All: For me, when I started hearing this hum/buzzing/crackling it was in my right ear and I started hearing that about 20 years ago actually. I know I've lost some of my more acute hearing in the right ear. I originally thought the noise might have stemmed from this hearing loss but, like the rest of you, the hum diary put holes in that theory! I've been making sure I get calcium in my daily intake. So far, that has not helped my situation any. I began experiencing the hum/buzzing/crackling in the left ear about 10 years ago now. You can't really treat the noise as tinnitus because its not. I've tried that route too. You just learn different techniques to mask it so it doesn't make such a huge impact on your daily life. I do know that is why I rarely get above 5 hours sleep a night though. Have a Wonderful Day!
Sue Schmitt ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 6:20 PM Subject: Re: Calcium diet to reduce hum effects Hi Trev, It seems we both agree that calcium is the problem, I would hope that we are both right and going about it from different methods. From my four year experimentation I think that calcium does have a connection with the hum. My history of the hum.....I gave up trying to find the cause of the hum years ago, as we hum sufferer on websites were all going round in circles trying to find the causes, be it man made or a natural thing or a combination of both. I did the old hum diary stuff for a number of years trying to find some answers, but the answer was that the hum on/off and intensity is random, and the diary just reminded me each day of the hum, even on 'no hum' days, so I gave that up. I also concentrated on trying to reduce or even get rid of the hum using all sorts of methods which we all know about, and are mentioned on webpages, thank goodness. Things like masking the hum by creating white noise, fans, radio, and using blocking methods like foam plugs. This helped a lot, but I then started thinking about why do most of us start hearing the hum in our middle age, and why do some of us only hear the hum in one ear. Hence the search for possible reasons and theory's out there, that makes us hear the hum, and tying in with the two effects above. The calcite crystal theory seemed best suited, and thats why I cut down on my Calcium intake, hoping it would detune from the hum. The latter effect mentioned, where only one ear hears the hum (like myself) is very interesting, as surely if something is affecting the body chemistry it would affect both ears, but that is not the case, so something is physically different in one ear compared to the other, and the answer is one ear tunes in and the other does not. I would put the tuning of the hum as an analogy of tuning in to an electrical radio signal, where if you are tuning in either side of the signal it reduces or stops that station being heard, you have to be in 'resonance' to get the signal, and thats our problem, we are tuned in and hence in resonance to the hum frequency. I am sure by me reducing calcium it affects the crystals in the ear voids from getting a perfect tune in, and thus the intensity of the hum is reduced. At least for me, it now gives me better nights of sleep, and thats what matters -- 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. -- 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.
