> never knew telling your experiences gets you downvotes
I think this case is more specific than that: expressing personal experience as something that must therefore be true for everyone often gets you downvotes, at least here, unless you experience agrees directly and completely with local group-think (and even then some who disagree with the local group consensus will downvote without explanation).
Frame personal experience as personal experience that might inform others usefully, rather than framing personal experience as solid undisputable globally applicable fact. You'll likely still get some downvotes of course, no matter what you say or how you frame it.
The answer is much simpler. Before the comment was edited, it said "Trust me, it never worked", which does not describe a personal experience but dismisses everyone else's.
It seems like the technique described would be unreliable and dependent on the nature of the damage causing your tinnitus. Also, at best it offers only momentary relief, though when tinnitus is bad that seems like that's worth a little effort in itself.
I have bad tinnitus in both ears and doing the trick works for me, for about 60 seconds. I don't do it often because it makes me sad how much better that 60 seconds feels.
It works for about a minute, then the tinnitus gradually creeps back. The brief experience of being tinnitus-free is refreshing, but it's not a quality of life improvement for which I would constantly perform this exercise or wear a vibrating headband
Had never heard of it, thanks for the link. Just tried it. I think it muted the tinnitus to about 20%! Pretty good. Though, it only lasted about a minute. Back to normal now.
From my experience, seasickness can be countered by:
Getting on the upper deck for fresh air
Having a full stomach
If all else fails, sleep
Seeing the horizon vs focusing on a fixed point on the ship helps some people and harms others - experiment to see what works for you.
The other thing I've found is if you let it get bad you'll be in trouble until you get ashore. Take measures to fix it before it gets bad. This might include drugs - I'd always take dramamine if sailing into bad weather.
Also, everybody gets seasick eventually. Anyone who claims they don't simply hasn't been in a rough enough sea for long enough yet. There's no shame in taking care of yourself.
One last trick - ships have a metacentre that they rotate about. Ask a deck officer where on the ship you can get closest to it - it's the point where the movement of the ship will be minimised.
https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...
I don't suffer from tinnitus, but I know people who do and some of them have said that this helped them.