<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.&lt;p&gt;Holy crap. You just blew my mind. &amp;quot;Silence is deafening&amp;quot; makes more than just figurative sense.&lt;p&gt;From a young age, I&amp;#x27;ve always noticed a light ringing while in extremely quiet places. Not enough to bother me, but enough to notice my ears straining to hear sound.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mitch-snipline</author><text>I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven&amp;#x27;t already.&lt;p&gt;Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It&amp;#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it&amp;#x27;s absolutely worth checking out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-discovered-potential-remedy-tinnitus-spencer</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flamtap</author><text>&amp;gt;It&amp;#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, this is exactly what tinnitus is. Your ear becomes insensitive to a certain frequency, so your brain &amp;quot;equalizes&amp;quot; it, if you will, and over compensates to the point that you&amp;#x27;re hearing something that&amp;#x27;s not there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mitch-snipline</author><text>I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven&amp;#x27;t already.&lt;p&gt;Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It&amp;#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it&amp;#x27;s absolutely worth checking out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-discovered-potential-remedy-tinnitus-spencer</url></story>