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my floaters showed up when i was 14- it was kinda shocking and scary at the time to be a freshman in high school and suddenly there were massive sensory disturbances in my eyes. ophthalmologists would just say to ignore them. apparently there's a pretty crazy surgery where they remove all the vitreous fluid from your eyeballs, but instead i decided to follow the ophthalmologist advice and they pretty much stopped bothering me.

tinnitus seems similar. maybe in the future there could be some kind of functionally guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure that could dull out some of the malfunctioning percept, but for now probably the best bet is to ignore it.

on a related note in interesting auditory neurotechnology, vestibular implants seem pretty cool!



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