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I went to the doc the other day, and ear nose and throat type doc, and he said he belives I have tinnitus. Dang ringing in my ears. As long as I am working around noise,cant even tell it, but when its quiet its a bitch. There aint much they can do for this ailment, some meds seem to help. It aint really bad, as long as it dont get any worse. Then I might have to walk around with a cd player all day. Anybody have any problems with this? I know, I know, Im falling apart. First CTS, now this. Sheeeeessssh.
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I too have this...since I was 13. Someone told me once that what I was hearing was the sound of the cosmos...after that it didn't seem so bad . It's pretty annoying sometimes, but I've learned to live with it.
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Yep. I've reached a point where I have to have some sort of noise such as a fan or HEPA filter running in the room just so I can sleep at night.
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Yep, here too. I got mine listening to the headphones too loud. I can never experience total quiet.
Funny thing, place I used to work at had a medical bus come over and test our hearing. I got in the little booth and when they shut the door it was pretty quiet except for the generator hum. That's when my ears started ringing. I heard the first few tones and pressed the button accordingly, but after a while I couldn't hear them and I was just pressing the button in the dark thinking, man I know there must have been a tone!
Got out the booth and the lady said you have a good bit of hearing loss. I then told her of my ringing ears.
It sucks. I heard it drives lots of folks into deep depressions. I look at it like this, I am the one who ruined my ears, so I'm stuck with it. What am I gonna do, kick my own a$$?
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Bill blames his tinnitus on being a drummer in a H.S. band. I think the "selective hearing" issue can be raised on occasion though!
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i got it also, but ive done a lot of meditation and that helps take the mind off hearing it. also during the day i tend to have either a radio or the tv going in the background and it stops the ringing or makes just enough distraction i dont hear the ringing.
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It's God's way of saying I've got yer number. Only time I hear it is when I think about it.
Move to the Oceanside........it goes away.
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In some cases it's so severe that it can drive people insane to the point of suicide. My long friend and high school art teacher has it so bad that he goes months on end without seeing guests at all. I think I have some early signs of it coming on. Oh well, everything breaks down eventually.
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I have a friend who suffered really badly with that. She was at the stage that she was crying half the time it was so distressing. She ended up going to a clinic in Calgary and they fixed her up with some type of machine that feeds her brain white noise which desensitizes it to the Tinitus. She says it is a lot more bearable now. She has to wear the machine for an hour or so a couple of times a day to keep the tinitus at bay. I'm not 100% sure of the exact details, but I know her state of mind sure has improved. She also has to stay away from any loud noise or she has major setbacks.
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Gee . . . I had no idea it was such a potentially serious condition . . .
Is it that sound in your ears that sounds like when you put a seashell to your ear, or like a whole bunch'a crickets far-off??
Is it (only) caused by being around loud noises all the time, like loud music, tools ect, or is it a hereditary ailment, or caused by other things like what you do or don't eat??
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I only have it a little bit, and not loud enough to worry about. Probably from exposure to jet engine noise on the flight line when I was in the AF. Mostly, it's like a high pitched single tone.
Yeah, we had jets then, in addition to the fabric, wire and duct tape biplanes.
Don't really think heredity or diet has much to do with it. More likely environmental racket.
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-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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I've had a mild case of it for years. A couple years ago it started getting worse. Then dizzy spells started up. It worsened into full blown vertigo with throwing up. Frequency increased, then the hearing loss started. One morning I was laying in bed with my good ear on the pillow, awake, and I saw my wife talking to me but couldn't hear what she was saying. I also noticed from switching the phone from one ear to the other, a significant change in volume and tone of the ring tone.
I went to the EN&T doc and had my hearing tested. Permanent loss they said. They put me on Prednisone for 2 weeks. With no change the diagnosis was Meniere's disease. While there, they took my blood pressure it is was extremely high. After taking BP meds for a month, the dizziness went away, my hearing was restored, and the tinnitis is almost completely gone.
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I remember hearing that using aspirin will accentuate the ringing. Evidently it thins the blood effectively enough that it rushes through the ear differently.
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i get it too...its worse when i drink too much coffee or red wine..and the fact i have an underactive thyroid doesnt help it is very annoying
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I knew it was a widespread problem, but never thought this many people here would have it. I performed in rock and country bands since I was 16 years old, so I guess thats where mine came from. Its nowhere near bad enough for me to lose my mind, although sometimes I think thats already happened. It does get a little bothersome at times when its quiet, but I usually do something to block it out. Ah the nuances of growing old-er.
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Too many years at the race tracks for me. And I guess the concerts had something to do with it. Like Dave said, high blood pressure can also cause it.
Just look at how many of us innocently have contracted it. Imagine in a few years, all these young kids listening to that headbanger music and rap crap with 40 thousand watts, inside the car. Their most common conversation will be "huh?"
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Pencil me in too, been 30 years, the Doc can't help,loosing a lot of high freq. ability now (can't hear higher freq. like womens voices, sirens,kids)
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I have always had a super high-pitched ringing in my ears, but I have considered it normal. I only only hear if I pay attention to it, but it's always there.
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I've had it for as long as I can remember. It's very seldom fatal, LOL. I got mine from a very high fever when I was a little kid and improved on it with guns, saws, and high wattage guitar amps. The only thing you can do is mask it with a sound conditioning device or a fan.
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I have had it since I fell off the back of a truck in 1983. (No..it wasn't a turnip truck..lol) Since my head injury, I have had several inner ear infections which caused hearing loss. The ringing is just in one ear. It is a very shrill high pitched ring, it gets louder when I am very tired. After hearing it for 22 years, it seems natural. Judy
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