tinnitus treatment?

[SpringHollow]

Just checked the link - with volume on high, the purple one hurts my ears. I can believe it is very computer dependent - frequency response of he speakers etc. It was just at the edge of my hearing. I have a Mac laptop.

None of the ringing was quite like i hear from my TMJ etc. Mine sounds like a lower frequency version of the blue one. I have lost some hearing - i now have to turn up the sound much louder than I used to and have a harder time understanding what people say.

Ken

 

[Bird]

I have high frequency hearing loss and most women are impossible to understand in difficult situations like bars or public places.

In my case, it's more of an individual situation. Some women, and even some men, speak in a frequency that makes it very difficult for me to understand them. And I don't guess there are any small children that I can understand.

Perhaps the most annoying thing of all is the answering machines that most companies use in this day and age. Their recorded messages are loud and clear, push 1 for this or 2 for that, etc. And then, if or when a human comes on the line he or she will be next to impossible to understand.

 

[Mudfarmer]

I don't see any comments from medical doctors on this thread. There must be more out there than me who have tractors and read the discussions.

In any case I want to generally acknowledge the accuracy of the information that has been shared. Tinnitus and the accompanying hearing loss is very frustrating for folks who have it and for the doctors that take care of them. There is one piece of information I haven't seen mentioned and want to stress. Once noise induced hearing loss is initiated the nerves in the ear are actually increasingly vulnerable to noise. I have had many patients with the misapprehension that since they have already lost some hearing (and can't hear the noise as much as they used to) that the damage is done and protection isn't necessary. Just the contrary is true. It takes much less noise exposure to lose the second half of your hearing, than the first half. As for tinnitus the insult to the injury is that if you have it even if hearing fades, the tinnitus likely won't. Use hearing protection.

Finally proper hearing aids (those fitted by professional audiologists) have sound levels controlled to stay below damaging decibel levels. Of course wives in general like hearing aids, but they don't help everyone. There is type of "hearing loss" common in the elderly that is centered in the brain rather than the ears. In that circumstance the sounds heard aren't able to be interpreted as words. Hearing aids don't help that, but then again noise doesn't cause it either.

 

[SpringHollow]

Thanks Mudfarmer for that post. I try to explain that to my friends who have hearing loss and think since they already do not hear so well, they do not need hearing protection.

Ken

 

[6thgpSF]

I got it when uncle sam tought me how to use various weapons,I'm also deaf at certain tones. Herd ,are you as in 173abn? russ/173abn

 

[herd]

I got it when uncle sam tought me how to use various weapons,I'm also deaf at certain tones. Herd ,are you as in 173abn? russ/173abn

russ, yes, 1/B/1 503d, 173d Airborne BDE, based at LZ Uplift, Dec '69 May 70. How about you, what was your batt and company?

 

[Opti-Mist]

Here is a link to some interesting tests.
High Frequency Response and Hearing Test

 

[dieselsmoke1]

Fascinating. I can't hear a thing till 14k with a fairly decent sound system hooked up to the PC...

 

[75H2]

I have it too. I've always had it, I just never knew the name. I thought it was normal to have a constant "noise" in my head when it was quiet out. It gets worse when around loud noises for a period of time. I don't listen to loud music anymore. I always wear hearing protection when operating my tractor. I took the loud pipes off my motorcycle and put the quiet stock ones back on. I too like to have some sort of background noise, music on

 

[BCMIKE]

Not only have I gotten used to mine, it makes a good background for the voices.