Stradbash
Silver Member
I too have a Mac laptop but cannot hear the purple except for tiny clicks at the start and end of the sample. Neither could my wife. I wonder....
tinnitus treatment?
- Thread starter jimmer2880
- Start date
- Views: 30154
I too have a Mac laptop but cannot hear the purple except for tiny clicks at the start and end of the sample. Neither could my wife. I wonder....
BTW: There is another disease similar to Bell's Palsy that I actually believe I had. They are often misdiagnosed. Look up Ramsey-Hunt. It has very similar attributes but I think it has more to do with damaging the ear.
Last edited:
Here is a recent article from this months issue of Hearing Product Review. This is a trade magazine for people in the hearing health industry.
Focus On: Tinnitus Devices & Treatments
Focus On: Tinnitus Devices & Treatments
JB4310
Super Member
Thanks alot guys, you gave me another problem I never knew I had 
Never even remember hearing the word before, and definitely didn't know what it meant, til out of curiosity I clicked on this thread.
Now I definitely got it!
I am the perfect candidate for it apparently, using jack hammers all my life, for hours at a time sometimes day after day. I do basement drainage work and have to cut through the concrete floors. we use electric jack hammers so not as bad as air but they are still quite load.
I almost always use ear plugs but sometimes not and back in the day not as much, I even use ear plugs when I mow the lawn now.
I think some of it must be psychological, like I said I hardly ever noticed it but now that I'm thinking about it, it's much more noticeable, between a hiss and a ring. If you concentrate on it, it gets real load.
I didn't read to many posts here but got the gist that there's no real cure? good thing mines not that bad yet, I will definitely start being more cautious and maybe get some better hearing protection than just those foam plugs. My hearing overall doesn't seem to be affected (no hearing loss).
JB.
Never even remember hearing the word before, and definitely didn't know what it meant, til out of curiosity I clicked on this thread.
Now I definitely got it!
I am the perfect candidate for it apparently, using jack hammers all my life, for hours at a time sometimes day after day. I do basement drainage work and have to cut through the concrete floors. we use electric jack hammers so not as bad as air but they are still quite load.
I almost always use ear plugs but sometimes not and back in the day not as much, I even use ear plugs when I mow the lawn now.
I think some of it must be psychological, like I said I hardly ever noticed it but now that I'm thinking about it, it's much more noticeable, between a hiss and a ring. If you concentrate on it, it gets real load.
I didn't read to many posts here but got the gist that there's no real cure? good thing mines not that bad yet, I will definitely start being more cautious and maybe get some better hearing protection than just those foam plugs. My hearing overall doesn't seem to be affected (no hearing loss).
JB.
6thgpSF
Gold Member
HERD,welcome home brother and to the other Nam vets I've run across this forum.I was with the 4Bat,LZ North English 69-70.worked alot with MAACV and ARVANS at a place called TamQuan. Carried mos of 11-B and 05B4S,[RTO ,S.F.qualified.] russ
6thgpSF
Gold Member
BCMIKE, That was funny! russ
Opti-Mist
Platinum Member
6thgpSF, 11B, that was me too except I was kept out of combat (due to my hearing loss which was diagnosed prior to leaving the states) during my tour of the central highlands.
QRTRHRS
Elite Member
Meniere's Disease is not that easy to diagnose per my wife's experiance. She was born deaf in one ear and very limited in the other, enough to be "legally deaf". She also has vertigo now and then with one bout lasting six weeks.
Anyway, a few years ago, she had a blood vessel blow in her nasal system while doing some yard work. Long story short, she was bleeding like something on sci-fi. One helicoptor ride later, she spends a couple of weeks in the hospital. They fixed the vessel(s) by cauterizing but the episode triggered everything else. She spent two weeks going through test after test only to have two nurologists in disagreement over having or not having Meniere's Disease. The only medication they could prescribe upset her stomach. I want to say it was something like dramamine.
With her hearing aid not working all that much for her and her tinnitus roaring, she had a coclear implant last summer. She still has tinnitus which has somewhat slowed does the "mapping" process that an implant requires. The implant does help to negate the tinnitus but not totally stop it. She usually has to exhaust herself to fall asleep.
As for myself, I have "artillery ears" and too much seat time on top of an 8V71 along with the usual heavy equipment, big vaccuum pumps, etc. etc. If I get near the CNC machines at work which are somewhere between a nuisance and required protection, I get ringing. I also have it now as I sit here typing with the volumn down on the TV, the dogs settled, etc. Once I take my shower, I won't hear it nor will it keep me awake. Guess that's a good thing?
Anyway, a few years ago, she had a blood vessel blow in her nasal system while doing some yard work. Long story short, she was bleeding like something on sci-fi. One helicoptor ride later, she spends a couple of weeks in the hospital. They fixed the vessel(s) by cauterizing but the episode triggered everything else. She spent two weeks going through test after test only to have two nurologists in disagreement over having or not having Meniere's Disease. The only medication they could prescribe upset her stomach. I want to say it was something like dramamine.
With her hearing aid not working all that much for her and her tinnitus roaring, she had a coclear implant last summer. She still has tinnitus which has somewhat slowed does the "mapping" process that an implant requires. The implant does help to negate the tinnitus but not totally stop it. She usually has to exhaust herself to fall asleep.
As for myself, I have "artillery ears" and too much seat time on top of an 8V71 along with the usual heavy equipment, big vaccuum pumps, etc. etc. If I get near the CNC machines at work which are somewhere between a nuisance and required protection, I get ringing. I also have it now as I sit here typing with the volumn down on the TV, the dogs settled, etc. Once I take my shower, I won't hear it nor will it keep me awake. Guess that's a good thing?
Olmike
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2006
- Messages
- 64
- Location
- Holton, Kansas NO. of Topeka
- Tractor
- case 1835 uniloader,720K grasshopper,76 F350 with dump bed,cushman truckster with dump bed
Bird, I must have the same hearing loss as you.I only hear the first two colors also. If you want hear the TV,I bought some wireless headphones off ebay.The transmitter plugs in the audio out jacks of the TV set . Made A world of difference in my TV watching.I can turn the set real loud & still not understand the dialog. But with the headphones I kinda feel normal.Mike
