tinnitus treatment?

[JIGBUILDER]

I was diagnosed with Menieres in my left ear in the late '60s. Went through the vertigo thing and thank god I haven't had any more vertigo issues since the early '80's. Growing up on diesel trucks and tractors/hunting/busting rivits/flight ramps/aircraft manufacturing has taken its toll. My FT 60 is extermly loud. When on the tractor mowing all day I wear ear plugs and ear muffs. It helps somewhat.

The auditory nerve in my left ear is usless and isn't a canadate for a hearing aid. My Tinnitus sounds like a air hose with a bad leak (cut in half).

Ive found nothing that can get rid of the noise. It gets louder when I'm stressed/loud radios/just about anything thats loud. My wife and her three sisters have my ears screaming after a hour around them.

I wear a hearing aid in my right ear which has been a great help as I can hear my two youngest grandaughters now. Their very soft spoken.

I imagine many of you depend on your wife to be your ears out in public. I have to.

You young guys that aren't wearing hearing protection or even listen to loud music/chainsaw/gas trimmer or blower/etc need to start now. I'm 68 years old and had normal hearing till 'the early '70's. This ain't fun.

 

[ray66v]

I was diagnosed with Menieres in my left ear in the late '60s. Went through the vertigo thing and thank god I haven't had any more vertigo issues since the early '80's. Growing up on diesel trucks and tractors/hunting/busting rivits/flight ramps/aircraft manufacturing has taken its toll. My FT 60 is extermly loud. When on the tractor mowing all day I wear ear plugs and ear muffs. It helps somewhat.

The auditory nerve in my left ear is usless and isn't a canadate for a hearing aid. My Tinnitus sounds like a air hose with a bad leak (cut in half).

Ive found nothing that can get rid of the noise. It gets louder when I'm stressed/loud radios/just about anything thats loud. My wife and her three sisters have my ears screaming after a hour around them.

I wear a hearing aid in my right ear which has been a great help as I can hear my two youngest grandaughters now. Their very soft spoken.

I imagine many of you depend on your wife to be your ears out in public. I have to.

You young guys that aren't wearing hearing protection or even listen to loud music/chainsaw/gas trimmer or blower/etc need to start now. I'm 68 years old and had normal hearing till 'the early '70's. This ain't fun.

I always thought when you get older and need a hearing aid, at least you can turn them off, and enjoy the quiet when you wanted it.

Now, to think the ringing will still be there, not drowned out at least partially by other noise.....

 

[texbaylea]

I developed tinnitis from taking naproxyn sodium (Napersyn, Aleve) for arthritis pian in my hands when I was working. I stopped taking that stuff but that did not stop the ringing. It does not affect my sleeping but I do miss some conversation if I am not concentrating on it.

I do use hearing when I will be using PTO attachments on my Kubota. I normally operate at 1700-1800 rpm for other tasks and don't feel the need for that as it is suprisingly quiet.

Vernon

 

[ray66v]

I developed tinnitis from taking naproxyn sodium (Napersyn, Aleve) for arthritis pian in my hands when I was working. I stopped taking that stuff but that did not stop the ringing. It does not affect my sleeping but I do miss some conversation if I am not concentrating on it.

I do use hearing when I will be using PTO attachments on my Kubota. I normally operate at 1700-1800 rpm for other tasks and don't feel the need for that as it is suprisingly quiet.

Vernon

If your getting ringing for Aleve, the chances are asprin, all the other nsaids, and even some narcotic pain killers like Naprosyn, will do the exact same thing. As well as many antacids especially Pepto Bismol. I learned these are all metabolized the same way, so they will all usually give the same ringing. Tylenol is about the only common pain killer not on the list.

 

[SpringHollow]

How do you know it was the drugs that gave you the tinnitus if it did not go away when you stopped using them?

Curious because of my ringing and i use Ibuprofen.

Ken

 

[bobhead]

In Oct '08, my son (then 17) was sitting in class when his ear suddenly started ringing. He said the noise started so suddenly and was so loud that he actually looked around to see who was making the noise. Within a few hours, he had lost almost all of the hearing in his right ear. At first, his regular doctor thought it might be a severe ear infection but could see no sign of infection so she sent him to specialist. Diagnosis: idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (damage to the inner ear nerves of unknown cause). Basically, something damaged the nerves in the inner ear - probably an infection of some sort but we'll never know.

The only treatment is the steroid treatments someone else mentioned. He had about two weeks of oral steroids and 6 weeks of twice a week injections into the inner ear (hard to watch them poke that needle through your kid's eardrum but he said it wasn't that bad).

His hearing did improve some but even the doctors say it might have been the treatments or it might have just improved on its own. He started with about 90db loss in all frequencies and improved to about 15db loss in the very low and very high ranges with about 60db loss in the mid range. He's probably stuck with that for life.

He had all the symptoms described by others here. Dizziness and nausea (caused by the nerve damage to the inner ear with is also part of your balance system), constant ringing in that ear. As others have said, the thinking is that the ringing is your brain trying to make up for the loss of sounds signals from the ear. The nausea went away after a few days (doc says the body adjusts quickly to that, especially when you're young). He still has the ringing but it's not too bad now.

I'm posting this mainly for one reason. If you have hearing loss and/or tinnitus caused by long term exposure to noise, well, see your doctor and protect what you have left but there is, apparently, only so much that can be done.

BUT, if it happens suddenly - SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY. The currently thinking is that those steroid treatments have the best chance of helping if given very early. Make sure you are talking to a specialist. A lot of people wait to seek treatment thinking it will go away on its own. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

Here's a link:
What is sudden sensorineural hearing loss?

 

[mrutkaus]

Might do a little something, in any case it has real ingredients, not homeopathic, seems to have helped me a little bit:

Swanson Condition Specific Formulas Ear Essentials 60 Caps - Swanson Health Products

This is "ear essentials" from Swansons Vitamins.

Mike

 

[jimmer2880]

Might do a little something, in any case it has real ingredients, not homeopathic, seems to have helped me a little bit:

Swanson Condition Specific Formulas Ear Essentials 60 Caps - Swanson Health Products

This is "ear essentials" from Swansons Vitamins.

Mike

How long did you take it before you noticed a difference? Do you have the ringing in your ears, or only hearing loss?

Thank you for the link.

 

[kenmac]

WOW ! I can't believe all these people have this ringing in their ears ! I thought I was the only one. I went to several docs years ago. They all said just have to live with it. Maybe some day there will be a cure ( I hope)

 

[Casco1]

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....

This observation is a mite late but I think the purple doesn't make a sound.

I had my cat sit near me and tried all the sounds, they all made him turn except the purple.

four tests same results and I trust the cat's ears more than I trust mine.