Tinnitus making me mental
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I, too suffer from this condition and have for many years. I guess too many years in the military and the 60s and 70s loud rock music took a toll. Here is a product I started using about six months ago; it has not caused it go away completely but it has been reduced significantly and I plan to continue taking it. Here is a the website: Antioxidant Supplements - Premier Micronutrient Corporation |. The product is BioArmor Hearing Health, not cheap but it seems to be working to relieve my symptoms a great deal. I also sleep with either a fan or wave machine to help for nights when it might be louder than normal.
Good luck and hope you find something that works, there have been days over the years where I just wanted to stick ice picks in my ears to stop all noise.
Good luck and hope you find something that works, there have been days over the years where I just wanted to stick ice picks in my ears to stop all noise.
Jim Shooz
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I've heard it referred to as Truckers' Ear so it is a known phenomenon. I tried to use that as an excuse to get a discount on my hearing aids (work related) but the audiologist wouldn't buy it.
The BTE aids I got were ReSound X-plore. Had them about 4 years and only two problems. Wore them in the rain, over $300 for a new microphone. Stand side on to a wall or wind the car window up and I get a lot of feedback.
MotorSeven
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Dredging this old thread back up....my tinnitus just kicked into a higher gear in the last month or so. Not sure why, but I do take aspirin a few times a week so I am going to stop that and see what happens. Mine is the cicada sound and it used to be just a mild background noise....now it's what I would call moderate. I guess I am due a hearing check-up although I could easily predict the results
Ridgewalker suggested a TBN tinnitus poll...did anyone do that yet?
Ridgewalker suggested a TBN tinnitus poll...did anyone do that yet?
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Dredging this old thread back up....my tinnitus just kicked into a higher gear in the last month or so. Not sure why, but I do take aspirin a few times a week so I am going to stop that and see what happens. Mine is the cicada sound and it used to be just a mild background noise....now it's what I would call moderate. I guess I am due a hearing check-up although I could easily predict the results
Ridgewalker suggested a TBN tinnitus poll...did anyone do that yet?
I almost never take aspirin; maybe twice in the last year. However, my tinnitus has gradually gotten worse over the past 30 years, so I'm long past the stage you're at. I'd say mine is severe and continuous.
troutsqueezer
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Lots of us here have it. The causes and manifestations are so varied, it is entirely unpredictable. It comes, it goes, it's loud, it's quiet, etc. I have four different manifestations of it. A continuous high frequency tone in one ear. A low hum (112Hz) only in the absence of sound in the other. Frequent, short-lived "eeeeeee" episodes in both ears and finally a screechy, high frequency sound in one ear that only comes out during the night after I've been sleeping soundly.
Good thing the brain has "neural plasticity" which means it will adapt to a variety of conditions, including tinnitus, and will ignore them after some time. "Time" being the key word. For tinnitus, it's usually 6 months to a year for that to happen but different for everybody.
Good thing the brain has "neural plasticity" which means it will adapt to a variety of conditions, including tinnitus, and will ignore them after some time. "Time" being the key word. For tinnitus, it's usually 6 months to a year for that to happen but different for everybody.
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Very good decriptions of the different "manifestations".
I have the high frequency in one ear once in a while and it usually only lasts for a few minutes. I call that one the dog whistle! :shocked:
And I have a cicada type sound continously in the absence of sound. Somteimes it gets really loud and annoys me. Other times I pretend its summer in my youth, the windows are open, a nice breeze is blowing and I go to sleep on a nice summer evening.... even if its the dead of winter. :zzz:
Ed of all trades
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I was in China back in the early 90's and a bike went by that had little cages the size of a big hen egg, each one had a cricket or two in it and they were all singing. All the cages tied together were the size of two 100 lb feed sacks. That is what my ears sound like. It all started when I shot my .44 at a deer. Not only did I get the crickets I did not get the deer. That has been almost 6 years and it stays about the same.
MotorSeven
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I think I will have to quest for a cure......Tequila, Sour Mash, Scotch, Rum, , , , , ......................................
strictly for medicinal study's of course
strictly for medicinal study's of course
