Tinnitus making me mental

[foggy1111]

Ugh, you guys are scaring me .... guess I'll start being even more careful about carrying AND USING a set of ear plugs.[/QUOTE

Good! Because Tinnitus sucks! You don't want to go there, any of you young guys reading this protect your hearing!!! I have it bad in my right it and moderate in my left. Gun fire (lefty) Rock n roll and years spent running machinery. I never thought about wearing hearing protection and I really regret it now. They only time I don't hear it is when I am in the shower or some other white noise overpowers it.

I am trying a new product called "Ring Relief" at the moment. It may be helping a little but it could also be wishful thinking.

I'm 50 so I am hoping by the time I am 60 they have a cure, there is a tremendous amount of money on the table for the first ones that do.
I bet 80% of TBN has some form of Tinnitus...in fact someone should start a poll, it would be interesting to see.

I can remember being 40....and then 50 and hoping their would be a cure for me by age 60 - just like you. I am 65 now....and I have not heard of a cure yet. One can hope.

I'm quite certain my tinnitus is a result of gun-shots and being on too many varmint shoots. But even the army didn't furnish hearing protection when I was a soldier. We'd go looking for cigarette filters to stick in our ears when going to the rifle range. They said it was "temprorary" hearing loss. Yeah.....riiiight.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Make sure none of your medications if you take any cause tinnitus as a side effect. Then try to see an ENT/otolaryngologist and have an audiogram to ensure you do have a nerve hearing loss causing the tinnitus. There may be benefit to tinnitus coping methods, a hearing aid or a tinnitus masker. It sounds likely to be from noise exposure causing hearing loss, sometimes treating the hearing loss can make it more tolerable.
This is not medical advice and I urge you to see a professional.

2x.

After taking Indocin for my Ankylosing Spondylitis for about 18 years I developed tinnitus and mental fog but I changed to fish oil and it cleared up and I had better pain management.

 

[heviduty]

Don't think about it. I don't notice mine unless I think about it, then it drives me nuts (short trip). It sounds like down at the pond at night in the summer, crickets, frogs, hundreds of them all at once. Other times it's like compressed air blowing off.

I wouldn't hold much hope for a cure. From what I understand, your inner ear is filled with fluid and is lined with little hairs, each with a nerve ending. Sound vibrates your eardrum which is connected through tiny bones to the inner ear. When the inner ear vibrates, the hairs wiggle creating signals which travel to the brain and get interpreted as sound. Beginning about age 50 for men, the hairs begin to die. The short ones, which pick up the high frequencies, die first. The brain expects to have the signals within a certain range and will adjust the gain accordingly, sort of like automatic gain control. Large signals are attenuated and small signals are amplified. This causes hearing to be logarithmic, so for a sound to double in percieved volume the power must be increased by one order of magnitude (10X).

Anyhoo, tinnitis occurs when the brain begins to receive smaller and smaller high frequency signals so it turns up the gain, so to speak, trying to maintain the signal levels. When the high frequency gain increases, random signals begin to get amplified and interpreted as high frequency sound. That is tinnitis. It is similar to turning the gain way up on a PA system and getting feedback. That's the way I understand it anyway. The doctors out there may have a better or different explaination. What I'm getting at is if the nerve hairs are dead, I don't see how they can be brought back, although I would love to hear of a cure.

I have the Calibra Free behind the ear hearing aids and they do a good job of amplifying high frequencies but it ends up raspy sounding because of my hearing loss. My comprehension is down to about 85% and hearing aids don't help much with that, they just make things louder which may help mask your tinnitis. I have a friend who keeps a small fan running in the bedroom at night to help drown it out.

I have heard of people with hearing loss being able to hear their blood pumping, especially when they lay their head on a pillow. I think this may also be a result of the increased gain.

I did have one doctor tell me they didn't know what caused it but they do know Aspirin makes it worse.

 

[Soundguy]

don't take lots of aspirin or similar products do you?

 

[foggy1111]

Don't think about it. I don't notice mine unless I think about it, then it drives me nuts (short trip). It sounds like down at the pond at night in the summer, crickets, frogs, hundreds of them all at once. Other times it's like compressed air blowing off.

I wouldn't hold much hope for a cure. From what I understand, your inner ear is filled with fluid and is lined with little hairs, each with a nerve ending. Sound vibrates your eardrum which is connected through tiny bones to the inner ear. When the inner ear vibrates, the hairs wiggle creating signals which travel to the brain and get interpreted as sound. Beginning about age 50 for men, the hairs begin to die. The short ones, which pick up the high frequencies, die first. The brain expects to have the signals within a certain range and will adjust the gain accordingly, sort of like automatic gain control. Large signals are attenuated and small signals are amplified. This causes hearing to be logarithmic, so for a sound to double in percieved volume the power must be increased by one order of magnitude (10X).

Anyhoo, tinnitis occurs when the brain begins to receive smaller and smaller high frequency signals so it turns up the gain, so to speak, trying to maintain the signal levels. When the high frequency gain increases, random signals begin to get amplified and interpreted as high frequency sound. That is tinnitis. It is similar to turning the gain way up on a PA system and getting feedback. That's the way I understand it anyway. The doctors out there may have a better or different explaination. What I'm getting at is if the nerve hairs are dead, I don't see how they can be brought back, although I would love to hear of a cure.

I have the Calibra Free behind the ear hearing aids and they do a good job of amplifying high frequencies but it ends up raspy sounding because of my hearing loss. My comprehension is down to about 85% and hearing aids don't help much with that, they just make things louder which may help mask your tinnitis. I have a friend who keeps a small fan running in the bedroom at night to help drown it out.

I have heard of people with hearing loss being able to hear their blood pumping, especially when they lay their head on a pillow. I think this may also be a result of the increased gain.

I did have one doctor tell me they didn't know what caused it but they do know Aspirin makes it worse.

Pretty good analysis. I get the pulsating tinnitus (blood pumping sounds) at times (too often). Man, I hate that. Didn't know about Aspirin...thanks. Wonder if Ibuprofen or Tylenol do the same thing? (is it blood thinners?)

I have BTE aids....and they really help mask the ringing. It takes allot more "work" to carry conversations....and wears you down by the end of the day (or maybe it's getting old? ) I use a TV sound (with timer) to help me get to sleep. I don't like to focus on the ringing.

 

[heviduty]

don't take lots of aspirin or similar products do you?

Never have. My hearing and tinnitis are worse in my left ear. I wonder if driving with my window down all those years had an effect. That's a lot of wind noise.

 

[troutsqueezer]

There is no one cause, in fact there are many and most of the time the cause for any individual's tinnitus cannot be pinpointed. No doubt an important reason as to why there is no cure. I suspect that in a vast majority of cases where tinnitus has gone away or subsided a bit it has not been due to anything the patient has deliberately done. There are a few exceptions, but very few in the scheme of things. At least that's my take on it.

 

[Soundguy]

Never have. My hearing and tinnitis are worse in my left ear. I wonder if driving with my window down all those years had an effect. That's a lot of wind noise.

probably!

 

[heviduty]

Hearing aid for men.....

 

[cdaigle430]

Hearing aid for men.....View attachment 280572

Nice


Also Tinnitus can cause other effects on your health. In my case it cause severe insomnia which cause hypertension, loss of memory, confusion etc.