tinnitus treatment?

[Bird]

Mike, when you use the headphones, doesn't that cut off the regular sound or speakers so that others in the room cannot hear it? Several years ago, my mother was getting hard of hearing and was in a nursing home so she couldn't turn her TV sound up loud enough without disturbing others. So I bought some of the wireless headphones from Radio Shack. They worked very well, but unfortunately she just could not learn to use them properly. Instead, I got the hardwired headphones and she could use those.

 

[Olmike]

Bird, If your TV is less than 10 years old there are jacks in back for left out & rt out.The work independently of the TV speakers.They're for surround & such.I can turn the TV volume down to 0 when the wife goes to bed & not disturb her. Mike

 

[Bird]

Ah, yes, Mike. Of course now we have flat screen TVs that are less than 2 years old, but the Panasonic TV I bought for my mother in the nursing home was in 2002, and I don't think it had those jacks. That Panasonic TV died before its warranty was up, and instead of getting it repaired, Circuit City just gave me another new one. Anyway, the second one lasted just fine, and when my Mother died in 2006, I just left the TV for the nursing home.

 

[herd]

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

russ, sounds like we served during the same time, maybe shared some of the same groud.. I too worked a lot with the ARVN's, sorriest buch of soliders I have ever seen. We were on Westmoreland's wet dream concept of 'pacification." Training ARVN's and "ruff-puffs" to do their own fighting, never worked. We would go out on LRCP's with 4 GI's and 4 ARVN's, they always refused to go up in the hills. "Beaucoup VC" they would say and then sit at the base of the mountains uuntil we returned. What a crock.

 

[mrutkaus]

The more I read this thread, the worse mine gets!

There's a new "treatment" that figures your frequencies out, then programs music with those frequencies missing (sort of like a karoke recording, everything but the singer), then when you listen to the music, your internal stuff fills it in. Something I just read about.

Mike

 

[6thgpSF]

Opti-Mist,didn't mean to leave you out, welcome home brother. Herd.yes those ARVN's were a very sorry bunch.I could never get used to seeing them holding hands.The chohois made me very nervous.My Dad fought the Japs in the Phillippines, he had an eardrum busted bya Jap frag and as he got older his hearing got worse were we would literally yell so he could hear us.After my mom died he got to turning his big screen tv all the way up and leaving it up.Alot of times he would fall asleep in his chair and if someone tried to call or visit we were out of luck till he woke up.One of my sisters bought him this little transistor radio sized ampfiler with an earphone.It worked OK cept hed forget to use it. russ

 

[Opti-Mist]

I have a Sony Model MDR-IF-120 wireless headphone system which when the transmitter is plugged into a set of jacks on the tv allows me to listen with the tv sound muted or turned down. It an older infra-red model. I also had a Jantzen that I wore the headphones out on.

6thgpSF, we're good.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Here's some good stuff:


Tinnitus: Causes and Treatment

 

[jimmer2880]

Here's some good stuff:


Tinnitus: Causes and Treatment

That is some excellent reading! Thank you for posting it.

 

[atgreene]

I'm in the same club. I can recall laying in bed a a young kid (3 rd grade?) trying to listen for Santa Claus and his reindeer and being so frustrated that the air noise prevented me from hearing if he had arrived.

Took me years to realize what I had. My fathers Mcculloch chainsaw was a killer and I suspect that is what started it for me. Once I started logging and driving truck, the chainsaws and jake brakes did me in for good.

Mine is definitely the high freq buzzing with a little high freq humming thrown in for good measure.

The sawmill and any John Deere 2 cylinder will really aggrevate it, but the Q is the worst. The Federal Q 2 mechanical sirens here at work are pure h:ll. I wear hearing protection anytime I'm using anything at home. I have radio headsets everywhere just so there's no excuse, but here on the fire engine it's nearly impossible to listen to the radio traffic and wear headsets. The Q while responding to a call will really agrevate it.

I met with the cities hearing doctor years ago. He said he could install a couple hearing aid like devices in my ears to match the sound. After a year or so my brain would eventually readjust what it thinks it is hearing. He said there was a 50-50 chance it would work and I'd have to fork out about $4k to do it. I decided I would live with it.

Sure wish I could have heard Santa Claus though.