Anyone else have tinnitus?
 

It's bugging me at the moment, as it usually does after i get done stressing out about something. I was wondering if anyone else here had it? Do you just learn to tune it out, or did you find something that worked? I've had two doctors tell me it's permanent and there's nothing to be done about it.

Don't know what Tinnitus is, or what it's like? Imagine having this sound in one or both of your ears.. constantly.

You may be able to tune it out by occupying your mind with something else. The ringing sound may be at a lower , more tolerable volume, at other times, but it never goes away. It's always there. Your just more conscious of it sometimes, and at other times it's off in the background somewhere.

I have it. Originally in both ears but now only in right. For some reason when they did cochlear implant surgery into my left ear, tinnitus completely disappeared from that ear. I still have tinnitus in right ear but if its not unusually loud (like right now) then I don't notice it unless I turn my cochlear implant off.

I have had it for years I just got used to it I guess although sometimes in the morning its gets to be a pain. I live alongside it not much to be done they tell me

I have it in both ear. Mostly in the left ear. I'm also suffering from Hyperacusis. My hyperacusis is my worst thing thou.

When I got it first time in -95 it broke me totally. But after going trough a TRT-training, I manege to live my life as before, somehow. It's no more cinema, disco a.s.o. Even my computer is a problem for me.

Markus

I have it too, i been dealing with it for the last five years,once u get it chances are you will have it for the rest of your life.My advice to you is to ignored and stay away from loud noises and caffeine.

A close friend of mine has it and he chooses to deal with it by consuming alcohol (the eedjit)...not much use to you I know but I hope you develop a better coping strategy than he did.

Huh, I think you might be right about the caffeine. Never thought of that before! :hmmm:

I've had it in one ear for almost 5 years now, got it through an acoustic shock, which was preceded by a few years of listening to loud music in headphones.

It doesn't really bother me much and actually much less so since I quit drinking coffee last year (though I never connected the two till now), stopped using headphones (I try to use speakers for almost everything), started bringing earplugs when I go to see live music, and generally avoid aggravating noisemakers (things like fans, air conditioners, buzzers), especially when I'm asleep. When I go to sleep with a fan/AC running, I usually plug my ears, really helps in the morning.

Been pretty manageable for me, though my tinnitus isn't really that severe to begin with. It hasn't actually reduced though, and has probably got worse over the last 2 years, but easier to deal with.

I have it probably from my years working with Bands.
It is constant every moment I am awake if I actually listen for it.
I guess I learned to live with it as it only pops into my attention when it's bed time.
I sleep with ear plugs and the ringing is very pronounced then.
When I have the ear plugs in?
I hear variations of the ringing depending on many factors.
Are my jaws clenched, am I under stress and tense, etc.
It's not a fun thing to live with as I have for over 20 years, but dwelling on it makes it impossible to live with.

I didn't even notice it today until I read this thread!!
Kind of like smelling skunk.
If you smell them everyday you only notice when thier gone.
:D

I'm deaf in my right ear, mostly, anyway. I have 40db loss, because I have no eardrum. The tinnitus in that ear takes up a tone closer to a dial tone than the hissing I relate to the other ear. Playing so much heavy metal and surrounding myself with loud machinery doesn't help though. I just put up with it. But then I haven't looked for a "cure" either.

I remember hearing commercials for this on the radio.
http://www.quietrelief.com/

No, I don't work for them.
i don't know if it's any good. Just tryin to help.:D

Well as far as I know, most persistent tinnitus is caused by receptors permanently and physically going out of whack inside the cochlea, rather than anything in the outer ear. If ear cleaning hasn't helped, nothing probably will - unless you have a cochlear implant like kraznyi_oktjabr, but by that point the cure is almost worse than the medicine, since by then you'll have lost most of your natural hearing.

Since other than the tinnitus, my hearing is actually pretty darn good, I'd rather keep it the way it is.

It is very very unlikely that a tinnitus appears all alone, thus it should not be seen as a disease itself, but only one symptom embedded in a greater context/syndrome. Almost all people, healthy, who are exposed to absolute quiteness, after some time report to hear accustic perceptions that match the description of a tinnitus. However, the tinnitus that is usually meant when using the term, can be caused by a wide variety of organic causes, from ear tumours over disease of the immune system and neural problems in the ear to infections, intoxications anywhere in the body or the brain, and cardiovascular issues, and psychosomatic and psychologic factors (stress) as well.

Therefore, if you suffer from tinnitus, do not think you are "safe" when learning to live with it and therefore not going to a doctor - when you assume it is "just something with your ear", then you can be very wrong, maybe. It could be a symptom that something very and totally different is wrong with your health.

Well, I'm not going to have some implant that may do more harm the good.
The ringing is something I can live with and have for many years.
There's a good size group of people that do live with it because it is not reverseable.
Once you damage the systems involved?
You can't fix them unless your a rich MoFo and then you wouldn't be here talking about it!
:haha:

I'd say from others I have talked to? 60% of ex-military suffer.
The other 40% probably ran typewriters or some other low risk devices.

I also have tinnitus affecting my right ear. It stems from playing in bands during my college years. Too much loud music. They promote earplugs now, and I am always telling my student to take care of their hearing.

In my case that "cure" to my left ear was totally unexpected consequence. Reason for installing cochlear implant was that I was almost deaf at the time and used either speech with heavy reliance to lipreading or sign language.

They laugh at me, when I tell my sisters or others, when they are going to a concert. That they should protect their ears.

Markus

Absolutely. Rock concerts are some of the worst offenders, as everyone walks out with their ears ringing. Once you hear ringing, the damage has already been done.

I have it, but fortunately sporadic bouts and quite distant apart. Maybe twice a month and only for 10 mins or so.

I've had it since late teens when it was even further apart. I've put it down to noisy aeroplanes, I think 5 years working next to the VC10 (surely one of the loudest engines on an aeroplane) engine detuner at Brize didn't help much - defenders worn by the engine guys, but not for us. I've never been one for the ear defenders. It could be just as likely to be pubs/clubs :hmmm:

I know that when it occurs there is nothing prior that has caused it on that occasion. I also now know how lucky I am having read this thread.

@mapuc - I do not envy your hyperacusis

I suffer from it too. Sometimes it gets really bad, but most of the time I can ignore it.

I think that I spent too much time on the phone sex lines and had too many eargasams. :D

What the... is eargasam? :o