Tinnitus
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I've lived with it's constant company the last 20+ years. all the Otologist's I've seen tell me it's caused by nerve damage to the cochlea (from chronic over exposure to loud noise - I also have a "shooter's notch" in my hearing) and incurable. I've quit asking. It does vary in intensity from week to week. It increases during periods of stress, and sometimes almost (but not quite) completely vanishes. My primary care physician says i can expect it to follow my blood pressure to an small extent, so it serves as a reminder in the event I miss my blood pressure medication... As you point out, it is rarely more than a minor annoyance. The shooter's notch is more of a bother, as it makes it quite difficult to understand female programmers of the Indian nationality - the pitch of their speech is smack in the middle of the least acute area of my hearing.
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I've lived with it's constant company the last 20+ years. all the Otologist's I've seen tell me it's caused by nerve damage to the cochlea (from chronic over exposure to loud noise - I also have a "shooter's notch" in my hearing) and incurable. I've quit asking. It does vary in intensity from week to week. It increases during periods of stress, and sometimes almost (but not quite) completely vanishes. My primary care physician says i can expect it to follow my blood pressure to an small extent, so it serves as a reminder in the event I miss my blood pressure medication... As you point out, it is rarely more than a minor annoyance. The shooter's notch is more of a bother, as it makes it quite difficult to understand female programmers of the Indian nationality - the pitch of their speech is smack in the middle of the least acute area of my hearing.
A strange 'feature' of mine is that I often hear it suddenly lower in frequency, sounding as if when you quite quickly turn down the frequency knob on a tone generator, sort of a eeeeeeyuuooo, but better described by a graph than text.
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I get it from time to time mildly. Now thinking about it, my usual reason - lot's of loud clubs a decade or more ago - is probably not the true cause. I can remember standing in a wheat field when the wind died down, and all I could hear was my heart beating. On the other hand it does seem to come in moments of stress. Also once it's brought to my attention (like now) I'll notice it for a while too.
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
Another thought is: have you started taking any meds lately? You never know, it could be a side effect.
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Another thought is: have you started taking any meds lately? You never know, it could be a side effect.
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MidwestLimey wrote:
Another thought is: have you started taking any meds lately?
Yes, I have, SSRI's and SNRI's, and but the tinnitus goes back way before I ever took any meds. Not, however, as far as I know, necessarily before I ever took any drugs experimentally. :~ It is noteworthy that tinnitus has been linked to serotogenic conditions and medications.
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I've had it since 1968, got it from a close blast and have never recovered. The VA will compensate 10% if I can prove that it is military related. How in the hell would I do that. All I know is that over the years it has driven me crazy and after doing research have found there is no cure. MIke
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
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My mother had tinnitus for years, never bothered her particularly until she was diagnosed with Parkinsons - the meds she took for that seemed to make it more noticeable.
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I have had a mild case for at least ten years, probably from years in noisy cockpits (80-100+dBa for hours at time). Today I can practically track my blood pressure by the background noise. No need for fancy measuring equipment of visits to the Dr!
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I have mine since 20+ years. Was never exposed to loud noise (hate loud music etc...). Sounds like an jet engine but has sudden changes in frequency. It seems somehow correlated with stress, more stress means louder tinitus. Got some meds when it started, but nothing helped. Sometimes its so loud that I need to adjust the volume at the telephone, but most of the times I ignore it.
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I got mine from working in a large computer room for a couple of years. The room was nearly an acre in size, full of mainframes, line printers, and row after row of the old 'washing machine' disk drives. The fan noise was unreal, and nobody thought to wear hearing protection back then. The only time it bothers me is when I try to sleep. I have to have a white noise source running (a fan or something like that) or the whine keeps me awake.
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I got mine from working in a large computer room for a couple of years. The room was nearly an acre in size, full of mainframes, line printers, and row after row of the old 'washing machine' disk drives. The fan noise was unreal, and nobody thought to wear hearing protection back then. The only time it bothers me is when I try to sleep. I have to have a white noise source running (a fan or something like that) or the whine keeps me awake.
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Fold With Us![^]You ever run a check sorter at a bank (MICR capture)? Now those suckers were loud!
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I've had it since 1968, got it from a close blast and have never recovered. The VA will compensate 10% if I can prove that it is military related. How in the hell would I do that. All I know is that over the years it has driven me crazy and after doing research have found there is no cure. MIke
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
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Hi Mike; Mine started as a result of a rifle report during basic training. Let me take a wild guess that yours, like mine, is in your left ear. I am guessing that because automatic rifles have a breach that ejects the shell casing to the right. At the time, 1965, although we were issued them we weren't allowed to wear earplugs on the rifle range. The rational was that we wouldn't be wearing them in the field and we needed to get used to the sound of rifles going off close by. We were training with M14s (7.62mm) and they gave off quite a blast. I did try to get it recognized as a service related injury but low and behold my audiograms prior to my hearing loss could not be located. Subsequently I couldn't prove that my hearing loss was service related.
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Hi Mike; Mine started as a result of a rifle report during basic training. Let me take a wild guess that yours, like mine, is in your left ear. I am guessing that because automatic rifles have a breach that ejects the shell casing to the right. At the time, 1965, although we were issued them we weren't allowed to wear earplugs on the rifle range. The rational was that we wouldn't be wearing them in the field and we needed to get used to the sound of rifles going off close by. We were training with M14s (7.62mm) and they gave off quite a blast. I did try to get it recognized as a service related injury but low and behold my audiograms prior to my hearing loss could not be located. Subsequently I couldn't prove that my hearing loss was service related.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesMine lasted 4 days from a Judas Priest concert. :laugh: I'm not joking either. It has since left and I still have excellent hearing. I sleep with ear plugs in and I still wake before my wife to the faintest sounds in my house.
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
Had it for years - if you have a hearing test done and there's no hearing loss, then it's not likely to have been caused by something damaging like loud music or a tumour. I've never done loud concerts, drugs, drank to excess, mine just started one day and decided to stay. I'd see a doctor if you're worried about it but the likelihood is that it's nothing to worry about. Worry, stress, tiredness, alcohol are all likely to make it more noticeable so avoid them if you want to keep it under control. The most successful treatment is Retraining Therapy where you wear a small earpiece like a hearing aid which produces white noise at a low level. In the same way as you learn to ignore a ticking clock, as your brain learns to ignore the hissing from the earpiece you also learn to ignore the tinnitus. I've used one with some success, and even if the tinnitus doesn't actually go away the external noise can provides a degree of masking which offers some relief.
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You ever run a check sorter at a bank (MICR capture)? Now those suckers were loud!
I can imagine. Noisy equipment I've been involved with: - Printing presses (current job, 19 years); one of our products includes a MICR print engine :) - Punched card readers (ballot counting machines; yeah, I'm intimately familiar with 'hanging chad') - A furnace that produced molten glass; fluorescent light tubes came out the other end of the process - Fighter jet engine compressors
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
I've had it for the last 18 years. I read an article somewhere that claimed it was nothing more than being sensitive to the electrical noise in your auditory system.
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I've had it for the last 18 years. I read an article somewhere that claimed it was nothing more than being sensitive to the electrical noise in your auditory system.
Cheers Garth I don't really care whether or not i really care or not.
That's the explanation I favour most.
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Hi Mike; Mine started as a result of a rifle report during basic training. Let me take a wild guess that yours, like mine, is in your left ear. I am guessing that because automatic rifles have a breach that ejects the shell casing to the right. At the time, 1965, although we were issued them we weren't allowed to wear earplugs on the rifle range. The rational was that we wouldn't be wearing them in the field and we needed to get used to the sound of rifles going off close by. We were training with M14s (7.62mm) and they gave off quite a blast. I did try to get it recognized as a service related injury but low and behold my audiograms prior to my hearing loss could not be located. Subsequently I couldn't prove that my hearing loss was service related.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesHey Jimmy, During the Tet offensive of 68 we were getting heavily hit with rockets and another person and I were running around checking on people to make sure everyone was OK. And during our run we heard a rocket coming close so we dove into a trench. The rocket hit on the edge of the trench and buried us both in dirt. After we dug ourselves out I couldn't hear for several days after and the ringing has continued all these years. We also qualified with M-14's and they had a distinctive crack for sure (ole 7.62) Take care, Mike
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Does anyone here know anything about tinnitus? I have, for some reason, recently become more aware of mine, and more curious about it. It has been constant for many years, and never been a problem, but I feel compelled to at least investigate it.
Some additional sources that can cause tinnitus: Large amounts of aspirin (whatever large means to your body) Lyme Disease My little wind-song is only noticeable at all in very quite places, and then, only sometimes. A hearing loss was from my youthful days of making the biggest #$&A@# firecrackers you ever saw, and similar experiences [leading to a career in chemistry]. This loss is particularly noticeable in my right ear, which cannot hear a watch tick (remember when they used to tick?), whilst the left ear is far less effected. Then, again, maybe I do hear people and just immediately forget whatever it was they may have said.
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Hey Jimmy, During the Tet offensive of 68 we were getting heavily hit with rockets and another person and I were running around checking on people to make sure everyone was OK. And during our run we heard a rocket coming close so we dove into a trench. The rocket hit on the edge of the trench and buried us both in dirt. After we dug ourselves out I couldn't hear for several days after and the ringing has continued all these years. We also qualified with M-14's and they had a distinctive crack for sure (ole 7.62) Take care, Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
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Wow, a rocket attack! That was scary. I remember a mortar going off so close the HE made a crack like lightning rather than a boom like you hear when the explosion is farther away, but thankfully I never have been that close to a rocket which is a lot more lethal. You are lucky to be alive! I was never to the point where I couldn't hear but the ringing started when the rifle went off next to me and hasn't stopped since. It sometimes fades into the background noise if there is a good source of white noise like an air conditioner, but most of the time it is the background noise, especially after coming out of a noisy environment. I have pretty much learned to ignore it as there is no cure and it is just something I needed to learn to live with.
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