Tinnitus

[W Balboos GHB]

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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[JimmyRopes]

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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[mimimal subset]

I have it also, have had if for many years. I first noticed it when taking hearing tests. In the isolation room, straining to hear the faint high pitched sounds I found it difficult to filter the ting from the actual sound. I did not know at the time about the disease and it actually seemed more like an imagined sound rather than something physical. Actually I still have my doubts if it is real. I have it in my left ear and at one time thought that I got it from loud music and also from the fact that I used to drive alot , with the window down and the wind noise had something to do with it. If I put my mind to it , I can make it go away or make it very loud. I am leaning toward the conclusion that is a psychological problem.

[Brady Kelly]

It's an extremely thin and permeable line between psychological and neurological. If you imagine it present, you cause electrical activity in your brain. If something causes electrical activity in your brain, you here something.

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