This is indeed, Good News! I have had it for three years. Though I can mostly ignore it, there are days when it drives me nuts!
BTTT
Huh? Don't more than 50 million Americans take medicine? How do they correlate this with tinnitus?
I’ve had this problem for decades and it’s partly the reason I now have to wear hearing aids. Sometimes the ringing is so loud, especially in the mornings when I first get up, I can barely hear what my husband is trying to say to me. Which isn’t always such a bad thing...lol
Huh? I can't remember a time when I didn't have an annoying ringing in my ears; I've never known silence. Currently tinnitus sufferers can learn to ignore it -- it's about all we have. While a new way to help ignore it is certainly welcome, I've found temporary relief tends to be more frustrating than helpful. When the temporary relief ends, the sound seems even louder and more intrusive. It's a lot like giving a starving person a piece of chocolate.
When I pay attention to it it sounds like I’m sitting in the middle of a swamp after sundown with millions of crickets and other chirping insect noise.
It’s getting worse and worse, so loud at times it drives me crazy.
Interesting. I have a mild ringing in my ears (professional musician). It doesn’t bother me, but I imagine it will get worse if I live long enough. I’ve never sought treatment, so obviously mine isn’t that bad.
I might be interested in this. My tinnitus began in my late 20s (I’m 60) when I was a AF missile officer working in a loud environment and became worse in my 40s. It is now a very loud ringing although I can tune it out for the most part. It would be nice to be rid of it altogether.
10 years of Fender and Mesa Boogie amps turned to 11 has left me with ringing ears.
From the article:
“tinnitus treatment mostly delivered through the use of a chip, software and large headphones. The chip sends a quiet and pre-programmed sound to the headphones, changing the channels sound takes to reach the brain”
Just hope the chips are not programmed with subliminal liberal suggestions....
I am now 68 as I type in silence my ears are just screaming, "Thank you for your service" is the constant statement the squealing is saying
Bfl
Ping.
Sucks to be Glenn.
For those of us who have this problem ... imagine just 10 minutes of silence! Boy would I love to get my hands on this thing ... even for 10 minutes!
I have had this pretty much my entire life (also have Meniere’s which is destroying my hearing, sadly)—ANY relief from the ‘phone ringing’ and buzzing and katydid noises would be a great relief...wish it were more permanent results *now* but I would take any help I could get!
IIRC, William Shatner had/has a very bad case of this and when he interviewed Rush Limbaugh about hearing issues, he mentioned there were times he literally was going insane with the sounds. People who don’t suffer from this cannot imagine how aggravating/annoying/sometimes painful this condition is! :-(
Sometimes the ringing in my ears is so bad I can hardly hear the little voices in my head.
I have had this as long as I can remember. I have had none of the things listed as possible triggers. We used to live near a major highway and it sounded like a big truck coming but I noticed that the truck never passed on by. LOL! I use a little sound making device at night that is louder than the ear noise and that blots it out.