Posted on 04/14/2011 7:23:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
A grandfather who was tormented by the 'screaming in his ears' as a result of chronic tinnitus shot himself in the head, an inquest heard.
Roy Sullivan's medical condition, where sufferers hear a constant ringing in their ear, had been getting progressively worse.
The quiet 74-year-old was found with gunshot wounds by his wife at their home in Essex when she returned from her grandson's 14th birthday visit in January.
Eileen Sullivan told the hearing: 'Roy was such a peaceful, quiet man. He just couldn't stand the noise. He liked to be quiet. If I had the radio on and I went out, he would turn it off because he just wanted to be quiet.'
On the morning of his death, Mr Sullivan had looked pale and had complained to his wife that his tinnitus had been really bad during the night.
'When he woke up he just held his head and said it was screaming in his ears.'
He said he didn't want to go out so she travelled without him to Suffolk with the 14th birthday cake she had baked.
When she returned home Mrs Sullivan found a note from her husband in the kitchen.
She went to the chicken shed at the bottom of the garden and found him with head injuries and a gun by his side, Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard.
Essex coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray was told that Mr Sullivan had a history of hypertension and tinnitus which had become worse prior to his death.
A postmortem stated that Mr Sullivan died from severe head injuries due to gunshot wounds.
The coroner recorded a verdict that he killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed.
She said he was clearly suffering distress due to the tinnitus and that it was 'clearly getting him down.'
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“gunshot WOUNDS”, with an S?? How the hell did he manage to shoot himself in the head more than once???
Ricochet?.............
If you do a FR keyword search for ‘tinnitus’ you’ll find it.
Very sad to hear. I don’t know enough about tinitus, but I thought there was some sort of treatment. So to hear of so many suffering from it.
>>>“gunshot WOUNDS”, with an S?? How the hell did he manage to shoot himself in the head more than once???
Entrance wound and exit wound.
Sounds as though he used a shotgun which would, by its nature, cause more than one “wound”.
The quiet 74-year-old was found with gunshot wounds by his wife...
“The quiet 74-year-old was found with gunshot wounds by his wife...”
Wait, did the wife possibly shoot him?
I’ve had tinnitus for some time. I don’t have the “ringing,” though. I have the grasshoppers/cicadas/frogs.
I thought my tinnitus was as bad as it gets...quess I was wrong.
“It works ONLY if the source of the tinnitus is in the middle ear. If it’s in the brain side, it will still be there..........”
Interesting. Mine is from a gunshot too close to the ear so its probably middle ear related.
My Dr asked me if I ever heard voices in my head . I said yessssss they are always yelling at the damned cicadas/frogs to shut the hell up.lol
Please add me to the list also. I do not suffer from it but my 16 year old son does. He was in a car accident when he was 7 and has had constant ringing in both ears ever since.
Tinnitus ping
HuH? I can't hear a thing you're typing.
/sarc
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