Posted on 09/12/2011 2:28:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
How do they determine that the ringing is not bothering the rats anymore ? Do they ask them ?
I would love to have this ringing stop, I had a rocket impact about 5 feet from me in Vietnam, followed up by bombing runs dropping 500 lbers a few hundred yards away. The ringing is sometimes so loud as to drown out other sounds, but most of the time just an irritating background neverending whine.
That’s not far from the truth. I have pretty bad tinnitus that I mostly ignore. In fact, as I was writing this post, my smartphone started doing something stupid and that distracted me so much that I began to ignore the ringing again.
Ringing since 03-08-68. Bouncing Betty in a railroad tunnel started the show and other events the rest of the year completed the concert. Kind of an irritant, but since that was the only lasting injury during my tour, I’m just happy to be alive to hear it.
For me, sometimes it's so loud I can't hear much else, like right now. At other times it's completely quiet, something some audiologists I've seen seem to have trouble believing.
Speaking of audiologists...I hate those hearing tests where you have to raise your hand or push a button when you hear the tone.
Most of the time, the ringing in my ears is the same frequency and MUCH louder than the hearing test tones.
I’m pushing 50, and mine started a few months ago. I’ve since had a hearing test, and have excellent hearing with no loss.
I’ve enjoyed shooting, home construction projects, and I’m a recent drummer. But I’m obsessive about hearing protection. The doc said my drumming didn’t cause it, and it’s hereditary.
Coincidentally, it started (I first noticed it) the first night after new cymbals were delivered, and I was testing them at limited volumes (I’m a flinching wimp when it comes to loud noises) without protection. I woke up and asked my wife if she left an alarm on or something, but it was just my ears (mostly right ear).
My theory is that it’s caused by 100% agave reposado tequila on the rocks with a squeeze of lime.
What you are describing is called "objective" tinnitus, where there is an actual physical source for the sound--blood flow, or some body process being picked by the ear. The article is discussing "subjective" tinnitus, where there is NO physical source for the sound. It's not an ear problem, but rather a brain problem. The article compared it to phantom limb syndrome.
LOL! As a lifelong tinnitus 'sufferer' myself, I wasn't thinking about or even noticing it until clicking on this thread ... now I've got a 13khz 'test tone' roaring thru my head ...
This article explains something that I’ve puzzeled over, to wit: why does a low-level white noise source help so much? It’s not really just distraction, it actually seems to lessen the volume. If these guys are right, it would make sense that having some sound input could turn some of the cells “off”, so the phantom noise actually subsides.
Whatever works though. It can be maddening.
Several years ago I went to a audiologist and he gave me some exercises to do with your jaw. Seem to calm the noise down a bit.
Can they also make the voices stop too?
You post some of the cutest/funniest pics for this topic.
:-)
Thanks Red Badger.
Two comments, GABA is awesome stuff! You WILL sleep! You may feel like Timoth Leary is in your bedroom with you, however. Wild dreams!
Also Whole Foods carries a supplement called “Clear Tinnitus”
www.clearproductsinc.com
Not a cure but it helps.
Good Luck! Still taking the chromium as well.
But then? the worst part was that the article really had nothing new to say!.
Why did they bother writing it? just to bother ordinary folk like us?
Thanks, Civ.
Oz never did give nothing to the tinnitus man...
Ping
That is a good description for the "VIVID dreams" that can be produced by some antidepressants also, which share some biochemical properties with GABA. If I weren't so lazy I'd do the letters of vivid in different rainbow colors and blinking.
My Dad has it, he also has hearing loss, and I think it interferes with his hearing aids. I have a periodic sound in my ear, but they have not diagnosed it as tinnitis. For the time being it only bothers me off and on (sounds more like a humming bird flying past my ear, with doppler effect and everything). My ear dr has no good explanation for it.
Only Van Halen? Piker.
Explosives, guns, several years in power plants, wood shop tools, no muffler lawn mower, many live concerts in front row, shop vacs, exploding bicycle tires...you name it. I’m surprised I can hear anything at all.
Oil can!
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