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The Sound of Tinnitus

Posted on 09/29/2022 5:39:22 AM PDT by far sider

Hello tinnitus, my old friend
You've come to sing to me again
I hear the sound of dentists drilling
Of sinks of water over-filling
And the sound is ringing in my brain
It will remain
It is the sound of tinnitus

In restless dreams, I hear the tone
I know I’ll never be alone
You’re always there when I wake up
You say we never will break up
When I lay down my head to sleep at night
After I turn out the light
I miss the sound of silence

They say they’re searching for a cure
Ten thousand doctors, maybe more
After many years of coping
Tell me, should I just stop hoping
That someday they’ll find a way to stop sounds I dread
When I am dead
I’ll hear the sound of silence

Other people do not know
Tinnitus like a cancer grows
I remember when you would annoy me
Now you're trying to destroy me.
Or maybe, you just want to be my friend
Should I pretend
To like the sound of tinnitus

How many times I’ve bowed and prayed
That God would make the noises fade
I must not let self-pity fill me
I know that this disease can’t kill me
It’s the cross I must bear, many others have to bear much worse
It is my curse
To hear the sound of tinnitus


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Humor
KEYWORDS: mfl; tinnitus
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To: mad_as_he$$

Hahaha…you must have remembered me complaining!

We’ll, it is true there are worse things…:)


101 posted on 09/29/2022 12:08:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: far sider

Did you write that? If so nicely done!


102 posted on 09/29/2022 12:09:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

High quality Ginko brought my tinnitus down to low levels. Sugar and salt will aggravate it.


103 posted on 09/29/2022 12:20:45 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

“High quality Ginko brought my tinnitus down to low levels. Sugar and salt will aggravate it.“

Good to know thanks


104 posted on 09/29/2022 12:57:43 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: oh8eleven

“Me too - USMC artillery in VN.”

Over 70% of my life a sound like a TV station “test pattern signal” has been constant companion. Occasionally “sumphin” causes the pitch of the “sound” to intensify for a brief period. Reckon in part it’s an occupational hazard for once being an 0341 mortar-man.
Your tag indicates service as an 0811, so I’ll say Thank You for perhaps having provided support on one occasion or the other. Weather being such in I-Corp, artillery was more readily available that CAS.

Semper Fi


105 posted on 09/29/2022 1:28:35 PM PDT by Huaynero
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To: Huaynero

From what I read, William Shatner’s tinnitus is so bad he said a couple of times he contemplated suicide.


106 posted on 09/29/2022 1:33:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Huaynero
I spent a few months on a four deuce at Pendelton, then did my 13 months up on the DMZ on an 8" self propelled howitzer.
Firebases C1, C2, Gio Linh, Cam lo and many stops in between that only had an elevation number.
Was always glad knowing the grunts were close by, day or night. Muchas gracias.
107 posted on 09/29/2022 1:52:34 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: rlmorel

Yes I did. Thank you. It came to me last night (I couldn’t sleep) and I finished it this morning.


108 posted on 09/29/2022 1:54:52 PM PDT by far sider
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To: dfwgator

I’m not suicidal but I understand why someone would be.


109 posted on 09/29/2022 1:57:22 PM PDT by far sider
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To: far sider

#7 This is the insect that crawled into your ear and is slowly eating it’s way to the other ear to get out... : )


110 posted on 09/29/2022 2:56:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: far sider

funny but I can actually give a visual of what mine sounds like!! picture 3 - 7/8s, a 4 - 5/8s and a few 7/16s wrenchs being dragged along like beer cans on a just married car. and then someone is on a switch turning the sound on and off sporadically!! that is what mine actually sounds like!! drives me nuts sometimes!!


111 posted on 09/29/2022 3:03:10 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: far sider

I enjoyed commiserating!


112 posted on 09/29/2022 3:11:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: minnesota_bound

I live with the sound of cicadas even in winter.
Yet, I can live with that, the tinkling jingly bells
were enough to drive me over the edge.


113 posted on 09/29/2022 3:17:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Mine is very metallic. In cold weather it’s miserable.


114 posted on 09/29/2022 5:36:36 PM PDT by far sider
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