tinnitus
anybody try anything that helped reduce the ungodly ringing 24-7-365......
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Yes.
See a good reputable qualified audiologist. He/she will determine what will take care of it.
For me, a set of hearing aids fit the bill but everyone is different. With the aids in, the ringing is gone. At first, it would return when I took the aids off but now, none even without the aids but NEED them to hear well.
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Yes... acupressure and acupuncture. I started out doing acupuncture which helped immensely then, my actual puncture therapist was going to go on vacation for two months so she told me to take a plastic clothesline, (not the wooden ones they're too strong and will actually hurt your ears) and put it on the same spot she had been putting the needles which is in the middle of the ear lobe where you might feel like a little raised area for as long as I could stand it a couple of times a week. It helps just as much is anything else I've ever tried and my Insidious ringing it's almost non-existent. Oh by the way I never did go back to the acupuncture therapist when she got back in town because she had showed me how to use acupuncture for everything that I was going to her for that work just as good. I will look up online to see how to perform it for you and I and update this post when I find a good picture that shows where you need to put the pressure.
Here is the link that will show you the six spots to apply acupressure to for tinnitus. The one on the earlobe works best for mehttps://youtu.be/kd0_yMF35cU0 -
remingtonoaks wrote:Yes... acupressure and acupuncture. I started out doing acupuncture which helped immensely then, my actual puncture therapist was going to go on vacation for two months so she told me to take a plastic clothesline, (not the wooden ones they're too strong and will actually hurt your ears) and put it on the same spot she had been putting the needles which is in the middle of the ear lobe where you might feel like a little raised area for as long as I could stand it a couple of times a week. It helps just as much is anything else I've ever tried and my Insidious ringing it's almost non-existent. Oh by the way I never did go back to the acupuncture therapist when she got back in town because she had showed me how to use acupuncture for everything that I was going to her for that work just as good. I will look up online to see how to perform it for you and I and update this post when I find a good picture that shows where you need to put the pressure.
Here is the link that will show you the six spots to apply acupressure to for tinnitus. The one on the earlobe works best for me
Again do not use a wooden close Pin. They're way too strong and will hurt. Use the plastic ones!!!https://youtu.be/kd0_yMF35cU
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I have heavy damage from VN and my non VA ear/nose/throat Doctor told me to try Ring Relief ear drops (I had/have all types of strange noises in my ears from sounds of crickets, ringing, whooshing to fluttering sounds), available from most drug stores...even Wal-Mart carries it, it worked wonders for me but sometimes I stop and it all returns, remember audiologist wants to sell hearing-aides which is fine...if prescribe by a Doctor, a real Doctor . Blood pressure can cause it too but mine isn't related to BP, but have yours check 0 -
Real doctors,like MD's(?) will usually refer one to an audiologist- a 'Doctor' of,well,Auduiology. The guys with hearing aids for sale under a tent are just salesmen.
Locally,even the ENT group of doctors, will refer a person to the Audiologist doctor within their group to diagnose,treat, prescribe,fit,tune hearing aids of a person with hearing issues.0 -
Worst time I have with mine is when I am in a Quiet setting, closed room. Quarry blasting, the air blast from years ago really got it started. Air track drill and large drag behind compressor, sheet pile hammer, 30 90lb breakers hammering in a coffer dam. Even with hearing protection sometimes, most times you still get tinnitus from continuous sound concussion.
I for the most just have learned to live with it. Although when I think about it makes it worse, not just ringing but painful at times causing headaches.0 -
just tagging along on the post to see what comes of it
I know working construction jack hammers days on end standing next to ram hoes ( like a giant jack hammer mounted to a track hoe ) I remember telling my boss the end of the day after fist running a jack hammer my ears were rining and I could not hear . his and my formand response you will get use to it no hearing protection and I was too young and stupid to not follow up ,
I am sure loud noise like 44 mag and big caliber guns I thought were fun as a youth to shoot , open headers on my cars for years , because it was cool . all destroyed my hearing . like most from crickets to jar fly's ( cicada ) 24/7 riming in my ears , I push ear protection to any one who comes by to shoot with us , I even wear it trying to keep what little I have left of my hearing .
only way I can sleep is with a loud fan or radio / tv on to drown out the noise in my head from my ears
one of the if I only knew then things in life0 -
Mine is like the screech of a tea kettle. I can no longer remember a time when I didn't have it.
I got hearing aids from the VA ten days ago. So far, they don't help much with my tinnitus, even though they have a "white noise" mode that is supposed to help counteract it. I call it the anesthesia mode, because those soft surf/rain sounds put me right to sleep. Helluva nap aid. But the regular mode boosts treble sounds, which does tend to override the tinnitus a bit, making it lass noticeable. I'm hoping that over time my new 'lectric ears will help.0 -
I fired .357 mag revolvers without protection in my youth; I tried to ignore the ringing for years, but it continued.
I went to an ENT doctor many years ago, & he said that my tinnitus was due to a deviated septum in my nose. He wanted to operate, I declined. "When you are a hammer, everything looks like it is a nail."
Over many years, the noise has declined, but likely will linger until I die. I have used muffs for many years when mowing the grass & shooting, & that has saved what is left of my hearing. I don't complain, I know many folks who live with worse disabilities.
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Quick&Dead wrote:Yes.
See a good reputable qualified audiologist. He/she will determine what will take care of it.
For me, a set of hearing aids fit the bill but everyone is different. With the aids in, the ringing is gone. At first, it would return when I took the aids off but now, none even without the aids but NEED them to hear well.
He is correct. My hearing aids helped tremendously. They're expensive - but you probably spend close to that on guns n ammo, so...0 -
Mine started when I was about 12 years old, from unknown causes. It went for about a year, then one morning I woke up and it was totally gone. Unfortunately, it only lasted for about a couple of months.
Mine sounds like a constant high pitched whine that keeps pace with my heartbeat. I found a video on U tube that shows a woman using acupressure to relieve the symptoms, but I haven't tried it yet. I need to do that, it would be nice to get rid of the noises in my head.0 -
Mine sounds like a bee hive. The cause is driving an open station John Deere 4020 gas tractor plowing for hours on end when I was 16 years old. Had my left ear (my worst) pointed right at the exhaust (had to look over my right shoulder to watch the plow ). Dad never knew what ear protectors were in those days.
Thanks for posting, maybe I can learn something that will help.0 -
The VA gives me 10% towards my disability for my tinnitus.
I just live with its constant ringing, because they told me there was nothing they could do to improve it, and that anything anyone said would work was just a bunch of hocus-pocus BS.
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Keep shooting - those annoying sounds will go away.
35 years around and in aircraft as well as shooting heavy calibers on a regular basis; the only thing I hear are those little voices in my head.
On the bright side, I don't have to listen to my nagging wife...0 -
I'm 63 yo.
started shooting at 13, constantly, was on rifle, then pistol teams.
Then add in drag racing engines, semi-pro, then professional racing.
I get tinnitus only sometimes at night when trying to go to sleep.
Sounds like water from a high pressure nozzle.
A few doctors told me to live with it or spend big bucks for GOOD ear pieces.
Not worth it to me for only a few times it happens.0 -
I got my new aids from the VA a few months back...Had to learn how to hear all over again! The aids are controlled / adjusted with my iPhone...I noticed in the owners manual there is a tinnitus app that can be downloaded to the aids. Going to talk to them at my next visit...I got 10% for tinnitus and 40% for bilateral hearing loss from Viet Nam...The tinnitus is a real challenge ... 0 -
Leather Man wrote:The VA gives me 10% towards my disability for my tinnitus.
I just live with its constant ringing, because they told me there was nothing they could do to improve it, and that anything anyone said would work was just a bunch of hocus-pocus BS.
Trinity +++
There are good people and not so good people working at the VA ~ just as there are good surgeons and bad surgeons and good Doctors of Audiology and bad Doctors of Audiology.
Remember ...... the person placing LAST to become a certified doctor, is still a doctor.0 -
Shooting with my dads gun club at the west point range w/o protection pre teen m1's and colt 45 compliments of the DCM program pre 63. Hunting and shooting with and without muffs for years with big guns takes a toll. Being the lazy boy still not wearing protection when needed. Paying the price.
I only blame myself now . Should have known better. Still do stupid things due to laziness. So when the ringing occurs. I put on spodify and some good music to drown it out. Thanks the good Lord I still have some hearing left after all the dumb thing done.0 -
Listen to this. I flew this airplane at least once a day for five years, sitting not two feet from the engine intake. The last 10 seconds of this is what I hear 24/7.
https://youtu.be/ZL9ES5pwoGw0 -
My last word on this subject is this:
When you have a broken leg, you see a medical doctor and get a bill.
When you have a seeing problem you see a eye doctor and get a bill.
When you have a tooth ache you see a dentist and get a bill.
When you have a hearing problem see an hearing doctor .. audiologist and you won't get a bill for a hearing test.
Every other doctor will charge you for a visit whereas every audiologist I know of, will evaluate your hearing FREE!
So, what have you got to lose?0 -
Cornfk1 I understand exactly . Grew up breaking ground with a JD 420 and pulling a smoothing harrow with a farmall super a with straight pipes no muffler . That and several years drilling water wells took a toll on mine as well . We will not even count the hours shooting and stuff . One ear was 85% deaf from birth . Now I have at best 50% left in the good ear . Mine sounds like a transformer humming . Hearing aid is in the immediate future 0 -
Doc I went to said it is a crap shoot I've tried to realign the jaw which sometimes changes pitch maybe I could play Music Jaw is so slack at night I find it shifted over and teeth get hooked on each other. Lady Audio Doc said it might get worse it might get better.0
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