Is There A Cure For Tinnitus?
It's getting louder and never goes away. Dawnie got me some sort of lipo flavinoid or some such that the pharmacist says doesn't work. You have to take it 6 months to see results, according to the package. That's pretty near $200 worth of medicine to find out if it works.
Anyone here have any experience with tinnitus and its treatment?
Anyone here have any experience with tinnitus and its treatment?
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Mine started many years ago. Went to specialist and after questioning he said I had shot too many hand guns and started work in a noisy factory at a young age so there was no cure for it. It started in my right ear and nearly drove me crazy. After about a year it started in my left ear. It takes years but you get used to it and don't notice it until someone brings it up. THANKS A LOT!!! [:(!] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by v35
Mine is a hissing that might also be a very high frequency continuous sound.
My wife was very upset yesterday when I couldn't hear the beep-beep of the microwave timer from a short distance.
I guess it's evaluation time and probably time to buy some high grade ear protectors.
I'd hate to give up shooting.
I know what you mean, there are certain frequencies that I cannot hear. I can be sitting here talking on a cordless phone, and my partner, sitting acoss the room tells me that the low battery beeps are going off. I can't hear it over the constant high pitch squeal i hear 24/7.[:(!]0 -
this explains allot, i thought it was normal 0 -
At about age 22 I started getting it, over several years it got worse and worse. At first it was like the low hum of a incandecent light. after several years, it was mind numbing to the point that I went to an adiologist for answeres, he told me there is no cure, I asked if they could just surgicly make me deaf?
He said that would actually make it worse, because its not a sound you hear, but more of a vibration. In the end I sort of just figured it was something I would deal with, by that time it was like a chainsaw in my head, and at night I would awake to what sounded like shotgun blasts.
About that time I moved to the coast for a few years and I sort of just took some time away, getting healthy, I used to swim and surf in the ocean about every other day, over the course of about two years it got less and less, eventually it went away., I dont know if maybe it was diet, or the salt water, or ellimintion of stress or what, but the thing that once seemd to be driveing me mad and had no cure just slowly went away. Now I am very dilligent about protecting my ears. not cause im affraid to go deaf, I just dont want that damb tinnitus comming back.
I feel for you, tinitus can be very disturbing, I once got vertigo also, talk about a messed up week, the day I woke up with it I litterally thought I had gone crazy. Your mind functions perfectly normal, but you have the motor skills of total drunk, every had the bed spins when you got to drunk, its like that 24 hours aday for about a week, everything just spins around all day long.0 -
Nunn....I'm willing to bet when you started LE range training time was spent without ear protection. That has of course changed. Since those days it has become apparent that sirens, especially the ones that were roof mounted, could contribute to hearing loss. I think OSHA or a similar organization mandated that sirens be moved off the roof to where we see them now under the hood or on the bumper guards. I believe there have been successful cases of permanent disability payments being granted for hearing loss due to these causes, but have been very hard to prove because of documenting how many times there were exposure etc.... Probably will never get the hearing back, but maybe there's some compensation for it out there.
I see firefighters wearing ear protection around their equipment these days and even guys wearing it when they mow their grass because of loud mowers.
Obviously there are a lot of us in that same predicament regardless of where the damaging noise was generated.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
I have the high frequency stuff myself, and have had it for several years.
Too much shooting when I was young without hearing protection, and too many rock concerts, and playing in front of stacks myself.
It doesn't really bother me, except at night sometimes.
I bought one of those "white noise" machines, that sounds like wind, rain, or ocean surf, etc.
It helps a lot just putting it at a very low volume, if you don't want to have the TV on all night.
Surprising thing is, they tell me I still have the hearing range of a 20 year old,.......kind of confusing!
Same story for me, and I use the white noise machine too. High frequency hearing loss from shooting without hearing protection. I get the electrical pulsating noise on occasion and its usually at night when I notice it. Thought I might be tuned into some of the flying saucers buzzing around at night. Mine is not really much of a bother and I hope it does not get worse.0 -
got mine fixed with accupunture, they poke little tiny needles in yer neck, never even feel it[;)] 0 -
I cure mine with copious amonts of blended Canadian whiskey.
W.D.0 -
I have had the ringing in the right ear since May 1954 from an M1 while acting as coach on the firing range. I stumbled on a little thing that helps when I get an increase in the ringing by tapping my index finger fairly hard for thirty seconds or so on the small cartilage type thing (don't know the medical term) on the forward part of the ear. Doesn't make it go away, it does decrease the increased ringing. From time to time the left ear will kick in, a good tapping of the index finger knocks out the ringing ninety nine per cent of the time, wish it would do the same for the right.
I guess my case is along the line of other people, you learn how to ignore it and live with it.0 -
I have had tinnitus for about 15 years,(both ears) really,really loud ringing, continous. i tried the lipo flavonid with no success as you say it's very expensive. The last time i asked my doc about it his reply was this (qoute) "there is no cure, when you go deaf your ears will quit ringing" 0
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