Thread: Any Tinnitus Sufferers out there?

Live with it,comes with getting older. Joint pains,back pains, hip and knee pains,nobody got out of here alive and pain free.

I learned of a treatment during an online search on the subject.

Listen to the washing machine. Apparently the frequency for most sufferers is about the same frequency as the washing machine noise. Take a book and you'll have one or more cycle's respite from the ringing and you get your clothes clean (sorta three for one).

Most, like you all, have learned to tune it out or down. Some folks it can make crazy and having a distracting sound or a treatment can give some relief even if temporary.

Like I said, I tune it out until someone mentions it ............ hint -hint .......

I'm kidding but serious at the same time. I really do tune it out unless something brings tinnitus to my attention, or when I lay down to sleep it sort of comes looming forth. Kind of like when the crickets are chirping at night in a field in Florida. I have been using a floor fan for some time to drown out neighbor noises when I lay down to sleep. I still hear the tinnitus, but I am fortunate. It is at a frequency/intensity that I can live with just fine. I've read of people going insane, committing suicide. My condition is nothing like that.

Gentlemen,

I have suffered from continuous tinnitus since 1968, after a long night of heavy artillery fire in Vietnam. Partly due to the tinnitus, I also face some hearing loss and have to wear hearing aids.

Have not heard a crickit or a bird in 30 years

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Live with it,comes with getting older. Joint pains,back pains, hip and knee pains,nobody got out of here alive and pain free.

Bette Davis is reputed to have said, "Getting Old Ain't For Sissies," and she was telling the truth AFAIC. One of the hard parts of getting old, if you've been active in your young, middle, and advancing years, is realizing that you really can't do what you used to. At least not without consequences.

So the aches and pains got bad enough, that I googled "exercise for seniors," and came up with this site; Free Exercises For Seniors And The Elderly : Eldergym® Senior Fitness

I'm here to tell you that in just a week of doing some of these flexibility exercises, as shown in the videos, I'm beginning to feel a great improvement in my ankles, shins, knees and hip. Give it a try.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Live with it,comes with getting older. Joint pains,back pains, hip and knee pains,nobody got out of here alive and pain free.

WHAAT! PLEASE USE UPPERCASE!

Vietnam left me with a ringing head and half def. I tried the frequency test and found I can't hear the frequencies of my tinnitus but my wife sure can from the back of the house.

Mine can be louder than folk's speech levels sometimes. By increasing my focus I can distract myself from hearing it most of the time.

Maybe what we need is a forum so all us fogey's can complain about our ills. Har har

Like my dad says, who just celebrated his 99th birthday, getting old is no fun but it beats the alternative.

I think exercise is the key to a long active life. I have exercises I do every morning and I have an elliptical machine which is well used. I know if I lay off the machine more than a week I can really fell the difference.

No complaints here. Just the price of Freedom.

OORAH!!