Any Tinnitus sufferers out there?

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Originally Posted by hornm

Yup. I've got the steady, high pitch, low volume ring going. Started mid 20's (I'm about a week shy of 35). I just have to sleep with a fan going 365 days a year, that's the cheapest & so far best thing I've found for my situation.

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That's interesting you say that about the fan. Tinnitus masking is using something external to create a white noise type thing. The tinnitus doesn't go away, but the brain focuses on the external noise rather than being ever conscious or at least less conscious of the tinnitus.

Those with tinnitus may want to check out this Stanford University site where you can listed to some sound files with a headset. I've been trying the sound of sitting in the rear of a Boeing 747. It doesn't drown out the tinnitus for me, but it does seem to help a bit. I was able to keep the sound playing in the background when I made calls from my PC (I use my PC as my office phone).

Here's the link

Chris L

I have dealt with patients with this disorder and it can be heart breaking to hear them. There is also no known treatment that is great. Especially for those who have no anatomic abnormality that can be identified.
This is a disease waiting for a Nobel prize. Hopefully some neurologist or neurosurgeon will figure it out for all those who suffer.

Yes, I have it too. Started last year. Its a very high pitched sound, mostly in the right ear. I think it was caused by riding a motorcycle. The tone is exactly the same tone I had in my ear when I was riding with the windscreen off.

I'm afraid me too. It started recently in my right ear. It sounds like a steam pipe-hissing. Very low but noticeable. Doesn't affect my hearing though.

i have had it since i was in the U.S. NAVY and used be on deck when the ASROC missiles were fired(extremely loud), i could not resist watching these and the surface to air missiles being fired. should have used ear plugs then.
i have gotten used to it. in fact i had not even thought about it in some time until i read this thread, now it is bugging the crap out me again..
i have heard on XM radio about a product called "quietus". probably just another scam. i have tried quite a few so called cures and nothing works..

WHAT???

Yup, me too. When I was in Vietnam I traveled extensively in the II Corps area, the north central quarter of the country and all this travel was by helicopter, a UH1D, a Huey, that marvelous, durable, deafening machine. And I'm a shooter, and I use portable power tools - lotsa routers, and I have this loud high pitched ringing in my ears, and the audiologist says the I have a profound hearing loss in the not-so-upper-end of what you're supposed to be able to hear.

At least you don't have to hear well to read these forums or shave with one of those straight razor gizmos, and developing a lather is pretty much a tactile thing, but the swish, swish, swish of the stropping stroke is a complete fantasy. A fine fantasy it is, but a fantasy nontheless.

At least I have ears for ornamental purposes. Maybe I should get earrings to give them some other purpose in life - structural rather than solely ornamental.

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I've had it since I was a child. (I'm 57.) Probably 99.9 percent of the time I can ignore it. In a few rare instances it was so loud I thought I was having a seizure or something.

Yes. When I was around thirteen, I went duck hunting with my Dad and the guys he'd go with every fall. Neither he nor his friends wore hearing protection, and although I had ear plugs that day, because I saw none of the big guys wearing any, I thought that it was simply a comfort thing and that it was an option to "tough it out."

I was provided with a .410 shotgun that day, although I did swith to 20 and 12 gauges, it was what I used most. The thing is, I wasn't even shooting at ducks most of the time, but target practicing and goofing around, as thirteen year-olds do. I still remember the shot that did it: I blew a field mushroom apart.

Anyway, since then I've learned to live with it...more or less. I can't remember what it's like to not have it anymore.

The sad part is they hammer home the idea of protecting your hearing and we usual do so. We are afraid of losing our hearing. Tinnitis is waaaaaay worse. It is the first step in hearing loss and it can drive you insane, literally.

Hearing loss doesn't cause deafness. It creates a high pitched whistle in your ear, similar to nails running along a chalkboard.

If someone said, protect your hearing or you'll have a high pitched sound screaming in your ear 24/7 and you'll lose all your sleep for the rest of your life, I think I would have walked around with earing protectors everywhere I went.

I did a great job of protecting my hearing for 48 years with the exception of the 10 minutes I caused permanent irreversable damage.

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Originally Posted by HNSB

Six years ago I had one day at the range with my 30-06, a brick wall to my left, and no hearing protection. No big deal I thought... I went through 60 rounds IIRC, and it was too painful to continue. I've had this problem ever since.

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Perhaps a dumb question, but what gave you this idea?
I mean I can understand firing the first shot. Well, not really, but you didn't know how bad it would be. However, after having fired that first shot, what made you fire the 59 shots after that?