Thread: Any Tinnitus sufferers out there?

Originally Posted by manlymanbeard

only have going to a gig. but it goes away after time.

Wear earplugs. One of these days it won't go away.

I remember being concerned about the ringing in my ears after shooting my Dad's .308 when I was around eleven or twelve. "Don't worry, that'll go away," my uncle told me.

And sure enough, after some time, it did. But then a year or two later when I was blasting away with a shotgun (perhaps emboldened by previously witnessing that any ringing 'would go away'), it didn't...

I have it and have had it for as long as I can remember.Its just like you said a High Pitch ringing in my ears sometime it leads to a headache but sometimes it stops ringingfor like a couple mins and it feels wierd when it does and my hearing has never been the greatest so its never really changed my hearing

Originally Posted by Blade Wielder

Wear earplugs. One of these days it won't go away. ...

+1.

I went to 2 Manowar concerts.
Always wore earplugs.
My friend had 2 others with him who didn't. Because they were metal heads. And earplugs are uncool. And of course, they also insisted on standing near the speakers.

And the fact that their hearing was shot had nothing to do with them refusing to wear earplugs in a concert in which I still thought it was loud WITH earplugs, and the bass drums literally punching me in the chest hard.



Stupid is as stupid does. Now if only Manowar would visit Belgium again. Hail and Kill.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

I've had Tinnitus since birth or shortly thereafter. Rather than a "ringing" in the ears, mine has been a continuous high pitched tone that is ever present and impossible not to be noticed. Yep, 24/7 all of my life. It's something I have learned to live with and try not to focus on.

Does anyone else have Tinnitus, and if so, when did it start, what does it sound like to you? How is your hearing otherwise? Mine is fine, it's not related to hearing loss.

Chris L

I have it. Have the high pitched tone like you. It started on my fortieth birthday. Had it checked. Dr. said it was more common than most think. Does not bother me I guess I learned to live with it.

Wow. I never realized it was so common! For me it started at the age of ten. I still remember thinking "What is that noise?" and asking my sister about it; it took us a minute or two to realize that she couldn't hear it because the sound was in my head. It's not exactly a ringing or a whining sound. It's more like the sound you sometimes hear coming from a big electrical transformer, but thinner and higher pitched.

It's never effected my hearing and, like ChrisL and Mvcrash, I've learned to live with it.


Best Regards

goshawk

Thirty years ago I was in my second floor apartment and thought I heard birds chirping one night. I thought to call the landlord and to tell him to check and see if birds were nesting in the attic but it was late at night so I didn't.

The following morning I was at a traffic light in my car and heard the birds. I knew then that I had bats in my belfry rather than birds in the attic.

Originally Posted by goshawk

Wow. I never realized it was so common! For me it started at the age of ten. I still remember thinking "What is that noise?" and asking my sister about it; it took us a minute or two to realize that she couldn't hear it because the sound was in my head. It's not exactly a ringing or a whining sound. It's more like the sound you sometimes hear coming from a big electrical transformer, but thinner and higher pitched.

It's never effected my hearing and, like ChrisL and Mvcrash, I've learned to live with it.


Best Regards

goshawk

My ENT says it is more common than most folks think.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Thirty years ago I was in my second floor apartment and thought I heard birds chirping one night. I thought to call the landlord and to tell him to check and see if birds were nesting in the attic but it was late at night so I didn't.

The following morning I was at a traffic light in my car and heard the birds. I knew then that I had bats in my belfry rather than birds in the attic.

Good thing you did not have bats in your attic!!

I've noticed it the past several years. It's getting worse, or at least more constant, I think. Kind of a constant high-pitched low-volume thing, a little like the sounds I used to pick up from the transatlantic cable when I had a portable short-wave radio. Maybe too many earaches as a kid, maybe too much loud live rock in the sixties, maybe genetics (my dad got pretty deaf in his later years), maybe some combination.

I think I'm going to check out that Quietus too, but I'm afraid my hearing may be getting ready to go. Kind of a bummer; music is one of my great joys; and having a little less than the average complement of social skills, I feel like I have to listen closely to what's going on in conversations so as not to make a complete fool of myself (just 3/4 of a fool, thanks). What can you do, though. It's definitely good to read all these responses and know it's something a lot of us are dealing with.

~Rich (Eh??)

Hearing loss is way too common.....

Lets see.... +five years of NRA 22 rifle competition.
Air powered hammers and drills underground in a mine.
Personal weapons training in the army (we did have ear plugs of sorts)
Handgun range for years....
Howitzers 105, 155, 8"....

But the killer for me was snow tires on the highway in the summer.
Lots of years driving down the road with that high frequency snow
tire buzz in my left ear. It took a toll on my left ear and the upper frequencies
response is very much gone.

I am lucky -- ringing in my ears is rare..... I get it on occasion
and for those that have it all the time -- well I would rather shave with
a dull brick.

FWIW -- my white noise generator is a small snoring dog.

I have Tinnitus also. It's a result of Minear's Disease that came on about 8 years ago. Minears (incurable disease of the inner ear) causes a constant motion in the fluid in the inner ear which is interpreted as sound. Mine sounds similiar to the cicadas you hear in the trees in late summer. 24/7 sometimes louder than others but always there. It interferes with my hearing because if someone doesn't speak above the "noise" I can't understand them. I'm told that in time I'll probably loose all or most of my hearing because the stereocilla (the little hair cells in the inner ear) are only good for just so many inputs and then they wear out (why old folks have trouble hearing). Just to add a little excitement Minears can mess with you equilibrium and I occassionally have severe vertigo for which I get to have a ride to the hospital in an ambulance and get pumped full of drugs.

Oh well, such is life.

Pelkey