Tinnitus, Anyone Have It?

[SeaBreeze]

I've had it in my right ear only for quite a few years now, although it seems to be worsening. It's still not bad enough to seek medical attention, and I don't want anything implanted deep in my ear to treat it either. I hear it mostly at night in bed, when things are quiet. It sounds like the high pitched beeps in a hearing test, then a pause, then the beep again. Anybody else have this?

 

[Jillaroo]

I have it in both ears SB, it sounds like someone screeching it's like this 24/7, i am being punished for playing my music too loud, it does get me down, i find it hard to distingish where a noise is coming from due to the screeching in my ears.

 

[Jillaroo]

I have had it for years Di and the screeching is like Cicadas, so along with my headaches plus Neuralgia 24/7 it makes for a very noisy and sore head, but i no complain, i am sure there are thousands of people suffering worse things than all my ailments

 

[rkunsaw]

My wife has it. She takes Lipoflavonoid and says it helps

 

[Pappy]

I have often wonder if the products they advertise help. Left ear very loud high pitch. I do get some relief from my hearing aid but don't wear them to bed.

 

[Jillaroo]

Thanks for that info rkunsaw, i have tried a prescription drug i can't remember the name it started with T something like Tofranil. I will be buying some of this as mine is so loud i can't block it out

 

[SeaBreeze]

Thanks Rkunsaw, sounds like that's an OTC product, will try it some day if my tinnitus becomes problematic. Here's a medical center that treats it, and people advertise that they've had good results, but it would have to be really intense and in both ears for me to want to do that and spend the money...http://www.tinnitusandhearing.com/neuromonics-web-site-tinnitus-colorado/

This is a holistic product I've heard advertised on the radio, not sure how good it works, I think they offer a free sample to try it...http://shop.quietrelief.com/

I worked around loud machinery for over thirty years, but I always used hearing protection, so I'm not sure exactly what caused mine. But I do find, like Jilly, I do think some sounds are coming from behind me, but they are in front of me, or from my left, but they're coming from my right. Never thought it was related to the Tinnitus though.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Wow, Rider , glad you're injuries from landing on the gravel weren't any worse...although from what I hear, vertigo is pretty bad. Strange that the blow resolved the Tinnitus though, must have readjusted a nerve. I think vertigo is due to an inner ear fluid imbalance.

 

[MercyL]

I've had it in my right ear only for quite a few years now, although it seems to be worsening. It's still not bad enough to seek medical attention, and I don't want anything implanted deep in my ear to treat it either. I hear it mostly at night in bed, when things are quiet. It sounds like the high pitched beeps in a hearing test, then a pause, then the beep again. Anybody else have this?

I have noticed a bit if tinnitus, but I cannot tell if it an artifact of aging, as is most common, or if it is iatrogenic. I only notice it when I am extremely tired, having a huge flare up, or a room is absolutely quiet, which is rare.

I just bet that pharmaceutical companies are considering new medications to treat ringing ears, making big bucks from a "natural" condition.

I can almost hear the commercials now. They'd feature a woman sitting in her car at a stop light. Then, there would be a few frames showing an ambulance, lights blazing and sirens singing, approaching the same intersection. The driver looks both ways, and doesn't actually see the ambulance as the sound track plays the siren that would alert her to impending doom. Other drivers gasp as she pulls out into the intersection in time for a deadly T-Bone.

Folks buy the tinnitus medication in record numbers.

What a world.

 

[That Guy]

I experience ringing occasionally but don't know if it's related. Do have "surfers ear" which is boney growth from long exposure to cold. Don't know if it's a contributor. Sill like my music loud . . . so... the damage is surely being done.