Tinnitus . . . how are you dealing with it?

Big Green · Sep 15, 2019

benenglish said:
I don't understand. People who get banned may have, prior to their ban, started useful threads. Those threads survive and continue to draw responses. As someone with severe tinnitus, I'm happy to see this thread occasionally float to the top again.

So what do you find comical? That's a serious question; I'm not trying to be snarky. I'm trying to understand how the forum is not working in the way it is expected to by you, a valued member.

Overall most threads have a short life span. If you peruse the older threads and look at the members involved, many of those have not been on in a while. Some still will be but I’ll see several names I won’t recognize at all. This thread is some three years old. OP is no longer around but the next two still are and were actually both logged in at crazy hours this morning. To me that was comical, looking at patterns.

And I agree, this thread has been useful, tinnitus is horrible and I’ve learned some things in this thread, hence why I clicked on it again.

benenglish · Sep 15, 2019

Oh, you're commenting on the longevity of some members. Got it. Cool. Thanks for straightening me out.

Coiled · Sep 15, 2019

Big Green said:
Overall most threads have a short life span. If you peruse the older threads and look at the members involved, many of those have not been on in a while. Some still will be but I’ll see several names I won’t recognize at all. This thread is some three years old. OP is no longer around but the next two still are and were actually both logged in at crazy hours this morning. To me that was comical, looking at patterns.

And I agree, this thread has been useful, tinnitus is horrible and I’ve learned some things in this thread, hence why I clicked on it again.

Crazy for them but not for you?

T sucks bawlz! One reason I'm up now and glad I'm off Mondays.

Big Green · Sep 16, 2019

Coiled said:
Crazy for them but not for you?

No, certainly it’s crazy for me. I hate the hours that I’m up. My current job has me working, on average, from 2pm until 2:30am, give or take. After that is driving home and trying to decompress and go to bed. My normal bed time is between 4 and 5am. It’s horrible.

Coiled · May 16, 2021

Has anyone discovered a cure or even just a little relief?

Bozz10mm · May 16, 2021

I don't think there is a cure for it. Mine's not too bad, so I can mostly ignore it, until someone mentions it.

Coop45 · May 16, 2021

When I got hearing aids I never noticed it again.

striker55 · May 16, 2021

My Mom's hearing aid place talked my brother into $2,000 device to hide tinnitus, didn't work, he returned them.

2ManyGuns · May 16, 2021

I've had the ringing ear problem since I was a child, the silence just makes it worse. A hearing test shows a minor loss in the left ear, not enough to justify hearing aids. Mine is nearly non-stop, it will go away if I turn my headphones into the danger zone, so I just do my best to ignore my tinnitus.

baboon · May 16, 2021

At my age other things are more of a problem then tinnitus. And at my age selective hearing can be easily blamed on tinnitus.

cygunner · May 16, 2021

Too many refineries, gas compressors, trapshooting, etc. Actually though I feel I am doing what I can about the world bee shortage.

leVieux · May 17, 2021

Our brains will sort-of "automatically" begin to ignore the tinnitus after a while. I know of no effective treatment ,nor of any "cure".
leVieux

Axxe55 · May 17, 2021

leVieux said:
Our brains will sort-of "automatically" begin to ignore the tinnitus after a while. I know of no effective treatment ,nor of any "cure".
leVieux

Really? Then why am I still hearing the "ringing" noise, and have been for many years, and it seems to be getting louder?

I guess my brain didn't get the memo to start ignoring it yet.

Dougw1515 · May 17, 2021

baboon said:
There is no treatment! Saying what often is how you deal with it!

HUH??? works too!

benenglish · May 17, 2021

leVieux said:
Our brains will sort-of "automatically" begin to ignore the tinnitus after a while.

It's been loud and clear to me for over 35 years. There are reasons that people commit suicide because of it.

Some of us never get used to it.

kyletxria1911a1 · May 17, 2021

My hearing aids help

gll · May 17, 2021

Avoid really quiet places. Always have a lot of other background noise... fans, radios, TVs, appliances running...

Then, try to ignore it... and the voices...

Haystack · May 17, 2021

One of my ears is deaf, and hears nothing but LOUD ringing. My sound is about 6,000 Hz at around 85 decibels. My audiologist helped my quantify those numbers by playing sounds in my good ear until it closely matched what I hear in my deaf ear. I've been that way for about 20 years now, so I have some experience dealing with the mental aspects of this problem.

Best advice I've ever come across is this: Don't think about. Don't talk about it. Don't ask people about it. Don't dwell on it. Try to ignore it.

The only way I can do that is to give my mind something else to focus on. TV, radio, a book, the computer, a project in the shop, or any task that requires a little bit of mental concentration. The mind can't "tune it out" unless the mind is busy doing something.

Just writing this post had made me "hear" it louder than normal. That's what I mean by don't talk about or think about it.

The worst times for me is trying to go to sleep. For that, I haven't found an answer yet. Mine is actually loud enough that it wakes me up at night.

SURVIVOR619 · May 17, 2021

As others have mentioned, background noise helps to tune out the ringing. I haven't quite figured out why some times the ringing is far more loud than other times... stress related perhaps?

Wish I wore plugs to all the small-venue concerts I attended throughout my teens and 20's...

For those who don't have this problem, they don't have much frame of reference to empathize with us. I've played a sound on YouTube for my wife to hear what I hear 24/7 so she is less quick to lose patience with my regular request for her to repeat herself. Sorry Love!

SGT Dave · May 17, 2021

Terrible tinnitus, my favorite souvenir from six years in field artillery. In the last two years it seems much in spite of all my precautions. I sleep with headphones on, listening to a mellow playlist to try to mask the ringing. I can't understand the dialogue in movies anymore without cranking up the volume. If anyone discovers a hearing aid to combat tinnitus, sign me up.

Tinnitus . . . how are you dealing with it?

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