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Interests => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: redkatz919 on June 12, 2012, 03:23:47 PM
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Has anyone tried any of the products, to cure the ringing of the ears?
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Has anyone tried any of the products, to cure the ringing of the ears?
There's products? :lmao:
My wife and I both sleep with fans on to drown out the ringing.
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I've tried some, but nothing seems to work. I probably need to cut down or eliminate caffeine completely.
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I had an EENT specialist tell me that some folks get some relief by taking Melatonin.
It didn't help me.
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My MIL tried 1 of those natural remedies, it didn't work, she's learned to live with it. I have a slight case of it, I keep things around like MP3 players radio headphones etc. if it's too bad.
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Has anyone tried any of the products, to cure the ringing of the ears?
They don't help.
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I didn't have a problem with it until I busted my head open.
That was one of the specific things my doctor sorta tried to help me out with...long story made, short he couldn't help me with it.
Interesting though, two different frequencies, one for each ear.
No idea what causes that.
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I don't think it's a condition that really "curable", it seems most people just find a way to live with it.
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I don't think it's a condition that really "curable", it seems most people just find a way to live with it.
I suspect you are correct.
The intensity of mine varies from day to day. Sometime that ringing in my ears sounds so loud that I am surprised my wife can't hear it.
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I didn't have a problem with it until I busted my head open.
That was one of the specific things my doctor sorta tried to help me out with...long story made, short he couldn't help me with it.
Interesting though, two different frequencies, one for each ear.
No idea what causes that.
Gotcha beat. I hear three separate noises. Left ear is a sounds like cicadas but a steady rhythm, right ear is more of a sound like crickets and to top it off I hear the typical high pitched whine in both ears.
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Gotcha beat. I hear three separate noises. Left ear is a sounds like cicadas but a steady rhythm, right ear is more of a sound like crickets and to top it off I hear the typical high pitched whine in both ears.
That, my friend, is a distinction that I am happy to conceed. :rofl:
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I have noticed that it seems louder after being in a noisy environment. Mine is always worse after spending 12 hours at work and then coming home to relative quiet.
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Thanks for the information. I am so tired of the ringing, I was ready to order Quietus? Just to try something to stop it.
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Thanks for the information. I am so tired of the ringing, I was ready to order Quietus? Just to try something to stop it.
It won't stop, but a fan in your bedroom may help you sleep. If you use a 3 speed fan, you should find one of the speeds masks the tinnitus better than the others.
I have the cicada noise, don't know if it's in my left ear or in my brain.
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I have noticed that it seems louder after being in a noisy environment. Mine is always worse after spending 12 hours at work and then coming home to relative quiet.
Each time you are exposed you do a little more damage. Are you wearing hearing protection at work? After 28 years flying helos I have a veritable symphony of crickets & cicadas with an overlay that sounds like a hearing test. However I sleep like a baby & ignore it the rest of the time.
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Each time you are exposed you do a little more damage. Are you wearing hearing protection at work? After 28 years flying helos I have a veritable symphony of crickets & cicadas with an overlay that sounds like a hearing test. However I sleep like a baby & ignore it the rest of the time.
If I wore hearing protection, I wouldn't be able to hear my radio. The safety director does noise checks every so often, and has always said that hearing protection isn't required except while doing certain things like cutting and grinding.
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If I wore hearing protection, I wouldn't be able to hear my radio. The safety director does noise checks every so often, and has always said that hearing protection isn't required except while doing certain things like cutting and grinding.
Your call but, if it is worse after a day at work, I'm guessing that is causing it & it will likely get worse. Anyway, I & several friends have no trouble living with it.
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Your call but, if it is worse after a day at work, I'm guessing that is causing it & it will likely get worse. Anyway, I & several friends have no trouble living with it.
It's more an annoyance than anything. I have to have TV a little louder , but it doesn't keep me from sleeping. I actually concentrate on it to fall asleep.
I think it may not be worse after work, but it only seems that way because of the relative quiet at home.
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There's products? :lmao:
My wife and I both sleep with fans on to drown out the ringing.
Thank God I'm not the only one! I even travel with a sound machine to sleep. When we went to Germany a few years ago I forgot to pack it. We had to shop for a cheap radio so I could tune it between stations for the white noise.
I have had constant tinnitus for as long as I can remember. Sometimes when my right ear (this doesn't happen with the left one) gets a wax (UGH!) build up I hear what sounds like sirens wailing. The only thing that helps with that is to get the wax removed.
I'm curious about all the tinnitus sufferers here: do you also have very sensitive hearing? I can detect the slightest sound when no one else around me can hear it. A mouse was eating through the sheetrock in an apartment I was in once. I kept hearing this tiny, tiny scritching sound and traced it to a spot on a wall. Suddenly a pink nose popped through. Even in a remote area, away from anything you could think would make noise, I can hear hums which are not tinnitus related.
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I have it too. I know the month and year it started, January 2009. My doctor suggested it may have been all the high dose ibuprofin and prescription anti-inflammatory medication I had taken over the years for my auto immune disease. He sent me to an audiologist to confirm that I had it. I have high and low frequency hearing loss in te right ear. I was then sent to an ENT who said there is nothing he could do for it. I take ambien and night as I can't sleep because of it.
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Thank God I'm not the only one!
:hi5:
I'm curious about all the tinnitus sufferers here: do you also have very sensitive hearing? I can detect the slightest sound when no one else around me can hear it. A mouse was eating through the sheetrock in an apartment I was in once. I kept hearing this tiny, tiny scritching sound and traced it to a spot on a wall. Suddenly a pink nose popped through. Even in a remote area, away from anything you could think would make noise, I can hear hums which are not tinnitus related.
I wouldn't say I have especially sensitive hearing although I do seem to hear a knock at the door or the doorbell when my wife doesn't most of the time. Oddly, the wife and I are finding that we regret not bringing earplugs to movies more recently (The Avengers was almost painful it was so loud).
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I'm curious about all the tinnitus sufferers here: do you also have very sensitive hearing?
No, I spent 4 years working around jet engines before the Air Force required ear defenders and ear plugs.
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:hi5:
I wouldn't say I have especially sensitive hearing although I do seem to hear a knock at the door or the doorbell when my wife doesn't most of the time. Oddly, the wife and I are finding that we regret not bringing earplugs to movies more recently (The Avengers was almost painful it was so loud).
Same problem here. Turning the volume up to 11 doesn't seen to improve the movies as far as I can see.
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I'm curious about all the tinnitus sufferers here: do you also have very sensitive hearing?
Nope. After 40+ years of trumpets and drums, I can't even hear when Mrs E is talking to me. :whistling:
Seriously, I have substantial hearing loss and am a candy-date for hearing aids, though I haven't done much to take care of that problem. :banghead:
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Nope. After 40+ years of trumpets and drums, I can't even hear when Mrs E is talking to me. :whistling:
Seriously, I have substantial hearing loss and am a candy-date for hearing aids, though I haven't done much to take care of that problem. :banghead:
With your background, you could go to the VA & get hearing aids. They have modernized & no longer issue the brass ear trumpets. They now issue the nifty 2lb micro aid. Get both ears at once so your head won't tilt.
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With your background, you could go to the VA & get hearing aids. They have modernized & no longer issue the brass ear trumpets. They now issue the nifty 2lb micro aid. Get both ears at once so your head won't tilt.
Yeah, I've already taken steps to try and get that done at Ft. Riley. But I ain't quite pulled the trigger yet.
No more brass trumpets, eh? Damn. One of those would go well with my government issue birth control glasses....
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Yeah, I've already taken steps to try and get that done at Ft. Riley. But I ain't quite pulled the trigger yet.
No more brass trumpets, eh? Damn. One of those would go well with my government issue birth control glasses....
Been lucky, I get my cheap glasses from my employee coverage. Are they still issuing the Clark Kents?
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Been lucky, I get my cheap glasses from my employee coverage. Are they still issuing the Clark Kents?
I dunno. As soon as I dumped the only two pairs I was ever issued, I started getting laid again.
Those BCG really do work! :rotf:
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Are they still issuing the Clark Kents?
I got issued Clark Kents in Basic Training in 1985. They were downright sexy compared to the tortoiseshell travesties that replaced them in the late 80s/early 90s!
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Been lucky, I get my cheap glasses from my employee coverage. Are they still issuing the Clark Kents?
Military helo's, civilian, or both ?
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(http://img2.walgreens.com/dbimagecache/31191710238_220x220_a.jpg)
I know a retired heavy equipment mechanic that says as long as he takes this it helps. This is the generic version of a much more expensive brand. Read the reviews. Walgreens stands behind their products and if it does not help you you can bring it back before the end of the first 30 days for a full refund.
This guy spent years in the desert at the Nevada test site (aka: Area 51) working outside with wind and dust blowing on top of the loud noise. The repair trucks had no a/c so he had the same blowing into one ear while he drove. He claims when he takes this supplement it's easier for him to hear in groups of people and there is less ringing.
One hearing doctor told him "that just means you are having hearing loss, come back and see me in six months" he never went back and had another doctor tell him about the supplement (his PCP)
This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor. I am just sharing with you one person's experience. This person is not a "health junkie" and this is the only vitamin he takes. He says it really "helps."
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-ear-health-plus-dietary-supplement-caplets/ID=prod5508989-product
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I'm curious about all the tinnitus sufferers here: do you also have very sensitive hearing? I can detect the slightest sound when no one else around me can hear it. A mouse was eating through the sheetrock in an apartment I was in once. I kept hearing this tiny, tiny scritching sound and traced it to a spot on a wall. Suddenly a pink nose popped through. Even in a remote area, away from anything you could think would make noise, I can hear hums which are not tinnitus related.
I have pretty good hearing, my MIL who has really bad tinnitus has super duper hearing. I have a super duper sense of smell.
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I have pretty good hearing, my MIL who has really bad tinnitus has super duper hearing. I have a super duper sense of smell.
Has your MIL ever been given any explanation for the tinnitus or her heightened sense of hearing?
I have an outstanding sense of smell too. Most of the time it seems like a curse along with the hearing. If it isn't the tinnitus or hearing making me crazy, it's some goddawful smell no one else notices. Ask me to walk a balance beam, though, and it's all over. My balance is horrible.
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Has your MIL ever been given any explanation for the tinnitus or her heightened sense of hearing?
I have an outstanding sense of smell too. Most of the time it seems like a curse along with the hearing. If it isn't the tinnitus or hearing making me crazy, it's some goddawful smell no one else notices. Ask me to walk a balance beam, though, and it's all over. My balance is horrible.
My checkbook's nickname is "balance beam".
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I have severe nerve damage in both ears from prolonged exposure to high frequency noise, AKA jet engines. During the 20 years I was in the Air Force I used all the hearing protection that was made available to us, but due to the requirements of my job I practically lived on the flight line and one thing you came to accept was that you were going to be constantly exposed to running jet engines. There was just no way you were going to have 100% protection 100% of the time, and anyone who has worked on the flight line can attest to what I said. Just suck it up. Add to that the additional exposure to ground test equipment and power units and all the other noise makers that were just part of life on the flight line, I am surprised I am not totally deaf.
As it is my ears ring constantly and sometimes it is really loud. I am not alone with this, a bunch of you have said the same thing. I have lived with it for so long I have learned to ignore it. If I think about it then yes I can hear it but normally it no longer bothers me.
When it first started to get real bad I couldn't ignore it, and no matter what I did the constant ringing would just drive me right to the edge. It was horrible sometimes, I just wanted to break something or kick somebody's ass, anything to relieve the stress. I swear to God that some days I thought I was going nuts. But over time I adapted to it. :-)
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I have severe nerve damage in both ears from prolonged exposure to high frequency noise, AKA jet engines. During the 20 years I was in the Air Force I used all the hearing protection that was made available to us, but due to the requirements of my job I practically lived on the flight line and one thing you came to accept was that you were going to be constantly exposed to running jet engines. There was just no way you were going to have 100% protection 100% of the time, and anyone who has worked on the flight line can attest to what I said. Just suck it up. Add to that the additional exposure to ground test equipment and power units and all the other noise makers that were just part of life on the flight line, I am surprised I am not totally deaf.
As it is my ears ring constantly and sometimes it is really loud. I am not alone with this, a bunch of you have said the same thing. I have lived with it for so long I have learned to ignore it. If I think about it then yes I can hear it but normally it no longer bothers me.
When it first started to get real bad I couldn't ignore it, and no matter what I did the constant ringing would just drive me right to the edge. It was horrible sometimes, I just wanted to break something or kick somebody's ass, anything to relieve the stress. I swear to God that some days I thought I was going nuts. But over time I adapted to it. :-)
Good grief, I had no idea how common this problem is. My hubby is the ONLY person I have ever known with this problem. Thinking about what you all with this problem have said, I now believe that one mystery has been solved.
At times he speaks at a normal volume and others one has to get in his face to hear him. A good friend once asked if Hubby had a volume button.
Only once or twice in 22 years has he mentioned this ringing or what ever in his ears and that he had been told that there was nothing DR. could do about it. So years go by and I never gave it a thought until now.
Questions here, Could this be caused by a blow to the ear say in an auto accident or someone hitting one up side the head as a kid ?????
Question, how old were all of you with this problem when you first noticed it ?????
Question, did this come on suddenly or gradually ????
I need to ask Hubby some questions instead of just continually ignoreing it for years.
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vesta, hearing loss is a gradual process and unless it's caused by trauma or something not related to exposure to sound pressure volume, you don't really notice it when you've got it -- until it's kinda too late.
I drive Mrs. E nuts with the "huh?" and "what did you say?" stuff.
But to me, it's a standard question I ask her all the time.
My own ringing-in-the-ears is at a specific frequency, though I can't quote a hertz value. I can sing it and play it on the piano.
And it is frustrating how much I can't hear. I wore a single hearing aid on a trial basis for several days and I was amazed at how much I was missing.
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Good grief, I had no idea how common this problem is. My hubby is the ONLY person I have ever known with this problem. Thinking about what you all with this problem have said, I now believe that one mystery has been solved.
At times he speaks at a normal volume and others one has to get in his face to hear him. A good friend once asked if Hubby had a volume button.
Only once or twice in 22 years has he mentioned this ringing or what ever in his ears and that he had been told that there was nothing DR. could do about it. So years go by and I never gave it a thought until now.
Questions here, Could this be caused by a blow to the ear say in an auto accident or someone hitting one up side the head as a kid ?????
Question, how old were all of you with this problem when you first noticed it ?????
Question, did this come on suddenly or gradually ????
I need to ask Hubby some questions instead of just continually ignoreing it for years.
It is a very common problem. There are probably a huge number of people out there that have this and nobody knows about it, and as a result it never gets treated in any way. We know it's not curable but there are things you can do to lessen it's impact on your life. The symptoms can be different in different people. Some people say it's a ringing sound others say it's more like a buzzing. Your friend that has it may be hearing it at a different frequency than you are.
It has a variety of causes.The prolonged use of certain medications, trauma, exposure to high frequency noise or any noise above a certain decibel level. It doesn't happen over night. The damage and it's symptoms may take years to become noticeable, maybe not. It depends on the person and a lot of other variables. I started having problems when I was 25 or 26.It is also interesting to note that at the same time the doctors detected what they called a significant hearing loss at certain frequencies. If you worked in what was called a "a high noise area" then you had to have a hearing test every year. At that time they would also brief you on the proper use and maintenance of hearing protection devices and at the same time custom fit you with a set of ear plugs that you carried with you everywhere you went. Virtually everyone who worked on the flight line had ear plugs with them.
Sometimes the noise levels would become so high that you had to wear ear plugs and ear muffs/ear defenders at the same time. It was the only way to protect your ears. If you didn't double up you would find yourself in severe pain, disoriented and unable to function. I have seen guys try it and then realize immediately that they had screwed up. It is extremely dangerous and just plain stupid. If you got caught expect disciplinary action was coming your way, and there were a lot of ways to discipline you. The ability of a supervisor to come up with the worst possible punishment at the worst possible time was uncanny. We had one supervisor in particular I remember whose ability to come up with a seemingly endless supply of unique and very effective punishments made him a legend in supervisory circles. He was of course feared and hated by those who had been the recipients of some of his more creative punishments. He struck fear into the hearts of many an airman. What can I say? it's just life in the military. :tongue:
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Military helo's, civilian, or both ?
Sorry I missed your question. Military for 28 years.
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Sorry I missed your question. Military for 28 years.
Wow, still flying, on the civilian side ?
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Wow, still flying, on the civilian side ?
Can't afford to. Between retirement & about a year ago I worked for the Navy as a flight sim instructor at NAS Corpus. I've always enjoyed instructing but felt my response time was getting a little slow. Ten years in the sims, only had a couple of students come close to killing me.
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Can't afford to. Between retirement & about a year ago I worked for the Navy as a flight sim instructor at NAS Corpus. I've always enjoyed instructing but felt my response time was getting a little slow. Ten years in the sims, only had a couple of students come close to killing me.
You were in my stomping grounds from when I was stationed in Beeville. I went to Corpus on many occasions.
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You were in my stomping grounds from when I was stationed in Beeville. I went to Corpus on many occasions.
Beeville? I assumed you were Army.
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Beeville? I assumed you were Army.
I started out in the Army. Almost 6 years. 3 years enlisted crew chief (67Y10), 3 years Warrant Officer (100BO), before I applied for an interservice transfer to the Navy.