A440
407 posts
Jul 05, 2015
1:05 PM
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It's not really there. So why can't I stop this damn thing? I have been "hearing" a constant 8 kHz sine wave playing in my head for the past 6 years. Is this a mental game I can win? If I try hard enough, can I "will" it away? Doctors say there is no cure. In fact, this condition is not even fully understood by the scientific community. (I guess they think there is not enough profit to be made in curing this maladie). I feel pretty helpless against this f'n curse.
I understand the blues.
Last Edited by A440 on Jul 05, 2015 1:06 PM
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tookatooka
3749 posts
Jul 05, 2015
1:41 PM
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Me too A440. It's a curse that I've borne for the past 15 years. You do get used to it and the brain screens it out until you are reminded or it breaks through occasionally.
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arnenym
353 posts
Jul 05, 2015
2:05 PM
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I agree with tookatooka. The best way is to accept it and forget it. I have my tinnitus since 1986..
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BronzeWailer
1727 posts
Jul 05, 2015
2:45 PM
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I hear you guys. I've had it for about three years. Fairly low level but I have a constant high-pitched whine at maybe 2% volume.
I don't think about it most of the time but when I am in a quiet situation it comes to the fore sometimes.
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didjcripey
925 posts
Jul 05, 2015
2:48 PM
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There is no such thing as silence. Even in a really quiet place if you try to experience silence you can hear the blood rushing through your head. I also have mild tinnitus. So far it doesn't bother me; my mind largely ignores it. The biggest concern is that it may be a precursor to hearing loss later in life. That would really suck.
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Meaux Jeaux
87 posts
Jul 06, 2015
10:18 AM
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What? Huh?
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Owen Evans
57 posts
Jul 06, 2015
12:59 PM
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Ever time I see an ad on TV to help folks with tinnitus, it describes a product call Lipoflavenoid and it brags about it being efficacious for over 50 years. Have any of you tried it? I only get ringing of the ears after a loud music concert. It goes away in 24 hours or less so I can't speak for this problem. Hope this is useful as I found this website for the stuff. If you haven't used it, it can't hurt to try?
http://lipoflavonoid.com
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mlefree
332 posts
Jul 07, 2015
5:52 AM
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I also suffer from tinnitus. It ain't no fun but you learn to live with it.
My best advice: Do whatever you can to preserve what hearing you have left and speak up when you hear a young band playing at 150 decibels.
Michelle
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jawbone
574 posts
Jul 07, 2015
6:57 AM
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Yeah - I have the "Million Crickets on Caffeine" thing goin' on - I try to ignore it. I always take ear plugs to concerts and even movies. It always amazes me how much more enjoyable it makes it. It takes the "Hurting" part out of the equasion. I find that when the music is too loud I tend to tense up to try to deal with it - with ear plugs, just music, no tension!!
PS - you are wasting your breath trying to get bands to turn down.
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Raven
52 posts
Jul 07, 2015
3:08 PM
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I've had it for 55 years and it doesn't go away. It's caused by damaging the cilia in your cochlea usually through loud sounds from explosives, firearms, loud rock concerts. That's why so many vets suffer with the malady from experiencing warfare. Once you exceed 80db, you're in the danger zone.
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kudzurunner
5561 posts
Jul 07, 2015
5:28 PM
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I've got it too, guys. When I first developed it--the morning after sitting in with an Atlanta blues band, standing next to a very excited drummer--I was freaked out.
What happened fairly quickly is that my mind got used to it--the crickets, the spring meadow, call it what you will--and after that happened, it receded from suffering to pain.
I'm using those two words deliberately. Buddhists talk about how pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice--something that we allow when we attach to pain and let it mess with us.
The bad news is, the crickets don't go away. The good news is: when you live in a meadow, eventually you stop hearing the crickets. Unless you pause, lean on the shovel, and decide to listen to them.
These days I very rarely think of myself as somebody with tinnitus. Maybe .01 percent of the time. It's there, but it's not a problem.
But for a few weeks after it happened, it was all I talked about.
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KC69
462 posts
Jul 07, 2015
5:43 PM
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For me Lipoflavonoid was a joke!!! I have an acute condition. Always there, always screaming. Maybe the stuff works for some, but I suggest you keep your receipts and box codes, for supposedly a full refund. I've learned to like crickets!!!
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jawbone
575 posts
Jul 07, 2015
6:00 PM
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A few years ago down at the "Bean" the cicadas were so loud it totally cancelled out the tinnitus - I slept like a baby !!!
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Rontana
141 posts
Jul 09, 2015
6:46 AM
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Yup . . . I'm in this same club. But, I now only hear them if I concentrate on hearing them. I think the best way to deal with it is to just accept it . . . making it sort of a new normal.
Personally, I play head games with my tinnitus, in fact mocking it. That may sound odd, but it's just a method of tricking my mind into minimizing the effect (or rather, its importance). It works, at least for me.
For instance . . . I recently told a friend that I was inventing a new game for tinnitus sufferers. We'll call it (drum roll . . . please)
Mr. Cicada Head
I've no doubt this will be a big hit next Christmas season.
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Last Edited by Rontana on Jul 09, 2015 6:48 AM
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2chops
401 posts
Jul 09, 2015
7:52 AM
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I have a low level of it. I have no doubt that its onset was the after effects of a Ted Nugent concert I went to back in ’85 or ‘86 I believe it was. It was in a refurbished movie house and so stinking loud. My ears had a painful ring like an air raid siren in my head for a full week before it started to subside. I was a disc jockey at the time and had a bugger of a time doing my job.
Since then I’ve done some loud factory jobs and lots of tree work with chain saws and chippers. Even with the lesson learned in the ‘80s, ear plugs only do so much. Now it’s just a background ring that I pretty much don’t pay attention to. If I’m in a quiet room the ring comes to the forefront.
These days I find it to be a handy excuse to not pay attention to annoying yappers. I just blame it on the ring. On a related note, as I’m typing this, a spam email for in-ear hearing aids just popped into my in box. Irony.
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Leatherlips
340 posts
Jul 09, 2015
6:33 PM
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Well mine came on directly after I had a tooth removed (after the dentist broke his file off inside it). The numbing agent went directly into a nerve. Was that the cause? Don't know.
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