Tinnitus
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johnbryanpeters
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Went away after I got hearing aids.
Stop bad habits like caffeine, smoking, alcohol. Remove stress as best you can. Wear hearing protection whenever you can.
Then use white noise if you can’t sleep.
Then use white noise if you can’t sleep.
Had it for years, basically I just try to ignore it. Kinda like breathing, you don't notice it so much except when you think about it. I know for sure my hearing is degraded but there's nothing to be done so I do try to be careful with what's left. Wear your earplugs and muffs, kids.
serviceguy
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I think you forgot breathing, once you stop that the tinnitus is gone F-O-R-E-V-A-H !
iman29
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I’ve had it for years in my left ear as well as losing about 30% of my hearing. Woke up one day about 3-4 years ago and that’s what I had. No symptoms or nothing. Went to ENT he treated me with steroids shot direct into my ear as “emergency “ treatment. All that did was give me nausea and semi vertigo for a week but it didn’t help. I refused the follow up treatments since e he told me the % of improvement was less than 20%.
the more you think about it the more you hear it. I do have to use a white noise machine at night to sleep but like others said you eventually learn to tune it out. Like right now as I’m typing this it’s loud but usually I don’t pay attention to it.
And I always wear ear protection when doing the lawn or leaves or any hammering etc work around the house. Have to keep what hearing I have safe.
the more you think about it the more you hear it. I do have to use a white noise machine at night to sleep but like others said you eventually learn to tune it out. Like right now as I’m typing this it’s loud but usually I don’t pay attention to it.
And I always wear ear protection when doing the lawn or leaves or any hammering etc work around the house. Have to keep what hearing I have safe.
JerseyPete
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I found that working in NYC made it much worse. That walk before you hit PABT where all the EMS/Police/Fire all sit in traffic and hit their sirens is the worst part of it. I used to cup my ears along with many others.
They will not be pennies on the dollar, but I saw people with Bose noise cancelling headsets. They also would not hear cars coming at them in intersections, so be careful.
At the strongest episode I had, I woke up at night thinking the smoke alarms were going off and jumped out of bed. It can be worse than an old switching power supply screaming. As others said, after a while your mind learns to ignore it.
I never heard of Flavonoid for treating it?
Paul H
Fearless OOS Poser
Pretty much this. In high school I went to a lot, I mean a lot, of concerts. I also had some old school headphones I used to use all the time in my room where I would absolutely blare the music and melt my brain. Eventually it sort of went away, or more accurately, I got used to it.
Captain Brainstorm
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Play your music louder to drown it out.
grilledcheeseking
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Live next to a highway, the jake brakes will drown out the ringing and put you to sleep.
Or this
Or this
iman29
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My ENT only told me about one other treatment also not guaranteed to work.
Hyberbarbaric O2 chamber sessions at about $10K per session. And likely not covered by insurance.
When he told me the price I said speak up I can’t hear you. Then I left.
True story. Haven’t been back since. I just deal with it or try to ignore it. Some days it’s loud some I don’t even pay attention.