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deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:24 pm

daniel- wrote: If yes, what is your life with Tinnitus ?

part of my personal hell-

Thanks!

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:34 pm

Ebenezer Squeezer wrote:Wow, I had no idea it could get that bad. Did he say how he got it?

Yes, trough years and years of playing very loud in a rock band without any ear protection and under alcohol influence (basically tossing good judgment out of the window).

There are also similar severe cases that were caused by car accidents (a physical hit at the ear can create a very nasty, life-long tinnitus).

Cheers!
bManic

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:45 pm

This isn't going to carry much merit since I'm only 18 and have a little bit of it, but:

1) Wear earplugs to concerts. Nice ones sound good and are comfortable
2) When buying speakers, go for accuracy before loudness. If your speakers are accurate you wont feel such a need to turn it up...

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:46 pm

can also be caused by anagesics (like aspirin) and antibiotics and tumors and high-blood pressure and someof the other already-mentioned things like headphone use, alchohol and over-exposure to loud sound.

Daniel Pompougnac · Post by **Daniel Pompougnac** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:02 pm

can also be caused by anagesics (like aspirin) and antibiotics

Yes. You're right.
There's a special departement for Tinnitus in a hospital of my town (Bordeaux, France) and I've learned and learned so many things about Tinnitus...

Daniel

fake · Post by **fake** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:05 pm

Only ever had it once due to an ear infection, not nice at all.

I remember seeing a programme a while ago where a woman who was suffering from it had developed some head exercises.
She had taught some others what to do and apparently it works, not permanent though. It was something to do with the head jerking and causing the debris in the cochlea to move, I think!

fake

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:41 pm

bmanic wrote: Yes, trough years and years of playing very loud in a rock band without any ear protection and under alcohol influence (basically tossing good judgment out of the window).

Hmpf. I know that story. Very well even.
Well, that was Rock'n'Roll for me.
Oh, and thanks a lot, Mr. Jim Marshall (I played them amps (or similar ones) for almost a decade).

So, as you may have guessed, tinnitus for me as well. Since some years by now. Sometimes it's really horrible, so I need to keep stress down, if possible - which isn't always exactly possible if you make a living by being a musician.
Guess I'll never make a good sound engineer in my life. But then, there's worse things.
Right now, I'm trying to cut down smoking, with plans to entirely stop next year. Kind of a tough call after 20 years, I tell you...

Daniel Pompougnac · Post by **Daniel Pompougnac** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:31 pm

I've read that a surgical operation in the brain of a Tinnitus man has stopped the noises (in Deutschland or Belgium, I think...).
But I'm not ready to want a surgical operation in my splendid brain

Daniel

xsub · Post by **xsub** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:51 pm

Sickle wrote:I've had it for at least 15 years. It's a real motherf**ker trying to sleep with WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR in your ears so loud it drowns out white noise..

Apparently, you can get this small noise box which first a company who specializes in that sets up for you.. they find out the frequency that you hear, and set that in your personal small noise box. Then when you are trying to sleep, it goes against your hear, cancelling out the noise..

Some people can sleep with music playing, so maybe this can help you.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:42 pm

When this thread was fresh I was just feeling sorry for you guys, and felt lucky that I've avoided stuff like this despite all the all-nighters in studios or way too loud concerts or rehearsing a meter from the crash cymbal...

Then, the previous saturday, as I flew home from Poland, it struck. I was getting this bad flu I've been struggling with for a couple of weeks now, and my head simply couldn't equalise the pressure as the pressure cabin did its thing. I woke up in Warszawa with both ears just blown up like balloons (it felt like that anyway), and the thought of two more flights that day really frightened me. The pain in both ears was really bad, and I couldn't hear much more than myself swallowing and coughing. The following two flights were nothing but pain.

For almost two weeks now I've been waiting for this situation to settle down, and I have to say I'm pretty worried. There's a constant high pitched noise in my left ear. It's got a very high main frequency, probably 10k or more, with a noise band down towards 2k I guess. It's so loud that I hear it when I speak, I hear it above music at regular listening levels, above conversations... I have to use my right ear for telephone calls.

And this has been fairly constant now for days. I've been waiting for it to calm down as my flu went away, and although I'm not totally done with that, my ear noise has been relatively unchanged for too many days now.

I wish I hadn't gotten on that flight.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:55 pm

It might take a while for this to go aways after recovering from a flu. But you may consider seeing your doc nonetheless, so it doesn't get chronic. Probably he's even a good guy with knowledge about some gingko derivats and such.

Klemperer · Post by **Klemperer** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:06 pm

The girlfriend of my brother (he's a doctor) had just these symptoms together with the flu, Hovmod, and some weeks after the end of the flu it just vanished. So you should really see the doctor soon, and maybe it will just go away. (In her case the high noises came back for a short while months later, but the doctor said something like "there's nothing" and indeed she was lucky, and it never came back.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:36 pm

I'm crossing my fingers. Your words helped me relax a little about it. I'm panicking a little...

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:44 pm

I have tinnitus, and mine flat out sucks hardcore. It's been something I've been dealing with for at least 15 years or so... and it's progressively gotten worse along with moderate hearing loss in my right ear. As a matter of fact, it has flared up in the past week to a level which has been incredibly annoying... after drinks at a company holiday party. I thought it would subside (admiting that it flares up if I drink too much), but it hasn't. My tinnitus is classified as pulsile... so that means I have the lovely benefit of hearing my hearbeat as a constant whooshing pulse of various levels in addition to the ringing. I've grown accustom to it, but I get somewhat worried because I've grown accustom to each worsening flare up and accompaning hearing loss. This latest flare up has the pulsing go crazy any time I eat, drink, or sometimes just swallow... and it's insanely annoying and pretty loud too.

I've had CT-Scans and ENT's probe me, but they said there is nothing they could do. The ENT offered a surgical procedure that *might* correct the hearing loss... but said it would be unknown the effects on the tinnitus. I shyed away from the idea because he didn't seem convenced that it would resolve anything.. and I kinda got paranoid that it might actually make things worse.

Anyway... I've gotta get back to my former exercise program.. as that really helped out a great deal with my tinnitus in the past (although initially it seemed to aggravate it).

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:23 am

Had the high-pitched version for 20 years or so myself. It got pretty intense for awhile a decade back and I got a lot of tests. Nothing they can do, of course.

Now, like others, I notice it infrequently, usually when my environment is quiet and I accidentally pay attention to it. But it's always very much there. I sleep with either the air-conditioning or central heat on always, for the white noise.

It used to really distress me, but now, it seems trivial. Wait till your prostate kicks up on you, guys.....

All that loud goddam rock and roll in the Sixties. And Seventies. And Eighties. And....

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