Tinnitus

[speedog]

Tinnitus - do you have it and if so, what have you found/used that provides relief?

I started experiencing increasingly worse tinnitus several years ago and have resigned myself to the fact it's something I'll just have to live with. I've had my hearing tested and nothing's wrong. Been to a number of doctors/specialists and no real solutions offered up. As I sit here writing this post, I'm enjoying a constant high pitch sqeal in my ears/brain - I've done some reading and it appears there may be some natural remedies although it's anyone's guess if these will actually work.

So do any of you beyonders have tinnitus or knows someone that does and how they have gotten relief? I would just like to be able to experience silence once again.

[revelations]

I deal with intermittent tinnitus in one ear. Not bad enough yet to warrant a doc.

For me, environmental factors sometimes seems to be the cause. Too much coffee, not enough sleep, bad temporary diet etc. seem to make it worse. Sometimes its a single cause, sometimes its a combination.

I found relief with massage around the face/neck area since I have TMJ and other jaw-related issues (bruxism).

As with most idiopathic maladies, eliminating the bad from the body (or bad reacting, food sensitivity etc) is a good first step in eliminating the obvious.

[JRSC00LUDE]

I believe I have a mild case of it. I know that when I wake in the morning and all is still I hear a constant faint high-pitched sound. Sometimes less, sometimes more and there are times when there is essentially nothing but overall, it's a daily thing.

Hearing tests say mine too is in fine condition with the exception of a certain frequency range that is "impact" damaged, likely from unprotected gunshot exposure in my youth.

I'm pretty skeptical of natural remedies for hearing related issues but I have not actually investigated any.

[Fly Fishin']

Keep hydrated. Small changes in your body fluids will cause the volume to increase or decrease. Start by cutting out coffee and colas but after that I got nothing. I have moderate tinnitus and mild to moderate hearing loss in my left ear and am researching the best hearing aid for my situation. The aids I'm looking into have a white noise setting that is said to help.

E sharp 24/7 is a bit of a piss off mine is a perfect match to the last scene I the last episode of Archer.

[Redlined_8000]

Ive had it on and off for a few years. over this time I have had tons of coffee, no coffee, good diet, bad diet.... All the while my tinnitus had no noticeable response to these changes. Mine seems completely random. I have not had any for a while now however which is great. I use to have the ringing in my right ear for 4-5 days at a time.

I have read zinc supplementation can help. I can not conclude if it for sure worked on me but maybe. Cant hurt for you to try a ZMA supplement.

It is a shitty thing... Hopefully gets better.
My ringing gets a higher frequency when I bite down. Does this happen to anyone else?

[Nav13]

I have it and it sucks but it's only in my right ear. Started last December after going scuba diving. I was taking my open water course and couldn't equalize on my last dive on the 3rd day. My right ear remained plugged for a few days afterwards but eventually it opened up. I noticed pain in my right ear when listening to head phones a week later. I work out of town and have to drive about 7 hours to get to site and my right ear would be killing after the drive as well but would be fine the next day.

A few months ago I started having a constant ringing in my ear. I went to doctor a couple times since it started and he said it's nothing, just massage by your ear and take advil, well that didn't do shit. Went to another doctor last week, he looked at both ears and and put me on some antibiotics for a week, we will see if it does anything, I am half way through the meds and haven't noticed any change.

I have no idea if it has anything to do with the scuba diving but its a pretty big coincidence that it started right after that. I frigin hate this shit.

[Fly Fishin']

After about 3 month you develop the patients of a saint and an excuse for not hearing everything! This has got me out of some hot water with my wife on more than one occasion.

[ddduke]

What I did was increase water intake and rest. If I've been over training and not sleeping enough it will get so bad it'll go from super high pitched to full on loss of at least 50% of my hearing.

With my job it's not uncommon for me to be up for 36 straight hours with no sleep or even a nap, when this happens at about hour 18 I start to get it and it just gets progressively worse as the hours tick by. Before bed I'll drink a ton of water and try to get 12 hours of sleep. When I wake up I'm fine.

[xnvy]

Is no one going to pick up the phone? Like seriously, do you not hear that?

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[Redlined_8000]

Originally posted by ddduke
What I did was increase water intake and rest. If I've been over training and not sleeping enough it will get so bad it'll go from super high pitched to full on loss of at least 50% of my hearing.

With my job it's not uncommon for me to be up for 36 straight hours with no sleep or even a nap, when this happens at about hour 18 I start to get it and it just gets progressively worse as the hours tick by. Before bed I'll drink a ton of water and try to get 12 hours of sleep. When I wake up I'm fine.

36hr straight? Damn man. What do you do?

[firebane]

I've had tinnitus for years and most times I don't even notice it. But other times when its quiet enough or I'm thinking about it I become aware of it.

[ddduke]

Originally posted by Redlined_8000


36hr straight? Damn man. What do you do?

I work for a well service company. It's not like I work 36 straight all the time but it does happen semi regularly. Especially since most of my peers have 7-25 years experience and can tell my boss to fuck off.

Last month I was on my job, got a call that a guy working on a well an hour away wasn't going to make it cause he missed his flight, so I had to cover for him, when he showed up I got another call that one of our guys got into it with the company man, so I had to run there till a replacement showed up, then I went back to my well.

I've also literally pulled off a job and got a call to drive 1000km to another job, worked there for a day then drove back to Calgary.

It fucking sucks but between double day rates and huge mileage it really bumps up my pay.

[revelations]

Originally posted by ddduke


I work for a well service company. It's not like I work 36 straight all the time but it does happen semi regularly. Especially since most of my peers have 7-25 years experience and can tell my boss to fuck off.

Last month I was on my job, got a call that a guy working on a well an hour away wasn't going to make it cause he missed his flight, so I had to cover for him, when he showed up I got another call that one of our guys got into it with the company man, so I had to run there till a replacement showed up, then I went back to my well.

I've also literally pulled off a job and got a call to drive 1000km to another job, worked there for a day then drove back to Calgary.

It fucking sucks but between double day rates and huge mileage it really bumps up my pay.

You also realize that youre literally cutting years off your life. I've worked like this before.

Once every few months? OK maybe, if the pay is idiotically good .... but not every few weeks !!

Worse part is trying to think critically after being up for 30 hours. (problem solving unknown issues)

[ddduke]

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[GoChris]

I've had it pretty bad for a lot of years. I know of nothing to help it, years ago I also tried garlic, zinc and a few things. No change.

Interesting about the neck muscles though, mine are always tight and out of whack from working on the PC at a desk job all day and sleeping in my bed and pillow don't help. I might have to try some exercises.

[sumguy777]

Ive had it periodically and it has went away. The Docs said mine was allergy related.

[zipdoa]

I have tinnitus because Bourge73 got mad feedback on his amp one jam practice. Ringing ever since.

Left ear is now extremely bad because of TMJ/TMD. Every time my jaw cracks, the ringing gets a little worse. the TMJ is putting a lot of pressure on my ear drum.

If anyone knows how to get TMD/TMJ relief, post it up. I visited a dentist, but got nothing beneficial.

[heavyfuel]

Guys, c'mon. We all know what the real issue is.

http://www.herballove.com/guide/buzzing-ear-caused-over-masturbation

[Nav13]

Bumping this old thread. Has anyone been able to find anything that has helped with their tinittus? I've had it for about 2.5 years now. The last year was going really well. I learned to habituate to it and the hyperacusis had gone down a lot. Then out of no where a it all went to shit again a couple months ago. The tinitus is louder and my ear is even more sensitive to sound again.

Has anyone gone to any of the audiology places in town and seen some positive results?

[soupey]

Wouldn't be a bad idea to head to your optometrist if it's a longstanding problem. Sometimes can be related to elevated intracranial pressure. Simple dilation and/or visual field test can check for any problems on that end. All should be covered by AHC

[speedog]

I've just learned to live with it, exercise, sleep, relaxation, diet, nothing seems to help. Don't notice it as much when I'm concentrating/busy on something but once in a more quiet environment then I'll notice it's there. Sitting here on the couch, yupp, got that high pitched squeal in the middle of my head. It would be quite something to experiance complete silence but I suspect that'll never happen again. Sucks.

[CompletelyNumb]

Sleep with white noise, avoid silent rooms, mj.

[suntan]

Do you guys get your ears cleaned out? My wife went to an ENT about something else and she had a monster ear wax clump pulled out. Ever since she's had way less headaches.

Damn speedog. Didn't know you had tinnitus. I'm never giving you a hard time ever again about anything.

[firebane]

Fuck tinnitus. I've had it for so many years most of the time I don't even notice it. But then when its quiet or I'm not really paying attention my ears ring nicely.

Not sure when it happened but I know it sucks.

[Nav13]

Originally posted by soupey
Wouldn't be a bad idea to head to your optometrist if it's a longstanding problem. Sometimes can be related to elevated intracranial pressure. Simple dilation and/or visual field test can check for any problems on that end. All should be covered by AHC

Mine started after not being able to equalize my ears while scuba diving. Canceled the dive but still managed to screw my right ear up.



Was learning to live with it but then it just amped up in volume a couple months ago. Driving me nuts again. The hyperacusis sucks too.

Going for a check up with the ENT again in a couple weeks. I'm sure he wont have much to say other than to try to habituate.

I might try these guys

http://www.calgaryearcentre.ca/

[speedog]

Damn ringing is going to drive me bonkers, seems worse than ever in the last couple of weeks. No changes to my routine or diet, a few stressful things off of my plate in recent months and yet the tinnitus is worse. I can't even remember what silence is like, gonna try some herbal stuff and massaging trigger points. Can't cut out alcohol because I'm lucky if I have one beer in a month, amount of sleep also not an issue. Will also cut out caffeine, not a big coffee drinker, maybe 1 or 2 cups a day plus the occasional Coke but maybe abstinence from both might help. Just would like a little break from the ringing.

[A790]

I feel you bud. Started getting Tinnitus as a byproduct of visual snow. It's a real treat.

I find having some kind of background noise helps.

[sumguy777]

Sort of related...

I did have a mild case of tinnitus. I worked as an apprentice at an automotive shop and thought the exposure to air tools was the case. This was a few years ago, I was freaking out because I thought I was losing my hearing ( as a 22 year old ). I had my hearing checked out and everything checked out to be fine. They also did an allergy test on me as the docs said it could be related. At the time the doctors asked if I had any additional sensitivity in my mouth said it could be that my wisdom teeth were coming in and putting pressure on a some nerves which caused my tinnitus. After a few months, my wisdom teeth did not come in but I actually think that was the main cause for my tinnitus, and it did go away.

[HuMz]

I developed it after a 2 month period of high stress and poor sleeping. The good thing is that your brain gets used to it after a while. Like mentioned white noise is the only thing that helps, I sleep with my bathroom fan on.

I've also noticed that it is much worse if I have a bad night of sleep or been really stressed. For stress, progressive muscle relaxation exercises seem to help a bit.

[speedog]

Update, no change. I still hardly drink, one regular cup of coffee a day (cut that out but it didn't help), no recreational drugs, have lost weight and am in better physical condition, stress levels are still higher than I would like but I can't control people close to me getting hurt or sick or be in abusive relationships, daily water intake is very good, less and less processed and takeout foods, not quite at a vegetarian diet but not that far away either and yet the ringing in my head just keeps going and going like the Energizer Bunny.

I did some snooping and stumbled upon notch therapy, https://tinnitusnotch.com/

Can't hurt to try as it's been at least 7 years of not experiencing silence, it's just always there and it's really not all that wonderful.

[xxviet]

For anyone that has tinnitus, just out of curiosity what is the status on your wisdom teeth? A few years ago I thought I was losing my hearing because I was experiencing tinnitus. I work at a very loud and noisy shop and thought this was a result of it. I went and had my ears checked out, I tested completely fine 100% normal. At the time I was close to my mid 20s. My Doc said it was actually caused by my wisdom teeth growing in and causing the problem. It did eventually go away after about 6 months and I've never had a problem since.

[speedog]

I had my wisdom teeth pulled 35 years ago, tinnitus started about 7 years ago.

[firebane]

For anyone that has tinnitus, just out of curiosity what is the status on your wisdom teeth? A few years ago I thought I was losing my hearing because I was experiencing tinnitus. I work at a very loud and noisy shop and thought this was a result of it. I went and had my ears checked out, I tested completely fine 100% normal. At the time I was close to my mid 20s. My Doc said it was actually caused by my wisdom teeth growing in and causing the problem. It did eventually go away after about 6 months and I've never had a problem since.

I have crazy tinnitus and all 4 of my wisdom teeth.

[speedog]

Bump.

A bonus of sorts, I can't hear the crickets my son has in an enclosure for his beardie and his panther chameleon. A magical frequency around 46-4700 Hertz.

[Toilet_X]

My ears have been ringing since i was a little guy. Excessive rape whistle noise has made it even worse. I dunno, i just got used to it i guess.... the ringing.

[SJW]

Mine only gets bad in the evening. I don’t notice it during the day.

[speedog]

Bump as the whole tinnitus has been getting traction elsewhere.

Not worth offing one's self over but it sure as hell is annoying - I've tried all kinds of supplements, health adjustments, medical advice/tests and have just accepted that tinnitus is a permanent part of my life. Most likely caused by years of working alongside telecom equipment in my earlier years, just to experiance actual silence would be just amazing again. I can't hear squeaks or squeals from vehicles which is a bit concerning but I also can't hear other things which is sometimes okay but I'd rather hear all of that just to experience actual silence again.

[Tik-Tok]

The only time it REALLY bugs me is when we're camping. Beautifully peaceful at night, gazing at the stars with no sounds for miles, except the occasional coyote howl, and constant tinnitus.

[pheoxs]

Mines been there for a few years. It caused some really rough depression for a while and kinda felt like my life spiralled as I couldn't sleep well anymore. But eventually sorta got more used to it and made some adjustments to my life that seems to lessen it. One is water intake, if I'm dehydrated the ringing picks up a lot. Anytime I go to bed if I didn't drink water that day I can definitely tell. Otherwise cleaning my ears periodically also helps, any blockage tends to exacerbate it.

I also started sleeping with some white noise set for 30-60 minutes and thats been helping too lately.

[Pacman]

Are you guys talking tinnitus that has the annoying ringing sound in your ears, or are you talking pulsatile tinnitus where you have the "whoosing" sound in your ear that whooshes in sync with your heartbeat? If it's the latter, get that shit checked out. My wife had it last year and had to get rushed in for neuro surgery as a vein was bulging and close to bursting.

[pheoxs]

Are you guys talking tinnitus that has the annoying ringing sound in your ears, or are you talking pulsatile tinnitus where you have the "whoosing" sound in your ear that whooshes in sync with your heartbeat? If it's the latter, get that shit checked out. My wife had it last year and had to get rushed in for neuro surgery as a vein was bulging and close to bursting.

Mines just a constant ringing forever but the tone changes. Sometimes its louder or quieter or its a higher or low frequency. It's steady but it changes throughout the day. Been to the doctor a few times and a ENT, basically just have to live with it.

[Xtrema]

just to experience actual silence again.

That's what I really missed. And get reminded every time I put NC headset on and before music comes on.

Hearing is still ok/sharp when tested a few years back when this started.

On Magnesium supplement but can't conclusively say it helped or not but it does help to sleep.

[firebane]

Mines just a constant ringing forever but the tone changes. Sometimes its louder or quieter or its a higher or low frequency. It's steady but it changes throughout the day. Been to the doctor a few times and a ENT, basically just have to live with it.

For me it depends on how much white noise is around in the area for me to notice mine. If the area is super quiet I can hear it bad, but add some noise and it will drone away and most times I don't even notice it.

[tirebob]

Mine is always there and loud but it does sometimes change in tone/pitch. Mine is 100% caused by hearing damage and nothing I have tried of the usual methods has improved it. The best I can do to deal with it is to have music on or background sound of some kind that sort of masks it somewhat but I can always still tell it is there. It is a bit of a balance though too because if I am in a room with too many people who are all talking I often have to resort to lip reading and asking people to repeat themselves over and over because it just all blends together. Really sucks but I have learned to deal with it.

Anyone who has tinnitus not linked specifically to hearing damage should look into Ginkgo Biloba as a supplement. A lot of people say it helps but it is sort of all over the map. Apparently it help with long term brain function as well so side benefit is a plus!

[speedog]

Are you guys talking tinnitus that has the annoying ringing sound in your ears, or are you talking pulsatile tinnitus where you have the "whoosing" sound in your ear that whooshes in sync with your heartbeat? If it's the latter, get that shit checked out. My wife had it last year and had to get rushed in for neuro surgery as a vein was bulging and close to bursting.

Ringing, 46-4700 hertz, always there. Hearing has been tested multiple times, no issues and like tirebob, I'm not gonna hear you in a noisy group situation like a restaurant or bar even if you're across the table from me.