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I just heard about this on a podcast I listen to... Appslappy... download the app "White Noise" and listen to the "white noise" ambient sound. Apparently it works wonders.
I've been a tinnitus sufferer too - for many years. There are so many of us out there. I feel for the ones who have it and are only 13 or 14 years old though. Anyways, some days (and nights) it's more annoying than others.
Try being an insomniac with tinnitus, and a commuter that has to get up early Mon - Fri. Sometimes I get 4 hours of sleep, sometimes 5.
I just wish someone would take that tea kettle off the burner.
Occasionally, this is accompanied with a signal tone from my right ear. I cope with it. Of course, this is usually the time someone from work, comes over to talk to you but you can't really hear what they say until the tone goes away but try tellling that to them. I haven't heard too many people talk about that. Does anyone else get this? It's like two or three different levels of tones.
I can hear many sounds and ringtones from cellphones from a good distance unlike my spouse but I have trouble picking up the spoken words from tv shows [the darn thing is only like 4 ft away]. My spouse sometimes has to act as my intrepreter.
I find that listening to white noise or light jazz/classical played on low helps me alot but don't always get that opportunity.
I've been trying to get back to losing weight and keep my sodium intake on the low side per dr. That's not always easy. One looks at the food labels and altho something may be low in calories, the sodium level is high. Oh, by the way, I don't smoke. Never have. Most likely - never will either. Victim of 2nd hand smoke tho. I try not to frequent some of the places where these smokers may be on both sides of me (in some pubs).
Good luck to all. I would like to hear [haha] from any of you that have experienced that 'multiple ring tone' .
I haven't heard of those, looked online and read up a bit on them. Do you know of anyone who has had success with the implants? They seem like they would be more for a person who suffers from deafness, I know the tinnitus makes me question what people say sometimes because the ringing gets so bad, but I'm not sure if I would be considered hearing impaired. I'll ask my doctor about them though, sounds pretty interesting, I would risk the surgery if it would work.
There's something similar but not an implant. It's more like one of those 'bluetooth' type devices but it's not cheap. Also, check w/ one of your local audiologists. There's 'test' studies being done but I think to get involved as one of my locals told me, it's at least $500.00. It's been awhile since I had heard that so maybe cost came down?
I have had Tinnitus since early 2002. It started with the Shingles Virus in my right ear. After three unsuccessful operations I was left with Meniere's Disease. Vertigo, Clinically Deaf in Right Ear. And Tinnitus (loud pitch) in both ears. Insurance's don't want to cover hearing aids or any other implant. I also comtimplated suicide in 2003. But I had to get a Grip.
Go to this site for more information, Research and help for Tinnitus:
[url=http://www.ata.org/]Home Page | American Tinnitus Association[/url]
Wow, everybody. I had no idea about the misery that chronic tinnitus caused. My ears ring when my blood pressure spikes, which is rare, and I do get a very irritating crunching noise if my environment is too loud (especially "bassy" noises like concerts or large airplanes). if I heard those things all the time I think I'd go crazy.
My husband complains that, when we are in very large groups of people with a lot of noise (like an amusement park), his eardrums feel like they are twitching. It puts him in a wretched mood and we usually leave early from wherever we are.
I haven't heard of those, looked online and read up a bit on them. Do you know of anyone who has had success with the implants? They seem like they would be more for a person who suffers from deafness, I know the tinnitus makes me question what people say sometimes because the ringing gets so bad, but I'm not sure if I would be considered hearing impaired. I'll ask my doctor about them though, sounds pretty interesting, I would risk the surgery if it would work.
You are hearing impaired, just as I am. That ringing you hear causes you to be deaf to any sounds in that range. You are deaf to them because when the sound enters your ear it is added to the sound you always hear (the ringing), so you never really get to hear the separate sound.
I haven't read the entire thread, but I'm going to. If there's something that works (I truly doubt it) I want to know. I've had this damn ringing for almost twenty years and I'm sick of it.
By the way doctors won't operate on you to make you deaf. They tell me it won't help anyway so it's waste of time.
Stumbled across this post and the folks at the VA (yes, I'm a vet) really can't find anything wrong with my hearing. I seem to do fine with the beep, raise my hand, thing.
For years I have 'electric' noises in my ears. No ringing at all. But I can hear electricity, or so I call it. I cannot hear conversation and have to have the Closed Captioning on my rented DVDs because even at the movie theater I miss so much trying to read lips and the camera just doesn't catch their mouths all the time. (my children get flustered because they have to repeat themselves, I avoid gatherings like the plague!, and it's just embarrassing)
I'm in my 30s and am too young for hearing trouble....says the VA.
Anyone know of a name of a type of doc to see...instead of a beep machine operator?
I feel like one of the lucky ones since my tinnitus doesn't bother me to a point where I can't ignore it. Plus, I don't have a ringing sound; it's more like being next to a room full of cicadas and chirping birds, with whistling in the background. Kind of like my own, private serenade.
Cochlear implants were recommended for my hearing loss, but I decided against that surgery. So, I now stare at people's lips when they're speaking to me, in an attempt to "read" what I can't hear.
The one person whom I have the most trouble hearing is "Karen" on Will & Grace. Also, in a noisy, crowded room, fuggetaboudit. I just nod my head and smile.
Wow, everybody. I had no idea about the misery that chronic tinnitus caused. My ears ring when my blood pressure spikes, which is rare, and I do get a very irritating crunching noise if my environment is too loud (especially "bassy" noises like concerts or large airplanes). if I heard those things all the time I think I'd go crazy.
My husband complains that, when we are in very large groups of people with a lot of noise (like an amusement park), his eardrums feel like they are twitching. It puts him in a wretched mood and we usually leave early from wherever we are.
That is sort of a good description of something I have on occasion. Twitching is close to, but not quite, what I feel. Flutter, maybe. It's like the entire eardrum is vibrating slowly (for it) and has a separate whuuup (really poor description) sound when it does. There is also a physical feeling that goes along with it that I won't try to describe. It doesn't block out other sound though, everything else keeps coming in. Sometimes one ear (right) sometimes both.
A very, very annoying thing to have happen.
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I hear things/sounds a typical person wouldn't pick up on.
