Tinnitus - do you suffer from this???

[sasha.p]

Yep I get it too worse at night time when im trying to get to sleep it started after my mother passed away a few years back i had a really bad migrane a few days after think its was stress from what had just happened, i was completley knocked for six by it and it started then and has not gone since i also suffer with glue ear on and off been to e.n.t twice since to be told nothing can be done and it's somthing i will just have to out up with,its not so bad during the day but when its quiet drives me mad lol

[Nick Watkins]

If you suffer from it at all, it's not a good sign. Ask any ear specialist it is the first sign of deafness.

 

It is not the first sign or deafness or the first sign of madness or the first sign of anything else other than the fact you have Tinnitus. The first sign of deafness is unsurpisingly a lack of hearing.

 

I have been to the best specialist money can buy and not one of them has ever said anything about deafness in fact in all the test I have had my hearing is 100%. This is same for most sufferers unless of course it is those who have it through hearing damage (gunners etc) or those who are partial to disco biscuits and have blown their hearing from raving too much and loving the speakers.

 

There are a lot of inaccuracies printed about Tinnitus, going mutton Jeff is another one for the list.

[MarshallArb]

It is not the first sign or deafness or the first sign of madness or the first sign of anything else other than the fact you have Tinnitus. The first sign of deafness is unsurpisingly a lack of hearing.

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glad to hear it!

 

was worried then for a minuet cos i have it and thaught doc had forgotten to tell me i was going deaf.

[Goaty]

Ive been hearing impaired since 4 and now have a wildly fluctuating hearing loss from absolute deafness to normal conversational ability with hearing aids. Tinnitus fluctuates for me I hardly have it if at all when i hear well if at all, then when deaf the more tired i get the worse it is. Or if im deaf for a prolonged period it gets more intense to the point of losing concentrational ability, for example I could read a paragraph many times and not absorb it. However you do learn to manage it, it took me about year and it was a hard time. Work was the only contentment/distraction I had. I was told in Rome by a Doc that it is your brain franticly expecting noise and not receiving what it expects, therefore the brain makes its own and fools you. I have been deaf 32 years and didnt know what caused it until last year in Christchurch N.Z a very good doc (private of course $$$$$$$$$) told me conclusively what and why. I have tried several "top ENT professionals" here in the uk with no success.

[felixthelogchopper]

I've had tinnitus since the age of 24, (now 46). Was told to get a 'quiet civilian occupation'....sadly, there were no jobs going at the library

I've got used to it, but it drives everyone else around me mental!

 

Certainly does, you deaf old sod