Tinnitus

[KGBFINGAR]

Same here , had it for years , comes and goes .

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mV-Z54fiBo]British Tinnitus Association - Sounds of Tinnitus - YouTube[/ame]

Youtube explanation and the actual different sounds of tinnitus. Varying degrees of severity and all very very annoying for the sufferer. Also a cause of suicide in some cases .

Protect those ears folks

[Stubby]

Mine is a hiss . Only noticeable if the house is silent or I think about it ( like now ) I had the low sorta throbbing sound which I took to be a diesel lorry ticking over but when I opened the window it was not there . I shut the window and lay back down and there it was again . After a while I realized I could hear my own pules .... Doh !

[TreeswingerPerth]

Yeah , I suffer from it too , comes and goes , hissing away just now .

TS

[Rich Rule]

Had it for years. Probably brought on by raving and clubbing in my youth.

 

I find sleeping with ear plugs helps a lot.

[arbogrunt]

I've had it since I was 24 in the Army. Since then, it has got progressively worse. It doesn't bother me too much..drives everyone else nuts. I recently got fitted with NHS hearing aids...only took 2 weeks from consultation to fitting:thumbup:

I can wear them whilst pricing up, at meetings or watching TV etc. I find some days are worse than others...if I've had a very intensive day of cutting..or a lot of big saw use...its much worse. Wearing ear-plugs AND ear muffs when crosscutting big wood helps.

[Goaty]

I have worn hearing aids for 35 years, I also have unusual hearing problems were I can hear to the degree of a normal conversation then at the other extreme Im so deaf that a fighter jet can go overhead low and I wouldn't hear it or a shotgun a few feet away.

 

I dont have tinnitus when I hear well(for me) When deaf it ramps up the volume sometimes to the point that I cannot read and concentrate or attempt a conversation despite good lip reading ability.

 

Now here is the interesting point, a person born deaf never will get tinnitus because the brain has never had to work out noise. So when a hearing person loses hearing, the brain goes frantic looking for noise to fill that void.

 

People do get depressed and even commit suicide due to it. However I find that Im fine whilst working manually and driving is good for me because the other senses compensate, I even detect the emotional state of others much better when very deaf.

 

It is manageable I find that telling people how I feel and its too much hard work to chat etc, then doing things I can do on my own is good, but if I played video games for example the sounds I remembered would play chaos in my head and Id tire quickly.

[s.varty]

I get a high pitch whine sometimes......

 

Then I go out and leave her at home and its gone.....

 

:laugh1:Love it:thumbup1:

[agrimog]

have had it for years, a constant high pitched tone, years of exposure to fast jet noise and gunfire, I recently had a consultation with an audio technician specialising in the complaint and now have 2 white noise generators(bit like fancy hearing aids) to help me sleep at night....and surprise surprise, they work really well