Does anyone suffer Tinnitus??

[AttaBoy]

Just want to know whether anyone here have these constant bell ringing or sound in their ears??

Others can't hear it only you can, sort of its in the head. If you know what I mean.

Mine is driving me nuts!!!!!

[VL_5SPEED]

I used to get it every once in a while.... Haven't had it in ages but.

[88GreenVN]

Yep can drive you mad..... Mine is at about 2 out of 10. so when every thing is turned off at night and there is no wind. SCREEM sound in your ear getting louder and louder...

[sircruisealotVS]

i got a bit that pops up now and again, the price you pay for playing in bands i spose.
its an interesting little thing, its caused by the "hairs" inside your inner ear. basically they usually sway and vibrate in sympathy with sound waves and send the sensory info to your brain to persieve as a sound/noise, etc.. but if you subject yourself to extreme db levels for extended periods the "hairs" actually lay flat and send a constant signal to the brain...thus the "ringing" and "buzzing" associated with tinnitus.
this in turn actually causes you to loose that frequency which that "hair" would normally react to.
it can drive you nuts sometimes, so look after your ears, and think about hearing a contant ringing for the rest of your life next time your pumping up the stezza.

[AttaBoy]

Funny thing is when you are busy or doing something it doesn't seem to come on and then when you realized that it comes on!!!!

[Boonz]

i only get it when im driving, gets annoying but im getting used to it.... and no its not from loud music

[VZTHUNDER]

ive got it slightly
comes up every now and then

[crazyspoon05]

I suffer from it off and on, it's worse in my right ear than my left but I guess years of loud music (both as a venue patron and venue employee) will do that to you

Mine probably started when I doing wood machining as a lot of times we'd be doing stuff like routering, sanding, etc without ear protection, usually only donned the protecters when we were using the bigger machinery but hand tools have a pretty damaging tone to them if you're exposed to the noise constantly

[BANKS]

i've got it... gets bad at night when theres nothing and all you can hear is BBBBBBBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG lol

its called industrial deafness. caused by extreme dB for extended periods of time. its permenant although you'll think you cant hear it anymore its just that your brain gets used to the particular frequency that the hairs are telling it and ignores it. i cant remember off the top of my head but i think that limit of dB aloud over a long period of time without causing damage is 87dB. ill have to look it up. should know it seeming as its a part of my portfolio lol thats what i dont understand is why people listen to music at 130dB+...constantly, they dont realise the damage they're doing.

what do you do for a living attaboy?

[welly01]

ive found drinking from bottles does the trick

[AttaBoy]

i've got it... gets bad at night when theres nothing and all you can hear is BBBBBBBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG lol

its called industrial deafness. caused by extreme dB for extended periods of time. its permenant although you'll think you cant hear it anymore its just that your brain gets used to the particular frequency that the hairs are telling it and ignores it. i cant remember off the top of my head but i think that limit of dB aloud over a long period of time without causing damage is 87dB. ill have to look it up. should know it seeming as its a part of my portfolio lol thats what i dont understand is why people listen to music at 130dB+...constantly, they dont realise the damage they're doing.

what do you do for a living attaboy?

Well I'm a full time Uni student, and working as a car detailer. there is no loud noise or anything like that in my situation. I only occasionally listen to my ipod like a few times a week.

But I have heaps of wax deep in my left hear which I need an ear specialist to get it out. The wax kind of went dried and hard which gets really hard to get rid of using a cotton bud.

I have slight deafness in my left ear which I had since I was little.

[Rufus®]

Well I'm a full time Uni student, and working as a car detailer. there is no loud noise or anything like that in my situation. I only occasionally listen to my ipod like a few times a week.

But I have heaps of wax deep in my left hear which I need an ear specialist to get it out. The wax kind of went dried and hard which gets really hard to get rid of using a cotton bud.

I have slight deafness in my left ear which I had since I was little.

They have these wicked ear candles at health shops that suck the wax out of your ear. basically you light the end of the hollow candle, lay on your side and stick the unlit end in your ear and out comes the wax. I use to laugh at my sister inlaw, but hey it does actually work.

They're not cheap though, about $20 per candle.

[MasterOfReality]

Yeah I have it.

Noise exposure in the mines and loud metal concerts did it for me.

I can't hear it during the day, but at night its a different story.

[VH commodore]

yer i think pretty much everbody has a bit of it...my gf swears to me that there is a pill u can take to stop it (she's a nurse) so ask your doctor next visit...i dont know how it would work but thats what she says

[DANNY8]

Yeah same I got it a little as well. At night I just have my fan on so the sound from that takes it away.

[AttaBoy]

I heard that there are also special cd's or tapes that you listen to help minimize tinnitus.

I don't if they help or not.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

I have had it for years. Sometimes it gets so bad it actually drowns everything else out and I can't hear anything for a second or two. The only thing that gets to me is that I can't hear certain pitches. My girls have a little music box thing that plays a really quiet tune in the higher register. I can't hear it at all. I can't hear a watch ticking. If there is a lot of background noise, I have trouble hearing someone talking right in front of me. Apart from that, it doesn't really bother me that much. But I can hear the clock on the wall in the family room tick at night time, and thats about 20m away. Amazes my wife that I can hear that, but not a watch ticking even if I held it to my ear.

There are CD's that you can listen to that play a low frequency sound. Teaches you to tune out the ringing. I find sometimes I don't even hear it. One method is to concentrate on a sound somewhere and listen to that and you usually don'r even notice the ringing.

[MasterOfReality]

I also have the problem where I cannot make out what anybody is saying in a moderately noisy environment, like a pub or something like that. its weird to describe it, but if I am at a pub in a group of people, and someone is talking to me, I simply cannot make out what they are saying, although everyone else has no problem hearing each other at all.

One on one, in a quiet environment I have no problems, but get me in a crowd you practically have to be speaking into my ear for me to understand you.

[AttaBoy]

Is there actually a cure for this? Like totally get rid of it?

[Astranomical]

I have it...when there's a bit of background noise, music, a fan, people talking, etc, I can't notice it, but when everything's completely silent, it drives me up the wall.

[TheForgotten]

I have had it for years. Sometimes it gets so bad it actually drowns everything else out and I can't hear anything for a second or two. The only thing that gets to me is that I can't hear certain pitches. My girls have a little music box thing that plays a really quiet tune in the higher register. I can't hear it at all. I can't hear a watch ticking. If there is a lot of background noise, I have trouble hearing someone talking right in front of me. Apart from that, it doesn't really bother me that much. But I can hear the clock on the wall in the family room tick at night time, and thats about 20m away. Amazes my wife that I can hear that, but not a watch ticking even if I held it to my ear.

There are CD's that you can listen to that play a low frequency sound. Teaches you to tune out the ringing. I find sometimes I don't even hear it. One method is to concentrate on a sound somewhere and listen to that and you usually don'r even notice the ringing.

That's exactly what mine is like. people think I'm nuts when I ask them to repeat themselves 5 times, and it's annoying to have to ask them. I often can't hear my 1y/o crying upstairs, but i can hear if the washing machine is still running downstairs.

a few years back jaycar sold a noise generator (i'm guessing it's white noise) for about $20 looks like one of those cheap pocket radios

[AttaBoy]

I can't hear any low frequency in my left ear. Really hard to make out what people are saying especially men on t.v.

[sircruisealotVS]

Is there actually a cure for this? Like totally get rid of it?

no, its incurable! so basically once the damage is done...your ****ed.

interesting to see that there's quite a few around suffering from it, and that your ranges are different too. most tinnitus sufferers have loss of high frequencies, which also happens with age too. once you hit your 20's your usually hard pressed to hear 16kHz+ and that only gets worse as you age.
seems some here have a loss in the 2kHz-4kHz range where human speach is made intelligible, what a terrible range to loose.

for those that have that loss, do you find yourself having to turn the tv up during shows then turn it down during commercials because its seems louder? (i know, random question, but there is reason behind it and i was just curious)
reason behind this is because the ads broadcast with a boosted 2kHz-4kHz range so people hear and respond to the ads easier, to most, appearing louder than the program they were just watching.

other interesting bit of info, in relation to the comments about tinnitus being worse at night when its quiet (like when your trying to sleep,etc..). your brain actually actively seeks out some sort of sensory stimulation. focusing harder and harder to find noises/sounds etc... because you dont actually like complete silence (well your brain doesnt). like in an anachoic chamber, the complete lack of echo and complete "dead" feeling in the room can drive people insane over periods of time. your brain just needs that stimulation.

so in other words your your own worst enemy for making the tinnitus more noticable/worse at night and there's not much you can do except try to focus listening to something else instead (sometimes if mines bad ill turn my ceiling fan on and listen to that to try focus less on the ringing).

[lxhatch]

ive got it in my right ear, due to a work shop accident, an under gound oil tank like those found in old workshops exploded, ill post up a pic when i find it.....
it happened about 4 years ago,
my hearing test shows 80% hearing till my right ears about half way along the graph it drops done to 20%...

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

That's exactly what mine is like. people think I'm nuts when I ask them to repeat themselves 5 times, and it's annoying to have to ask them.

100% spot on. It's not so much that you can't hear them, but you can't understand what they are saying. I have to get my wife to repeat herself often because I can't make out a word or two in what she was saying. Sometimes I answer a different question to what was asked because I heard a word wrong.

Don't even try to speak to me in a noisy pub or club. I have no chance of understanding you. Perhaps I can get a T shirt, "I have tinnitus, I thought you said 'feel my tits', not '**** off I have a boyfriend'.".