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Tinnitus is driving me crazy
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I have had ear infections since I was a kid and even perforated my left eardrum once. I have hearing loss due to too many ear infections which I was told is due to allergies for the most part. I have the ringing and there is no particular time of day or night when it comes. Sometimes I will have it in both ears at the same time for a couple of minutes but then I can have it in one ear for days at a time. Annoying , yes. I have went to many ENT specialists and to a Otolaryngologist. I was told nothing can be done and it is not curable. I am so used to it but I look at it that if that is the worst thing I have to endure I can handle it, unfortunately it is not for me.
im 28 and have had it for a long time in booth ears. I don't really notice it to much any more unless I am around close gun fire with no hearing protection or something similar. then it gets worse. but for the most part you just get use to it.
I called my ENT this morning, and he had an appt. open for this evening. 
I called my ENT this morning, and he had an appt. open for this evening.
Let us know how it goes!
Got my good start on tinnitus when 5000, 500lb. bombs went up in one great big kaboom during Tet in 1968. Never bothered me much until years [many] later. The loss of those little hairs in the inner ear can be cumulative in nature. That's what took so long to show up for me. Something later on took out some more and that was the "straw that broke the camels' back" so to speak. All those guys that were in house to house fighting in Iraq will wind up later on in life with tinnitus, they just have no problem now. And the mass of the latest wars will have it from small arms fire, artillery, tanks, etc. The ones who have been subjected to a "shock wave" will have bad sinus problems also. That problem sometimes takes years to come to a head, and it takes a lot of persistence at the VA to even get them to listen to that injury, as some are just now realizing that shock or blast wave can really screw things up in your sinuses. Think how long it took the VA to recognize Agent Orange was a problem that can crop up 20/30 and maybe 40 years later.
Count me in. 40+ years of playing around with high-speed dental handpieces (drills) zipping along at 200K-400K rpm have indeed taken their toll.
I, too, use a white-noise generator or a window fan to make noise so I can sleep. Works great. However, I just recently realized that my tinnitus is the reason why the first thing I do when I get down to the kitchen to start the coffee each morning is to turn on the TV. Drives my wife nuts. It finally dawned on me that, without the distracting background noise, all I hear is the buzzing!
I, too, use a white-noise generator or a window fan to make noise so I can sleep. Works great. However, I just recently realized that my tinnitus is the reason why the first thing I do when I get down to the kitchen to start the coffee each morning is to turn on the TV. Drives my wife nuts. It finally dawned on me that, without the distracting background noise, all I hear is the buzzing!
A discussion on hearing problems. Hearing - M14 Forum
Thanks for the link, tenring. 
I remember growing up with several bouts of severe ear pain. Rather than go to the doctor for my "earache" my dad would sit me on his knee and blow cigarette smoke in my ear (ear, not rear). 
Although the heat helped the pain, it did nothing for the long run. After reading this thread, i now realize that they were probably untreated ear infections. Add listening to headphones at an ungodly volume as a teenager and 20-something to the mix and bam....tinnitus for the last couple of decades. I'm 48 now. The sound is constant, like an alert tone mixed with hissing, worse in my right ear. I don't always notice it, but when I do, it's very loud. I have a ceiling fan and small fan running at night (also helps with those pesky hot flashes) as well as some soft music to help drown out the noise.
Although the heat helped the pain, it did nothing for the long run. After reading this thread, i now realize that they were probably untreated ear infections. Add listening to headphones at an ungodly volume as a teenager and 20-something to the mix and bam....tinnitus for the last couple of decades. I'm 48 now. The sound is constant, like an alert tone mixed with hissing, worse in my right ear. I don't always notice it, but when I do, it's very loud. I have a ceiling fan and small fan running at night (also helps with those pesky hot flashes) as well as some soft music to help drown out the noise.
OK, went to the ENT. He said my ears look good--no infection. The first thing he wants to try is severely restricting sodium for a week. No fast food, no prepared food. Basically only fresh fruit and vegetables or food I have cooked myself with no salt. If that doesn't make a difference, we'll go from there. That's doable. I'll make oatmeal for breakfast and some sort of rice pilaf with veggies to take to work for lunch. Dinner will be more of a challenge, but I'm thinking meat, veg, potato and just use other seasonings instead of salt.
He also scheduled me for a hearing test in a couple of weeks to check against the one I had two years ago.
He also scheduled me for a hearing test in a couple of weeks to check against the one I had two years ago.
I have a constant ringing but strangely enough the docs say i have perfect hearing. I hardly ever wore ear protection (or eye for that matter) and I like my music loud so I was pretty much asking for it. You get use to it after a while.
Black Cloud
Expert
30 years of standing next to guitar amps and cymbals, and 25 years of machining/steel mill/heavy equipment work has my left ear constantly whining louder than my wife's voice. Which isn't always a bad thing...
I have varying degrees depending on the days. 5 years as a medic with a tank company years ago didn't help. Latley I seem to have a low grade buzzing going on. Sounds like a refrigerator compressor when it is running from across the room. This is new, I still catch myself looking for what the heck is running in the room, IE: ceiling fan, well pump in the basement, etc. Not real loud, but you know it is there.
Lectric102002
Master
Well, that's not fair !
Well, that explains it a lot for me. That, and some really loud music. F'ing Iron Maiden!!!
be careful because you can still damage your hearing further even though it is already bad.
Ive had tinnitus for over 20 years now and have gotten used to it. my biggest problem is that in a room with several people talking, I cant make out what someone directly in front of me is saying without extreme difficulty.
CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
You attribute that to tinnitis? I know for a while now, I've had the issue that as long as one person is speaking clearly, I can hear and understand them perfectly fine, but even if two people were speaking perfectly clearly directly to my face, I lose both of their speech. It's just so much sound. I can't concentrate enough to pick out either voice from the other. Multiple voices, I lose all of them. Odd. I never thought to blame the tinnitis.
