Category: Health and Wellness
Does anyone have severe tinnitus? For those who don't know what tinnitus is, it's a constant ringing in the ears. I've had it for about eight years now and it drives me fucking insane sometimes. I've had cat scans, MRI's, the works. No sign of what causes it. So my question is, has anyone found a successful treatment for themselves?
I don't know of any treatments for it either. There's a really interesting audio doc a man with this condition created which really helps give one an idea of what people with it go through. I'll see if I can find it. I've heard there are things that help, such as ensuring you have a little white noise in the background, but I've never heard anything about a cure. Not that I'm anything even approaching educated on the subject.
White noise just adds to it for me. Also, I can even hear it over a freight train going by right in front of me. It's like, a mechanical kind of humming.
Oh geez, that really does sound frustrating, not to mention intrusive.
Imp, I thought you already wore hearing aids, but I've always been told by hearing therapists that most often tinitus is a sign of losing your hearing, that once you can no longer hear outside sound propperly you begin to hear the body's internal sounds, which we hear as tinitus. I always had problems with it as a child, but since wearing the correct hearing aids, don't have any real problems with it.
Not sure. It probably depends on the cause, which is still unknown. It wasn't gradual, it just hit me one day all of a sudden. I hadn't been exposed to loud noise or music immediately prior to that. I was just sitting there quietly drinking a soda I think.
i have had it but it only last for 6 or so weeks and the cause was because i had glue ear so i can sympathise with you.
My daughter's friend's father has this. It's challenging, makes him not be able to sleep nights, and is a problem for him to live with. I think there are medications he has tried but don't know how effective this is.
Interesting. I must have a very mild case of it because at night when it is quiet, I have the ringing. I noticed it more so when I was younger, so it either got better or I got used to it and hardly notice it anymore.
Same as post 9... my guess is that I had a mild case of it. I most noticed it at night when I was younger, or sometimes during the day if it was extremely quiet. Even now, I notice it occasionally at night, but it's not every night like it was when I was a teen and young adult.
interesting and i some times can still hear mine but it isn't constant like it was, smiles
Like Ryan and Brooke, I know what this is because I have had very mild experiences with it. Also like both of them, it's most commonly at night, when everything is silent. White noise does help. But I think for those who are deaf-blind, it's a different thing entirely. I know for my friends who are deaf-blind, it's often very overpowering, keeps them from sleeping at night, and can drown out other noises if they still have hearing. According to those friends, white noise seems to make it worse, not help it. Based on my extremely limited experience, I think I'd go bat-shit insane.
Now that you all talk abuot this, I guess I've had the ringing also I just didn't know that it was in the same ballpark. But when things are silent like that.
I don't pretend to empathize with real sufferers like some of you on here, but you sure have my sympathies. Sadly, my daughter's friend's dad was told to get used to it, beyond what little help the medications could do for him.
well it is different for different people and so some treatments may work with some though maybe not with others but best to try any thing that is available but if not then yes we have to do the best as we can to deal with it though it isn't fun to experience it.
With my hearing aids out, it almost sounds like voices, and footsteps. Crazy
wow that is interesting and i think it is because of the vibrations you hear or not?
I've been reading about a product called super alpha lipoic acid for help lowering blood sugar in type 2 diabetics. I've read mostly about the Life Extension brand and read reviews from several different websites that sell the product. One reviewer mentioned it helped reduce his tinnitus, so you might want to try this. Unfortunately it is a bit pricy, but it might turn out to be worth it. Make sure you get the "r" form of this product. In other words, don't get just alpha lipoic acid (ALA). Get alpha lipoic acid-r because it is more bioavailable. The specific product I have been researching is called super alpha lipoic acid from Life Extension.
wow cool and even greater if it helps those who suffer from this condition, smiles.