Anybody here with experience in dealing with tinnitus?

ghce · Aug 30, 2022

pdxleaf
Hah! Mine started flaring up a couple posts above yours. I was going to comment on it when I read this.

No cure ideas. I just try to live with it, although I might try that VA hearing aid suggestion. My doctor said it was old age. What's he know about it, he's just a kid!

Best of luck.

I found exactly the same, as I was writing my post it started up in the background which supports my theory that whilst your brain may not cause tinnitus it certainly is complicit in managing the problem.

Omegafanman · Aug 30, 2022

Walrus
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720028/

Evidence a bit flimsy but possible side effect post Covid. I only know two people who had it and they claimed they never experienced it prior. I’ve just had some weird things going on after my last bout only one doctor told me it can effect anything, take it with a grain of salt as I can’t get any answers

More unlikely given all the good safety data but there is a flip side to that coin which logically should be considered - and is being investigated by very reputable people.
According to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a total of 12,247 cases of tinnitus post–COVID-19 vaccine have been reported through September 14, 2021.

Joe_A · Aug 30, 2022

mydeafcat
Floaters? Don’t delay. Make an appointment with your eye doctor and, if need be, get a referral to a retinal specialist.

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re: tinnitus. I just turned 60 and have been drumming for nearly half a century. I still play in a few bands. Like a fool, I waited until I was 40 to get proper hearing protection, and I admit I hate wearing my ear molds when I play gigs. I’m paying for it. My right ear rings like all hell. Yet I have almost become used to it, except those moments in noisier rooms when I miss bits of conversation. That really sucks.

My audiologist says I’ve essentially erased a significant range of my hearing and I need to save what’s left. Lesson learned, albeit a little too late.

Had the floaters checked out by an ophthalmologist specialist, so not a serious issue . . . and only one of them in the left eye is slightly annoying under certain lighting conditions, but thanks for the thought. I hoped to offer encouragement as the brain often adapts to certain changes that come with age or injury.

Once one has the wake-up call concerning tinnitus if not beforehand, then yes, it is important to protect the ears and save the remainder of one's hearing range.

STANDY · Aug 30, 2022

Are you on any antibiotics from the hernia operation ? Can be caused by this.

Omegafanman · Aug 30, 2022

Joe_A
Had the floaters checked out by an ophthalmologist specialist, so not a serious issue . . . and only one of them in the left eye is slightly annoying under certain lighting conditions, but thanks for the thought. I hoped to offer encouragement as the brain often adapts to certain changes that come with age or injury.

Once one has the wake-up call concerning tinnitus if not beforehand, then yes, it is important to protect the ears and save the remainder of one's hearing range.

Floaters made my mother very depressed for a few months. But she then adjusted and now never mentions them (she had all the 'in case' checks for anything more serious). It reminds me of the Austrian professor who turned a man's eyesight exactly upside-down using special googles. After a short time, the man took this completely in his stride - even going on long bike rides. Once he took the glasses off he was all over the place again for a couple of weeks. If it is a consistent signal the brain can do a lot for us to adjust back to normal.

Pvt-Public · Aug 30, 2022

Omegafanman
turned a man's eyesight exactly upside-down using special googles.

Give those goggles to a drunk, sit back and watch the show LOL.

JwRosenthal · Aug 30, 2022

Omegafanman
Floaters made my mother very depressed for a few months. But she then adjusted and now never mentions them (she had all the 'in case' checks for anything more serious). It reminds me of the Austrian professor who turned a man's eyesight exactly upside-down using special googles. After a short time, the man took this completely in his stride - even going on long bike rides. Once he took the glasses off he was all over the place again for a couple of weeks. If it is a conistant signal the brain can do a lot for us to adjust back to normal.

This is true about adaptation. I was a view camera photographer for 2 decades and I got used to seeing the world upside down and through a yellow filter. When someone would look under the focusing cloth to see what I was seeing they always were taken aback that it was upside down…I really didn’t notice anymore. Same with looking at negatives on a light table- I can see what the positive image is in my brain- most people they make no sense to them.

felsby · Aug 30, 2022

Faz
I’ve had minor surgery 3 weeks ago (hernia). It’s been présent ever since. My doctor and surgeon had never heard that the surgery or anaesthesia might have caused this side effect?!

With > 30 years of anaesthesia experience, I would vote for correlation without causation. Se also my other post.

felsby · Aug 30, 2022

I have had tinnitus for 25 years. It faded and was almost gone 15 years ago, and then I was stupid not to walk out on a very loud rock show, which caused it to reappear.

Advice: Develop coping strategy. Learn to ignore it, make fun stuff that makes you think of something else. Try avoiding excessive amounts of coffee - it did work for me in the start, now not so much. And as mentioned, NSAIDs, especially aspirin, is known to worsen tinnitus.

Visit an up-to-date audiologist: new generation hearing aids may help. I haven't studied this, though.

Archer · Aug 30, 2022

I have both tinnitus, and floaters. 👍

JwRosenthal · Aug 30, 2022

About 10 years ago, I was freshly divorced and feeling rather isolated. A friend of mine invited me to a very hip gallery opening with a bunch of her girl-friends. I was looking over at the bar where the attractive, young stylish people were convened and I looked at the table where I was sitting with all the 40-50 something’s, all of us greying, a few pounds overweight- lots of talk about kids and aging and medical procedures. I kept looking around the table thinking- why I am stuck over here with all these old fuckers….ohh…shit.

river rat · Aug 31, 2022

My brother dealing with it. The VA gave him a strong water pill. He had problems with that medication from the get go. He would lose his balance so they made him take it every other day after that side effect. They should took him off it. Another side effect happened a few months later ringing in the ears and hearing loss tinnitus the VA finally took him off that medication now in his medical file allergic to that medication and tinnitus is now permanent . The VA sent him to a hearing specialist they gave him hearing aids seems to help.

Syzygy · Aug 31, 2022

ghce
I have had it on and off my whole life.

One treatment I devised that works for me is to block out external noise ( fingers in your ears) then concentrate on the ringing sound as hard as you can, track it down and focus on it.

I have found that when I do this it starts to reduce, when it does reduce keep up concentrating on the sound until it either disappears or reduces to a very low level.

This with me can take up to 5 minutes ( on the clock).

As I say it works for me but my study is a study of one and YMMV.

+1 for this suggestion. I do much the same, focus on the pitch until I can isolate it from everything else around me, then I "shape" the pitch until I can raise it out of my range of hearing. Basically, if the pitch is a high C, I focus on it and raise it a bunch of octaves until it disappears.

mcemeren · Sep 1, 2022

I hope these posts helped the OP but it surely helped me now I know I am not alone. I manage it somehow unconsciously, sometime it manages to pass my defense. About 10 years ago, I used to listen to music before I fall asleep. I did even have a special track somehow composed in a way that helped, gifted by a friend.

river rat · Sep 1, 2022

When my brother got it. The VA sent him to a hearing specialist. They did a different type of hearing test. The normal one with the beeps that most of us have had but different one also with words with tinnitus there some words you can't hear. They gave him special hearing aids made for tinnitus might be new since I am the only one who said hearing aids. Their high tech there's an app on your phone for adjustments for outside, listening to music and talking to someone and if your cell phone ring or you call someone it's hooked up to your phone. The VA had him go to a hospital for this not a hearing aid store.

JwRosenthal · Sep 1, 2022

river rat
When my brother got it. The VA sent him to a hearing specialist. They did a different type of hearing test. The normal one with the beeps that most of us have had but different one also with words with tinnitus there some words you can't hear. They gave him special hearing aids made for tinnitus might be new since I am the only one who said hearing aids. Their high tech there's an app on your phone for adjustments for outside, listening to music and talking to someone and if your cell phone ring or you call someone it's hooked up to your phone. The VA had him go to a hospital for this not a hearing aid store.

My mother has these Bluetooth heading aids, can’t even see them. It freaked me out the first time when I went to visit her and she was sitting in her living room laughing and talking to herself…I thought, this is it!

Anybody here with experience in dealing with tinnitus?

ghce

Omegafanman

Joe_A

STANDY

Omegafanman

Pvt-Public

JwRosenthal

felsby

felsby

Archer

JwRosenthal

river rat

Syzygy

mcemeren

river rat

JwRosenthal

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