[jsplice]

Can someone please ban that guy?

EDIT: wow that was quick...you may delete this post also

 

[bhanja_trinanjan]

Dietary Zinc supplements are known to relieve tinnitus.

 

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Originally Posted by MrGreen /img/forum/go_quote.gif There was a study done in the 50s or 70s with college students and it found that 70% (if I recall correctly) college students suffered from some kind of tinnitus when placed in an acoustically padded room. I bet these days its closer to 99.9%, but I guarantee you that most people wont notice because theyve got things in their ear 24/7. I dont really notice that much unless I have my head against something that filters out high frequencies (such as a pillow), otherwise its really really really quiet in my case. It's surgery and infection related which isnt fair... but oh well Um, can you cure mine, dear sir? Both my subjective and objective tinnitus.

Be careful. If you want tinnitus you'll get it. It's normal to hear something when you're in a dead quiet environment. It's your unstimulated hearing that's finding ways to amuse itself once attention is paid to it.

 

[Chone]

i think i might have this. either i don't hear it very often or im just good at ignoring it. but i decided to do a search about it last night after i was in the bathroom late at night and it was completely silent. i wouldn't really call it a definitive ringing, but to me i just associate it with the complete absence of all sound. its pretty ethereal and i don't really recognize or react to it it as a real sound even at first as a knee jerk. it kind of creeps up on me if its completely silent and doesn't really start to sound like a ringing usually unless i focus in on the silence i hear. like if i try to listen to something and there is really nothing to listen to. i always just thought it was the sound of complete silence, but maybe tinnatus is what it is because sometimes it can get "loud"

i had a lot of ear infections as a kid so that might have something to do with it. but my parents were always super over protective and in the dr's at the first sign of anything. i got the tubes placed in and thats when they were still giving antibiotics like candy so i think it was about as minimized as it could have been. im in my early 20's and my hearing cuts out at a little over 17khz pitches so maybe my hearing isn't quite as sensitive as it should be either, but besides that i've never been hard of hearing or anything.

maybe thats a weird description. this isn't debilitating to me at all, but i think i have a very very mild case of it. i think it's something a lot of people probably have just not to sever levels. kind of like eye floaters, those squiggly lines in your eye fluid, some people have a lot, but most people have at least one or two they might see on a sunny day.

 

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I wouldn't worry about that. If you were to put a random sample of individuals in a very quiet room, most will say they're hearing all sorts of things, from ringing to their own heart beats etc. This isn't really tinnitus.

 

[Gbjerke]

A year ago i started taking the sound in my ears like i thought it was tinnitus. It's a pretty scary thought to understand that it was tinnitus, so i went around focusing on that sound for forever. After a while, just from focusing on it, i could hear it louder and louder. A doctor said that everyone had this sound in their ear and that i had just been focusing to much on it, making it a known sound for my brain, making it appear more often. This created fears of doing different things, like lying sideways onto a pillow or just going to bed, making me go into some psychological mode when my brain expected to hear noices. I actually needed treatment to relieve myself from the need of focusing on the ringing and beeping sounds.

After this i haven't ever been bothered with it, but im still caucious at actually listening for that sound again.

The best treatment for real tinnitus is easily just getting treatment to make yourself unbothered by it.


Still though, here's something different. A doctor in my city, aged 70, been a specialist on ear, neck, nose area for maybe 40 years, he told me that no one at my age (16)could ever get tinnitus, and that struck me as sorts of weird. Instantly he figured out that my beeping came from psychological stress. Which it did. Maybe something to check out. If you do feel beeping or some other sound in ur ears, i'd advice u to wait a couple of months, to make sure its just not water in ur midear that will eventually dry. Then definetly go to a doctor try to figure out the cause and get treatment to not be bothered by the agony.

There's no point of geting frustrated with something 90% of those that get treatment on don't get bothered by later.

 

[Chone]

good to hear it's mostly psychological. i didn't even acknowledge it for a long time until this week. the only thing that changed is i bought an amp, and collected some flac files trying to see how much hi-fi stuff was to my enjoyment of music.

 

[kostalex]

I hear how blood is pumped through my vessels sometime. It is not psychological, it has the same rhythm as my heartbeats and may be pretty loud. Is it tinnitus? How to cure this?

 

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Originally Posted by kostalex /img/forum/go_quote.gif I hear how blood is pumped through my vessels sometime. It is not psychological, it has the same rhythm as my heartbeats and may be pretty loud. Is it tinnitus? How to cure this?

Yes. The sound of Tinnitus can be like that.

You can actually play some simulations of what tinnitus sounds like to many afflicted with it.

How to cure? That's often an elusive one, but you can browse the rest of that website.

 

[DaveBSC]

I've had tinnitus for about 3 years, which developed after a long flight with a head cold. Mine basically sounds like a 15kHz test tone, and is mostly in my right ear. It wiped out any ability to hear above around 14.5kHz, and the stage width, depth, and height of my old loudspeaker system seemed to shrink quite a bit. I believe those sorts of spacial cues are located in the ultra high frequency range. My doctor suggested nasal sprays, all of which were completely ineffective.

About two years ago I started taking Arches Tinnitus Relief formula (basically gingko and zinc) and that has been quite effective in reducing the perceived volume of tinnitus and also seemed to improve my hearing a bit. I'm still completely deaf above 14.5kHz though. The effects of tinnitus can be reduced, and just training yourself to ignore it as a big part of it. There is currently no "cure", and damaged cochlea do not heal. Believe me, I'll be first in line if somebody ever develops a real treatment.

Now I always take ear plugs with me if I'm going somewhere that will be even remotely loud, and when flying I take decongestants and wear flight plugs. That's a bit of closing the barn door after the horse has already ran away, but at least no more horses can get out.

 

[MrGreen]

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Originally Posted by kostalex /img/forum/go_quote.gif I hear how blood is pumped through my vessels sometime. It is not psychological, it has the same rhythm as my heartbeats and may be pretty loud. Is it tinnitus? How to cure this?

I have this in my left ear, and it is classified as tinnitus (although it is observable tinnitus - i.e. the sound is actually there). In my case it is due to a slight kink in an artery travelling past the ear. You can opt for elective surgery in my case but it doesnt bug me unless I am laying down.

 

[kostalex]

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Originally Posted by MrGreen /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have this in my left ear, and it is classified as tinnitus (although it is observable tinnitus - i.e. the sound is actually there). In my case it is due to a slight kink in an artery travelling past the ear. You can opt for elective survery in my case but it doesnt bug me unless I am laying down.

Exactly my situation.

 

[oqvist]

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Originally Posted by DaveBSC /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've had tinnitus for about 3 years, which developed after a long flight with a head cold. Mine basically sounds like a 15kHz test tone, and is mostly in my right ear. It wiped out any ability to hear above around 14.5kHz, and the stage width, depth, and height of my old loudspeaker system seemed to shrink quite a bit. I believe those sorts of spacial cues are located in the ultra high frequency range. My doctor suggested nasal sprays, all of which were completely ineffective. About two years ago I started taking Arches Tinnitus Relief formula (basically gingko and zinc) and that has been quite effective in reducing the perceived volume of tinnitus and also seemed to improve my hearing a bit. I'm still completely deaf above 14.5kHz though. The effects of tinnitus can be reduced, and just training yourself to ignore it as a big part of it. There is currently no "cure", and damaged cochlea do not heal. Believe me, I'll be first in line if somebody ever develops a real treatment. Now I always take ear plugs with me if I'm going somewhere that will be even remotely loud, and when flying I take decongestants and wear flight plugs. That's a bit of closing the barn door after the horse has already ran away, but at least no more horses can get out.

Always wondered how dangerous it´s to fly with a cold. I had one some weeks ago when I was supposed to travel down to audition HD 800 and other headphones. I thought my ear drums was going to explode. Like when you dive to about 3 metres depth. My ears suck because it´s impossible to pressure equalize them. I know the technique but it just never work and always get severr ear pains after such dives. Which sucks because I always wanted to experience diving. Anyway I was half deaf for several weeks later but mostly due to my ears being blocked. Hope that was the case anyway

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Of course no reason to listen to any heapdhones at that time

 

[RAFA]

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Originally Posted by Rhett_Butler /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hey guys I also checked website Chinesekiwi gave us, it has an "Airefreshener" software that pumps out environmental noise to partially mask tinnitus, it works quite well for me and has many variations of environmental noises ranging from fireplace to beach-surf. Best of all it's deadware so it's free lol. Tinnitus alone I can deal with...but it interferes with my listening experience somewhat. I blasted my hearing 3 days ago with a 15 inch screen LCD with integrated when I inserted a Blu-Ray concert DVD into my new PS3 grrrr! I shut myself in the bathroom yesterday to see how bad my tinnitus was, turns out it's a high frequency squeal in addition to a moderate buzz. Not good! And just as I was getting my audio wings! Wow Piracetam, I wonder if this is the future of Head-Fi lol..noo-tropic enhancements to improve hearing.

You should go to the "Ear Doc". I had the same problem, because I went to a rock koncert and was too near to a box and my left ear started to ring at a frequence about 6khz around (thats what the doctor said).

I waited, because I thought that It would go away, so I went to the doctor. He tested me out -> I had to listen to many different frequencies-> so he found out that I hear the tone about 6 khz.

He gave me some ginko pills. I had to take them for 2 weeks and take kare of my ears, that means I should avoid load noise.

After about 11 days the squeeking sound was gone.

 

[DaveBSC]

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Originally Posted by oqvist /img/forum/go_quote.gif Always wondered how dangerous it´s to fly with a cold. I had one some weeks ago when I was supposed to travel down to audition HD 800 and other headphones. I thought my ear drums was going to explode. Like when you dive to about 3 metres depth. My ears suck because it´s impossible to pressure equalize them. I know the technique but it just never work and always get severr ear pains after such dives. Which sucks because I always wanted to experience diving. Anyway I was half deaf for several weeks later but mostly due to my ears being blocked. Hope that was the case anyway . Of course no reason to listen to any heapdhones at that time

Its definitely not good. The problem is sinus congestion causes the Eustachian tubes to clog and not be able to properly regulate inner and outer ear pressure. Going from high pressure on the ground to low pressure in the air isn't a problem, it's the other direction during landing that gets you. I tired the Valsalva trick (pinch your nose shut and try to exhale) but no luck. I strongly recommend taking cold medicine and picking up a pair of Earplanes or something similar. Most airport shops have Earplanes.