I thought for sure it was going to be another one of these graphics you see all over the Internet, especially on YouTube:
I guess if you fart, it can be a symptom of anything from halitosis to liver disease.
Boy, am I screwed.
Posted on 12/11/2024 9:18:50 PM PST by Red Badger
Yeah, that could do it. In my case, likely it was my penchant for bird hunting with a 12 gauge shotgun. And operating daddy’s construction equipment. And rock and roll.....
Wow, that’s fascinating Clutch.
I’m in AFIB 100% of the time (not in and out) and I hear a rapid beat well below the level of the ringing which for me competes with the doorbell.
My atrial rate is about 300 beats per minute, but it sounds like about twice to three times that rate.
My dad has tinnitus, describes it as a constant high-pitched whistle. It doesn’t bother him at all, he’s that mellow.
I wonder why there’s no drug that lowers hearing.
There are drugs that will make you go deaf.......Oxycontin, for one....................
Ignoring has worked best for me. Mine is a single high pitched tone. When I first got it, I went on line to a site you can play different tones. When I found the exact match it stopped because I was actually hearing that tone.
You aren’t alone! Tinnitus for 40 plus years. TV or radio always on to provide distraction. Wet AMD last 2 years requiring periodic eye injections, the last one causing a retinal detachment and chain reaction of unpleasantness. So many ways to get effed up.
I thought for sure it was going to be another one of these graphics you see all over the Internet, especially on YouTube:
I guess if you fart, it can be a symptom of anything from halitosis to liver disease.
Boy, am I screwed.
I get tinnitus when I fall off the low carb wagon. I’m expecting it this month, something about Christmas cookies.
I have Chrysler Hemi hearing. Years and years of being a child in the dyno room without hearing protection as funny car and drag boat engines went through their paces
I had over a dozen surgeries in each ear in 1962-1963, my ears have NEVER stopped ringing my whole life, I thought it was normal.
If you have medicare —go find the best cryogenic ablation doctor within five states of of you. that can be fixed.
I was a jet mechanic in my Navy days, but I bet that my experience as a 10 year old in Japan had some bearing on my tinnitus.
The sound I hear is most like the sound I have heard when I got my bell rung...that sound of getting my bell rung was a very pure tone, very much like a tuning fork:
“...oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...”
However, my tinnitus has multiple tones at varying frequencies, sometimes I can hear three separate tones, right now, only two, a high and a lower one, but they all have a steady and pure nature to them.
When I was living in Japan as a kid, one morning I was near the chain link base fence at Yokosuka near the Mikasa Memorial (Admiral Togo’s Flagship from the Battle of Tsushima, an old dreadnaught that survived the war and Admiral Nimitz helped raise funds to preserve and restore it)
It was a popular destination for grade school field trips for both Japanese and American school kids, and on that day, there were a whole bunch of Japanese school kids on the other side, and we were lighting firecrackers and throwing them back and forth at each other over the barbed wire fence.
I got the bright idea to cook one of my firecrackers so that when I threw it, it would explode in the air in the middle of them instead of hitting the ground where they all ran away from it, but...as I reared back to throw it, it blew up right next to my right ear.
The pain inside my ear was extremely sharp and acute. I couldn’t hear anything out of that ear for weeks, and the ringing was constant.
I laugh, looking back at that.
As an adult, it seems in retrospect I was reenacting the battles in the Pacific with these Japanese kids!
Granted, we were all laughing, but...I wonder if any adults (especially Marines who might have actually served in WWII and were still in the service at that time) might have instantly had that dynamic jump into their heads!
There are as many causes for tinnitus as there are people.
Jet engine mechanic, train engineer, explosives, medications (lots of them), fireworks, sports accidents, fights, loud music, surgery , you name it!...............
Me too. Maybe it comes from being a country boy.
Yikes, I thought I damaged MY hearing with bad stuff. I cannot even imagine being in a dyno room with those engines. The vibrations must have juggled all your innards to mush.
Early 70’s in the Marines, only the range safety officer wore ear protection, like giant headphones. None of the troops wore any ear plugs or anything. We thought he looked silly. Now I’m practically deaf. I learned a hard lesson the hard way.
Nowadays they make everyone wear ear protection............
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There are many reasons. Here’s my personal list…
* Dropping a sledge hammer on a roll of caps on the garage floor (8)
* Exploding 26 inch fat Schwann bike tire at the gas station air pump (age 11)
* Mowing the lawn with unmuffled Briggs & Stratton 3 hp engine (summers, 16-18)
* Iron Butterfly and another four or five similar concerts, Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis. (17) (I just realized the irony of the word “auditorium”!)
* College concert committee - front row at a dozen big name act concerts (18-20)
* CanAm and TransAm races (18-21)
* Unlimited hydroplane races (18-21)
* Guns, mostly .22 (18-22)
* Power plant boiler rooms (21-26)
Individually, none were really bad (except the first two), but I think CUMULATIVELY is the real problem. By the time I started working in an office at age 27, the tinnitus was permanent.
Exactly right conclusion.
Tinnitus is a cumulative disease. It’s progressive worsened by each subsequent extreme episode of noise.
Prolonged exposure will eventually destroy the inner ear’s fine hair nerve endings inside the cochlea semicircular canal that converts sound vibrations into electrical signals sent to the brain..............
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