[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?........................

[logi_cal869]

Interesting...

[mairdie]

You do post the most wonderful threads.

[RummyChick]

There can be mechanical reasons for it. For example, a special type of MRI might show something pressing up against an ear nerve.

[rexthecat]

Thanks for the thoughtful post! For me, my tinnitus is probably the result of working around six 155 howitzers that fired hundreds of rounds a day. I-Corps, 1966-1967. Semper Fi.

[Macho MAGA Man]

William Shatner aka Captain Kirk has suffered from Tinnitus for years after a premature explosion went off next to him while filming the original series episode “Arena” where he fought the Gorn lizard. If you watch the episode in the beginning you can see when it happens. He and Spock are pinned down taking refuge. Kirk takes off running and an explosion prematurely goes off and he’s completely stunned and falls to his knees and they quickly go to edit. See it here at the 2:30 mark and beyond.

https://youtu.be/hGHcc-OW2Jw?si=xPs4bYQE17uZ5Jo0

Shatner discussing his Tinnitus.

https://youtu.be/E7bL9BhESYA?si=SC7hXz1XCrS8r0dG

[laplata]

Thanks for posting this.

[PLMerite]

That would explain a few things in my case.

[dayglored]

I have severe tinnitus, from many decades of playing loud rock-n-roll guitar in bands. It's constant 24x7, as loud as normal conversation, so it makes normal conversation very difficult. Mine sounds like a large field of giant maniac crickets, each armed with circular saws, slicing up sheet metal. It's unbelievably awful. All day long, all night long until I'm deep asleep. It plays hell with speech comprehension, and the associated high-frequency hearing loss means everything (music, TV, nature) is very muffled.

This has been the case for over 20 years (I'm 72). What keeps me from losing my mind completely are a few important things (in no particular order)

• Meditation, even 5 minutes at a time, deep breathing, relaxing.
• Top-class hearing aids, Phonak and Oticon DSP types. They're $3k each ear.
• Hydration - drinking lots of fluids. Dehydration makes it worse.
• Getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation makes it worse.
• Learning to accept it and ignore it. This takes mental focus, which is tough.

The above works for me, and I recommend it to anyone suffering from this curse.

[kelly4c]

Bookmark

[Robert357]

Bump for reference.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

A 2016 thread on tinnitus: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3501577/posts

[mad_as_he$$]

ping.

[Buttons12]

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.

[rlmorel]

"...Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Linked to a Crucial Bodily Function..."

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.

[Varda]

I get tinnitus when I fall off the low carb wagon. I’m expecting it this month, something about Christmas cookies.

[eyeamok]

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.

[FalloutShelterGirl]

Bkmk

[Carry_Okie]

Those horns represent a challenging piece of sheet metal work.
Copper irons and galvanized steel.
Lotta layout work with a sharp scribe, squares and curves, tin snips, hammers and dollies, etc.
Looks like that’s NAS Alameda, on San Francisco Bay. Bet it was breezy and chilly there.

[Billthedrill]

My Doc is ex-Navy and so am I, so we were making small talk about our first commissioned billets and I told him mine was Assistant Gunnery Officer. He gave me a sour look and said, “You could have told me that before you complained about tinnitus.”