Thread: Tinnitus

A long time sufferer, would give my left nut for a cure. Has anyone ever heard of or know anyone that has one or has used this product http://www.enar.com.au/aboutenar.html , strongly suspect that if it worked we would all have one.
Cheers
Barry

About just before Xmas I started to get ringing in my ears, I feared Tinitus as I had been working with a angle grinder, and wearing ear plugs. They are just not good enough in my view.

I went to see the Dr yesterday and he believes that my ears are fine as a past a basic hearing test.

However he says that the Tinitus is caused by anxiety as this is something I am prone to. The fact that my jaw, temple, neck and ear canal are all in pain, and the strain of the muscle is causing the Tinitus.

The Tinitus comes and goes depending on how stressed I am and how my muscles are doing.

I can say that it would drive me mad to have the noise all the time. Sleeping is a real pain, the ringing makes you more nervous which makes the ringing worse. The Dr has refereed me to a shrink - to reduce my anxiety level. Not another one.

I am now super cautious with my ears, I have invested in heavy duty ear muff's. I would hate to live with this for life.

Was watching the Sleek Geeks (scientists) the ABC TV the other night. They briefly touch on it saying that the fine hairs in our hearing canal that wave around actually have broken off. Just thinking about it now if this is so why the bloody hell haven't they self-repaired and grown back like hair everywhere else on our body.

I would say that I don't have it because it is only noticeable when there is no ambient sounds at all. In other words it doesn't bother me and I sympathise with those who it does bother.

All this talk of muscle control etc got me thinking that sometimes I go through periods when some muscle inside / below my ear bangs on in spasm. When this happens I take a mineral supplement that helps muscles relax. It has mangnesium as the primary ingredient and amino acids and vitamin B which all help muscles to relax and not spasm. Vit B helps with stress as well.

It is unlikely to help anyone with physical damge I would have thought, but for some may be worth a try. It is called "Ultra Muscleze" by BioCeuticals - www.bioceuticals.com.au. Hope that someone gets some relief with it.

prozac

Prozac if it is noticeable more when things are quiet doesn't mean you dont have it. Ambient sound is just masking it or your not so consious of it

If I am concentrating on what i am doing I can often go beyond the irritating noise
or out around ambient noise and I can still here it is when it is at its worst.

Like most of the morning out in the shed not noisy just busy didn't notice it, when i came inside it started.

I have heard about a technology developed in Australia that works. www.neuromonics.com.

Be interested to know if anyone here has used it.

Tex

Originally Posted by rod1949

Was watching the Sleek Geeks (scientists) the ABC TV the other night. They briefly touch on it saying that the fine hairs in our hearing canal that wave around actually have broken off. Just thinking about it now if this is so why the bloody hell haven't they self-repaired and grown back like hair everywhere else on our body.

The fine hairs they talk of are LIKE fine hairs. Are nerves, which don't grow back. Unfortunately. I have tinnitis too. and hubby, who has it from being in a band. I don't know where mine came from. Lots of little incidents perhaps. Loud factory. Loud concerts. Baby yelling in ear. (He was really loud.) I mostly hear it at night when lying down. Wonder if being horizontal has some effect. Why does it get louder if there is no further damage?

Tinnitus is a symptom and can have many causes - hearing damage from loud noise is only one of them. My Mum suffers from it and it is a degenerative condition, so as you get older it gets worse.

Mine doesn't get worse over time. I wear earplugs now when I do gigs, so that helps.

Perhaps you can hear it louder when you are lying down because that's when it is quietest around you. Is yours a constant white noise, or is it one of the clicking or pulsing types? Some people get it from blood flow near the ear or muscular spasms in the ear, rather than damage to the sterocilia.

Continuous hiss. Sometimes a whistle as well just so I don't get bored. I think main cause is using air gun powered blunger to stir rather large buckets of glaze in ceramic factory. Also maybe loud concerts when I was young. (Vague memory of a particular Nick Cave concert that had my ears ringing for three days afterwards.)

Get the hearing aids, and wear them. After a full day of wearing them, and they will be no longer needed, take em' out and the silence is bliss. After some time the ringing starts again, but for a while, it is sheer bliss.

I got my new stereo (one for each ear) set, and walked out of the audiologist room with them in. The parrots in the gum trees were amazingly loud, and I hadn't heard them for years. I thought that sound was wonderful.

After a while, one learns to turn down the volume or turn it up, and the background cut out button is great.

Buzza Clothears.

Originally Posted by Tex B

I have heard about a technology developed in Australia that works. www.neuromonics.com.

Be interested to know if anyone here has used it.

Tex

Looking at the way they edge around the 'cost' question, I doubt that anyone here could afford it - and it really doesn't look like anything more than an upmarket MP3 player with a lot of hype attached - but then if it worked.....

Originally Posted by TTIT

an upmarket MP3 player

If you read scientific papers on the treatment of tinitus their are two areas of treatment that are proofing successful.

Both involve the use of specific sounds to help modulate the ear.

Of particular interest is Pink Noise, and in 5 - 15 hertz sounds. By feeding these sounds into an MP3 players or hearing aid removes the Tinitus dead.

Vern said that enya helps his tinutus, and wheelinround says that splashing water sounds help. The reason for this is that these sounds or noises are modulate your hearing. Get the sounds on tape that help and plug in your ipod and you have a as good as a cure for your tinitus. Or get a hearing aid with this feature built in and tuned to your need, some sounds work better for some people.

Their is no need for fancy gimmick.

I am lucky.
I do not have Tinnitus,

Though, I do have these confounded lawn crickets which keep following me around, Always staying out of sight; just behind my head

If I got rid of them
Then I'd be right

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

Get the sounds on tape that help and plug in your ipod and you have a as good as a cure for your tinitus.

But then there are those of us (maybe only me) that developed tinnitus after head trauma. I lost the hearing in one ear and gained tinnitus, yeah, yeah, yeah.