re: anyone else suffer from tinnitus?

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If you have hearing loss with it, a hearing aid can help. It will basically increase the outside noise so you don’t “hear” the tinnitus as much. Not a cure, but can help.

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Mine was so loud at times that it drowned out conversations. Got hearing aids and don’t notice it nearly as much.

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The last time I did a pre employment hearing screen I just about went nuts in the soundproof booth.

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Last year I finally made myself get my hearing checked. I delayed because I didn’t want to have to get hearing aids. I had become pretty good at a combination of reading lips and going through a list of words in my head that rhymed with what it sounded like people said until something made sense. When I was in the testing booth, I couldn’t hear hardly any high frequency beeps. She then told me to just repeat the sentences she was going to say. I thought I would do much better on this part until she held a card in front of her face so I couldn’t see her lips.

By the way, if you take the same test be careful how quickly you respond. The correct sentence is “Do you like real big cities?”

There are medical treatments that will be available in the next two to three years.

There are half a dozen drugs in development that, through one mechanism or another, grow new hair cells, or receptor cells, in your cochlea.

They should end tinnitus and restore your hearing to something like normal.

Your balance will get better too.

I like having some noise around.

It kinda drowns out the ringing a little.

The ringing is crazy loud/bothersome when I'm in a real quiet place.

Does anyone else have flare ups to make it worse? A few weeks ago I had to go the ENT because it constantly sounded like a loud truck was parked right outside. I couldn’t sleep because it was so bad. Back to normal ringing now after some meds he prescribed, but that week was miserable.

There is no cure.....hearing aids only

I have a serious case. The crickets buzz 24 hours a day and there is nothing medical science can do.

When it first began, I thought I would go crazy. Went to ear doc and he diagnosed me with Meniere's (sp) disease and told me if I cut my salt intake down really low it would help a lot, and come back in 6 weeks. Well I cut it down religiously to his recommended level. That didn't help so I cut that in half...to an extremely low salt diet. Extremely hard to do btw. Even that didn't help. So I go back to the doc and told him..... he retested me with all the hearing instruments and proceeded to announce I hadn't really lowered by salt intake. Of course, I never went back to him, ears still ring, but less since I found the artificial sweetner issue, and I don't have fricking Meniere's (sp - still) Disease.

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The most promising drug, the one being developed by the Cambridge firm, was awarded breakout status. Because there are no existing treatments for Tinnitus, it will continue to receive rapid and priority reviews. I assume they’ll release it for compassionate use when they finish phase two.

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Really pray and hope so. I’ve had tinnitus for 51 years (Vietnam combat) and I’ve been through all the tests, read all the reports, hoped for all the drugs, etc. Still the same.

Most of the time I manage through distraction during the day and white noise and fans at night. And love to brush my teeth in the morning and take showers, the sound of running water is a good masking noise for me.

The waves at the beach help but not enough to move near one.

Also, oddly, I do not hear it while asleep and I dream in quiet.

For now, I just accept it as proof that I am still alive and awake.