jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This picture was enough for me. I didn't bother to read the article. 🤣

ad9mac

Was the bottle full when he started? ;-)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

No, but it will be full when it sucks all the junk out of his ear.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I want a ban on TINNITUS posts. There I was just settling down after a nice Sunday lunch and BANG - the word hits me like baseball bat - and sets mine going.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

I was just cursing the curséd tinnitus again last night when it was blaringly interfering with the enjoyment of some music I had playing. The multi-tones of the curséd tinnitus are never on key, not in harmony, with the music that is composed to blend with itself.

Then you bring it up again here with this (hard)ship in a bottle exhibit !!............art !!!

😖

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I would do almost anything to stop my tinnitus. The constant hissing is like a radio that is off-station. I'd like to have a squelch control knob on my head where I could tune it out.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

I'd settle with trading your radio hiss for my shortwave squeals, screeches, whistles and warbles...... for a while..... if we could.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

In addition to my tinnitus, if I press on the left side of my nose, I hear a chirp. Sometimes, it will chirp on its own. 😂

Life on earth is very entertaining.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Does it sound like the chirp that comes from the register at the checkout station when the scanner reads the barcode on the merchandise?

jinx

Mine sounds like an native American tribal dance.

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

My main one is stereo Navy bosun pipes most of the time( can't hear one on TV) and then my own private cricket and cicada concert 24/7. To much shooting probably in my youth. Huh?

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

I expect there are people who acquire tinnitus through the loud noises they encounter. Medical reports seem to point to that as a cause.

I know I've been aware of this curséd tinnitus, 24/7, since I was three, or maybe four years old. I was not involved in shooting or heavy machinery or any of those kinds of repetetive sounds yet at that age.
I don't know if head/neck injuries or fever/infection causes exist as an explanation for the beginnings in young childhood.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I spent a nice hour with an Audiologist yesterday. Results, low-tones I am OK, mid-tones iffy, high-tones awful with spots of hearing them through the tinnitus. I did hear a bit of good news, esp for those younger than me, they have some experimental things that can at least partly regrow the damaged cilia hairs that cause most of the tinnitus. And they have some treatments that they hope can suppress the tinnitus while still leaving you able to hear to some degree. She also put in for hearing aids with controls, so I can tune them to the tinnitus so they will damp out the sound to a degree.

My tinnitus is a constant wavering/cyclic high pitched hum. Volume goes up and down from time to time, currently it is way up.

Mine started in Vietnam during my late '66 to Jan '69 tour (yes, I volunteered and stayed for 2 years) due a combination of loud noises (imagine that, in a war zone) and multiple tropical fungus infections in my ears. I long ago learned that those tropical fungi encapsulate in the flesh and can last your whole life with occasional flair-ups, esp if you get and leave water in the ear. So I use a lot of the puffy Q tips after swimming or a shower to dry out my ears.

49lucian

Mine is due to my 20 years in the Navy in high noise environments. I have noise that is present 24/7. The volume may change but the noise is always there. The hearing aids don't help with the tinnitus but they do help with understanding some difficult word distinctions such as born-vs-corn. It would be wonderful if someone could invent a hearing aid that cancels the noise I hear in the tinnitus.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

No, not at all. I've tried to think what it sounds like. It's very high-pitched.