Tinnitus...Does Anyone have Answers for the Ringing?!?!?!

Ok, I figured I would ask this question on here because I dont have health insurance andjust cant afford to go the DR. I need help...For months now,I'll be lying here in bed and all of a sudden the RINGING starts! It comes and goes. Sometimes lasting for more than 20 minutes or so. Its starting to become a real pain. Does anyone else have this condition and if so,sdoes anyone have any answers of how to get rid of it or at least make it bareable??? Please, any info into this matter will be grealy appreciated...Thank youin advance...

Its been happening to me since I was a child, I have never had it looked at. I have reached a point now, some 20 years later, where the ringing rarely stops it just fades in and out in intensity. I suggest SLEEP WITH WHITE NOISE or A FAN. Eventually you'll get used to it, or atleast grow to find it annoying but just "there" ( ps - my ears are ringing as I type this)

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I'll try to find the research for you, but some say the use of Cannabis can actually help calm the fluids in your ear thus stopping the ringing,

Originally posted by Nobama
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I'll try to find the research for you, but some say the use of Cannabis can actually help calm the fluids in your ear thus stopping the ringing,

I call nonsense on that last part, Cannabis has done nothing but intensify the effect. THC causes ringers... I know from frequent experience...

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My father suffers from Tinnitus, caused by years of working in a machine shop during the 70's-80's without adequate hearing protection, the ringing affects his life dramatically, he cant sleep, has trouble hearing normal conversation, and because of this he gets agitated quite easily.

Unfortunately, the level of tinnitus that he has cannot be easily cured, it's acute acoustic trauma, however he is currently seeking damages through an industrial claims process, which he will probably win.

same here, I have Tinnitus as long as I can remember. For me 'total silence' never existed. Doctors don't have a clue about what is causing it. (I also see constants specs before my eyes that increase or decrease simultanious with the Tinnitus).
I am so used to it that I don't even notice it untill I put my focus on it.

However,
in some cases Tinnitus has a clear medical cause
so If I where you I would have it chequed out asap just to be sure.
You don't want to have it turned into real hearing loss.

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I also have something similar although i am not sure it's Tinnitus, mine comes and goes at random times, but i also notice my hearing is very sensitive, sometimes the high frequecny sound of the TV is so annoying i cant concentrate on the show im watching. I can hear a TV thats on at the other end of the house, not the volume or sound but the high pitched noise.... very annoying.

I found these sites that address Tinitus, i hope it helps you

Better-Health-Channel ( Tinnitus )


www.tinnitus-online.com...



I just wanted to add that i feel so sorry when i hear stories like yours, to be specific the part about not being able to afford health care.

My arguement is that you shouldnt have to worry about affording it, in Australia we are lucky that Medicare covers everyone for just about everything that could go wrong, similar to Canada, UK and France.

Sorry to drift off topic, i hope those links help



Edit;

Just to add it may come to a point where you will have to goto the Dr. It ccould be an ear infection in the middle ear ( deeper in ) especially if the ringing is accompanied by pain. If it is an infection drops should clear it up but you will need to see the doc first.

I have had Tinnitus as long as I can remember, I cant remember a time when I heard silence.
Mine is like a chorus of cicada that never stops, never comes or goes, just constant.
One theory I have heard is it may have something to do with amalgum fillings, I am not removing mine to find out, I cannot afford the dentist costs to do my own research.
I would love to discover if this was the cause though.

Good luck and I hope you get used to it before it drives you crazy, been there (crazy that is)



and Havick007, I am an Aussie and the chances of getting any help is low as it isn't considered a handicap or life threatening.

I have it too. Try one of those "mood" radios...waves and birds etc...or just a small fan on low while you sleep.
Ive been using both for years(20).
Good luck

Nurse here- if this is new onset I'd check my Blood pressure esp if it's with flashing lights & headache. Other than ear damage, some people never find out what causes it.

I think perhaps what no one gives any credence to is that the medical term tinnitus may in fact be we are hearing the frequencies of others.

If you stop to consider that everything in the universe oscillates at a given frequency of existence, or a harmonic, sub-harmonic, or muti-harmonic of a fundamental my belief is that is what we are actually hearing.

It can be stronger or weaker depending on what our thoughts are about...at this moment I am hearing numerous different frequencies.

Even things we see as solid objects oscillate at a frequency, be they trees, rocks etc.

We only see matter in the 2 of the 4 dimensions, solids, liquids; we really can't see gases and plasma (we can hear them escape from a container though).

Our auditory range is pretty wide so we can hear quite a bit below and above sight range. I think some of us are able to hear higher sounds if we are not exposed to loud sounds in everyday life.

In the materials I've studied, ringing in the ears is one of a host of chronic body manifestations that can be triggered by a wide variety of external or body-related events.

The nurse that answered was smart to advise you to see a doctor, as the fact that this was triggered might indicate something else also changed in the body.

I have had mild ringing in the ears for a very long time. Seems to trace back to ear damage sustained from attending a few music concerts that were too loud.

The most common traditional approaches to this sort of thing are to either to see a doctor (which often doesn't work) or try to spot what the triggering event is and either eliminate it from your physical environment or your mental environment. This doesn't work consistently either. The assumption with both these approaches is that you couldn't ever learn how to just turn it off.

On a deeper level, though, it has been demonstrated that any effect you allowed to turn on, where it involves mainly sensation and not too much organic damage, you can learn to control. And if you can control it, then you can turn it off; even heal minor damage. Most people who decide to try this approach don't do it simply because of a physical complaint, but because they want to have better control over life in general.

You are able to train your brain in filtering out the tinnitus.

If you stop paying attention to it, the noise will fade. When you succesfully manage to ignore the ringing and act as if it isn't there, your brain will give you silence again when no signal enters your ear, instead of the constant ring.

Once you start focusing on the tinnitus, it will come more to the foreground because you tell your brain to focus on it.
Tinnitus is a misinterpretation by your brain of the incoming soundwaves. And a brain is an adaptive thing.

SEE A DOCTOR.

Unless anyone here is a doctor they are not qualified to give you medical advice
and while I am skeptical of doctors myself even at the best of times it is very important to note that

TINNITUS has proven to be linked to higher rates than average of SUICIDE by it's sufferers.

There are 2 conflicting reasons given:
1 is that eventually the noisy drives people batty enuff to end their lives
2 is that some researchers have linked Tinnitus as being a symptom of long term DEPRESSION

It may be worth investigating if you are suffering depression... you may be and not even realize it!
If you aren't suffering depression - try to resolve your tinnitus BEFORE it gets to you.

Its also noteworthy that tinnitus can also be caused by TMJ - so go see a good dentists/jaw specialist who specializes in TMJ

hope it helps best of luck

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I think there may be something to the frequency thing. I don't have tinnitus myself (I don't think), which I understand to be a high pitched ringing. I have experienced this after using power tools for extended periods, or partying all night in a loud place...

I do however frequently hear a lower pitched hum - maybe all the time if I concentrate on it. At night it can get quite distinct. I believe that it is the Taos Hum that I am hearing... en.wikipedia.org...

The best theory that I have heard is that it is caused by gravitational waves - tiny fluctuations that vibrate/compress the particles of masonry (brick walls etc.), setting up a piezoelectric effect. This makes sense to me in that the sound does not seem to be really heard, rather more of a vibration or resonance in your head bones. In fact, if I shake my head it stops momentarily, which a sound wouldn't do...?

I don't know the answers, but would be interested to hear of other people's experiences.

For you hard core conspiracists, theories abound. One of the favorites is that it is the reptilian drilling machines...

I've had a high pitched ringing ever since standing close to a .38 Special being fired as a child. For the most part what everyone else has posted about TMJ and blood pressure is true. The best thing I can recommend is Gingko Biloba and trying to train your brain to tune it out. I never really hear it anymore except when it is quiet. And hey, THC doesn't hurt either.

opiates cause this sometimes so avoid them

there might be some helpful info here
www.tinnitusherbal.com...
www.activeherb.com...

Ringing is also a direct result of hearing damage...
if you hear it everyday after work, you might want to consider what it is damaging your hearing


PS
for every 5 years of unprotected hearing while shooting/hunting causes on average
a 7 percent reduction in hearing

I've developed tinnitus from (research has led me to believe) taking wellbutrin to quit smoking cigarettes. I stopped taking the pills as soon as my ears started ringing and i made the possible connection. 2% of people on wellbutrin will develop tinnitus. still comes and goes. sometime i get this weird thing thats like the opposite of your ear popping on an airplane if that makes sense? feels like instead of my head pressurizing, the outside world is pressurizing to me. then ringing for a minute after that. every couple days. its weird. i got no answers from my doc. had to do the research myself

Don't have any fillings, and never could use a mood radio. I have however had a fan in my face since I was a child, but I get hot at night anyway so it's no biggie. When I'm cold, I turn it away, but I must leave it on. I attribute this to the white noise theory, but I haven't been able to use any version of that to date for some reason.

Long story longer, the only time it really gets bad for me is when the power goes out, but I also have sleep apnea, so if the power goes out for too long (like a couple winters ago [12 day ice storm]), I'm toast anyway unless I can find a friend with an extra room (the fan and 12V CPAP come with me).

Surprisingly, cannibus has never helped it. One of the few things it hasn't helped actually.

This might sound weird (good thing this is ATS), and it might reflect up on me too...but who cares. Can you make a loud rumbling noise in your head, spontaneously and whenever you want? I can (15 seconds is as long as I've been able to hold it tho), and when the power goes out, I can actually force two different tones exactly a perfect 5th apart when I make the rumbling sound in my head. A perfect 3 octave C, and when the rumbling occurs, a perfect 5th but an octave lower.

Therefore, I'd say it's definitely something to do with the inner ear function of most of the posters here...the only pacification of which is a fan, and perhaps a wandering mind...until the power goes out.

On an unrelated note (perhaps not), when it's completely black dark in my bedroom, sometimes, and again ever since childhood, I think I get vertigo when looking into the darkness. Like I'm looking from the top of a mountain, down at a molecule-sized point in space. I makes me extremely nauseous. I have to turn a light on, and focus on something (wall, ceiling, etc.) with both eyes to get the depth perception back to normal...I usually wind up leaving the light on. Is that vertigo, I don't really know?

Hopefully, "It's NOT A TUUMA!" - that I've had all my life. lol

Hope that helps...
If not, this might...
Star & Flag

EDIT AFTER COUPLE MORE POSTS: I never took any prescription medication until I turned 38 or so, but this has all happened my entire life. I attribute the tinnitus to playing music in bands of all genres since I was 7...quite loud at times. By the way, I hear perfectly, and when I was a kid, I could hear a dog whistle...supposedly...quite the ice-breaker at family get togethers. :/

EDIT AFTER BELOW: Does that have anything to do with the 4 S's on my passport? J/K

EDIT AFTER THUNDERHEART WOMAN (two posts beyond): Did they have aspertame and other nasty stuff like that over 30 years ago? All My Life...

Well, the question could be also, are you 100% sure that it is Tinnitus? Could be something else as well.

SSSS for instance via digital tv? It seems that they switched to digital tv everywhere.

The Department of Defense calls it Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), and it also goes by the name of S-quad or Squad. In the private sector, the technology goes by the name of Silent Subliminal Presentation System and the technology has also been released to certain corporate vendors who have attached catchy brand names like BrainSpeak Silent Subliminals to their own SSSS-based products.

And as we know, as history tells, nothing is off limits for the American Governement to do whatever they want and it does not interest them what happens to other people, home and/or abroad.

Perfected more than twenty years ago by the Department of Defense and battlefield-tested upon unwitting Iraqi soldiers serving in the army of Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War during 1991, SSSS is a sinister weapon that may have been been developed for a specific mission: the total subjugation of the American people.

Below the link to the entire article. On that page there are links in the second part I "quoted" that are very interesting (IMHO).

justgetthere.us...

I'm mentioning this because I heard of a few people, all Americans in fact, that they also had ringing in their ears, they never suffered of this ringing in their ears before and it seems to be, they were tested, the physicians told them it wasn't of physical origin.

That's why I asked if you're sure it is Tinnitus?