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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: gunsmith on January 06, 2013, 04:44:10 PM
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hi all, I have the worst internet connection of anyone in the history of everything, that's why I have not been around to assail you with my wit and charm.
Anyway, being surrounded by silence lately has meant I've been noticing my tinnitus a lot more, I'm sure a few here have had similar being that a lot of us have shot guns and been to loud concerts.
Any of you here have an idea what works for relief?
Thanks, hopefully I can be back here sometime before the next election =|
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No thanks, I've got plenty.
What? Oh, you want to know about getting relief.
I'm not sure there is any.
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What did you say? =D
Sorry, no idea what you can do for relief from the ringing. I have it in my right ear, with the 'sound' sometimes being a single tone, sometimes several tones. I have significant high frequency hearing loss on that ear as well, so the low frequency sentativity seems to have increased to compensate.
I think loud parties, Metal bars and concerts played a big role in this for me at least. Not shooting, since I ALWAYS wear both ear plugs and muff when shooting.
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No thanks, I've got plenty.
What? Oh, you want to know about getting relief.
I'm not sure there is any.
what? WHAT!? oh :cool: :P
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yes, no
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I'd be happy to talk to you about tinnitus, but I can't hear you from all the ringing in my ears. I'd like to find some relief, too.
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Somebody answer the damned phone!
(It seems to me that quieter moments do crank up the tinnitus for me, too... =( )
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Try some white noise in the background is the only thing I know.
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Add the following to your diet: brewer's yeast, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamins B-6 and B-12.
Delete the following from your diet: folic acid, iron, excessive amounts of vitamins A, E, B-6 and B-12.
Get a white-noise generator, or leave the tractor motor running (your choice on how to address Globular Wormering and the economy).
Get a hobby. Stop obsessing over it. Take antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Drive an ice pick through your eardums.
Prescription hearing aids greatly improved the condition - the ringing and buzzing was orders of magnitude clearer and louder than without the hearing aids.
Personally, since the constant background noise is just that, I remind folks that I am blind in both ears and deaf in one eye, so they will need to repeat themselves over and over again until I can understand what they are saying. After about x attempts they give up and go looking for some paper to write on. That allows me to go slapping all my pockets to look for my reading glasses, as well as taking their glasses off their head to see if they work.
On the other hand, I am often accused of shouting at people. I am not shouting - I just need to speak loudly enough to hear what I am saying. When the voice goes I'm legally changing my name to "Tommy".
stay safe.
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I just ignore it and it goes away until some
moron silly goose brings it up. >:D
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The voices in my head drown it out.
Seriously though, mine comes and goes, and I don't know why. I'm just happy when it goes.
I've got a bad cold right now, so it's taken on the low hum of a blower motor.
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I just ignore it and it goes away until some moron silly goose brings it up.
Thread win.
I forgot all about the tinnitus until I read this thread. :facepalm:
I used to shot A LOT of trap, and earpro was pretty much considered optional then.
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Mines awful
Explodey *expletive deleted*it in Iraq made worse by several years of playing with rock bands
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My first few years of shooting were with my Grandfather, what ear and eye protection? My glucose issues also gets the bells ringing.
Annoying as hell.
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My first few years of shooting were with my Grandfather, what ear and eye protection?
My father whenever he sees me breaking out eye and ear pro to shoot, use tools, etc "you don't need that *expletive deleted*it, those safety glasses just get in the way". I swear the man's brilliant on a lot of stuff but when it comes to safety stuff he's a dumbass...
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I'm glad I have tinnitus. That ringing is the only dang thing I hear well.
It started age 12 when a high power rifle went off in the gun rack of an old ranch truck while bouncing across a hay field. Later I worked security for loud concerts in the 1970s like AC/DC Aerosmith ZzTop Ted Nugent and then I was a bartender and bouncer in a college town bar. I ain't heard much but this ringing for 30 years.
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My father whenever he sees me breaking out eye and ear pro to shoot, use tools, etc "you don't need that *expletive deleted*, those safety glasses just get in the way". I swear the man's brilliant on a lot of stuff but when it comes to safety stuff he's a dumbass...
I was helping my new neighbor cut down and cut up a monster oak on his place. I got some funny looks when I pulled out the safety glasses and muffs before I fired up my saw. New neighbor kind of chuckled at me about them. I didn't mind, I wasn't the one that got to make a trip to the ER 20 minutes later with a wood chip in the eye. No permanent injury but he was wear safety glasses the next time.
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Tinnitus....is my constant companion. I use the cheapest box fan I can find to make white noise while I sleep. I don't look for the quietest. I also discovered that the statins will ramp up my tinnitus to a level that made me wonder if others could hear it. So, no statins and no aspirin in my daily medication regimen. Good thing my artieries were clean as the proverbial whistles when I was cath'd early last year. The cardiologist even said that if I was taking them to stop.
bob
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My father whenever he sees me breaking out eye and ear pro to shoot, use tools, etc "you don't need that *expletive deleted*, those safety glasses just get in the way". I swear the man's brilliant on a lot of stuff but when it comes to safety stuff he's a dumbass...
Know the feeling.
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yup, my late relatives thought safety precautions were useless.
I too have noticed OTC and other medications aggravate it, I read somewhere a yr ago a new treatment was being developed - something like they shock you with electricity to reboot your brain but I cant find the article.
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yup, my late relatives thought safety precautions were useless.
I too have noticed OTC and other medications aggravate it, I read somewhere a yr ago a new treatment was being developed - something like they shock you with electricity to reboot your brain but I cant find the article.
Ive got some car batteries and a pair of jumper cables. Just holler at me when you are ready.
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steroids i'm on seem to have quieted mine. power tools are bad too. and higher frequencies at that
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Ive got some car batteries and a pair of jumper cables. Just holler at me when you are ready.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcljvnc4a3k
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steroids i'm on seem to have quieted mine. power tools are bad too. and higher frequencies at that
Specifically circular saws. After just a few years of construction, while I bottom out a hearing test everywhere else, I'm deaf as a freakin post at like 3-4kHz (tooth frequency on a 3600rpm, 50-70 tooth saw). Unfortunately, that's right in the range of speech. Oops.
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I do a lot of woodworking. Even a shop vac can produce enough noise to damage your hearing. I just wear EP-4s the whole time I'm in my shop.
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I do a lot of woodworking. Even a shop vac can produce enough noise to damage your hearing. I just wear EP-4s the whole time I'm in my shop.
Best move. Not only does it save your hearimg but it is much less fatiguing not to subject your ears to the noise
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I've had bouts of it. Worst was for a few months a couple of years ago when it got to the point of keeping me awake at night, but haven't thought about it much since it died down.
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Specifically circular saws. After just a few years of construction, while I bottom out a hearing test everywhere else, I'm deaf as a freakin post at like 3-4kHz (tooth frequency on a 3600rpm, 50-70 tooth saw). Unfortunately, that's right in the range of speech. Oops.
wait till your married longer the loss of that range is not so bad
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Yup.
Wife #2 was selected for her 5Khz voice. =D
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Yup.
Wife #2 was selected for her 5Khz voice. =D
wow market hearing aids to married guys get them to submit a sample of wifes voice. get aid tuned to to filter that voice. the proverbial better mousetrap
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wow market hearing aids to married guys get them to submit a sample of wifes voice. get aid tuned to to filter that voice. the proverbial better mousetrap
I'd go for a pair of those ... long as I've had my wife I've learned to tune her out but I've developed the 'tell' of my eyes rolling back in my head whenever I do and that pisses her off ... :P
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I'd go for a pair of those ... long as I've had my wife I've learned to tune her out but I've developed the 'tell' of my eyes rolling back in my head whenever I do and that pisses her off ... :P
with me its either my eyes glazing over or the snoring that give me away