Reply With QuoteDeath - complete cure - every time...Originally Posted by bindeweede
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At the moment, mine is driving me up the bend ( or is it round the pole? )
Has anyone found anything that helps? Really.
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Apolgies for being flippant Bindeweed. Tinnitus is a frustrating thing to suffer from...I went through many years of it. I used to have the radio send me to sleep and wake me - I found I listened to my ears mostly at that time and the radio distracted me. At times it made me quite suicidal! I know friends who have it - they try all sorts of solutions - but don't report much success. I was told - just "get used to it". But it suddenly simply went away. I am sure other people know more about it than I do.
Could it be stress related? On hindsight, when I had mine I was going through a particularly bad time in my life.
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In my effort to find some sort of relief, I bought a book from Amazon about calming the noises. It was one of those American books - I don't know if you have come across this type - where the first 100 pages tell you how good the second 100 pages are going to be. He then lists all of the things that are supposed to help, but usually don't. The one thing he was confident would help is hypnotherapy. And, would you believe it, he happened to be a hypnotherapist himself. His sessions were a bargain at $1000 a time ( or whatever it was). The sort of therapy Americans seem to fall for.
My tinnitus only started last February, and I wasn't aware of being particularly stressed. I'm just looking forward to the morning I wake up and it's gone.
[Well, you've got to clutch at something!]
As Allo pointed out, a quiet background noise can help greatly, May take a while to find out what works for you but a looped CD of classic music is a good starting point. Some people have also had success with the 'hippy' soundtracks; rainfall, random wind noise etc
I have one of these under-the-pillow speakers. When the tinnitus is really bad, I plug it into the radio and tune in to Radio 4. At about 1am, after "Sailing By", the World Service cuts in. I find quiet talking quite relaxing. Music is fine, but it has to be the non-dramatic sort - something that doesn't draw your attention. I haven't yet tried the natural sound cds, but might do soon. I think the Tinnitus Society (if that's what it's called) and the RNID sell them.
Since January 2007, I started experiencing the typical "ringing" symptom. It appeared to coincide with the onset of a severe head/ear cold. While I sometimes awoke in the morning with no symptom, it would often present itself after exposure to fluorescent lighting (ceiling lights, LCD TV or computer screens) leading me to consider it a RFI (radio frequency interference) effect.
In my pursuit of causes, I purchased micro-surge filters to reduce the level of RFI or "dirty hydro" in my house. Some reduction in sensitivity and volume resulted.
Another effort to reduce the ringing led me to eliminate many sources of salicylate intakes (muscle rubs, orange juice, broccoli), leading to further success.
When tinnitus symptoms resulted from computer or TV sessions, I found that tinnitus volume levels could be greatly reduced by massaging the tissue areas behind and below my ears, using the rotating head of my battery operated tooth brush. A draining sensation accompanied the elimination or reduction in the "ringing".
While all these efforts have successfully reduced the level and duration of my tinnitus symptoms, I have gained a much greater degree of success by my latest discovery of many references online to the part often played by "sensitive teeth toothpaste" containing 5% Potassium Nitrate and my resulting cessation of its use. These references report that within 6 to 12 months of regular use of such toothpastes, a number of people have experienced partial deafness, a fullness feeling in the ears and/or tinnitus. Realizing that I had been regularly using such a toothpaste since the spring of 2006, I immediately switched to a conventional product. That was only three days ago and I already am experiencing large improvements. After working under fluorescents at the office and after TV programs and computer sessions on LCD monitors at home, I'm sensing no noticeable onset of tinnitus symptoms. Only at bedtime, in the quite of the bedroom am I sensing any degree of "ringing" .. so low that I'm wondering if I'm just imagining it.
I'm sharing my experiences with as many online tinnitus forums as I can, hoping other sufferers may benefit.
Thank you
I've suffered tinnitus since childhood. the most recent research i saw came to the conclusion that the circulatory system plays the main part somehow. there are some flash-looking laser earpieces on the market but they cost a bomb.
I like the 'massaging below the ear using a toothbrush', i'll give that a whirl.
And thank you. My tinnitus is there when I wake and for the rest of the time I am conscious. What you say about "sensitive teeth toothpaste" is especially interesting. I have been using it for 3-4 years now, so I rushed up to look. My stuff does not contain potassium nitrate. The tube gives the active ingredients...
potassium chloride (3.75%)
sodium fluoride (0.32%)
triclosan (0.3%)
Still, I will try using something else for a few days to see if anything changes. I don't really drink a lot of orange juice, or eat a lot of broccoli, but I'll try cutting them out too.
And, of course, my proposed course of action is totally illogical. Back to the DB.
I found listening to music through a good set of stereo earphones helped when it was at it’s worst.
Just as an aside, have you tried ear drops / ear syringing?
Sometimes, things like this can be caused simply by impacted earwax building up and causing pressure on the sensitive parts of the ear.
I suffered from ringing ears a few years ago and a quick visit to to doctors to get my ears syringed worked a treat.
I'm not saying that this would work for everyone, or is the cause of all tinnitus, but it may be worth a shot.
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i get my ears syringed almost once a year as i have a naturally high accumulation. sadly this doesn't help my tinnitus although it does feel each time as though i am hearing for the very first time! I go for the connection with the circulatory system, mine always seems at its worst during the winter.
I haven't tried ear drops, but when I saw my GP, he checked and said I didn't need syringing, or drops. I eventually saw an ENT Consultant who also checked. I had an MRI brain scan. It is still there apparently, but no sign of any physical cause of the tinnitus.
"Just as an aside, have you tried ear drops / ear syringing?"
Would it hurt?
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