Tinnitus

[rpm]

Anyone else have tinnitus? Constant high pitched ringing in your ears. I've had it for at least 15 years. I had some really good car stereos and worked around a lot of straight exhaust engines.

[moot]

I might have developped one recently.
Did you ever get the impression it was helped by being overly tired in only mildly loud environments?

[rpm]

Mine is from wake up to sleep. It gets louder as background noise gets louder and can drown out people speaking.

[Halo]

Sorry about that, rpm.  Some friends have tinnitus.  I sometimes think I'm getting a touch of it, but mostly only an occasional very low combination of something like static or buzzing or hissing, something like the electricity of the universe?

I must be wired for something.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I developed a mild tinnitus to my right ear because of an explosion when I was a teenager. The bang was so loud that I couldn't hear anything for 15 minutes.

Luckily it's not the kind that actually bothers me, I only hear it during silent nights or when wearing hearing protection.

[Xargos]

Make sure it's not Meniere's Disease.

http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/menieres/menieres.html#whatis

[Kieran]

Yes, I have it. Like you, I can hear the ringing over everything- loudly. I suppose I'll be totally deaf at some point.

I shattered both eardrums (bad dive off a 3-meter board) and have never been the same.

[Dago]

Yeah, I have it in both ears.  Too many years shooting, and being around running jet engines.

I don't notice it much, been too many years and have gotten used to it.

[eagl]

I got mild tinnitus as a kid, and I remember being scared about it because it happened all at once one night, going from nice pure quiet to what sounded like a very loud ringing in my head.  It's almost like a constant single-frequency tone plus a slightly lower intermittant tone that sounds a bit like morse code.

It doesn't bug me except at night, but it's pretty irritating then.  It does make passing my annual hearing test a bit tougher, but it's not getting much worse so it's merely an inconvenience.

[storch]

I get occasional tinnitus. for me it is caused by having my jaw broken in a fight when I was younger (ya ya ya you should have seen what the other guy looked like when we finished).  the cure is also in my jaw.  at the onset of the tinnitus attack I crack my jaw by pressing on the joint right under the ears and working my jaw from left to right with my mouth open.  once both sides go "pop" the tinnitus goes away.  I've been doing that since the late 1970's.  the doctor thinks it's pressure on the nerve but they can't really explain it.  tinnitus is very annoying though, I feel for you.

[Viking]

Got mild tinnitus from being shelled too many times. Now I really like rainy nights.

[storch]

Originally posted by Viking
Got mild tinnitus from being shelled too many times. Now I really like rainy nights.

are you sure it isn't from listening to ace of the base at full volume?

[Dago]

Originally posted by storch
listening to ace of the base at full volume?

Curel and unusual punishment!

[Jackal1]

Got it and have had it for quite some time. Mine was due to nerve damage from toxic gas exposure some years ago.
As said above, after a while you sort of get used to it in the daytime and while you are busy.
At night, when things gets quiet is when it will grind on you. To avoid this I run a TV on low volume all night. About as good as it gets.
I have heard about some ear drops that are supposed to help at night , but have never looked into them or talked to anyone who has used them.

[Gunslinger]

I'm not sure if it's the same thing but I get a ringing every now and then and sometimes it's practically disabling.