Tinnitus

supersonic
supersonic Posts: 82,708
edited August 2008 in The Crudcatcher
Anyone else get this? Bloody annoying! Feels like Mike Oldfield is having a concert in my right ear canal. Drives me nuts at night!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    sometimes.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    WHAT?
  • dunker
    dunker Posts: 1,456
    yeah i get it but rarely, i find covering my nose and blowing and poping the ears makes it go away. mine usually sounds like a low volume high pitched constant fire alarm, alien implant on the blink i bet ya! :lol:
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  • Jimbob_no5
    Jimbob_no5 Posts: 1,568
    i have a permanent ringing in both my ears, does get a bit annoying but ive got used to it
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    In all seriousness, no, I don;t suffer from Tinnitus, if I did, my career would be over.
    However, I know a drummer who started suffering tinnitus. He's learnt to control it quite well, and can still manage a few sessions, except he has to use some seriously soundproof headphones, and listen, in them, at a low volume.

    It amazes me how some people take hearing for granted.
    Both my parents work in a very noisy power station, and recently, I've noticed that my mother has been putting the telly volume up and up over a few years.

    When I asked her if she was wearing any form of hearing protection at work, she looked as though I'd asked her the stupidest question ever, and replied that since she was sat inside a minibus, she didn't need to
    I told her that in my professional opinion, the noise levels inside the minibus were probably around twice the level required to cause permament damage, but she refused to believe me.
    (I also used to work in the same place, so I know what the conditions are like)
  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    On the hearing side of things I had to speak, sorry deal, with a guy today who was deaf and also couldn't speak. I had to write everything down and vice versa with him. I was thinking how strange it would be driving a car, not hearing the engine or other cars and stuff, having all your senses does go overlooked I agree, its just that they are always there, so I guess you learn to be ungrateful of them?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    It really saddens me that people are so careless of their hearing, when there's so many beautiful sounds to hear, that can have the capacity to stir up long lost memories, tear-jerking emotions, and euphorious sensations.
    Especially when you can buy a pretty decent set of musician's earplugs for as little as a fiver, that will still let you enjoy live gigs, or clubs, without causing any serious deficiencies in what you hear.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    what do you do yeehaa?
  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    I reckon yeehaa tests the sound of car doors opening and closing to make sure the manufacturers get the "clunk" right!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    oh, and i get short bouts of tinitus on the odd occasion i have fired a rifle or shotgun without ear defence :cry:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I ride my bike, drink too much strong coffe, and pick my nose more than I guess I should.
    Oh, and I scratch my arse and fart occasionally too. :D
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    GT Destroyer wrote:
    I reckon yeehaa tests the sound of car doors opening and closing to make sure the manufacturers get the "clunk" right!

    does anyone remember you bet? it wason the telly on a staurday night about 15 yrs ago. anyway, there were a couple of contestants who could recognise any car in the world by the sound of the door closing, what a bunch of webbos!!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I ride my bike, drink too much strong coffe, and pick my nose more than I guess I should.
    Oh, and I scratch my ars* and fart occasionally too. :D

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  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    Was there a guy who could tell cars from their headrests?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    oh, and i get short bouts of tinitus on the odd occasion i have fired a rifle or shotgun without ear defence :cry:
    I don't think that's tinnitus.
    I've been taught, that the ringing in your ears after being somewhere loud, is the death knell of the related nerves in your ears, and that it's the last time you'll ever hear that particular frequency ever again :shock:
    However, this seems a contentious point, and many professionals I've talked to about the subject offer conflicting views on this phenomenon, and some say that it simply isn't true.

    Tinnitus, on the other hand, is basically your ears going mad (it's related to your nervous system, rather than any mechanical damage to the ear). you don't have to be exposed to deafening noises to sufffer from tinnitus, and I know of several people who have amasingly accute hearing, yet still suffer from tinnitus.
    Tinnitus is also occasionally mis-diagnosed.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    i dont know but i bet he would have been a legend to go on the pis$ with!!

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