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Tinnitus
- Thread starter centermass181
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50% rated. The other 50% is for my back. L1 through L5 are permanently nerve damaged.
Looks like many many vets have this problem. I was never in the service but worked in a machine shop for 40 years.
Have/ had a lot of loud passtimes/ activities over those years. Race cars, rock music, guns, power tools, etc.
Constantly loud sound levels will cause hearing loss and tinnitus.You get used to the loud background noise and think nothing of it. Until later.
Hearing aids are the only answer right now unless you want to spring for a cochlear implant.
I see that MIT is sending a Tcell therapy to clinical trials that looks interesting.
Don't expect it to be on the market soon but there's some hopium there.
Have/ had a lot of loud passtimes/ activities over those years. Race cars, rock music, guns, power tools, etc.
Constantly loud sound levels will cause hearing loss and tinnitus.You get used to the loud background noise and think nothing of it. Until later.
Hearing aids are the only answer right now unless you want to spring for a cochlear implant.
I see that MIT is sending a Tcell therapy to clinical trials that looks interesting.
Don't expect it to be on the market soon but there's some hopium there.
If you haven’t already done so…put in claims for ptsd,migraines and vertigo secondary to your TBI. If you don’t have that stuff now you will. The goal is 100%.
TBI survivor here. (car accident) funny in an odd way that you mention hearing "symphony music". Since the accident I've been hearing pretty much the same thing. and I'm dealing with the same memory loss / slurring . I get funny looks sometimes when I'm talking to someone who doesn't know me.
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Any vertigo or headaches?TBI survivor here. (car accident) funny in an odd way that you mention hearing "symphony music". Since the accident I've been hearing pretty much the same thing. and I'm dealing with the same memory loss / slurring . I get funny looks sometimes when I'm talking to someone who doesn't know me.
tuna
NES Member
UGH! Just discovered something worse that tinnitus.
With my hearing loss, I've been told that I can't hear higher frequencies, and should have trouble hearing young kids and women, which tracks pretty well with who I have to say "what?" to the most. My Dr says that supposedly a hearing aid could help this, but I'll still have the ringing. I'm good without hearing people, so I'm passing on the hearing aid.
I discovered this weekend, to my chagrin, that I CAN hear old people, both men and women, just fine. I don't know if they're deaf, too and speaking louder, or if they talk at a lower frequency. Holy crap were the people at my kid's ball game annoying - I had to leave before I threw my chair at them. They weren't saying anything that was annoying, it was just that their voices were very clear to me, and listening to them was driving me insane.
I doubt I'll see another hearing doctor, but I'll be sure to ask how I can get rid of these frequencies, too.
Am I going crazy? Does anyone else get irrationally mad at being able to hear people when you just want a background of garbled sounds?
With my hearing loss, I've been told that I can't hear higher frequencies, and should have trouble hearing young kids and women, which tracks pretty well with who I have to say "what?" to the most. My Dr says that supposedly a hearing aid could help this, but I'll still have the ringing. I'm good without hearing people, so I'm passing on the hearing aid.
I discovered this weekend, to my chagrin, that I CAN hear old people, both men and women, just fine. I don't know if they're deaf, too and speaking louder, or if they talk at a lower frequency. Holy crap were the people at my kid's ball game annoying - I had to leave before I threw my chair at them. They weren't saying anything that was annoying, it was just that their voices were very clear to me, and listening to them was driving me insane.
I doubt I'll see another hearing doctor, but I'll be sure to ask how I can get rid of these frequencies, too.
Am I going crazy? Does anyone else get irrationally mad at being able to hear people when you just want a background of garbled sounds?
I did a trick to try and down out the tinnitus when it gets bad .
It takes a bit of fiddling, but go through a range of white or pink(HRTZ) noise with headphones or earbuds and find the frequency that drowns it out.
It takes a bit of fiddling, but go through a range of white or pink(HRTZ) noise with headphones or earbuds and find the frequency that drowns it out.
KBCraig
NES Member
The advantage of being a white-haired veteran, is being able to ignore people when you can hear them perfectly. Everyone assumes you're deaf, when you actually just don't care.
