In the largest clinical trial of its kind, researchers show that combining sound and electrical stimulation of the tongue can significantly reduce tinnitus, commonly described as “ringing in the ears.” They also found that therapeutic effects can be sustained for up to 12 months post-treatment.
-Rurik
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I haven't heard total silence since I fractured my skull and fucked up my inner ears in a motorcycle accident at 14 years old. Of course, decades of gunfire haven't helped.
The ringing in my ears is so bad I have to have a fan blowing for the white noise so I can go to sleep.
These are the shit:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bose.com/en_us/products/wellness/noise_masking_sleepbuds/noise-masking-sleepbuds-ii.html
Way more expensive than a fan, but masks my tinnitus better than anything I've ever tried.
Now, how long for this technology to hit the market? I am getting older as we speak!!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely need a fan to cancel out the ringing.
ReplyDeleteI used hear a constant ringing in my ears from year of playing music in a loud band. However, the ringing was at a frequency that I am no longer able to hear as I am now quite old.
ReplyDeleteYes that was just a joke.
I say leave that shit alone. Sometimes I have an entire orchestra going off in my head. About the only time I can escape the world and just set and listen to my own inner entertainment.
ReplyDelete+1 too many shoot houses, machine guns, and rockets without hearing protection. It usually really creeps up in silent rooms like the bathroom, or when I'm super tired.
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After 35 yrs on the railroad, 30 as an engineer. I've lost 30% of the hearing, and constant ringing, both in my left ear from the engine noise, whistle and the radio. Whatever they come up with, I'm interested. BUT with Germans involved you may end up trading the ringing for an irresistible urge to invade Poland.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you are talking about. We have a main line Rail Road just across the highway from our house. The engineers have to start blowing their horns when they are just about even with our property. One of my dogs cries when the horn blows, and i am sure my tinnitus gets worse with every train. On a normal day we will get an average of 15 trains going on direction or the other. It is a main line to Mexico and China.
DeleteThan after Poland we march on France and if the British interfere we will deal with them also.
DeleteI share your pain on this. Hit by a car in the late 70s and ringing ever since.
ReplyDeleteI have terrible tinnitus from an early age too. Mine is closer to a "white noise" type of cacophony, but it is not exactly white noise. If anyone could make it go away I would be moved to tears.
ReplyDeleteMan, could I use that treatment!
ReplyDeleteI spent 35 years in a steel melt shop, and unless the noise was painful, for the first 15-20 years, we never had to wear earplugs. A new Vice President, from a factory background, who was amazed at the lax rules, made a change to all of that. Sadly, my hearing now has at least 3 different pitches that ring all of the time. And I can't ever hear very well, I had fitted plugs made, while still working, due to hearing loss, and I have to have a fan on at night as well.
ReplyDeleteI have one of those radios that make sounds, from a rain forest to a gentle rain, to ocean waves. I never could get used to them.
i fell and hit my head in fifth grade and i have no idea what real silence is
ReplyDeleteI’ve had a high pitched squeal in both ears for about 10 years. It’s nonstop 24/7. If this thing works, it’s a life changer.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this article. Mine was intermittent when I was a kid, settled in to a constant sound in my teens. I haven't heard the complete silence of a snowscape in decades.
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I'm in the same boat, a lot of Metal concerts and shooting without ear protection. Can't sleep without that fan in the background.
ReplyDeleteSame, can even think of what it would be like without this damn ringing 24x7.
ReplyDeleteThat stinks. I feel bad for you all.
ReplyDeleteI was a Sonarman on subs. I still have people ask me how in the hell I heard something from across the room.
Steve in KY
Steve in KY, I was a sonarman on subs back in the 70's, and I too live in KY. Small world eh.
DeleteI have a mid-range hearing loss and the "white noise" type tinnitus. In a quiet environment, I can hear okay. However, in a crowd or a noisy environment, I can't hear shit. This may or may not have anything to do with my job in the Navy. I use a set of noise-canceling headphones to listen to music.
I forgot to add, on the boats, the constant hum and background noise from the machinery and fans, plus the gentle rocking of the boat meant that I slept like a baby anytime I got the chance.
DeleteHowever, if they shut down the fans in the crews berthing for any reason, I was wide awake and out of the bunk immediately. No alarms necessary.
I have it too. Range with no hearing protection in the Navy and loud music in bars in 80's. I use background noise that shuts off after a while to get to sleep. Wake up in the middle of the night to piss and I turn the noise on again.
ReplyDeleteA therapy that would stop the ringing would be most welcome.
Nemo
Medivac to Guam in 69. Been ringing every since.
ReplyDeleteAdd me to the list of those who "can't hear shit ".
ReplyDelete20 years in a steel forge plant.(Thanks,Broderick Co.)
Same here, since the age of 18. Gunfire, loud engines, metal-on-metal impacts, almost any kind of impacts on anything any more.
ReplyDeleteSandblasting, diesel engines up close and personal and rock and roll have taken most of my hearing.
ReplyDeleteHigh dollar hearing aids almost eliminate the ringing. But when I take them things off, man, the ringing is insane.
I tried using the fan but it didn't work. I can't hear it. --ken
ReplyDeleteFrom heavy equipment, working on fighter jets, tugboat engine room my shit rings like a high pitch whistle. Fan for sleeping as well, used to be drowned out by the diesels off watch.
ReplyDelete20 years in the back of a C-130, along with concerts, gunfire, and just poor sound discipline I also have it, I just call it the Sound of Freedom.
ReplyDeleteSteve L.
Saw this a while back.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it'll help someone. Try it and post the results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDCox-qKbk
link no good
DeleteMan, Every time I am back in the Kasiserslautern area, if I drive by Vogelweh/Pulaski/Kapaun I look for where you did the double-fallopian-tube-with-a-half-twist on the road. Thankful to Herman the German for not letting you get splattered on the road there.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever found it? Email me if you haven't and I'll describe it to you - road and mileage from the high school.
DeleteHave had it ever since I can remember. Once in a while it is loud enough I am unable to hear normal conversation.
ReplyDeleteIt does drown out the voices in my head some days.
......is it okay if one of the voices in your head has a strange German accent?
I hear ya bro's. Years on a fighter jet flightline, a lot more years on powerful lightly muffled motorcycles and all those years frequently at the range with numerous blasters, megablasters and magnum megablasters plus an assload of pistols have me hearing "singing" in my head all the time.
ReplyDeleteHmm... Tongue stimulation... Maybe some combination of working the girlfriends backdoor with a vibrator while licking pussy will cure tinnitus? I'm no doctor, but I'll give it a go for science!
ReplyDeleteI do not know the sound of silence.
ReplyDeleteI would welcome this more than you know. Was kept overnight at Pre-Induction physical because I could hear so well...then there was Deep Purple Machine Head concert standing in front of the speakers...
ReplyDeleteHere is something to try, seated: Look downward slightly, cup your hand, reach back, and firmly knock the back of your neck near the base of your skull. Your hand is cupped to contact around your neck all at once with each knock. It should not be too hard, definitely not painful, but firm enough to where it gives you a little nerve shock each time - kind of like when you get a Swedish massage and they pound your back a little. About the same force as clapping. Do it about once per second for a minute or two. You may find afterwards that your hearing has been 're-set' and your tinnitus is abated. It usually works for me and brings a little relief.
ReplyDeleteThe ringing in my ears gives me something to focus on so I can turn off my hearing when I need to concentrate.
ReplyDelete7 years as policeman using guns and having a handheld radio at my ears.....
ReplyDelete38 years flying turbine powered aircraft.......
Ears constantly ring.....I’ll try it when generally available.
Ed357
Five years as 13B40. Many years riding with no helmet. Lots of shooting and yeah, a shovel, and a two-by-four up against the head. Nuffsaid.
ReplyDeleteFans and rain noise/white noise do not work for me, the high pitched screaming is too loud.
ReplyDeleteI took an antibiotic called Cipro one time, and by the second dose the volume increased about 1,000%....it was so loud that for the first time ever suicide crossed my mind. I quit taking the Cipro immediately, but it took several days for the volume to go back down to its normal, merely insane level.
I would give just about anything for a cure. Nights are the worst, trying to go to sleep and it's all I can hear because there no distractions to take my mind off it. They are screaming right now. It's the super high pitch that is the worst part.
Tim in AK
Ahhhhh Cipro. I got these really great seizures. Nothing like waking up on the floor doing the mambo. The air purifier fan works for me.
DeleteSame here; 20+ years of working on/riding in P-3's and A'3s 20+ years ago gives me a 1000 Hz tone 24/7. I can't listen to new music anymore because I can't pick the lyrics out of the music.
ReplyDeleteEast coast.....VP-5, 94, 62, or 68...?
DeleteEd357
As a teen it was rock concerts, some so loud it seemed like I was wearing cotton ear mufflers for all the next day,
ReplyDeletebut I was young (and stupid) and soon recovered.
Then my twenties, which was shooting with no ear pro (did anybody wear it back in the 70s and early 80s ?),
again I was young (and stupid) and soon recovered.
Then 30 years of macho (foolish) offshore business where we thought REAL men don't need no stinkin' headphones...
More uncovered shooting but not so many concerts.
By then I wasn't so young and bulletproof any more, so now I hear very loud crickets.
I use hearing aids to overpower the crickets.
Strangely the only hearing issues I have are when I'm at work, or woman is talking to me. Also my be unrelated but my blood pressure goes up. Probably nothing.
ReplyDeleteVA gave me a 60% and hearing aids for mine.
ReplyDeleteInteresting:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/1728-acupuncture-found-effective-for-tinnitus
64% cure rate!?
I have most of the same history, without long hours around jets. Just lots of industrial equipment and hours of listening to static, looking for the signal. One thing that did was help me concentrate on the signal and ignore the noise. I can still do it. After the concussion in April, the noise notched up a level, but it's still something I can filter out. Unless someone posts about it or asks about, then it's right up front and singing....Audio response rolls off about 8KHz, and at 10KHz it is gone.
ReplyDeleteSmall arms and crew served weapons instructor for years. I would gladly go for any relief. I cannot hear a person two seats away at the lunch counter.
ReplyDelete20 years working 4-6 hour shifts on-air doing top 40 Radio, wearing Koss Pro-4 AA headphones cranked up to avoid the bone conductivity.
ReplyDeleteNow, I have a 10khz tone in my left ear and a 12khz tone in my right. The volume seems to increase in a quiet place.
That never ending whining is maddening, weather changes are the worst.
ReplyDeleteJD