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HELP - tinnitus - what to do
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I got tinnitus for 30 years. Hearing loss also. About 3-4 years ago, started to wear a small conventional hearing aid in my left ear. Last year, had to get one for my right. The doc suggested a Lyric hearing aid. It fits way inside the ear canal semi-permanently and needs to be professionally replaced every 2-3 months.
There's mostly good things about the Lyric, some bad (you need a deep ear canal for it to fit), but the doc said it may help the ringing in the ears. In fact, the ringing in the ear with the Lyric is mostly gone.
The Lyric is pricy, but you may want to talk to an audiologist about it. I like it.
There's mostly good things about the Lyric, some bad (you need a deep ear canal for it to fit), but the doc said it may help the ringing in the ears. In fact, the ringing in the ear with the Lyric is mostly gone.
The Lyric is pricy, but you may want to talk to an audiologist about it. I like it.
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If it is tinnitus then it is here to stay. The doc told me to protect my hearing as much as possible from now on so it doesn't get worse. I use ear plugs for riding and anything that is loud. A good book on the subject is "Tinnitus" by Richard Hallam.
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I have it too and you do kind of get use to it unless you are just sitting or lying still and have nothing to focus on but the ringing. My ringing has gotten worse over the years as my hearing has gotten worse (one ear). Wearing a hearing aid helps a lot. It not only helps with hearing normal sounds but it makes the ringing less noticeable.
24/7/365 for many years now ...
I have ta wear earplugs with half helmet or no helmet .. Otherwise I'm good for twenty miles .. Maybe ..
As others have said , ya have ta learn to deal with it .. Sometimes it drives me crazy and sometimes its not bad ...
Loud pipes ?? Not good for me at all ..
I have ta wear earplugs with half helmet or no helmet .. Otherwise I'm good for twenty miles .. Maybe ..
As others have said , ya have ta learn to deal with it .. Sometimes it drives me crazy and sometimes its not bad ...
Loud pipes ?? Not good for me at all ..
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i had it for years and was starting to have trouble passing the Army flight physical every year. i heard that caffeine was an caused hunger in some and depressed hunger in others. in 1993 in an attempt to lose weight i stopped using all products that had caffeine. i had a miserable week of withdrawal BUT at the end of the week my ear ringing was gone and has not came back. my next flight physical was better than several years before. worth a try.
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alright already, enough is enough
eyes went and got bifocoles
smoked too much and got emphazema - on inhalers
have narcolepsy and take medicine for that
arthritis in shoulders and thumb and elbows
knees are screwed up
and all that i could put up with
but what is with this buzzing in my ears
just started about a week ago, had some hearing loss before that
but now - bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - all day, every day
its like the low hum from an electric switch or overhead wire
do you have it, what have you done
HELP
and as an aside - this is another reason for load pipes - to drown out the bzzzzzzz
eyes went and got bifocoles
smoked too much and got emphazema - on inhalers
have narcolepsy and take medicine for that
arthritis in shoulders and thumb and elbows
knees are screwed up
and all that i could put up with
but what is with this buzzing in my ears
just started about a week ago, had some hearing loss before that
but now - bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - all day, every day
its like the low hum from an electric switch or overhead wire
do you have it, what have you done
HELP
and as an aside - this is another reason for load pipes - to drown out the bzzzzzzz
Just kidding! I've had the ringing in my ears ever since I was a kid, and stupid enough to shoot handguns without ear protection. After a while you don't think about it--it's always there, but I've gotten to a point that if I don't think about it, I don't hear it.
****--thanks a lot, because now I'm thinking about it!!! AGGGGHH, THE RINGING IS DRIVING ME CRAZY......
