Tinnitus (Page 2 of 3)

my ear sound are really loud at the moment. shit.

wow, I've had it for years now, but last night after I was going to bed, I noticed this 'alarm bell ringing' sound in my right ear that was never there before (it had always just been a kind of 'eeeeeee' sound for me, for lack of a better description), that was different from anything I've ever felt/heard before.

couldn't fucking sleep a wink all night, though I suspect part of that was psychological. got an appointment with my GP tomorrow to have it looked at. since it just came on suddenly I'm hoping maybe it's a symptom of something else.

definitely more of an 'alarm bell ringing' sound this time which is different...

I can hardly even hear it over the noise that my laptop makes when I'm sitting in bed, but as soon as I switch it off it's there. using earplugs seems to help drown it out a bit...

earphones have been jettisoned by me since last year.

my tinnitus is only mild but the doctors still piss me off. all they have ever told me is its untreatable so learn to live with it.
after a year i now realise that drinking wine makes it worse so i lay off that, also if i fly or take a train that goes through lots of tunnels my tinnitus disspears for a few days. i have explained this to doctors and they recommend i fly more. some fuckin treatment!

Yeah,  alcohol in general does not help, as it dehydrates and blood gets thicker.  Also Ginkgo extracts can help.  I'm not sure if it's not just the placebo effect.

right, sorry to go on about this, but I thought I'd mention this...

I was driving myself a bit nuts yesterday constantly trying to pay attention to this noise to see if it actually was something real or if it was a figment of my imagination. I ended up going out to a have a few pints to calm myself down, but then I bought a carry out after that and got really drunk. When I was sitting in my bed drinking and using my laptop, I swear I couldn't hear the noise at all - although maybe that's just the alcohol making me calm, but clearly there seems to be a link here between your stress level and how severe the noise is.

I woke up this morning about 6 or so to go and do a piss then went back to bed. Didn't notice the noise at that point. But man, when I woke up again at about 7ish, the noise was back with a vengeance, and definitely not just my imagination!

Is there a link between this and alcohol? Done a bit of googling on it and for some people there does seem to be.

http://lets-beat-tinnitus.co.uk/blog/al … s-effects/

some folk are even saying caffeine can have an effect on it. I'm gonna completely detox from alcohol and caffeine for a month and see what happens. I've found a program called Aire Freshner that plays natural sounds on repeat - I'll just start using that at night to block out the noise and hopefully reprogram my brain. It seems to be absolutely key that you don't get stressed about it.

edit - but yeah, of course, the not getting stressed part is the bit that's very much easier said than done

could be worth a try - thanks!

i used to have always magnesium with me. unfortunately most of the times i forget to take it before playing my set ...

but to be honest:

i never felt any difference in tinnitus-loudness after the dj-set with or without magnesium ...

well, I won't drone on about it too much, but I think that I've managed to establish that my problem is Hyperacusis, which may have been a result of the syringing that I had done. I've got a referral to see an ear, nose and throat specialist on the NHS, but I dunno how long that's going to take.

In the mean time, the main problem is sleeping, I'm just using anything that I can do drown out the ringing. Bought a desktop fan today which seems to work quite well. Managed to get more sleep last night and today (have the week off work) than I have done for a few weeks now, so I'm a lot calmer about it today. It's been very distressing though...

I know! I can understan that you can't damp the volume of a band with drums and stuff in a small bar or that you have to have loud music in a club with a large dancefloor if there cannot be speakers all over the place. But i can't understand why many small clubs or bars have to have the volume so friggin loud that people have to yell to hear what each other are saying.
It just feeds itself.

103 db is fucking load.

on the dj botth in Robert Johnson (FFM) ther eis a db- meter.

its around 105-109 db - and this is LOUD!

that would depend on whether the meter was reading Peak or RMS (average) scale.

103dB Peaks wouldn't pose too much threat whereas the same dB RMS would be quite uncomfortable if not painful.