Speak up, I can't hear you over all the noise.
Had it since my late teens. Can't actually remember what total silence is. I'm not sure that you can actually do anything about it.
Not the same thing l know but my ears sometimes ring in cases of extreme heat. On really hot days l walk outside and they just ring, but then it goes away. l don't know what that phenomenon is called. My ears rang for three days once, after a Billy Thorpe concert.
Not the same thing l know but my ears sometimes ring in cases of extreme heat. On really hot days l walk outside and they just ring, but then it goes away. l don't know what that phenomenon is called. My ears rang for three days once, after a Billy Thorpe concert.
I think it might be cicadas!?
low salt diet is only Meineres not tinnitusyou can get the vestibulocochlear nerve (CNVIII) cut in extreme cases i suppose (more used for Meinere's disease), but a low sodium diet is (from what I have read in physiology, don't quote me as it may not be right) is also meant to help
There is so much added salt to our processed foods (low fat but heaps of salt) that we could do with avoiding salt in our food.
Cut the processed foods right out, issues at many levels - flavour, nutritional depletion, energy consumed in production, packaging, additives galore doing known & unknown mischief
Paul Keating has it and isn't he a card carrying optimist with a rose coloured view of the world.
Didn't realise this was a common problem. Was 12 I think when I noticed this "ringing" in my ear for the first time. Told the folks and went to get a hearing test. Left ear (the one I noticed it in) deaf they said it was equivalent to an 80 year old. While my right was practically perfect. The doctor related it to bone structure in the drum or area in the ear. Absolutely no cure as they are too small to be operated on. Apparently, some cases can be fixed with a simple operation.
As for the this tinnitus suggestion, it was definitly related and definitly the reason I failed the test. As the test involves pitches and certain frequencies which couldn't be heard over my own ringing. I will definitly be getting a hearing aid at a later date, when things in life die down and I have time to adjust. I had a 24 hour trial and it was shocking, gave me headaches and threw my balance out.
I just assumed I was born deaf in the left ear but could there actually be a solution if it is just tinnitus?
Didn't realise this was a common problem. Was 12 I think when I noticed this "ringing" in my ear for the first time. Told the folks and went to get a hearing test. Left ear (the one I noticed it in) deaf they said it was equivalent to an 80 year old. While my right was practically perfect. The doctor related it to bone structure in the drum or area in the ear. Absolutely no cure as they are too small to be operated on. Apparently, some cases can be fixed with a simple operation.
As for the this tinnitus suggestion, it was definitly related and definitly the reason I failed the test. As the test involves pitches and certain frequencies which couldn't be heard over my own ringing. I will definitly be getting a hearing aid at a later date, when things in life die down and I have time to adjust. I had a 24 hour trial and it was shocking, gave me headaches and threw my balance out.
I just assumed I was born deaf in the left ear but could there actually be a solution if it is just tinnitus?
24 hour trials are the worst advertisement for hearing aids - no time to gradually adjust to amplification, which is what is all about.
Without seeing your audiogram, it's hard to give advice but tinnitus alone should not stop you responding to an 50dB HL tone. Find an audiologist who actually gives a stuff about patient care and seek their advice rather than a hearing aid salesman. At the least, you should be consulting ENT about your tinnitus and having an MRI to ensure nothing sinister is at play.
Advice much appreciated. I must point out that the hearing test and hearing aid trial were two completely seperate events and approximately 6 years apart. I was 18 at the time of trial, it was free and I tried a range of different aids and had it tuned and coordinated before trying it. It was in no means a test or a check up in improvement or disimprovement of my hearing at all, more an honest trial to the innevitable means of one day requiring a hearing aid. I agree the 24 hours is and was no where near adequate enough to adjust, which I stated as my current lifestyle does not offer this. It is also not exactly the most ideal or fashionable accessory one could hope for, so I am definitly procastinating obtaining one, not to mention the 6 figure sum they charge on top of all this.
I appreciate the suggestion I should investigate this further, and treat the tinnitus as a completely seperate issue to the deafness. I am probably due for another hearing test anyway, find out how much has deteriated and such things. Can an ENT issue an MRI scan? Or would there be a completely seperate avenue to take?
Also, if I find my audiogram I'll scan it and chuck it on here, you seem curious. I'll be sure to call into this thread again if any interesting eventuates. Thanks agian for the obvious warning and concern.