28-05-2011, 03:30 PM
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I have it as well in both ears, mainly a hissing noise but at night it sounds as if there is an engine running outside. I always have a radio on all day in the kitchen so I cant hear it as much. Didnt know that about sugar, also its worse if you are stressed. Annie3328-05-2011, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by anniemuldoon
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its worse if you are stressed. Annie33
I could understand me getting it every week when we were losing to everyone in the northern hemisphere as that, believe me is STRESS
04-06-2011, 04:22 PM
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Finished our group therapy yesterday and have collected a mountain of notes and stuff to read and digest.I spoke to our therapist and she is more than happy for me to use any or all her material. if anyone is interested I will try and condense it into some salient points that might be of help to a sufferer.
04-06-2011, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Hammer
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Finished our group therapy yesterday and have collected a mountain of notes and stuff to read and digest.I spoke to our therapist and she is more than happy for me to use any or all her material. if anyone is interested I will try and condense it into some salient points that might be of help to a sufferer.
Thanks for that Hammer
Could you not perhaps scan the material and e mail it to peeps , would she allow that ?
04-06-2011, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Topaz
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Thanks for that Hammer Could you not perhaps scan the material and e mail it to peeps , would she allow that ?
Thanks for the suggestion.
07-06-2011, 02:15 PM
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The most common cause of tinnitus is damage to the sensitive hearing nerves inside the inner ear.Sounds pass from the outer ear, through the middle ear, and on to the inner ear, which contains the cochlea and the auditory nerve. The cochlea is a coiled, spiral tube that contains many sensitive hair cells. The auditory nerve transmits sounds to the brain.
If the tiny nerves inside your ear are damaged, or destroyed, an abnormal stream of impulses is produced that the brain interprets as a sound. These impulses cause the noise that is associated with tinnitus.
I've had it since I was about 17 years old and I have a constant high-pitched noise in my right ear all the time now, though very occasionally for some odd reason that stops completely for a short while. I also get other forms; anything from a rushing water noise to whistles and rumbles - sometimes all at once - but then I am deaf and my hearing's getting progressively worse.
I've done a fair bit of research on tinnitus and although there is no cure as such and it's unlikely there ever will be, reducing free radicals with natural antioxidants does help me but I've yet to find a concoction the works every time!
I have found however that spicy food, Indian or Bangladeshi in particular, does have far more natural antioxidants and luckily I love spicy foods but I've had positive results from Ginko Biloba too and Valerian.
I've tried tinnitus maskers - waste of time in my case because the white noise was not adjustable and was the wrong frequency. Had it been adjustable I might have got some beneft because several years ago a colleague made me a white noise generator with an earpiece that produced high frequencies - and it worked but I had to remove my aid to pop in the earpiece. Now I need something connected to the aid or I just won't hear it anyway.
By the way, stress and anxiety has a negative effect on tinnitus too. stevmk2
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