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In Reply to: RE: A question for those who experiance tinittus posted by Byrd69 on January 09, 2015 at 19:16:33
I built a screened porch on our previous home during the summer of 2005. About 4 weeks into that project I awoke one night to a slight ringing in my ears. I laid there for a while, realizing it was not diminishing. It has been with me ever since. I blame the noise from the circular saw. Sure wish I had used hearing protection.
But I also work in a noisy environment (semiconductor manufacturing facility). The constant grind of vacuum pumps and other noise sources provides a consistent set of frequencies that does not vary. Of course OSHA would say the SPL is within limits, but my ears tell me differently.
I have learned to live with it. It does not keep me up at night (or day, as I work night shift). I wish I was tinnitus-free, but it is not debilitating. Luckily my system resides in a "media room" where I can crank the volume a tad and overcome the ringing.
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Almost four years ago I went to bed one night and there it was in the right ear. Had that for a few months and after a noisy MRI and 4 hours in a hot tub with a fan going, I have a worse version in the left ear. I rarely hear the original one in the right side now, the other took over. I blame office cleaning i did years back, vacuuming for hours on end with no hearing protection and more recent events probably pushed it over the edge. It bothers me to no end, but I really miss listening to my music and want to get back into it.
I have experienced it primarily on the left side for five years. It is with me day-and-night. It seems particularly bad in the early morning, immediately upon awakening.
It originally came on during an episode when I was moderately depressed. Having problems with sleep, I took NSAIDs (like Ibuprofen and Naproxen), as well as Trazodone, discontinuing the Trazodone for Hydroxyzine. Meanwhile, I take a minimal dose of Fluoxetine (Prozac) to provide me with the "energy" and wherewithall to perform my work, which is highly skilled, detailed, and complex.
I have heard varying accounts and rationales as to how tinnitus comes about. I also went to a few loud concerts in confined quarters with my oldest child.
I am of the opinion that the things that I have put into my body, including certain foods and prescription and OTC medications, have had an effect on creating tinnitus and maintaining it at its present level. That does not mean that it will go away anytime soon, if at all.
Some have posited muscle tension as a predicate for it; I believe it to be more related to release or loss of muscle tension or tone. Some opine that tinnitus, like age-related hearing loss, is related to the disappearance of the microscopic hairs in our ears, which cannot regenerate. There is even a hypothesis for tinnitus in which the brain mitigates the frequencies of sensorineural hearing loss and emits a signal at the level of that hearing loss, like a beacon or radar, in order to pick up the frequency - "in search of the lost chord," if you will.
I have not fully learned to mitigate it, but I do enjoy me some audio. I will describe why later, if I can.
axolotl
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