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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 19, 2024 14:47:33 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 19, 2024 16:48:50 GMT -5
Paywall. Not gonna happen.
Mike
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Post by epaul on Jan 19, 2024 16:57:05 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Jan 19, 2024 16:59:19 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Jan 19, 2024 17:01:13 GMT -5
If it's any good, it isn't just in one paper.
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 19, 2024 17:53:09 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Jan 19, 2024 19:27:47 GMT -5
I've been trying dozen solutions for tinnitus - 15 years.
Most of it - a few Dr. had good ideas and that's expensive and it doesn't work.
My solution(s) are basically ear-buds and playing piano with my head on the grand piano lid (as a disabled hearing Beethoven)
My audiologist - they're all garbage - in advertisements
So if anybody send me those treatments that "works" .....
I'll send it to my doctor and figure it out
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 19, 2024 23:35:52 GMT -5
I was aware of that Russ thanks. My audiologist in the cities is using it but I apparently don't qualify because of my pacemaker. The research I have seen is that it is not a cure but just another club in the bag that works on some people. I am being treated with what is called TRT or tinnitus retraining therapy where a low grade noise is piped into my ear through my hearing aid just below the lever of the tinnitus and over a period of a year or more it is supposed to retrain the brain to see the tinnitus as a non-threatening sound and change the emotional response. Typically used in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy.
i have just recently been feeling better at 6 months so maybe it's working. Still quite annoying but I am pretty much doing everything I was doing before including playing out and actually enjoying some of it. (With the additional help of a few drugs) If not for Pat's stroke and visual loss I think I would be farther along but am optimistic about eventually getting used to it to the point that it does not affect my life in a negative fashion.
If things get worse I will see if there is a workaround for pacemakers. The lead honcho on the device is apparently a researcher at the UofM.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 20, 2024 1:16:05 GMT -5
I've had tinnitus at least since late adolescence, though it has certainly gotten more noticeable in the last decade or so. Most of the time I don't pay much attention to it, though when it's quiet (like right now, at midnight) it's more noticeable. I listen through it, and it's interesting how much low-level sound I can distinguish even through the various phantom sounds my brain generates--I can hear ambulance sirens blocks away, the furnace kick on, the toilet running, the fan in my computer, and the external hard drives next to my keyboard. The only time it's really annoying is when I'm trying to get to sleep, which is why I play the radio (I have a pillow speaker, so it doesn't disturb C)--to give me something to focus on and listen to through the squeals and rumbles and such. But I've had more than 60 years to get used to the strange sounds that don't exist.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 20, 2024 10:26:46 GMT -5
Had tinnitus for decades. Luckily I find it easy to ignore.
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 20, 2024 10:49:25 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Accepting it and learning to listen through it is definitely something I am working on. I think I am making some progress. I am no longer in that incredibly dark place I was in four months ago. I can only hear out of one ear and the onset in late July was accompanied by so much sound distortion and eq changes as well as the ringing it threw me into a real pit of hopelessness.
The sound has stabilized considerably. Guitar is acceptable especially through an amp, and like I said I am optimistic I will reach the same relationship with my tinnitus that you guys have. Hope so. I need to be at my best to help Pat.
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Post by John B on Jan 20, 2024 11:09:02 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Accepting it and learning to listen through it is definitely something I am working on. I think I am making some progress. I am no longer in that incredibly dark place I was in four months ago. I can only hear out of one ear and the onset in late July was accompanied by so much sound distortion and eq changes as well as the ringing it threw me into a real pit of hopelessness. The sound has stabilized considerably. Guitar is acceptable especially through an amp, and like I said I am optimistic I will reach the same relationship with my tinnitus that you guys have. Hope so. I need to be at my best to help Pat. I'm rooting for you, Terry. The severity and the rapid onset were frightening to hear about as a bystander, and I think I can understand how its arrival could be devastating. I'm so glad you're getting some treatment that will hopefully help the symptoms subside. Looking forward to the new line of Kennedy Special Electrics, designed to be plugged in and played at least as loud as the tinnitus. |
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Post by drlj on Jan 20, 2024 20:05:56 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since.
Probably a few other things didn’t help, like steel mill jobs, loud music, fireworks, and being punched in the ear many times for many years by an out of control parental unit.
Anyway, I can ignore it fairly well but not completely.
In the summer, when windows are open, I can’t distinguish crickets & peepers from my ear noise.
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Post by epaul on Jan 20, 2024 20:21:51 GMT -5
Don't have tinnitus, but I do have a wife. I have pretty much learned to block out most, not all.
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Post by epaul on Jan 20, 2024 20:24:53 GMT -5
(generic joke. unfair to wives, mine in particular. can't help myself.)
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Post by RickW on Jan 21, 2024 13:03:41 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since. Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week. |
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Post by millring on Jan 21, 2024 15:40:30 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since. Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week. We went to a Temptations/4Tops concert that was so loud I had trouble distinguishing what songs they were singing. Dar's ears rang for days. |
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Post by RickW on Jan 21, 2024 16:40:30 GMT -5
Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week. We went to a Temptations/4Tops concert that was so loud I had trouble distinguishing what songs they were singing. Dar's ears rang for days. Now, that’s music I never thought would be at an excessive volume. Johnny Winter, yes. I also had a bad day at a Deep Purple concert. But not Motown. |
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Post by John B on Jan 21, 2024 17:05:29 GMT -5
I left a Richard Thompson concert because of the ear-splitting volume. The impact of the drum hits were palpable, bass was pounding, and the guitar had a razor-edge to it. The venue was nice, though; too bad we had to leave.  |
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 21, 2024 23:32:41 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since. Probably a few other things didn’t help, like steel mill jobs, loud music, fireworks, and being punched in the ear many times for many years by an out of control parental unit. Anyway, I can ignore it fairly well but not completely. In the summer, when windows are open, I can’t distinguish crickets & peepers from my ear noise. I was driving with Maureen and about 5 y,o. Katie at the time. Neil Young comes on on the radio and Kate pipes up, ‘Is he joking, Mom? |
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