Take your vitamins and minerals. Tinnitus could be caused( if not from mechanical reasons ) by lack of something in your diet. Could be tin! We are great about having the ability to regrow damaged tissue. I have heard/read that Ginkgo is useful because of its ability to dilate the smaller blood vessels to I suppose get nourishment to the small parts of your ear. Bill, the silver can make things a bit bright😀 but I have yet to see colloidal copper on the market.
Thatch_Ear said:
Or by something in excess in your diet -- like too much coffee (my eyes start to twitch too).
dave
funny that. well. I was tested at age17 and later on too, and my hearing stops at 13 kHz, and I never knew why: no guns, no rock concerts before that age. Anyway, I once had an ear wax obstruction and the doctor cleaned inout by flushing warm water into the ear. Amazing difference when u can hear it all, all of a sudden! Doctor's advvice was 1) necer use q-tips, they cause kore problems than they solve (push wax inside), 2) if u have ear wax problems, DIY: flush ear using large syring/turkey baster etc. *Of course be careful, don't insert tipinto your ear, your mileage may vary etc...* I've done this many times since, in DIY mode, works perfectly well. BTW - even in individuals without tinnitus, the ear cause amazing levels of distoriton durting the hearing process, but the brain filters it out. It was even suggested that say, tubes, or other quipment, sound better to some people because they mimic the ear's intrinsic distoriton spectrum better than SS. (me I use SS exclusively, but then again, at my sub 13 kHz limit, maybe I should just shut up and let the golden ears talk).
MBK
MBK
hey i hope you guys didnt think that i was complaining, didnt mean to be if it sounded like that. i've had this for so long that it doesnt really bother me to much. i learn to adjust, sleep with a radio on, always have music or a tv on in the room i'm in ect. used to have an old tv that made a really high pitched squeel and it drove my girlfrind crazy but didnt bother me because i couldnt here it. turns out that the tv was around alot longer than she was anyway and i guess thats a good thing 🙂 . i am going to check into the phantom limb thing and see if it will work on whatever that overgrown fat thing in my brain is and since i work for a huge medical teaching/research kind of a place i may have some luck.
thanks, mike
thanks, mike
I have to agree with MBK:
A Q-tip may make the problem worse by compacting the wax inside of the ear. I believe they sell a wax solvent type stuff that one squirts inside one's ear, turkey baster style.
My little brother once had a ball of paper stuck in his ear for over a year (he was 7 or 8). He went swimming and the thing got wet and began to swell up, yeilding him one heck of an earache. I believe that he used the solvent by the doctors request and it popped right out. It was stuck behind one monster piece of wax. I couldn't imagine that the solvent is sold only on prescription, but I'm sure your local pharmacy will have it.
You can probably buy one bottle that will last your lifetime.
Of course, my memory could be flaking out on me.
Happy listening
-Dan
A Q-tip may make the problem worse by compacting the wax inside of the ear. I believe they sell a wax solvent type stuff that one squirts inside one's ear, turkey baster style.
My little brother once had a ball of paper stuck in his ear for over a year (he was 7 or 8). He went swimming and the thing got wet and began to swell up, yeilding him one heck of an earache. I believe that he used the solvent by the doctors request and it popped right out. It was stuck behind one monster piece of wax. I couldn't imagine that the solvent is sold only on prescription, but I'm sure your local pharmacy will have it.
You can probably buy one bottle that will last your lifetime.
Of course, my memory could be flaking out on me.
Happy listening
-Dan
Tinnitus Cure
Hi TVI,
Thanks for the interesting info, perhaps this reinforces it.
Included in my long involvement in audio, I have suffered bouts of various auditory maladies.
This has included grains of wax rattling against the ear drum (this one drives you up the wall big time), over production of wax, and differing tinnitus conditions.
Through dietry changes I have eliminated the wax issue.
I rarely drink coffee, drink chinese green tea once a week or so, and virtually never drink coca-cola.
I now enjoy my whiskey with lemonade and ice only.
In conjunction with a B-complex suppliment this has also mostly eliminated my severe and debilitating irrital bowel condition bordering on severe Chrones disease.
Regarding tinnitus, I have found in the past that a bad sounding system will bring the condition on, also accidents like a stage monitor going into feedback - this one hurts and renders your ears dead for the rest of the show, and is profoundly disturbing to the constitution for quite a period - days and weeks even.
On the other hand I have found exposure to my VERY loud but CLEAN system to sort of RESET the hearing.
In this case my system was 4 of 3 way stacked 12" cabinets hanging off 500W per side.
This setup with power conditioning and very low inductance speaker cables and other tweaks gave REALLY seriously loud levels in my lounge room, but never any ear bleed.
With ALL windows and doors closed this gave SPL that rattled the soles of ones shoes when on a carpet square on top of a carpeted cement floor, and the right bass lines would cause invigorating resonances in the chest cavity.
30 minutes or so at this level of my favorite tracks (loud blues rock) amply satisfied the soul for the next two weeks or so.
Shouting communication from ends of the sofa was impossible, but normal talking in close proximity to the listeners ear worked perfectly well.
Interesting thing is that after these assaults on the ears, my hearing would ring quietly with a white noise charactereistic for only 20 seconds or so, and then subside to little or no tinnitus ringing.
It is as though this exposure to very loud, very clean wideband music resets the hearing mechanism, and seemingly undoes previous damage/irritation.
Perhaps another way of saying this is that bad reproduced sound causes your hearing to shut down, and loud AND clean can open the hearing back up.
I had my hearing tested a while back and it is still good to past 16kHz or so - IMO a miracle given my history.
Regards, Eric.
Hi TVI,
Thanks for the interesting info, perhaps this reinforces it.
Included in my long involvement in audio, I have suffered bouts of various auditory maladies.
This has included grains of wax rattling against the ear drum (this one drives you up the wall big time), over production of wax, and differing tinnitus conditions.
Through dietry changes I have eliminated the wax issue.
I rarely drink coffee, drink chinese green tea once a week or so, and virtually never drink coca-cola.
I now enjoy my whiskey with lemonade and ice only.
In conjunction with a B-complex suppliment this has also mostly eliminated my severe and debilitating irrital bowel condition bordering on severe Chrones disease.
Regarding tinnitus, I have found in the past that a bad sounding system will bring the condition on, also accidents like a stage monitor going into feedback - this one hurts and renders your ears dead for the rest of the show, and is profoundly disturbing to the constitution for quite a period - days and weeks even.
On the other hand I have found exposure to my VERY loud but CLEAN system to sort of RESET the hearing.
In this case my system was 4 of 3 way stacked 12" cabinets hanging off 500W per side.
This setup with power conditioning and very low inductance speaker cables and other tweaks gave REALLY seriously loud levels in my lounge room, but never any ear bleed.
With ALL windows and doors closed this gave SPL that rattled the soles of ones shoes when on a carpet square on top of a carpeted cement floor, and the right bass lines would cause invigorating resonances in the chest cavity.
30 minutes or so at this level of my favorite tracks (loud blues rock) amply satisfied the soul for the next two weeks or so.
Shouting communication from ends of the sofa was impossible, but normal talking in close proximity to the listeners ear worked perfectly well.
Interesting thing is that after these assaults on the ears, my hearing would ring quietly with a white noise charactereistic for only 20 seconds or so, and then subside to little or no tinnitus ringing.
It is as though this exposure to very loud, very clean wideband music resets the hearing mechanism, and seemingly undoes previous damage/irritation.
Perhaps another way of saying this is that bad reproduced sound causes your hearing to shut down, and loud AND clean can open the hearing back up.
I had my hearing tested a while back and it is still good to past 16kHz or so - IMO a miracle given my history.
Regards, Eric.
Eric, can you describe what "grains of wax rattling against the ear drum" sounds like exactly? Occasionally when I am exposed to loud sounds such as shouting or a blaring noise, my left ear "cracks up" with a funny buzzing noise as if something was indeed touching my eardrum. I went to my GP, who examined both my eardrums and said they were perfectly healthy.
The effect only appears occasionally and I can make it go away by pinching my nose and blowing hard with my mouth shut - thus equalising the pressure behind the eardrum - but this also alters the response of my hearing for the next hour or so, and is only a temporary solution.
Thanks,
TRWH.
The effect only appears occasionally and I can make it go away by pinching my nose and blowing hard with my mouth shut - thus equalising the pressure behind the eardrum - but this also alters the response of my hearing for the next hour or so, and is only a temporary solution.
Thanks,
TRWH.
Hi trwh,
the rattle I speak of is pretty much as you describe.
Over a threshold SPL the rattle is (was) excited, and this gave a rotten rattly distortion on top of the sound.
This varied between a discrete rattle to second or third harmonic
or something on top.
My shouting also excited the rattle.
When I had this condition it persisted for many weeks, until after I had itched the inside of my ear with a cotton bud, tilted my head to the side and a small flake of hard dry wax stuff dropped out.
Instant relief !
Although not physically uncomfortable, this condition is indeed profoundly disturbing when evident.
Glycerine or olive oil application, and after then syringing or cotton bud should help.
Regards, Eric.
the rattle I speak of is pretty much as you describe.
Over a threshold SPL the rattle is (was) excited, and this gave a rotten rattly distortion on top of the sound.
This varied between a discrete rattle to second or third harmonic
or something on top.
My shouting also excited the rattle.
When I had this condition it persisted for many weeks, until after I had itched the inside of my ear with a cotton bud, tilted my head to the side and a small flake of hard dry wax stuff dropped out.
Instant relief !
Although not physically uncomfortable, this condition is indeed profoundly disturbing when evident.
Glycerine or olive oil application, and after then syringing or cotton bud should help.
Regards, Eric.
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