(06-18-2024, 07:30 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I think thats an old ear infection wives tale, or athletes feet thingy. Or putting smoke or tobacco or something else in your ear. Wait, maybe that's bee stings. IDK, what if I was stung in the ear drum? Should I pee in my ear and pack it full of tobacco? Screw it, I'm trying it. See you guys soon when I'm on the Forbes top 10 list.

Maybe try the trick they use for cauterizing wounds? 

Fill'er up with black powder and put a flame to it?

(06-21-2024, 01:53 PM)FormerlyBengalRugby Wrote: Maybe try the trick they use for cauterizing wounds? 

Fill'er up with black powder and put a flame to it?

No. Then my ear will be on fire and god forbid someone has to HAWK TUAH and spit on that thang.

(06-15-2024, 11:17 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Anyone? I can't hear you, literally. 

I've been living with this progressive hearing loss for so many years. Nothing but ringing constantly, which, I could deal with in my younger years with things like white noise, music, or a fan would block it out enough to take away my thoughts about it. I'm 57 now and the ring is getting unbearable. It's always been a distraction but now it's getting to the point of robbing my concentration and quality of life. My hearing is getting so bad that when someone speaks to me I often think I heard one thing, but they said something else. My wife (God bless her heart for putting up with it) has to put up with me listening to the TV loudly, while still asking her, "What did He/She say?" 

The ringing is similar to a heart monitor when someone's heart stops beating but at a high pitch. It never stops. 24/7, 365. 

Does anyone else deal with this? Does hearing aids help at all? My wife keeps saying to get some because I always mishear her. I've had the same issue at work, so bad that I finally stopped trying to fake what I understood and started saying I didn't hear it or didn't get it.

Yep. For a long, long time. Ditto for my wife (putting up with me). I think i hear something or, i'll hear most of what she says but don't understand a couple important words. I don't really need the TV up loud and if i make it a point to concentrate on waiting to hear people say something instead of reacting when they do, it helps. 

My ringing changes in intensity though and i don't know what makes it louder or softer. Sometimes i don't hear it at all while others it's really loud. I guess i'm fortuante in a way because i learned to ignore it a long time ago and it's never bothered me to the point it affects my daily life, other than having to say "huh?" to my wife more than i should. 

My biggest goal right now is getting her to not go on some rant when i don't hear her and just simply repeat what she said without some lecture. 

I will say this. It's not altered my bad habit of playing music waaaaayyyy too loud in my car or even in my headphones when i'm at the gym or just listening to music while i'm at home. I've been doing that for as long as i can remember. 

EDIT: After posting this, i decided to go online and do a few tests. They all said i had mild to moderate hearing loss. The last one i took actually gave me graphs to show where i was.



https://www.mdhearingaid.com/hearing-test/

(06-22-2024, 11:05 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yep. For a long, long time. Ditto for my wife (putting up with me). I think i hear something or, i'll hear most of what she says but don't understand a couple important words. I don't really need the TV up loud and if i make it a point to concentrate on waiting to hear people say something instead of reacting when they do, it helps. 

My ringing changes in intensity though and i don't know what makes it louder or softer. Sometimes i don't hear it at all while others it's really loud. I guess i'm fortuante in a way because i learned to ignore it a long time ago and it's never bothered me to the point it affects my daily life, other than having to say "huh?" to my wife more than i should. 

My biggest goal right now is getting her to not go on some rant when i don't hear her and just simply repeat what she said without some lecture. 

I will say this. It's not altered my bad habit of playing music waaaaayyyy too loud in my car or even in my headphones when i'm at the gym or just listening to music while i'm at home. I've been doing that for as long as i can remember. 

EDIT: After posting this, i decided to go online and do a few tests. They all said i had mild to moderate hearing loss. The last one i took actually gave me graphs to show where i was.



https://www.mdhearingaid.com/hearing-test/

How were you able to post that graph and your results on here?

(06-22-2024, 12:55 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: How were you able to post that graph and your results on here?

I screen capped it, loaded it in mspaint, cut it and saved it to my comp before uploading it to my imgbb account. Then just copied the link into my post.

That's nifty. I'm gonna do a Hawk Tuah and play with this thing.

(06-22-2024, 09:03 PM)HarleyDog Wrote:


That's nifty. I'm gonna do a Hawk Tuah and play with this thing.

I think it would be good for your quality of life to make an appt with an audiologist and find out what kind of options they can give you, homeskizzle.

(06-23-2024, 12:56 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I think it would be good for your quality of life to make an appt with an audiologist and find out what kind of options they can give you, homeskizzle.

Homeskizzle? Awww. You touched me.

My tinnitus is caused by medication...long term anti-inflammatory use. It gets worse with allergies or other sinus congestion. Some days it is easy to ignore other times it interferes with life. I wish I could give some advice about ignoring it but I haven't discovered the secret. White noise helps at night

(06-23-2024, 09:51 AM)pally Wrote: My tinnitus is caused by medication...long term anti-inflammatory use.  It gets worse with allergies or other sinus congestion.  Some days it is easy to ignore other times it interferes with life.  I wish I could give some advice about ignoring it but I haven't discovered the secret.  White noise helps at night

Sorry to hear that Pally. We’re pretty much in the same boat. I’ve noticed certain things make it worse while nothing really makes it better. I sleep with a fan which helps. But there have been times a fan isn’t available and I can’t sleep. I downloaded a fan app on my phone for this reason.

Just turned 58, sometimes it seems like there are a lot of crickets at night in my ears, drives me nuts. I did 30 years in the navy, retired 10 years ago and I was fit as a fiddle. Fast forward 10 years and I'm completely falling apart.. Sleep Apnea, ears ringing, almost blind, can't hear, just to name a few ailments...lol

(06-29-2024, 09:58 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Just turned 58, sometimes it seems like there are a lot of crickets at night in my ears, drives me nuts. I did 30 years in the navy, retired 10 years ago and I was fit as a fiddle. Fast forward 10 years and I'm completely falling apart.. Sleep Apnea, ears ringing, almost blind, can't hear, just to name a few ailments...lol

Damn soldier! Welcome to the club.

(06-15-2024, 11:17 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Anyone? I can't hear you, literally. 

I've been living with this progressive hearing loss for so many years. Nothing but ringing constantly, which, I could deal with in my younger years with things like white noise, music, or a fan would block it out enough to take away my thoughts about it. I'm 57 now and the ring is getting unbearable. It's always been a distraction but now it's getting to the point of robbing my concentration and quality of life. My hearing is getting so bad that when someone speaks to me I often think I heard one thing, but they said something else. My wife (God bless her heart for putting up with it) has to put up with me listening to the TV loudly, while still asking her, "What did He/She say?" 

The ringing is similar to a heart monitor when someone's heart stops beating but at a high pitch. It never stops. 24/7, 365. 

Does anyone else deal with this? Does hearing aids help at all? My wife keeps saying to get some because I always mishear her. I've had the same issue at work, so bad that I finally stopped trying to fake what I understood and started saying I didn't hear it or didn't get it.

I don't have it brother, but one of my buddies did and my Dad told him to take Ginkgo Biloba and he doesn't have it anymore.

Hope this helps as this sounds terrible and I love you man

(06-15-2024, 11:17 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Anyone? I can't hear you, literally. 

I've been living with this progressive hearing loss for so many years. Nothing but ringing constantly, which, I could deal with in my younger years with things like white noise, music, or a fan would block it out enough to take away my thoughts about it. I'm 57 now and the ring is getting unbearable. It's always been a distraction but now it's getting to the point of robbing my concentration and quality of life. My hearing is getting so bad that when someone speaks to me I often think I heard one thing, but they said something else. My wife (God bless her heart for putting up with it) has to put up with me listening to the TV loudly, while still asking her, "What did He/She say?" 

The ringing is similar to a heart monitor when someone's heart stops beating but at a high pitch. It never stops. 24/7, 365. 

Does anyone else deal with this? Does hearing aids help at all? My wife keeps saying to get some because I always mishear her. I've had the same issue at work, so bad that I finally stopped trying to fake what I understood and started saying I didn't hear it or didn't get it.

Yes I have this too and after yrs of trying to figure out my sudden hearing loss I found this awsome place called the House Institute here in Los Angeles who finally after many many yrs of bad ENT visits  managed to diagnose me in a matter of minutes . Found out I have a small bone called a stapes that wasnt moving and guess what, there a surgery for that! I did it 3 yrs ago and that ear is completely fixed, with no tinnitus...Now planning on my other ear
Not sure what caused the issue but it was possibly a virus I had 10 yrs ago that screwed up my ears.  

(06-23-2024, 09:51 AM)pally Wrote: My tinnitus is caused by medication...long term anti-inflammatory use.  It gets worse with allergies or other sinus congestion.  Some days it is easy to ignore other times it interferes with life.  I wish I could give some advice about ignoring it but I haven't discovered the secret.  White noise helps at night

Hmm. I missed this the first time around. I have chronic sinusitis. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Gonna have to look into that...

Mine started back in December and it's been annoying since. Background: I tend to produce more ear wax than the average person. Once a year I would have to go get it sucked out. It's pretty cool. Anyway, I thought I had a big clog in my left ear and like an idiot, tried to get it out myself. I just pushed it deeper and now, my ear was ringing. I went to an ENT a few weeks later to get it cleared out and after they did, the ringing was still there. They tested me later on and I actually had better hearing than expected.

Still have the ringing though. Heard that this has shown some promise for people:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/15/1244501055/tinnitus-hearing-loss-ringing-ear-noise