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which I believe should be pronounced TIN-ih-toos, but the correct Latin has apparently been usurped by the Greek, since it sounds like so many other medical conditions, into tih-NIGHT-us, but oh well....


has been getting progressively worse for me the last several weeks. I have a regular checkup scheduled for Dec. 10, and if it doesn't get incredibly worse before then, I can manage. But if any of you with more expertise than me want to chime in and tell me to get in NOW, I promise to listen.

Whatever you find out, please share it with us. I was diagnosed with tinnitus about 2 1/2 years ago. To be honest, it usually only bothers me when someone bring up the subject, or something happens to change the pitch of the ringing.

I'd love to get rid of it, but I'm afraid of the trade I might have to make.

mrkelley23 wrote:which I believe should be pronounced TIN-ih-toos, but the correct Latin has apparently been usurped by the Greek, since it sounds like so many other medical conditions, into tih-NIGHT-us, but oh well....


has been getting progressively worse for me the last several weeks. I have a regular checkup scheduled for Dec. 10, and if it doesn't get incredibly worse before then, I can manage. But if any of you with more expertise than me want to chime in and tell me to get in NOW, I promise to listen.

I've had it for years, thanks to taking Naproxin. The only "cure" is supposed to be taking vitamins which I was already taking. An increased dosage didn't help.

This is from Sting - who has a mild case:

There is nothing a doctor can do. There are lifestyle changes that you can make, that a doctor who 'knows' about the condition can tell you about. Abuse of alcohol can increase the buzzing, there are some medications that also do. Avoiding loud noise - so no concerts or sporting events etc.

That's all I got.

Mine comes & goes, & has for years. I have no regime of drug-taking, prescription or otherwise, that I can blame it on. I also can hear high-pitched whines from electronic gear, so its important to get away from any such gear to hear if the noise is just from that or really is "in my head". I've been correlating really loud tinnitus with migraine occurance the next day, except it only correlates about 50% of the time, so I'm not going to take migraine meds to ward off something that actually might not be going to happen. It would be about my only "precursor" sign for migraines, though, other than a general "slight bad feeling" that can last several days before the migraine hits; I don't get visual symptoms at all.

Once I had tinnitus so bad I was sure an alarm was going off somewhere in the building, but other people assured me they couldn't hear a thing. Big migraine the next day.

peacock2121 wrote:This is from Sting - who has a mild case:

There is nothing a doctor can do. There are lifestyle changes that you can make, that a doctor who 'knows' about the condition can tell you about. Abuse of alcohol can increase the buzzing, there are some medications that also do. Avoiding loud noise - so no concerts or sporting events etc.

That's all I got.

*sigh* This is probably why mine is never going to stop. I could live without alcohol or I could live without concerts but I couldn't live without both. Especially since they go so well together!

Fortunately mine is pretty mild and I can generally tune it out.

peacock2121 wrote:Avoiding loud noise - so no concerts or sporting events etc.

Whenever I'm gonna be around amplified sound, unless it's home where I have some control over it, I take those little foam earplugs or a kleenex.

I forgot to say that I'm rarely bothered by tinnitus, even though I take an aspirin every day. I think avoiding or muffling loud noises helps.