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Mine is a fairly constant ringing similar to the sound of a tree with hundreds of cicadas in it. Sometimes quiet and other times screaming loud to the point of making it difficult for me to maintain my composure. I'll even notice that I catch myself getting a very irritated attitude toward other people. Best way I find to reduce it is reduce or completely eliminate sugar and wheat. If I eat doughnuts and drink a coke my head will be screaming in a few hours or by the next morning. The noise effects my ability to listen and/or pay attention to conversations and also effects my mixes and ability to EQ a track for example. I can barely hear the timer on the kitchen stove because it probably in the same narrow frequency band.
Anyone else deal with this?
Does the noise in your head bother me ?
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Yep for 30 years and I also have a high frequency loss. Six years ago I got fitted with some high end hearing aids and they changed my life. There is not an effective treatment per se for tinnitus; however, for me being able to hear decently throughout the entire frequency range results in less focus on the tinnitus. My tinnitus is more of the tea kettle sound with an occasional overlay of crickets. Mixing is a b$tch but I've learned to compensate.
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Between my guns and my bands.......
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Tobias, hence the signature footnote you use in your posts, eh?
Must be a real pain. Does the medical profession make a connection between the food source items you mentioned and the condition?
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Ditto your contributors to ringing but add 11 years of military flight-line work (in-between bands and guns)
I still do guns, at least once a week, I just use or better hearing protection now other than "way back when."
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Ditto your contributors to ringing but add 11 years of military flight-line work (in-between bands and guns)
I still do guns, at least once a week, I just use or better hearing protection now other than "way back when."
Larry
\ I always use hearing protection now....too bad I didn't back then.
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I always use hearing protection now....too bad I didn't back then.
Hearing what?
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It was only after 15 years playing bass next to the ride cymbal, that I noticed the ringing in my ears. Used protection after that but lost a lot of high end hearing sensitivity. SOMETIMES I NEED PEOPLE TO SPEAK UP EVEN IN EMAILS 
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Tobias, a natural remedy exists which CLAIMS to be effective against tinnitus. I know nothing more about it.
I have a certain amount myself, like a high-pitched whistle. Sometimes, when my blood pressure is high, my pulse has the metallic sound of a basketball bouncing. Aspirin, which I take for heart disease, aggravates it. I stopped it for a while, but my doctor told me to get back on and stay on, so there I am.
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Have suffered a long time with this problem. At one point I thought it would drive me insane, than thankfully, I leaned to live with it. Pretty constant in my case. Between tinnitus and general hearing loss I have concluded my ability to do a good mix is all but lost. This too I have learned to live with.
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Have suffered a long time with this problem. At one point I thought it would drive me insane, than thankfully, I leaned to live with it. Pretty constant in my case. Between tinnitus and general hearing loss I have concluded my ability to do a good mix is all but lost. This too I have learned to live with. Have you tried aids? I have a young research trained audiologist who is completely intrigued by my interest in music production. She has worked with me long and patiently to get my aids to in increase gain in the exact frequency ranges that I need for mixing - and listening to music in general (also includes birds that I haven't heard in 20 years). We sit in front of her computer and play around with EQ gain. I can immediately bump my aids up to a program that really attenuates the high end...so much that I would never leave them there except when mixing. Between that and feedback from mixers with normal hearing I've returned to mixing after a decade of doing none. And when you get them suddenly friends and family quit mumbling Mine are high zoot, talk to each other, and can laser beam in on a voice in a busy restaurant, etc. Like everything the technology has come a huge ways. FWIW, I was diagnosed with tinnitus and a profound high frequency loss. And as I previously mentioned when you are able to again hear these frequencies there is a reduced tendency to "hear" the tinnitus. Bud
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The tag in my signature is a twist on my favorite line in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" which is probably my favorite movie of all time. The actual line is; "Does the noise in my head bother you?"
I've been wondering if blood pressure effects the tinnitus. if there's ever a cure I'd like to be first in line. I've mostly learned to ignore it or pretend it's not there. But at times it's extremely loud and irritating. My wife and I recently quit doing a gig once a week in a multipurpose room (YMCA basketball court). Between the terrible sounding room and the noise in my head I was irritated to the extreme just about the time we finished setting up. It was difficult to keep a good attitude. I actually grew a bad attitude/grudge/prejudice about playing there. It was no longer enjoyable. That, among others, was one of the main reasons we were not sad to quit.
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After using ear plugs for years, I stopped (like an idiot) and developed pretty severe tinnitus. I went to an ears nose and throat (ENT) doctor who said "Just learn to live with it, there's nothing you can do about it."
I believed that for about three years, until it got REALLY bad. Desperate, I googled "tinnitus treatment" and found an audiologist fairly close who claimed she treated it.
When I went in, she asked me, on a scale of 1 - 10, how bad it was. I said about 7. She put headphones on me, for about a minute or so, which had some sound going on. When I took them off, she asked how bad it was.
"Um, about 1. Maybe less. That sound confused my brain, right?"
Yup.
So I got these rather expensive hearing aids (80% covered by insurance, thank you ACA). Not only do I hear amazingly better, but I can choose what sound I want - chimes, or white noise, and I used it religiously for about 6 months. The tinnitus didn't go away completely, but it got MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better. I use the hearing aids every day, but haven't used the tones much lately. The tinnitus came back (it's not a cure, it's a treatment), so I put them back on every once in awhile for a few days and it goes away, for all intents and purposes.
Just my experience, your mileage may vary.
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