Posted: 7/1/2010 6:54:33 AM EDT
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Being a manly boy growing up I subjected myself to firearms with out hearing protection (just enough), street drag racing without mufflers, and playing in a "rock" band!
So now I have a nice deaf spot in my mid-range (@5-7) and this FUCKING PERPETUAL FUCKING RINGING in my ears. Some nights it is so deafening I truly wonder how I sleep at all. Any others here with this inflicted affliction? 
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Funny - I just noticed it myself now my wife and kids are away on vacation... when they are around there is so much noise the ringing disappears for me  .
Like you, I probably got it from shooting without hearing protection when I was young and stupid. You might try reducing your caffeine intake - caffeine is a major aggravating factor I hear. |
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I hear an ad once in a while for a supplement for that. Here: http://www.quietrelief.com/ |
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Snake oil, there is no cure! and yes I have it too. |
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Snake oil, there is no cure! and yes I have it too. +1 For me stress and blood pressure aggravate it. Some things may provide some relief to some people, but for many it's damage to the nerves or the brain, and there is no cure. Try sleeping with white noise of some type (for instance just a simple fan). |
| My mom has it 24/7 caused from an acoustic Neroma. She said over time you get use to it but I know it was very hard for her the first few years. They make different devices and pills that are suppose to help in some cases but because hers is caused by a tumor on the 8th cranial nerve they will not work. |
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Guns? Check!
Play in a band? Check! Use air tools at work? Check! Race dirt bikes? Check! Street race w/no mufflers? Check! Yup, I've done everything I could to ruin my hearing. I have 40% loss in the middle range, and can't hear shit if there's background noise! Absolutely drives my wife crazy! Oh yeah, my ears ring all the time, too. You get used to it after a while, and hardly even notice it most of the time. |
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Yup. I was born with it. It doesn't really bother me because I've never not heard it. Loud noises make it worse. Smoking makes it worse. Drinking does too, but you don't really care because you're drunk.
My dad developed it in his 50s and nearly lost his mind over it. White noise is your friend. Ceiling fans, computer fans, etc. |
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I can hear it at night when everything is dead silent. If there is any noise in the house, I don't hear it. I think I got the damage from a Yngwie Malmsteen concert I saw in high school and wasn't smart enough to wear ear pro. I was deaf for a day I've since grown a brain and wear ear pro to every concert I attend. People might make fun of you, but you can actually HEAR the music instead of one loud garbled mess. Its always nice to bring an extra set or two of cheap foam ear pro for someone who mocks you for wearing them. They usually enjoy wearing them once they try it. |
Got it playing in a band in the early 90's. Had my cabinets right next to the drummer, so I stood mostly near my cab, in front of the drummer. This went on for several years without hearing protection. I have very little hearing capacity left in my right ear now. It's a constant high pitched ring, probably in the key of C#. I don't notice the ringing unless it's totally quiet, like in my office all day. If there's random noise, or am outside, I don't notice it at all. I play drums now in a cover band, won't play without baffles or plugs. |
I'm in good company. 
Sometimes the volume goes almost deafening for like 2-3 days. I can't use a telephone because sound is muffled, almost "water" like. Then the brain gets used to it and the muffle and the volume filters kick back in. There is a term for that water or cracked-speaker symptom, I've tried to look it up - can't find it. In the early 90's I went to a Meatloaf concert in a really small venue. AT THE DOOR, they were handing out the yellow ear plugs with a stick on that said gift from Meatloaf or something on that order. Our tickets were first row left, right in front of the speakers. Plugs or not it was LOUD! |
Never did a lot of shooting without protection, but I've been a pro musician since 1963, gigging in pop, rock, blues, Top 40 bands the whole time. I have a constant high-pitch hum in my ears. I have trouble with speech, particularly many young people like waiters, etc. They mumble and I have to ask them to repeat. However, I hear music and other sounds perfectly, and often hear non-speech sounds better than most. Sometimes I think there's more to the speech problem than meets the eye. I guess at my age I've listened to so much shit that I just don't care what anybody has to say anymore. 
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Been working around jets, F16s and F-15s for 18+ years. Been a heavy metal fan for a lot longer. Always shoot with ear pro though. Odd. Anyway, constant ringing in my ears. I, too, need to sleep with a fan on to drown it out. Just saw the Mayhem Fest in Phoenix on Friday night. The ringing in my ears that night was deafening.
I need to get it looked at...see what kind of disability I can get from the AF. |
then this...
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I read of a treatment using a notch filter that can help. It was very recent news in one of the scientific journals I read.
Mine came from a single round of 35 Remington many years ago. Damn remington. 
It's just in my left ear which was aimed downrange at the time. |
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what exit? I was a sound man for a 70's NJ bar band, loud you bet shooting tens of thousands of rounds without ear 68 gto 550 hp with side pipes dirt bikes with loud pipes check loudest concert 75 led zepplin at the spectrum front row left side of stage, mains right in front of us and mains hanging over our heads 30 plus years of ringing in the ears |