Posted: 3/5/2009 4:56:13 PM EDT
How many of you folks/old persons are in the same situation? A life time of LEO/Military service has not been very kind to my hearing. I know that there is no miracle cure and I am more fortunate then a lot of other poor souls out there, but it still sucks! 
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I have the same thing. My only advice that I have found works pretty well is to always have some white noise going and you don't notice it. A fan running when you sleep or something. I read ginko biloba (sp?) might help but I don't know.
As far as I know there is no cure. I am still in my twenites but have experienced it for long as a I can remeber. Probably from hitting rolls of black powder caps with a sledgehammer on the driveway with my neighbor when I was real young caused it. 
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Yep - have it pretty good from shooting with shells in ears when younger (in addition to other stupid, young "immortal" things).
I saw a show about how William Shatner got it from an explosion on a Star Trek set once, and after TONS of treatment it never got better. I saw an interview where he complained about the severe problems it caused to this day. I figure if he couldn't buy his way out of it, who was I? I also blew my eardrums in a scuba diving accident in Mexico (long story, but don't take diving students who try to feed 6' grouper with their hands to a continental shelf with a high current  ). I figure it's a good reminder of all the stupid stuff I've done and try to live with it. I hope you can do the same!
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I have the same thing. My only advice that I have found works pretty well is to always have some white noise going and you don't notice it. A fan running when you sleep or something. +1. It does still bother me on some nights, but on others, a fan/humidifier usually helps drown it out. I've had it for awhile now. I didn't start shooting til only about 6yrs ago, so my ear damage can most likely be attributed to blaring Living Colour and Faith No More into my ears via my Walkman on my daily walks to and from school back in the day (and concerts, I suppose). No cure. I try to minimize further damage... always have ear protection at the range of course, but also double-up (plugs and muffs) if I happen to be next to someone shooting something REALLY loud. I no longer listen to my Walkman (or Discman) and don't own an iPod or MP3 player, so music via earphones is no longer on the menu. I do try and remember to bring earplugs to concerts, but like a true dumbass... always forget until I'm already there. Even now... with the whirr of my CPU fan, a humidifier running in the hallway and the buzz of my brass tumbler in the basement below me... lots of white noise and it was working, up until this thread made me aware of the tinitus again. So above all that other noise, the high pitch ringing of my ears prevails. Ugh. 
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Hell, I think we all have it slightly in some form or another, I go crazy, if its dead quiet around me. I sleep with a fan on to kill the slight all be it slight ringing I hear, I'm only 22 and I have some slight symptoms . Don't think it all comes from shooting, even pounding a nail, machinery, loud sirens/horns, ect. I think everyone has a touch of it, if you don't you've lived under a rock
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Uh, yup! Mee too!
6yrs around aircraft, 6mo in the sand, lifetime of shooting, 45% in the left gone, 35% in the right. Nice in a quiet forest, hell in a crowded theater. Usually sounds like a radio tuned to static, and played at 3/4 volume or a high pressure steam leak.....weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee But on rare occurrences, it tunes out the wife....so it's not all that bad 
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