h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

....I had to change from STRANGELYSTRANGE to STRANGEDUDE, but would still welcome your comments on ear problems. I went to ENT specialist a month ago....but he said can't really do much about tinnitus (the vertigo seems to be leaving me alone at moment, thanfully).

...had to change from STRANGEDUDE to SameDUDE, so can contact me there, thanks!

Just an update, the room rolling is OK at moment, but today the Tinnitus is particularly bad, although in general it is not to bad, or maybe I don't notice as much, if I get a slight ear ache the hyperper sensitivity to noise starts again. Not on any medication though, which is good.

Hey, SS! I'm very sorry to hear that you've got tinnitus. It's definitely not a good thing to have, but although annoying as the devil, fortunately not usually fatal (unless in drives you to leap off a bridge out of frustration).

Judging from our respective posts on "The Veil & the Cross (Essentially UK Centric)" thread, I'm guesing that perhaps the annoying aspects of tinnitus are about the only things on which the two of us can agree! But that's something isn't it?

I trust you've done research on the topic? The following link is informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus. Looks like not a great deal of promise for relief. My tinnitus was noise-induced. I worked with pneumatic jackhammers for months at a time in my younger days to help pay my way through school, and that was back in the days before anyone thought to tell us to wear ear protection. I think all the youngsters listening to loud music today should be required to read the Wikipedia entry. At least then they'd never be able to say nobody warned them.

Cheers!
JCN

You aparantly can get a noise machine that is supposed to counter balance and aleviate Tinnitus, but unless gets so bad I can't hear at all I will carry on with trying to ignore it.
Avoiding headphones and loud noise helps, but I do go mad and have half an hour of headphones once every 6 months to live dangerously! (but not too loud though, lo).

I actually found that being fitted with a pair of hearing aids helped with the tinnitus, but they're expensive and have drawbacks of their own. Consequently, I hardly ever wear them except in a few limited circumstances. Seems it's just a cross we must bear.