Post by LFSPost by Steve HagueI'd be amazed if no otherat has this condition. I've learned to live
with it, but a young colleague has just developed it and is horrified.
Has anyone found a treatment that works? I've tried many that don't. I
don't want him to go down the same route.
I've generally heard that nothing cures it, but it's worse when there's
silence, so white noise helps - really any noise, but white noise might
be easier to sleep with. But I don't want to be just another "outsider
looking in", so please ignore me.
Post by LFSThe British Tinnitus Association may offer help: www.tinnitus.org.uk
When the thing in my head was discovered medics kept asking if I had
tinnitus and I kept saying no. It hadn't occurred to me that the gentle
sound of rushing water in my right ear was tinnitus. As my hearing has
deteriorated, it now sounds like a waterfall but hearing aids make a
difference and it doesn't bother me much. I know many people suffer
very badly so I'm grateful for that.
That's the first time I've ever heard that it can be broad-spectrum.
I've always imagined it was a single tone nerve malfunctioning, thus
seemed like a pure tone that comes and goes (or doesn't go in the worst
cases). [I tend to think of it in electronic terms, as that's my
background.]
Thinking about it in electronic terms, I would imagine that it _might_
be possible to "ground" the misfiring nerve - but I can see that most
medical people would be very reluctant to do that sort of operation,
which would I imagine be of similar complexity to doing a cochlear
implant, on an ear that is otherwise working OK, as any such I presume
always carries the possibility of doing damage. (And the "misfiring"
might not be at the source anyway, but anywhere along the path from the
cilia to the brain.)
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