Technical Loudness of our hobby, any help for ringing ears??

There are several ads out there lately for relief of ringing ears (tinnitus), has anyone tried any of these remedies and do they work?

 

To late.. seriously not sure so just bumping for information.


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I've been taking this but it takes a long time to get rid of tinnitus! And you need to take it as directed

 

Hearing damage is cumulative and non reversible.
That means if you damage your hearing by just 1/2% a day at the end of 1 month you'll be dealing with 15% loss the rest of your life.

Use hearing protection so it doesn't get worse. If you quite beating the ears the ringing might just stop

 

Just wait a while and you will get rid of it but you will also be almost deaf.

 

If it keeps you from sleeping one thing that helps me is to run a fan for background noise, it drowns out the ringing. See a specialist if you can. Sometimes it can be fixed, others are permanent. I realized something was wrong when I just walked up to a fuel dragster and it wasn't all that loud to me, everyone else was staying way back and covering their ears and all. If it weren't for the chest pounding that nitro does I might have just thought it was just a gas dragster with how loud it seemed. I can hear well enough to use a phone again now so that's good.

 

I usually only hear it when I think about it. Mine is not bad.

sorry

 

I've noticed a constant ringing in my ears lately. I work in a shop environment 10+ hours 5 days a week, plus weekends as a hobby. I have one air gun that's particularly noisy, so I wear ear muffs while I use it, but the general noise level is pretty high. I would wear my muffs all the time if not for fearing I would miss some other noise that would endanger me. I'm 43 now, been in the field professionally for 16 years at this point and expect to stay until I can't do it any more. I'll probably be deaf then.

Devin

 

After 20+ years of bodywork, and 15 years of drilling rigs, it's a wonder I can hear at all. Ear protection is a good thing.

 

Truth to this I think. My ears have rung 24/7 for the last 15 years, loudly. The ringing stopped bothering me a long time ago, except that it drowns out conversations etc.. Once in a great while though late at night, usually after a day of hard physical exertion, it will go away. I cherish those times. By morning it's back.

 

Mine make a noise that sounds like the toilet is running. Not noticeable unless I actually think about it. Thanks a lot.

 

For the ones that don't suffer, it's like a tuning fork held to your ear 24-7, no off button. For me both ears and 2 diff. ringing's. In the shop I have Marantz 4400 playing something all the time, in the house the TV is on constantly all to drowned out, camouflage the ringing. I find that fruit juices, apples, aspirins, pop, whisky, chocolate, etc.. makes it worse. At night when it's the worst I sit here on the HAMB writing stupid little post just to take my mind of it. O and as mentioned above the fan on low near the bed helps a lot. Some one could make millions if they could solve the problem.....................................

 

I lost my hearing in my left ear over a 3 day period as a result of an ear infection. I saw the worlds premier specialist conveniently located at the time in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Epley (if you have to ask, you need to do some research. Try NASA, the Epley Maneuver and the MAYO Clinic). He called it Auto Immune Sudden Hearing Loss Syndrome, some call it Meniere's disease, whatever you call it I'm nearly deaf in that ear and tinnitus replaced the hearing 24/7. As Dr. Epley explained it, the brain creates "noise" to replace what the ear is missing and the result is tinnitus. If you give it something to "listen" to, the tinnitus can be fooled into submission. In the post above one of you referred to using a fan at night, that is what I'm talking about. You can provide "static" to confuse the nerves and help curb the tinnitus.

One thing that is promising, Apple is working on ear buds for their next gen cell phone that will add an app that will sync the buds (one in a good ear, one in the deaf ear). The buds have microphones in them so the bud in the deaf ear will send the signal to the other ear. Your brain will, over time, turn off the tinnitus, supposedly, as it is tricked into thinking that both ears are working properly. Plus you can take and receive calls, listen to tunes and enjoy whatever features people do on their cell phones. Think of it like hearing aids with artificial intelligence.

It is OT probably except that it affects the majority of us on the HAMB.

 

I get it intermittently, most likely related to medications. But, I also wonder if 4 years as the starter at Bremerton Raceway could have something to do with it; thanks Atkin's Rotary! Sometimes it's real bothersome, other times I have to concentrate to see if it's even still there. I agree on the fan when going to sleep, especially if it's "noise" is on the same "scale" as the ringing/wooshing sound. If you have't seen the Dr., GO. *****And now a couple of jokes: #1 A guy comes home from work and finds his blonde wife crying. He asks what's wrong, and she tells him the Dr. said she had tiny tits; I already know that, he did't have to point it out. So, he calls the Dr. up, and returns after a few minutes on the phone with him. TINNITUS he says, you have TINNITUS. #2 My wife says I never listen to her; at least that's what I think she said.***** I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

As others have said better protect your ears if the noise is over an acceptable threshold. I worked in an aircraft plant and the signs said noise exceeds 85 DB ear protection must be worn at all times...and I did.

My Ole Jalopy which is only a few years in my possession was the loudest auto I have owned. I hold it close to my heart and love the sound that speaks a Hotrod note even after adding quieter mufflers replacing cherry bomb style head rattlers and baffles the sound when cruising at 50 mph is anywhere from 90 to 105 DB sounds great but to loud and either I ignore it or pacify it with plugs. I have constant ringing in the ears which I believe is partly caused by the Cabin noise which is a mix of exhaust note and wind noise. I have chosen to wear hearing protection when driving to help keep what I have left. It is no joke. Noise can make one feel sick. I have tunable baffles and may wrap them a little to try to get it closer to the safer zone. I've read threads here with many having hearing loss related to the things we enjoy here. So we all have a choice to make for ourselves and whoever rides in the same sound envelope if what we are exposed to exceeds acceptable limits.

Still can hear okay to this day despite the ringing.

 

I think the only thing you can do is protect them from getting any worse.Mine either ring constantly or there’s a heap of crickets in both ears.
I haven’t heard quiet for years,years of boilermaking,motorcycling with and without a lid and loud exhausts haven’t helped.
Now when I drive with the window open with the breeze in my right ear(yeah,the wheels on the wrong side)sometimes it gets so painful deep inside my ear its like a screw driver is being pushed in my ear,fucking painful even to touch the ear
which goes away after a few hours,docs don’t know what it is and only tell me to keep the wind out.
Could be worse,my dick could fall off!
Be clever and wear hearing protection.

 

Thanks for posting, VERY informative and I'll be keeping an eye on the directions the new ideas and tech are taking. A gear head all my life [including 4 as Engineman in the CG and 35 in locomotive repair on the RR] the time is close for me to be getting all the available help I can. Anyone that thinks they don't need, can't use for whatever reason, or it's too late, to use hearing protection in higher noise environments is only fooling themselves

As for any OT viewpoints - I'm as much a history buff and traditionalist as anyone but I'm sure not willing to live my remaining days using outside plumbing 100% of the time........

Ed

 

I worked construction{commerical roofing co.} for 10 years .I would have to stand next to loud compressors all day {the big ones you tow behind the truck}all day and have to listen to loud pumps pumping the stuff up to the roof.No ear or eye protection back then. Then drove trucks In Flordia for 10 years heavy lifting and jumping off the back of the truck for 10 years took my ankles out.Now I am paying for it I have to turn the t.v. up louder and yell WHAT every time the wife says something. LOL. Back then young and dumb. At least I am still waking up every day even though everything hurts .LOL.p.s. Now I wear ear protection when cutting the grass, using the chain saw or using the log splitter. Bruce.

 

if you have served in the military go talk to the eligibility officer at the va hospital you may be able to get some help with poor hearing or tinnitis

 

Been a tinnitus sufferer for 30 years now, since my mid 20's.

If you have it long enough at the same level the brain will, as mentioned start to 'block' it out. I was lucky enough to not suffer so much, after about 15 years for about the next 10 year, but then one day the noise level when up a good few notches, and all of a sudden it was back to square one again.
My hearing has also started to degrade quite a bit since passing 50, anyway, which is the age point generally when hearing starts to degrade in humans, as told to me by an audiologist last year when I was having a set of custom molded electronic ear pieces made, for shooting.
I had a non-electronic set made about 10 years ago for motorcycle riding, and I will wear these in the '32 coupe when it gets on the road, because, as said by another poster, need to protect what I have left for as long as possible.

 

If your dick did fall off at least you could use it for an ear plug,lol.

 

Lmao !!!!

You'd be surprised how much a little bit of cotton in your ear will stop the abusive and painful wind noise. The best stuff is what's in an aspirin bottle. Way better than drug store cotton balls. It doesnt block out anything you need to hear either, just Makes life more enjoyable.

 

Worked in a stamping plant, cant stand loud stuff anymore, have had to get metal taken out of my eye, had histoplamosis (bird crap dust) 104 fever and lung infection when working construction. Learned my lessons early.

I wear ear plugs and glasses for about everything, even mowing the yard, running a grinder, anytime the compressor is running. Also keep dust masks and respirators handy.

 

Auditory-somatosensory bimodal stimulation desynchronizes brain circuitry to reduce tinnitus in guinea pigs and humans

Dang, why didn't I think of that.

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/422/eaal3175

 

I was told years ago that if you have to raise your voice to talk over a noise, then that noise has the capability to produce permanent hearing damage.

It is not the volume of the noise, it is the length of time you are exposed to it.

Many rock concerts, many miles of loud motorcycles and wind roar at 80mph, and it had got worse and worse.

I have had ringing noise, waves crashing, birds twittering etc since I was in my teens. At one stage it go so loud, about ten years ago, I came close to throwing myself over the side of the ship I was working in, it was driving me insane. My cabin was stone dead silent, and the ringing would just get louder and louder like it was crushing me down.

As mentioned, making some background noise like a fan running, gives your head some perspective to the noise and makes it sound a lot quieter.

I’ve had numerous tests over the years, no cure, nothing can be done about it.

I always tell youngsters now, look after your hearing, turn down those stupid loud ear phones, or you will definitly regret it some day.

It is not macho to work in a loud workshop with nothing on your ears, just stupid.

 

After 37 1/2 years and four combat tours with constant; 5.56, .50 Cal, 25 MM, and 40 MM auto fire to name a few. Then comes along an IED that almost took an eye out along with bad knees from jumping and a broken elbow from 2004 Iraq. I never really hear my ears ringing. I do wear muffs when at NASCAR or NHRA events and when operating loud machines in my shop.

 

These days there are electronic hearing protection muffs available that allow you to amplify normal sounds but limit the volume to safe levels. Lots of shooters use them. Great for hunting because you can hear the animals coming.

 

50 years of motorcycles and old cars haven't helped my hearing. Constant ringing in both ears, I'm trying to avoid hearing aids but just a matter of time. I do use hearing protection now but kind of like closing the barn door after the cow is gone. You might keep it from getting worse but don't think there is really a reversal.

 

Prevention is your best bet. It’s like any other injury. Don’t get injured, you don’t have to try to fix it. Wear ear protection when doing anything loud. I keep a big box of 3M yellow foam earplugs in the garage. A set goes in before anything noisy gets turned on or started. A friend has a Sound Pressure Level meter, and it’s surprising what 85dB sounds like. It’s not that loud.


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