Tinnitus . . . how are you dealing with it?

[DubiousDan]

May be a stupid question, but, how can a coroner determine an individual had Tinnitus?

Or did I read it wrong?

Perhaps from their medical history or from the person complaining about it to friends and family.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Perhaps from their medical history or from the person complaining about it to friends and family.

I read it as stating it was found during the autopsy?

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

This looks like what's about to happen to the market.

 

[Sugar Land]

May be a stupid question, but, how can a coroner determine an individual had Tinnitus?

Or did I read it wrong?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say med school...lol

 

[benenglish]

May be a stupid question, but, how can a coroner determine an individual had Tinnitus?

I think you read it wrong. The abstract does not say the coroner determined that the suicide had tinnitus. It simply said that there were only four cases they found where the person had tinnitus, committed suicide, and was also examined by a coroner. If you read it that way, the existence of tinnitus and its contribution to the motivation for suicide may have come from any other source such as medical records or even a suicide note.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Well dang, that makes too much sense.

 

[GPtwins]

When I go to an indoor range I like to use two sets of ear protection, plugs and over the ear. Other than that I try to limit noise input as much as I can.


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[TheDan]

I'd be tickled if they would start citing operators of excessively loud vehicles

I wouldn't

 

[coachrick]

I wouldn't

Actually, I think the operators should be strapped to an open trailer, without ear protection, twenty feet directly behind the exhaust tips, made to ride there while the vehicle is used per usual, for two hours every week. How's that?

 

[TheDan]

There are many vehicles out there that are louder than mine, but if those are removed then mine would be the loudest and targeted next. I support the stick bundlers right to strait pipes!

 

[Coiled]

Of course I was never doing 50, lol....

"He" wasn't either.

. . . it taking hours to recoup from the noise and horrific (@ 50mph) crosswind while traversing KS.

 

[Coiled]

I use this at work when it starts to get loud. Shuts it down real quick:

http://generalfuzz.net/acrn/

15 to 20 minutes reading the thread and running a 8526 tone. When facing my laptop the tone was not, or barely, noticeable in my right ear but when I turned my head @ 30deg left (and at one point walked into another room), I could hear it plain as day.

Left ear tinnitus was constant and is far worse.

 

[Coiled]

Has anyone discovered a magical cure for this crap?

 

[Byrd666]

YES. DON'T PHUUCKING TALK ABOUT IT!!

 

[Southpaw]

Damn, thought Glockster was back for a minute.

 

[Byrd666]

 

[ZX9RCAM]

"He" wasn't either.

I see what you did there.

So many won't.....

 

[Brains]

Here's a question, because it seems everyone perceives it differently. Does yours affect the lower limits of what is audible? Meaning, just because the tinnitus is loud, does it overpower sounds that you know are quieter? I have a constant pitch that varies in amplitude, but I can still plain as day pick up on real sounds that are FAR quieter. Honestly I can deal with this pretty easily, the ones that actually force me to take notice is when they get really loud in a single ear, usually with a different pitch, and accompanied by a marked decrease in real hearing sensitivity. Thankfully it's very infrequent, only lasts a handful of seconds and goes away quickly.

 

[BRD@66]

Roughnecking when I was 20ish, sleeping between two Waukeshas for warmth, working 3rd shift in January in Ft Stockton. When we weren't tripping Driller let me sleep. Ears been ringing ever since. Hearing aids for last 3 years have mitigated it some. I think sounds that I wasn't hearing before the hearing aids sort of drown out the ringing.

 

[Bozz10mm]

After 22 plus years in the military, which included a minimum of 260 rides in Hueys, Chinooks, CH-37s, CH-19s, C-130s, C-119s and C-141s, most without hearing protection, my retirement physical showed I had some high frequency hearing loss.

I do have some tinnitus, but most of the time I don't notice it. It's just when someone brings up the subject, (like right now) that I actually notice it.