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Sanity Test During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask...

Hi, My own tinnitus was triggered by having my ears syringed as well. Seems to be a common problem, don't think there is any easy way to remove excess wax from inside the ear without upsetting this delicately balanced organ. Could be a design fault of nature. The human body has many design...

I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal treatment? His goal: transcend dental medication. No matter how much...

Great thread. I like it. For anyone who is going through a difficult time right now - think about this ..... There is a difference between controlling your emotions and being with your emotions...it is the difference between knowing we are here to do it all from laughing, to crying to feeling...

Yes, this is just the kind of attitude I like. It is ok to hate our T but it doesn't have to blight our entire life. We can still function in the world as before, it's just that we now have this annoying little critter along for the ride, you want to flick it off but realise it ain't gonna budge...

Hello Marlene. Nice part of the world you live. My brother has lived in Poole all his married life of 30 years, I am a regular visitor to Poole. I tend to agree with what you say about air pressure, I think air pressure and weather does play a big part in how we feel generally.It must affect...

But what if you learn to accept your T unconditionally, isn't that a kind of loving it, after all it is a part of us, and we must love ourself or we are doomed. Maybe love is the wrong word to use with T ? I totally agree with this myself. I used to mask mine at night but then could still hear...

Thanks for your reply Dr. much appreciated your candid honesty. It helps to understand the condition more when we are able to discuss it with others who are going through same. Therefore I am in gratitude for this forum.

Dear Dr. Stephen Nagler As a Dr who experiences T would you agree with my own GP who said ....''you simply stop hearing it'' My own Dr has T as well - when she told me this I didn't know what she meant at first, but then I suddenly started to realize what she meant because as the months and...

No my T hasn't settled down yet, I now feel a build up of wax in the bad T ear, it is a re-occurring problem I have so that might be why it is not settling. Now I'm waiting for the wax to soften so I can syringe the ear clear.Maybe then the T will quieten down again. I don't know what to say...

Good reply.

Thanks for your advice Dr. I like that we can try not to care.

We take everything about our bodies for granted without a thought about what we might be doing to it, or have little or no awareness of just how fragile it is. If only we could turn back the clock and treat our body with great care, but we take it for granted until one day it's like whoops...

However, the sound of white noise or the noise of the ocean is beautiful. Some T noise is similar to this so if we train our mind to hear our T as the sound of soothing white noise or the ocean we might be onto something. Since T is not usually painful, we could learn to love it, not in the...

My T has been mild up until last week when I got a roaring toothache. The dentist said I had infection and proceeded to extract the tooth. After the extraction which was on the same side as my bad T ear, the noise level shot up to an intense high. It's got to have something to do with the...

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, it's kind of complicated the Neurological Brain which is the source of this phantom noise, we can't fathom it yet because the brain appears to take on a mind of it's own. I'd like to think there will be a cure for all diseases, ailments and even cancer one day...

What is it that makes us hate our T so much? assuming that we do. And can we ever train our mind to love it? Thoughts.....

How I think I got my Tinnitus was because of a few bad ear infections I suffered in my lifetime, I'm 57 now. According to my Dr, an infected ear causes scaring on the drum which interferes with wax production causing excess wax to build up.So that's what happened to my ear, too much wax meant I...

Hello, nice to join this support group for Tinnitus sufferers, I've had Tinnitus for 3 years now, it's a tough one to deal with, although most of the time I ignore it, but then there are times when I'm really conscious of it and it is at those times that I wish it would disappear for good but of...