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My dream job would allow me to travel, meet interesting people and to be on a never ending adrenaline high. Wait, I had my dream jobs. The...
Jelena, I want to assure you that you do survive tinnitus. My tinnitus started in April 1972 when I was in close proximity to an explosion in a...
The above post is true. I responded to this type of electrical trouble call about once a month for the twelve years I worked as a Troubleman....
...and when you replace an old smoke alarm-if it isn't hardwired in-pulled the battery. If you don't, it WILL start blaring in the middle of the...
TheGagagirl1234, first welcome to this board you will find that you have many fellow travelers here. I have had the privilege of visiting your...
Johnny, you are right on. My epiphany came when I was in the 4th grade. That was the year they introduce history in our curriculum. I took the...
Thank you Teri.
I don't have an entity but I do have a philosophy that I follow. It is De Oppresso Liber. It is the motto of US Army Special Forces and it...
It sounds like your T is pretty mild. Other than you description with the saw, you don't say what other exposure to loud noise you might have...
I guess I was a nerd. I went to a small school in the midwest. So most of the boys played sports (I played football and ran track and was...
Brianna, we each have our own "normal" and we each have our own "hell." And like Erik's father, T is the least of my worries. For me the T was...
But if you want to experience real pain, play Aussie Rules football! For those who are unfamiliar with this sport, it's kind of a cross between...
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Shantelle, you are a mother, you have strength few of us can ever imagine. And you do survive. I have suffered from tinnitus since April of...
My T happened to me when I was 19. I was in the Army and serving in what was then West Berlin. My unit was training a unit from West Germany in...
Just another day at the office! [ATTACH]
Pat, like David's post above, my T was the result of military service and happened in 72 and was caused by being to close to a hand grenade...
One of my least favorite Winter Wonderlands...Hohenfels, Germany [ATTACH] I believe it is now known as the Hohenfels Joint Training Center but...
Lillian, I guess I've lived with T for awhile, and I don't recall feeling anxious about it, irritated, yes. My anxiety has been brought on more...
...or you can broadcast it as your personal theme song...
Ashliegh, Welcome to the this unfortunate club. In a way you are one of the lucky ones. You may actually recover from your T. My T started 43...
That is a take on an actual experiment performed by the Nazis during WW II. In that experiment, a pair of subjects ( I remember reading of parent...
Patton, especially the opening scene where the camera pans out on the American flag and then a voice yells out "Attention!" I was undergoing my...
Not to sound insensitive to what you are going through, but it really could be worse. While I personally have never been pregnant, my Lovely...
Valentina, thank you for your kind words.
Billie48, I have hearing aids from the VA but the tinnitus gives me a 10% disability rating from the VA. My hearing loss was really more...
[ATTACH] This is Monkey. She is my daughter's cat, and she is a Norwegian Forrest Cat. My daughter found Monkey when she was only a few weeks...
Welcome Valentina, I was 19 when my tinnitus started, but unlike you and many others here, I know exactly how and when my tinnitus started. It...
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[ATTACH] I read about this game one can play with a pet...but I didn't see -itz at the end. This first attempt didn't work so well.
[ATTACH] I only associate with animals who have unique personalities. This beauty is a bigger caffeine freak than I am. Many years ago, when I...
I like that you can give newbies a taste of what T is like. When I was an apprentice, one of our instructors had been severely burned when he...
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...[ATTACH] and the fun times...
There were many reasons why I loved my job...this was just one of the reasons! [ATTACH]
Well, there are a few who will be pleased when I'm fully recovered.:rockingbanana:
About two weeks ago I had a surgical procedure done, and I've been home recovering and, well you know one must try to fight boredom![ATTACH]...
Netflix and hulu plus. Crazy about the Brit shows.
Welcome Nina, While I'm an "old guy" I too was 19 when my tinnitus started, but I do know how it started. I was a little too close to an...
Daisyjc, hello and welcome. I've suffered from tinnitus since the spring of 1972. My hearing was also damaged in that same incident. Over the...
...because girls like you better that way, or so I've been lead to believe.
...usually with your clothes off and a bar of soap in your hand...
"2 buck chuck" from Trader Joe's, from what I've been told by my less finicky inebriate friends. It is a higher class of wine than say...
It's like standing in the rain, but indoors.
When I first started working for a utility an old lineman taught this to me..."the three rules of linework...righty-tighty, lefty-loosy; what goes...
Sorry to hear about the increase in your T, but your question makes the assumption that I was sane to begin with! Hang in there!
I truly enjoy British humor. My first real introduction to it was in West Berlin in the early 1970's when we did joint training exercises with...
Just an observation here: when faced with insurmountable difficulties (such as your friend's cancer) most people attempt to use humor, especially...
