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  1. john livingston

    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    @Fa82 I see you have had T since 10/2014 that is a real new life change for you I'm sure.
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    Worst Earache... Help!

    @Asian I have had ear aches so bad I've gone to the emergency room at 3 am only to find out ear was fine that it was my tm joint and not an ear infection. The ent told me to hold my fist under my chin with a little pressure and try to open my mouth and do this over and over for a bit and it...
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    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    @Larry OT Since my T started at such a young age of 14 I often wonder how much better life would have been with out this condition. But I tried to do the best with what I have had to work with. I can understand how people that have all the sudden come down with T and relate to the old me and...
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    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    @Telis I'm the same way about being around family and friends. I tend to isolate my self as much as I can since my hearing is just all noise. All I can do is lip read to communicate with folks. If I were to go blind I wouldn't have nothing but screaming T and that would be real hell! ha ha ...
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    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    @LeQuack Same here for me about having to live with it for the rest of your days. Good thing for me is its been gradually getting worse instead of just wide damn open before you kind of get used to it.
  6. john livingston

    The Thought of Having Tinnitus for the Rest of My Life...

    @Telis I can't even remember all the times over the last 40 years with T that I have thought about giving up, but I'm still kicking. You have to think of all the folks that you will effect if you take the easy way out. What keeps me going is hope and faith that one day something will come along...
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    Devastating Loss of a Parent or Other Loved One Prior To Onset?

    @Dr Charlie I lost my dad back in march from dementia lewy bodies. It put my depression in over drive watching him go from strong person to a nothing in a year time. I'm sure all the sadness made my T worse even after all the years I have suffered (40+) with it. For me the feeling of uncertainty...
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    Infernal High Pitched Guitar Solos

    I can take a little louder music with ear plugs in if I had to but its not worth it to me since even with ear plugs mine spikes up big time. For me its like give and take, if I give in to loud music I take in a big spike in my T! Bad thing about T is it can spike with no music just out of the...
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    Infernal High Pitched Guitar Solos

    @ mat l I use to play some loud stuff my self and know that didn't help the condition of my T now. Only quite playing now, that down hard scraping metal is hard on my T. Its like the band still jamming even after you are back home! T covers up the high notes now I cant even hear them but those...
  10. john livingston

    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    @NeverLoseHope Thanks again for reply!
  11. john livingston

    Tinnitus Loudness Scale?

    @OddV I can hear my T over trains, planes and all things it doesn't matter the T rules. As for your 10 on your scale it feels life threatening but its not and seeking medical help seems useless for my situation. All that the docs have offered me are pills to settle my nerves, but I'm not going...
  12. john livingston

    Movie Date Concerns

    You should be up front with your date about your affliction with T and that loud theater noise is no good for us. If the gal values your company maybe she would be open to changing plans for a quieter evening. If not go to movie and if it gets to bad just sit in lobby and eat pop corn ha ha...
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    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    @NeverLoseHope Thanks for reply I was referring to the mm1 generic in ear sound generator thru amazon. I just found out that my aunt has a similar set up as you described with a cranked up hearing aid in one ear and a generator in the other ear. Do you think that would work for me ?
  14. john livingston

    Sometimes When I Wake Up in the Middle of Night, It's Almost Gone

    @aga,rpc1 Not being negative but enjoy the moments when it gets slow starts in the morning. I can barely remember those days its been so long. For me it was kind of like looking at a slow moving train you can hardly tell its moving. But then next thing I know years later it is a full speed ahead...
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    I'm Back

    @ I who love music . I always wanted to play banjo but being a higher octave note I could never really figure it out. I can't really hear the guitar notes that well but rely on the vibration of it keep on picking!
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    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    @NeverLoseHope Thanks a bunch for the great info I just looked on amazon and the ones they had were unavailable right now. I wonder if beltone would care them? I'm not familiar with NHS can you advise on that. thanks again for the great advice!
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    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    @NeverLoseHope I've been using some head phones around the house to help out, can you tell me more about the hearing aids and white noise generators. where is best place to get them and how much do they cost.
  18. john livingston

    Well Here I Am With a Lot of People As Well. Where Is the Awareness of This Condition?

    That must be the norm " Sorry you are just going to have to live with it" I've heard it enough times to finally believe it. Masking it out with white noise seems to be the safest thing that you could do. I'm trying to find out more about hearing aids that can produce a masking noise. T talk has...
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    Remeron for Sleep/Anxiety/Tinnitus

    The day is coming that folks will see the only real safe med for any condition with no bad side effects is cannabis. It was one of the first meds and it will ultimately be one that lives on beyond all the stuff they mix up over at big pharm and let you take at your own risk. The pill program for...
  20. john livingston

    Does Everyone Habituate?

    @valeri I've had T to long to remember (40 +) years so that seems like for ever to me. Being able to live with the ever ending changes is the real challenge for me. The early years were a lot easier to mask it out and habituate. But it seems now that all the noises from years past are coming...
  21. john livingston

    The Benefits of Tinnitus

    Its good to see folks turn negatives in to positives but when it comes to the stage T that I have now the only positives I can come up with is that it has not snuffed me out yet. For me this holiday cheer time of year seems to spike it up a bit being around a lot of family and friends that don't...
  22. john livingston

    Fibromyalgia and Peripheral Neuropathy

    Hey I see you from Tampa to bad the mmj didn't pass down your way as I can tell you from years of first hand experience with all you got going on with mmj could change your life for the better. That's what god put it here for not for putting folks in cages for trying to get well using it. When...
  23. john livingston

    Smoking and Pulsatile Tinnitus

    I quit tobacco smoking 2 years ago and can't really tell much difference in T but it made every thing else a lot better. I don't have a lot of hate in me but to think of the way they sell cigs on every corner of every town that kill millions with slow death. it took me 40 years to get thru my...
  24. john livingston

    Pulsatile Tinnitus and Head Position

    I'm new on T talk can yaw explain the difference in T and PT.
  25. john livingston

    I'm Back

    All the years I've had T (40 +) I just realized the other day how my best relief to mask it is strumming on my old guitar! It kinda makes me feel half way normal to be able to drown out all the noise with a little pickin. And it makes it easy to feel the blues going thru you. I don't play that...
  26. john livingston

    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    For me T has caused more than enough mental problems just trying to cope with the daily changes. If my meds have caused anymore mental problems I haven't noticed them ha ha. With 40 + years of the same meds I guess I will keep on keeping on. With the onset of T you think you are going crazy...
  27. john livingston

    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    Wow just reading about all these exciting sounding and expensive remedies blows me away since I've not tried hardly anything. It looks like there are an endless line of folks out there peddling all kinds of crazy stuff to profit from the misery of T suffers to no avail. In the early stages some...
  28. john livingston

    Anyone Had to Quit Working Because of Tinnitus or Hyperacusis?

    I worked with T for 38 years (car sales till I couldn't hear phones or understand voices and then 20 years of construction till I couldn't even hear the loud cranes and machines I was around. If it were not for my beautiful loving wife I wouldn't even be here to day. For you guys and gals that...
  29. john livingston

    Anxious and Alarmed

    Hi K I've been dealing with T for close to 42 years. After you have all your test run and they don't find any thing wrong all you have to do is keep in mind that its annoying as heck but it wont kill you! Don't let the doctors get you on the pill program or you will have something that could do...