Famous People with Tinnitus

I am not sure I am arguing the point but chicken and egg when it comes to tinnitus and anxiety, which came first. Yes, I would say a person acutely anxious...this does subtract ability to focus and will subtract a few IQ points. Acutely anxious people can't concentrate at the same level they could if not anxious. I also believe those with severed tinnitus, this impedes their ability for cognition and in fact why many don't or can't work.

 

I also saw an article about famous people like Chris Martin (Coldplay) or Will Iam (Black Eyed Peace) and I wonder how they can still play live concerts and even play music if they have T ???

I mean it seems impossible for someone who has T, even without H, to keep playing music and all...

 

Maybe they just don't worry about it and see it as an annoying noise and nothing more.

 

But normally, when getting T you cannot even go to a concert, it is too loud !

I don't understand how they can manage it...

 

That's not tinnitus, that's hyperacusis. I went to a few concerts since t with earplugs and was fine.

 

Yes but still, people on this Forum who have only T are issues with some noises, especially loud noises...

 

That's true, I suppose it's different for everyone

 

Why do people say 8khz is high freq something like 14000+ i would say is high. a human ear can hear around 20-20000 hz, i can hear from 35 to 16000.

 

No idea man.

 

http://www.6am-group.com/hot-since-82-is-latest-artist-to-suffer-from-tinnitus

Interesting find:
"As reported on via Medical Daily, “the researchers calculated sound pressure levels experienced by the participants was 100 dBA when averaged out over the length of the festival. They also discovered 8 percent in the earplug group experienced a TTS compared to 42 percent in the unprotected group. Also, a lower percentage of earplug wearers complained of tinnitus (12 percent vs 40 percent among the unprotected concert goers).”

Earplugs, apparently, are not enough in up to 12% of all cases..

 

Nice list ... so many

http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-with-tinnitus/celebrity-lists

 

Almost every rockstar probably has it weather they are on the list or not.

 

I'd actually be more interested to know if there is a rockstar who doesn't have tinnitus. If it's possible someone to spend 30 years next to 125db speakers and still hear pure silence when they go to bed, that's the person you want to study.

 

The newer generation of musicians don't do that. They are behind the sound projection line (the speakers are oriented towards the crowd, not the musicians), and they wear in ear monitors that lets them block out the loud sounds while providing them with a good representation of what the band is playing, at a reasonable volume.

It doesn't mean they don't have other opportunities to blast their ears, but the days of the musician getting blasted by a massive speaker wall at their own show are gone I think. It seems they've gotten smarter about this.

 

What is frustrating for me is that almost ALL of these famous people got T from being musicians...

And even if I didn't spend my life playing some music, doing what I love or whatever, still I got this F****** trouble !

 

Does this help anyone? Just knowing other people suffer the same thing you do? Is there solace in that?

 

I think so. Kind of either a misery loves company, the acknowledgement that you're not the only one, or the realization that there are people out there with tinnitus yet doing what they love. I have no idea why, but I do take some solace in that.

That said, I certainly wouldn't wish this condition on anyone.

 

It makes being a rock star not so glamorous after all. Not worth it IMO.

 

I kind of feel like it makes me feel worse. Like, there are all of these people with this condition that have far more money and resources than I do, and they aren't any better.

 

Although it's unfortunate, in a way, I'm somewhat glad there are so many of us with the same condition. It creates a huge incentive for people to research a cure because the market value would be insane. Not only that, but it would go down in history as eliminating one of the most common chronic human ailments in the world.

 

Yes, you'd think that.

 

No treatment after thousands of years.

 

I was interested in knowing which notable (and successful) people were diagnosed with tinnitus - and not surprisingly - the list is certainly long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_tinnitus

 

I was unaware that so many well known people were/are afflicted with tinnitus.

Thank you Barbara ( @Bobbie7 ) for posting the link.

 

I feel bad for thinking/saying this... but sometimes I wish everyone would get tinnitus, I wish it would become a pandemic... a cure would be found IMO if that were to happen.

 

Thank you for posting this link Barbara (@Bobbie7 ) and hope that you don't mind if I include it in a future post?
All the best
Michael

 

That is not true @tiniturtle. There are quite a few treatments for tinnitus and some very successful, in helping a person to carry on with their life doing everything they want to compared with thousands of years ago. However, it is true there is no cure for tinnitus but please remember, 19 out of 20 medical conditions cannot be cured.

Michael

 

I keep seeing Cher's name on these lists but have yet to find the original source where she admits to having tinnitus. A quick search on Google turned up nothing. Does anyine else know? Huge Cher fan here  

 

While I don't question that statistic, it doesn't make much sense to bring it up to me: I find it irrelevant. Here's why: it doesn't really matter that 19 medical conditions out of 20 cannot be cured. Do these affect your quality of life the same way tinnitus does?

The common cold cannot be cured indeed. It's probably included in the statistic. But it's largely irrelevant. Diabetes also doesn't have a cure, but for many an insulin injection will let you carry on with life without much trouble or pain.

It's the fact that tinnitus can have such a devastating effect on quality of life possibly until death that makes it important to focus on. If you want to draw analogies to diseases that don't have cures, do it to Alzheimer's for example, or Huntington's, or some types of cancer.

Lumping it with "all incurable diseases" dilutes the importance and urgency to either find a cure or ways to manage it in such a way that we can regain some quality of life. Forget about fixing the common cold: focus on tinnitus instead (yes I realize that you can have severe complications from the common cold, but you get the point).

Finally, I also find it counter productive to "look at famous people with tinnitus", as if "they went on to do great things" was the ultimate goal in tinnitus sufferers' life. I'd be content with not being famous and not have tinnitus. I don't care for fame: being without tinnitus is much more important to me. I suspect for many others here too.
Yes Beethoven did great things, but he was suffering immensely because of his condition, and I don't imagine anyone would want to "follow his footsteps": his condition sucked, whether he was famous or not, whether he did great things or not.

Health is more important than fame.

 

Hi @Michael Leigh - Of course I don't mind. What would inspire other new T sufferers is the realization that not only have countless members here gone on to be lead happy and productive lives as noted in their Success Stories ... but to see all these famous and highly successful people who also have tinnitus.

Take care,
Barbara