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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've had Tinnitus for the last three or four years. I remember that one summer about four years ago my ears would ring for several hours after I came in from a day of mowing the lawn. Then one day it just didn't stop. When I was in the Navy, I worked around steam turbines, jet airplanes, and computers. It seems I have spent most of my life around machines that make some kind of constant noise. For example, the fans that keep computers cool. I have wondered if this constant exposure is what caused it. However, my father also had a hearing problem where he lost the hearing in his right ear and said he had ringing in both ears all the time. He always blamed if on his work running the rifle range for the army during World War II. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe some of it is hereditary. I've had my hearing checked and the people giving the test say my hearing was better than 98% of all people's. I started wearing earplugs to see if reducing the amount of background noise from my computers would make it go away. That didn't seem to help. I mentioned it to my doctor and she had me checked for high blood pressure. My blood pressure seems to be fine. Based on what you and WebShaman are saying, it seems that the frequencies each person hears are different. Mine is more like Tao's in that there is a constant background noise like a white noise generator in the background with a pulsating high frequency noise at about 18,000Hz over the top of it. The high frequency becomes more pronounced when I do heavy work or exercise. After about a year of seeing different specialists, my doctors seem to be ignoring it, except to ask me at annual checkups if I'm still bothered by it. I've learned to ignore it most of the time by thinking about other things, like the projects I'm working on, but it still gets annoying from time to time. . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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