Tinnitus??

[mim]

The Members Of Tinnitus - "Tactics For Instant Music"

 

[BelgianWaffle]

My girl picked some up at the Natural Health store here in Portland. I was suprised at the amount of funk that those candles pulled out of my ear cannals. I thought that all the local punk shows in my high school years had killed that shit; but I am hearing better than I have in years.

what's the deal w/ candles???!!... do they create a vacuum to suck stuff out?... I'm scurred!... do they really work?

I'm down to try it if people recommend it

 

[Otis_Funkmeyer]

Worries me, but I've really gotten use to it. I don't notice unless I think, "hey, are my ears still doing that", and then I swallow, and sure enough, pop.

Yo I get the same thing. Just with the swallowing though, not with loud noises. I have bad sinuses though... prone to congestion and shite. I figure is has to do with this. Never really thought about it much until you said something... now I can't stop thinking about it everytime I swallow

Anyone ever get their ears candled or cleaned by a doctor and notice better hearing afterwards? I've never tried it myself...
My ear was clogged once so I went to the doctor, he just shot a stream of warm water in there and it all came out.
Everyone should clean their ears about once a month, you will notice an improvement in your hearing. You don't need to go to a doctor, you can just use something that squirts water with a fair amount of force. I let the stream from the shower clean my ears, which is something he also recommended. If things get bad, there are eardrops that will break up the wax for you.
Candling is effective, the flame creates a little vaccuum, pretty sure there's no danger in it.

 

[Garcia_Vega]

I remeber watching the A&E biography of Englbert Humperdinck, a few years back, and dude was talking about his tinnitus. Apparently he got it late in his career and it almost drove him crazy. Englebert couldn't sleep or think, all he heard was weeeeeeeeeee! He started bugging out one day and breaking all sorts of shit and hitting himself in the head. Even contemplated suicide so the ringing would stop. Englebert had tried everything to remedy it, when finally he took up meditation and haiku, and that helped calm his nerves. He claims that to this day he has a permanent ringing in his ears. He was all, "I have it to this day, right now I can hear it, even as we interview, but it no longer disturbs me as it once did."

Englebert says, "Protect your ears my friends!"

 

[Otis_Funkmeyer]

Some believe that Van Gogh cut his ear off trying to stop the ringing.

 

[BeatChemist]

Some believe that Van Gogh cut his ear off trying to stop the ringing.

I thought he was fucked up on absynth or laudanum... ??

 

[asstro]

For real, tinnitus is no joke, I have a pretty serious case of it myself from years of playing in bands, DJ'ing, and going to shows without using proper hearing protection. I swore that earplugs affected my playing and enjoyment negatively, but not nearly as bad as the constant ringing I hear all of the time affects my life now. Conversations in any kind of crowded room are almost impossible for me to follow now, yet people speaking at slightly louder than normal speaking volume feels like an ice pick straight down my ear sometimes. It's also worse in my right ear because in my band I was always stage left and had the cymbals blasting my right ear out for the better part of 10 years. It's really no fun at all.

Do yourself a favor and pick up some earplugs next time you go to a show, no matter how lame or old you might feel. You also should definitely keep a close eye on how loud your headphones are while you are DJ'ing, I know I had a habit of letting my phones get louder and louder over the course of a night, and the next day I would turn on my mixer and be scared how loud they were. I bet more than a few of you do that too, and it's murder on your ears, especially if you've been drinking.

The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't protect my ears when I had the chance. Take care of yours.

 

[Grope]

If you had Tinnitus, you'd have to learn to deal with it. There are therapies that teach you to accept the noise in your ear. It's called habituation. Tinnitus can't be healed. But I guess that you don't have Tinnitus. I thought that Tinnitus is caused by a continuous loud noise (like the music at raves), not by short intense bangs.

Make sure to see a specialist and if it is Tinnitus, try to find therapists. Seriously.

 

[holmes]

Earplugs are definitely the way to go, fucking around with motorcycles and playing in bands has given me irregular tinnitus (one moment they'll be fine & the next there's a pop & off they go ringing for long periods of time for no apparent reason) so now if I'm working on bikes or playing or watching a show I use plugs. I used to also get real bad ears when I was surfing lots. Getting a doctor to rinse your ears out is good too, you seriously don't realise what you are missing (hearing wise) until you get that done. Those ear candles work too, kinda gross what they suck out of there though. Ayo on those little hairs in your ears, there's only a finite amount of times that they will bounce back up after being clobbered by waves of sound and when they stay down that's it for your hearing.

 

[bobbydee]

for the record, van gogh only cut off his lobe- the story has just gotten "chinese whipered" up. My best mat ewas up for a role in a film adaptation of van gogh's younger years, so me being art buff and all i filled in the blanks on what i already didn't know. This was one of them.