Tinnitus, what it is and how it effects me..
Tinnitus is not a disease, but a condition that can result from a wide range of underlying causes from neurological damage, ear infection, foreign objects in the ear, nasal allergies that prevent (or induce) fluid drain, wax build-up, and exposure to loud sounds.
Tinnitus may be an accompaniment of sensorineural hearing loss or congenital hearing loss but most common cause is noise-induced hearing loss. However mine was not noise induced I had an infection which just started out as a common cold then I lost my voice and it went right into both ears.
Difficult to measure using objective tests, such as by comparison with noise of known frequency and intensity, as in an audiometric test. The condition is often rated clinically on a simple scale from "slight" to "catastrophic" according to the practical difficulties it imposes, such as interference with sleep, quiet activities, and normal daily activities.
(It drives me crazy hearing this constant ringing in both ears, keeping busy all the time helps and I usually have to exhaust myself in order to sleep well. It's what makes hearing things so difficult for me. what hearing I do have has to overlap this ringing in my ears plus the noise of the tubes which balance the outside pressure to the inside pressure of my head.)
And that's why cross conversation are not only a discomfort but can cause sheer pain in my left ear along with other sounds like phones, faxes, alarms on doors doors shutting and so many more sounds.
It's like everything is competing in my head to be heard. 'I call it INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Tinnitus may be an accompaniment of sensorineural hearing loss or congenital hearing loss but most common cause is noise-induced hearing loss. However mine was not noise induced I had an infection which just started out as a common cold then I lost my voice and it went right into both ears.
Difficult to measure using objective tests, such as by comparison with noise of known frequency and intensity, as in an audiometric test. The condition is often rated clinically on a simple scale from "slight" to "catastrophic" according to the practical difficulties it imposes, such as interference with sleep, quiet activities, and normal daily activities.
(It drives me crazy hearing this constant ringing in both ears, keeping busy all the time helps and I usually have to exhaust myself in order to sleep well. It's what makes hearing things so difficult for me. what hearing I do have has to overlap this ringing in my ears plus the noise of the tubes which balance the outside pressure to the inside pressure of my head.)
And that's why cross conversation are not only a discomfort but can cause sheer pain in my left ear along with other sounds like phones, faxes, alarms on doors doors shutting and so many more sounds.
It's like everything is competing in my head to be heard. 'I call it INFORMATION OVERLOAD
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