Wow. Reading this thread, I realised there are more deafs who does have tinnitus like me. My tinnitus came from when I listens to my giant earphones to hear my favourite music KISS Unmask over and over, I just loves the sounds.... that's when I was a kid, around 10-11 years old... when I was given this KISS Unmasked tape cassette by a couple of college hot girls (friend of cousin), and I thought I was hearing angels singing a kind of classical music orchestra type of thing but it wasn't.
Since then I had tinnitus most times, but over the years it got worse and worse... especially when it's paced by my obsession with books reading horror, sci-fi, mystery novels, short stories, and that ate into the time I can give so I lose sleep and became insomniac during high school, and college... and still does after...
I've resorted to small headphones over the years, until I finally got through to an audiologist about a special method of connecting the hearing aids to the music, tape player, or even tv... finally it's called a "Y" cord, with audio shoes that clicks over the hearing aids. And mp3 player have become the boon of my life. I plays my favourite music on my mp3 player all day long, never bothers anyone, and I have fun.... I drives carrying my music with me, to shopping, to walks, to work, etc... rarely do I feel the tinnitus attacks me, it only happens when I don't wear the hearing aids, when I forgets about it and was busy on something for hours, then, sudden-like, the tinnitus would comes like a wall of tsunamis and I'd be swept away... putting on the music centres me, kept me grounded to the hear and now...
Over the years, when I had no music, and only the tape player and the head phone that at times was unsatisfying, I use the tinnitus against itself, when it goes one way, I follows, using it like an invisible instrument, playing it like a fiddle, like a voilin, like a guitar, like a piano, playing it, actively being involed in the making of the of the invisible music that no one can hears, except me and, perhaps, God.
I would string music together, putting it together, to feel it, to 'hear' it, so as to stay sane... many times over the years I told the audiologists, one after the other, about tinnitus and how I control it, to play it, they'd rather not beleive it, they even wrote it in my files, "Client thinks he can play tinnitus like music" and signs off, not bothering to see if there's anything they can do to help me find relief.
For me, I had to find relief in my own way, that would work for me. There was no other way that I know of.
I would not trust drugs, nor operations... I simply do not trust drugs for I know what drugs are, nothing but short-term bandaids that do not work out in the long run.
The only thing I'm sure of, too much refined sugar, salt, hell, most of Western foods are devoid of minerals and vitamins, and hence, this may have played a role in our getting tinnitus and other symptoms like insomnia and the like... so this is why I spent over ten years researching health and why health are the way it is, depending on "empty" foods as apposed to "full" foods, "empty" defining deficiencies, and "full" defining wellness...
Alcohol won't work in the long run, it'll just take more and more drinks to get the same around of sleep you require before, so your body builds up a tolerance for the booze and in time you'll be drinnking it like a fish... and worse, your insides becomes pickled and who knows, what does the alcohol does to the brain? And the hearing mechanisms? I imagine it would be pickled too.
So, my only conclusions is to test one method that I've been saving up for years... raw foods lifestyles, in a word, going raw vegies and fruits foods, no cooked foods at all, to see what effect it has on the tinnitus, whether it'll slow it down, or even shut up altogether.
I've managed to save up and get a Vita-Mix blender, heaps expensive, but not impossible to get when you're as disciplined and determined as I am, as well as a few other things that are needed. I've managed to pay off the last installment for a sprouter mist kit to build four small sprouters so I can grow sprouts, wheatgrasses and the like, to obtain fresh nutrients by juicing the greens and intaking fresh nutrients to give the body what it needs, fresh vitamins and minerals, so it's been a long-range goal planning all this.
I do not know what effect the tinnitus will have when I lived a raw foods lifestyle, but I hoeps to achieved it within a year or two at most, so for now, I must be patient and wait.
The thing to me, is that more and more deafs, and hearings, are having tinnitus as well as other life's challenges (ailments, etc), and I wondered if it's directly related to the junk foods we're eating, the processed, machine foods, factory foods, with only about 5 percent minerals and vitamins, if that, per day, so it's not enough... it's no wonder why so many people have symptoms so wildly diverging from each other, but the cause may probably the foods, you are what you eat, that kind of thing... so I had invested years to this idea, that if I can grow foods rich with minerals, I'll see what the effect will have on the tinnitus after a month, three months, six months and a year intervals.
Excercises plays a good role, in allieviating the tinnitus symptoms, as well as that, focusing your attention on something else, something constructive, would also helps, as well. There's all kinds of exercises that may help, from stretching, to weight lifting, to swimming, walking, running, jumping, playing sports, etc.. just a matter of when you can do it and how enjoyable it is that it makes you ignore it while you focus on the job/work/fun thing at hand.
Life is not silent, it's noisy, and we're lucky, we have music as backgrounds like movies have their backgrounds, so we can change our minds and make music that suits our moods and enjoy the day and night and everything else...
No worries! It's all good!
). I practised mindfulness techniques (a form of mediation without the orange robes and chanting). I did activities that I enjoy and relax me.
sometimes he likes to be quiet on his own time because of it.
