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By John On July 1, 2009No CommentsTalking with your family about tinnitus is stressful for both you and them. How do you do it well, the first time? The first thing to do is to have a good understanding of tinnitus yourself. Know what caused it, what the ringing is from and what treatment options you have. This allows you to answer any questions quickly.
Tell Who You Want To
One of the first important realizations is that this condition is one you do not have to tell everyone if you do not want to. Your immediate family should probably know, so they know what to do, and what not to do around you. At the same time, there may not be a reason to tell everyone about it, especially if your hearing level is acceptable or if a hearing aid is able to improve it.
What about those who you have to tell, how do you do it?
• Sit down with family and talk about your recent experiences. Tell them about the ringing in your ear.
• Share with them what this has done to you. For example, explain that the ringing is not minor and does not go away leaving your hearing lacking.
• Explain what the condition is and what doctors have told you. You can mention the causes if you would like to. Sometimes, you do not have to as you can assume they will go home to learn about it themselves.
• Assure them there is no risk to your overall health.
• Answer their questions but let them know you may not have all the answers they are looking for.
Tell them as much or as little as you would like to. Those who love you will understand if you are short with them or otherwise unable to give them more information.
The Way They Treat You
For some, it is not telling the family that is the problem, but rather it is the questions and the looks. You may not want them to treat you any differently. How can you handle this?
• Inform your family that you are not changing the way you live life. They do not have to either.
• Give them ways to help you, such as avoiding loud noise. This way, they feel like they are doing something for you.
• Tell them how you are handling your condition. Tell them about treatments, holistic methods of healing you are using and lifestyle changes you are making.
Bringing your family together is important to your well-being, too, not just their understanding of tinnitus. Evidence shows, those who have a strong emotional support group do better with symptoms from tinnitus than those who do not. The stress relief, frustration and the ability to cope improve greatly.
Your family and friends can help you. They can be part of the lifestyle changes you make such as eating a healthy diet and getting more exercise. They can work with you to find the natural treatments for tinnitus, too.
03
Jul
By jeffreyb
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Live Tinnitus Free
Tinnitus is a noise that is often perceived in the ears or the head. The noises have been described as a constant ringing amongst other noises. There is no cure for tinnitus and it is believed to be caused by ear infections, wax build up in the ears, nose injuries and or accidents which resulted in sufficient damage to the ears from a loud noise.
Since there is no cure for tinnitus, there are plenty of other alternatives that are supposed to help ease the tinnitus relief or help the tinnitus cure itself. There is a three simple step solution that can help get rid of tinnitus permanently. The steps do not include any drugs or surgery. Tinnitus can cause hearing loss and headaches. It might wise to consider seeking some form of tinnitus treatment.
In a recent scientific study that was geared towards the study of tinnitus, scientists discovered that 97.3% of all that suffer from tinnitus have inner ear damage, sinus issues or high levels of stress.
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Once you have gone through with this tinnitus relief you will feel less tension, silence in the ears, peace and being able to sleep without the constant ringing in your ears or head.
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01
Jul
By John
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Hello John,
Thank you for the info. I was attached to a 280mm Atomic Cannon outfit when I was in the service. I used to wonder why they had us make sure the sides of the tents were rolled up, and the windows of all the trucks rolled down before we fired the gun, and did not give us ear protection.
That was in ‘59-’60, but I did not get the tinnitus until 1992, so it may be from another cause.
Dan Ryan
Hiya Ryan,
Your tinnitus is without doubt caused from cochlear damage as a result of your exploits in the army. Absolutely crazy that no hearing protection was deemed necessary back then.
You will find that something, an event, probably happened to trigger the tinnitus when it started. This could be amongst other things things, traumatic life events, stress and even an ear infection.
But the root cause of the tinnitus is the exposure to noise which caused the cochlear damage. You can get more information about that tinnitus type as well as the remedies to treat it at the noise tinnitus page.
Regards,
John
22
Jun
By jeffreyb
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Tinnitus Treatments
If a person is suffering from tinnitus, his life will become a virtual hell and spending each night without sleep could become a habit for him. The never ending ringing sound in his ear does not allow him to either to concentrate on his work nor to have comfortable sleep even during mid night. Even some patients may hear different sounds like humming, beeping or whining. It is still not clear whether a person who is a victim of tinnitus actually hears these sounds or it is his imagination.
But, as a matter of fact there is no known tinnitus treatment in modern medicine system and in some cases when the symptom of tinnitus got aggravated and immediate tinnitus cure was not given to them, some of them tried to commit suicide.
Every tinnitus patient will suffer with some degree of hearing loss which varies from person to person. Usually tinnitus is associated with hearing loss and a co-factor and the person who suffers from hearing loss without the association of any co factor cannot be considered as a tinnitus patient. The origin of co- factor many be due to your unhealthy diet and life style, intake of over dose of supplements and medications which ultimately contribute to the severity of tinnitus.
A simple form of tinnitus relief is to find out the root cause and make changes in your life style and diet.
If, in spite of your personal effort if there is no improvement in your condition get medical advice.
20
Jun
By jeffreyb
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Tinnitus Formula
Treatment for Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a common and varied form of hearing loss that results in the hearing of phantom tones or other noises. These phantom sounds vary in percieved volume and intensity and in extreme cases can be highly detrimental to quality of life. Sufferers find it difficult to sleep or concentrate on day to day tasks and can even be endangered if the tinnitus distracts them from possible dangers.
Tinnitus is a common precurser of many types of hearing loss inducing ailments such as damaging ear infections or exposure to overly loud sounds. It is believed that such damage causes nerves associated with hearing to become uselessly hyperactive.
While there is no cure for, or way to reverse, tinnitus there are many treatments that help some people to lessen the symptoms and the discomfort they inflict. These treatments range in expense and complexity but the easiest treatment patients can try are vitamin suppliments such as Lipoflavonoid Tinnitus Formula. The affects of such vitamins are still being contested but many have claimed to find relief by using them.
If the vitamins don’t work tinnitus sufferers can try various types of physical therapy or surgery but only as a last resort. It is best to prevent lasting damage in the first place by seeking swift treatment for ear related maladies, and avoiding dangerously high sound level exposure.
17
Jun
By jeffreyb
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White Noise Tinnitus Masking CD
Have you ever tried to find a solution for your tinnitus problem? You may have tried so many variants of products in order to get relief from this tinnitus problem which is driving you nuts while trying to get some sleep at the night. There is a simple way to get relief from tinnitus. It will also help you to retrain your brain into not misunderstanding these sounds.
There are millions of people who are suffering from this problem of tinnitus,who now use this tinnitus relief system for this problem. There are plenty of machines which produces ‘white noise’ are sold in the market. This white noise mask real sound of tinnitus to such an extend that one is not even aware that he is facing this hearing loss problem. Masking is an excellent technique used to relieve tinnitus.
Research has proven that the human brain can be trained to tune out the tinnitus noises. This is called auditory habituation. The brain tunes out those noises of tinnitus through habituating the white noise. Similarly those who are suffering from tinnitus can be cured by retraining their brains to accept the sounds of tinnitus as unacceptable noises. Sound therapy has helped so many people to get cured from tinnitus. White noise CD’s are available in the market and this can turn out to be a perfect tinnitus cure.
If there is ONE BOOK on tinnitus that every tinnitus patient absolutely SHOULD READ, it is the bestseller from Ellen Currie entitled Living Tinnitus Free...