Sorry that you're dealing with this, Metalhead. I've got it too, though it's not too much of a problem for me at the moment - I can ignore it except when I'm in a quiet environment. It tends to get worse when I drink alcohol or am in a noisy environment for a long period of time. Unfortunately, there is no proven treatment for tinnitus at the moment. There are some trials underway for a drug (a colleague down the hall from me is working on this) and for a non-invasive electrical stimulation therapy: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017142543A1/en https://innovation.medicine.umich.edu/portfolio_post/shore/ In the meantime, the best thing to do is to prevent more damage to your ears. Wear earplugs anytime sound levels are greater than 80 or so dB SPL - rule of thumb (or tongue?) is that if you have shout to be heard by someone standing near you (maybe I should clarify: someone with relatively normal hearing standing near you...), you should be wearing earplugs. I know, it sucks (a musician friend compares playing music while wearing earplugs to "f**king with 2 condoms on"), but at the moment it's the best way to at least stop causing more issues. I have custom earplugs for when I go to shows and our band has switched to in ear monitors to get the stage amplitude down. There are fairly inexpensive musicians earplugs that work pretty well too - they don't kill the high end like those disposable foam ones do. There's been a lot of research on noise damage to the part of the inner ear that converts mechanical energy - sound - to nerve impulses and one thing is becoming clear: levels of noise exposure that were previously thought to be safe are not. You know that muffled feeling in the ears that you get after a loud concert that goes away after a day or two? It's called a temporary threshold shift and was once thought to be just that - temporary. What has been learned over the past decade or so is that the negative effects on hearing from this type of damage tend to appear years - even decades - later. More resources: https://www.hearingconservation.org/learn-about-hearing-conservation https://www.ata.org/ Oh, and a reminder: wear earplugs!
I went to a specialist because no matter what prescription was given my right ear was always stuffy. Local EN&T said I had hardened hearing bones and it would get worse. After taking another audiology test the specialist told me that my hearing was better than average for my age. Gave me a prescription for metapredisone and told me to lay off the salt. It got better after a week. I still get the ringing in my ears every so ofter.
I'm always doing something and how it fades to me during the active times is amazing. Sitting on the couch at night watching the boober I'm good till I mute a commercial. Then the bells of St. Mary's go off. Funny shit...annoying...but funny to me.
Lots of issues with tinnitus since my 30s. My father had the same issue and is severely hearing impaired as a result. There is some anecdotal evidence that supports the use of psilocybe shrooms in either natural or synthetic form. My understanding is that the ringing occurs whenever one of the ear's receptors permanently fails. Ideally, the brain compensates and blocks out that particular frequency, when it doesn't, you experience tinnitus. The psilocybe supposedly can aide in a "reset" of this function in the brain in some cases. Not exactly down to a science, but if it is ever legalized in IL I may give it a try...
Denver, Oakland, Ann Arbor, New Mexico & Santa Cruz have legalized psilocybin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_decriminalization_in_the_United_States
They have a few good songs. Many bands have at least one. The Ramones, however, sucked...and I ain't fond of this new fangled hippy hop or cuntry.
