I had a car accident over two years ago and have had this constant wringing in my head ever since. It’s not in my ears, but more internal. Does anyone know of asuccessful treatment for this. I’ve had cranial-sacral therapy, osteopathy, and sound therapy, but no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Can’t help you with the wringing in your head but I do have some experience with ringing, having suffered from Menears and the accompanying tinnitus for years. From what I understand there’s no “cure”. Some surgeries are available. My father had one on the inner ear that alleviated the volume for awhile but it eventually came back. There’s another that attempts to cut the nerve thought responsible but it’s then possible you’ll be deaf, at least on one side, as a result.
Now this is what I learned after audiology testing 5 or 6 years ago. The probability someone with more recent knowledge or even a medical opinion will be along shortly. I hope for your sake and mine that some lessening or cure for this awful condition will someday be available.
Btw, I’m not sure if this applies since yours might be injury related but diet can have a positive influence. Abstinance wrt chocolate, cheese and alcohol is supposed to help. Also, I sleep with a fan that emulates the pitch of the ringing and that definately helps.
As long as we are correcting spelling, it’s Meniere’s.
Have you been evaluated by a neurologist?
FWIW, Pete Townshend’s tinnitus diminshed significantly, his hearing recovered substantially, and he plays very loudly with little trouble. The sound is not as distorted as it used to be, the “cleaness” helps.
YMMV of course.
Yes, he felt confident that it wasn’t neurological.
I’ve got tinnitus as well. I went for a hearing test, and found out that my days as a crazed rock n’ roll guy have caused a lot of damage. The advice I got was, “learn to live with it”. There are coping strategies, such as keeping background music on to mask it, but nothing else really works.
I’m lucky in that with me it seems to come and go somewhat. It’s often worst when I wake up in the morning, and most of the time during the day and evening I don’t even realize it’s there. But if a room is really quiet, it suddenly jumps out at me, and once I notice it I can’t ignore it. Also, if I listen to music at even moderate volume levels for an extended period of time, my ears begin ringing like crazy. Very frustrating, since I love music.
Stay away from aspirin & such. Caffiene is also sometime thought to make it worse.
Manganese taken as a supplement can sometimes help, it is thought. YMMV, I am not a real doctor.
To me, it sounds quite like crickets on a southern summer evening. I’ve had it for years, and as with Sam Stone, I attribute it to crazed rock’n’roll guy days. I do understand that it bothers some people very much, but my experience tells me I’ll have to echo Sam: “learn to live with it.”
My little bit of research, long since stale, indicated that the medical community believed, as of the mid-1990s, that there were multiple causes.
Good luck!
I’ve also got some tinnitus, and I’m a mere 14 years old. It’s not loud enough to the point where it drives me nuts, but it does make me use a fan at night as white noise. I haven’t seen a doctor about it yet, but it might be connected to my recent diagnosis with epilepsy.
Have you investigated [url=“http://www.tinnitusformula.com/infocenter/articles/treatments/mask.aspx”]tinnitus masking[/irl]?
There’s lots of other good web sites out there on how to do this. Just google tinnitus masking.
again, this time correctly.
I just realized, with this thread, that I now do have some kind of justification for my User Name.
Curtin University in Western Australia has fairly recently developed treatment that supposedly greatly minimises the effects/symptoms of tinnitus.
The commercial application of their research can be found here:
Hope this helps.
Are your ears ringing? Don’t answer.
I got nothin’ else. 
Do any of my fellow tinnitus sufferers here also get a feeling of pressure or heaviness in the ears themselves? I still think there’s some infectious or other direct physical cause involved.
Mine never varies by so much as a decibel, except I can temporarily increase the volume by either pressing my chin down onto something solid, or tiliting my head as far forward as possible. But I seem to have got used to it as it rarely intrudes into my consciousness, and hasn’t hurt my hearing as such at all.
Mark me down too. I’ve got it constantly in the left ear and frequently in the right. It tends to diminish the pleasant sound of silence. God I hate it. But yes, we have to learn to live with it.
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Would someone answer the damn phone?
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I still remember the morning when my tinnitus first occurred six years ago: I fell asleep with my earphones on. (Yes, I’m well aware NOW how stupid that was.) When I woke up instead a slight ringing gently fading like it always had before, it blared away over many hours. It still hasn’t gone away. It was very, very rough in the beginning but with some comforting words from my doctor, some prescription sleeping pills and time, I’ve learned to tolerate it.
On the odd days it flares up worse at midday or bedtime, I’ve learned to cope by shutting off all noises in the room and concentrating on listening to my own heartbeat, which I personally find soothing.
I’ve also tried to think of tinnitus as “brain noise.”
The days when I have sinus trouble or am congested from a head cold are the worst.
Tinnitus is something you learn to deal with. I’m envious of anyone who’s found a cure or remedy that works.
There has been at least one other thread discussing Tinnitus, which I also posted in regarding the advances in treatment supposedly found by one of our Universities in Western Australia.
Each time nobody has commented on this info and I’m curious as to why?
Anyone care to enlighten me?
Does anyone else have a very low pitched tinnitus? Mine is, thank heavens, recurrent rather than constant (may have some connection with particular congestion - not sure as I always seem to be congested but I don’t usually have this), has the tone quality of a very quiet foghorn, and is pitched at C# below middle C (I tested it against a keyboard because I was curious).
Everyone else seems to describe a ringing in the ears, which sounds somewhat high pitched. Like anyone else I’ve had that on rare occasions, but not as often or as lasting as my tiny foghorn, which will come, hang around intermittently for some days or even weeks, and then go away, usually for months.