# Any succes with treating tinnitus, that ringing sound? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489 "2005-04-15T16:06:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/21 "2005-04-22T12:56:57Z")
Mine isn’t actually a ringing – its more of a high pitched EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE set on a low volume in my left ear. It’s like when you strike a crystal glass once with a silver fork and and it makes that pleasant _ting_? Okay – mine is that pitch just before it fades away completely… _six years straight._ ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/22 "2005-04-22T13:07:30Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > 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. I’m also of the “learn to live with it” school. My case is of long duration but I guess is relatively mild. In my case it seems to me that the alleviation by masking, etc. is more bother than the condition. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/23 "2005-04-23T04:59:10Z")
> [@TastesLikeBurning](#): > > 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? Frankly I don’t want to learn to live with it and I refuse to believe that’s the only option. It is a physical condition, which I suspect is caused by either an infection or muscular/neural problems in the head and neck, and I want it fixed, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/24 "2005-04-23T08:59:52Z")
Did you even check out the link I provided? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/25 "2005-04-23T12:19:36Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Mine isn’t actually a ringing – its more of a high pitched EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE set on a low volume in my left ear. It’s like when you strike a crystal glass once with a silver fork and and it makes that pleasant _ting_? Okay – mine is that pitch just before it fades away completely… _six years straight._ Six years? My ears have been ringing like Quasimodo’s for _over 17 years_. I can hear it on the freeway above the traffic noise. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/26 "2005-04-23T12:37:38Z")
> [@TastesLikeBurning](#): > > Did you even check out the link I provided? I did, and was disappointed to learn[it is only available in Australia at this time](http://www.neuromonics.com/international.php). I have an appointement in June with one of the [premier tinnitus research physicians](http://epl.meei.harvard.edu/~ral/) in the world at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. I will ask him about the Australian device and report back. ---
**Author:** ![Kegg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kegg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kegg)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489/27 "2005-04-23T13:02:32Z")
I’ve had tinnitus all my life, It dosn’t bother me. Any time I stop to listen it’s there. There are several (3 at least) notes all very high, and maby three different sounds, like a sine wave and a squar wave (lower then the others) which I think sounds like a very high cricket chirp. One of my earlist memories is talking about it to my sister and I thouht she was pretending not to hear it. I always thought it was the “sound of the horizon” (it was just all arround). * * * Spelling and grammer subject to change without notice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-succes-with-treating-tinnitus-that-ringing-sound/299489.md?page=1)