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Post by papadon on Mar 26, 2022 10:10:12 GMT
Sorry if this moves the thread a little away from the main subject but I find the reference to hearing issues relevant. I've had hearing problems for many years in one ear and at particular frequencies (it so happens it's at female voice level ). After lots of family nagging, I had a hearing test 3 weeks ago which confirmed what I knew; right ear well down particularly at higher frequencies. And of course the tester was keen to sell me £3,000 worth of hearing aids which did everything including opening the curtains via Bluetooth (p.s. my teeth are OK). I have heard that wearing hearing aids can make the guitar in particular (but other instruments as well) sound funny/squeaky/out of tune etc. Have any of you out there who wears hearing aids had experience of this?? Would be interesting to know. FFJ When I was first diagnosed with tinnitus years ago (15? probably longer) they gave me some hearing aids on the basis that if you get more sound into your ears it helps mask the tinnitus. The sound of my guitar whilst wearing them was truly awful. I didn't wear them and eventually binned them. I suspect the technology has moved on since then.
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Post by papadon on Mar 26, 2022 10:22:32 GMT
I was also diagnosed with tinnitus and my doctor started talking about surgery because he said that he thought there might be some sort of tumor causing the problem. When I was setting up the next appointment his nurse asked me if I was consuming a lot of salt. I admitted to her that I was indeed very fond of my margaritas in a salted glass. I quit that habit and no more tinnitus. So much for the Hippocratic oath. Don't know if that helps but there you go.
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Post by vikingblues on Mar 26, 2022 11:58:48 GMT
I was also diagnosed with tinnitus and my doctor started talking about surgery because he said that he thought there might be some sort of tumor causing the problem. When I was setting up the next appointment his nurse asked me if I was consuming a lot of salt. I admitted to her that I was indeed very fond of my margaritas in a salted glass. I quit that habit and no more tinnitus. So much for the Hippocratic oath. Don't know if that helps but there you go. There does seem to be a particular type of doctor that turns to the slash and burn techniques for trying to cure a patients ills. It was good for you that you spoke to the right person at that time and got a quick fix for your issue. Off topic as it's nothing to do with hearing, I recall around 10 years ago I had stomach issues / really bad pains that resulted in a dash to A&E in the small hours. Gallstones became chief suspect, and it turned out following a scan a few weeks later that I did indeed have gallstones. The standard medicines and stuff like Gaviscon were dished out to me. They didn't help in the way they were supposed to. Also the timing of the onset of pains didn't seem to tie in with what it should be. I then found that taking doses of apple cider vinegar did help - adding acid to the digestive process rather than adding antacid. A rare case of getting good information from the internet. Changing my diet (bye bye pastry and high fat things) and cutting down on alcohol was also helping. I had two GPs I'd seen, and also a consultant all chanting "surgery", and cheerleading the slash and burn option. In the interim I'd found that an extra strong antibiotic I'd been taken not too long before the pain attack had as a possible side effect just the severe stomach pains I'd had. Oddly this possibility didn't register in the medic's ears when I mentioned it. The man at the hospital who scanned for gallstones had said to me that he saw I had gallstones, and I would have a possible choice of eating and medicating in a way that would not aggravate things and I could then see if the problem re-occurred. Not something the two GPs I'd seen were promoting. This prompted me in the end, when a decision was needed, to seek out the senior GP who was by several miles the best of them at the health centre. He told me some real facts and wider ranging information, not least that there was around a 40% chance the surgery would not solve the problem at all. Something the consultant ... ummmm ... forgot to tell me. Coming up to 10 years later soon with no surgery and no more attacks. Plus a healthier diet, and quite a few guitars funded by the reduction in expenses with cutting down alcohol! The point is that had it not been for the guy that did the scan, I wouldn't have questioned what was being recommended as much. A case of needing not just a second opinion, but a fifth!!!
Mark
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I really like the way this topic has spread it's wings over a range of aspects of hearing. I'm also now much more happy to tolerate my occasional off day on tuning - compared to what some of you guys suffer, my issue raised here in this thread is nothing.
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Post by borborygmus on Mar 26, 2022 12:22:43 GMT
I also have tinnitus, but only really notice it when someone says the word "tinnitus". I am noticing it now. It's amazing how the body copes with certain function deficits. I had a detached retina in the 90's, but my brain ignores the part of my vision which is missing in that eye.
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