Help My Ears are Ringing! Can't You Hear It?

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So what causes it? Will it ever go away? Will I ever have a good night sleep again?

If you have ringing in your ears DON'T PANIC! Often these ringing sounds are caused by a uncomplicated wax build up. Don't go poking around in your ear attempting to see if you have wax, go and see a specialist like a doctor or a nurse. If they say that you have wax don't worry, its normal. Your ear produces wax to trap airborne dirt and dust and particles to stop them damaging your ear drum. The waxy mixture works it's way out at a snail's pace and more often than not you don't become aware of it. If however you have a condition which stimulates wax production you make excessive wax and it gets trapped. If it puts pressure on the ear drum you can have the sense of hearing whistling or whooshing sounds. Many people imagine they have water trapped in their ear.

It's easy to get rid of too. The nurse will almost certainly ask you to use olive oil ear drops for about a week and after that if it hasn't gone she can use a device to gently squirt tepid water into your ear and clean the remainder out. This is called ear syringing for the reason that they used to use a large syringe for the water. (now its an electric pump to keep the pressure at a constant harmless level)

OK, so what if it isn't wax? Still don't freak out. Go and discuss your choices with the doctor and see if there is a different underlying cause (its not likely to be anything sinister).

OK OK, so you're at the position where you understand you have tinnitus. Some people call it Tinn-it is. Anyway this is the point at which I was told that zilch could be done. I got so angry. By the way my tinnitus came from a head trauma. I had it after I knocked myself out and woke up with it.

I searched for all manner of self help and solution but nothing worked for me until I in truth did stumble across something. No, this wasn't a product to buy, it was an observation. I DIDN'T GET TINNITUS WHEN I WAS FISHING. Really! Its then that I realised what was going on and I started to look for comfort in the right place. The reason I didn't get tinnitus when fishing was because of the noise of the water. The truth is that I did but I didn't notice it at all. I noticed the jingle of running water instead. The water was Masking my Tinnitus!

Don't believe your brain can tune out noise?? Of course IT CAN -I'll demonstrate it to you. Visualize silence. Then go listen go your associates chest. You'll hear his heart beat
"Lub DUB, Lub DUB, Lub DUB" (my try at heart noise but you get my drift)

OK then, it's LOUD isn't it? The thing is you don't hear your own heart which is making the same noise because your brain tunes it out! Steady regular noise can be to all intents and purposes turned off or ignored. Snorers don't hear themselves snoring do they?

So, to get your brain on the right track begin by use a masking noise. You can do this in the home. There will be times when you also don't perceive it because of a background sound - usually a restful regular sound like running water or like the ocean at the seaside. The gentle roll of the surf or waves on the beach literally make me forget the ringing in my ears. When your brain listens to one sound it can ignore the other. It's a phenomenon called masking.

Try masking for yourself!

Anyway, I began to look for help in the retraining direction, to check if I could learn to tune out sound and teach myself to do it. At the start I used devices to assist me mask the sound. I have used inexpensive sound systems to for masking - birdsong and ocean waves, but one of the things that is most effective for me is a ticking clock! I found this out by mistake too, My son had an alarm clock given to him as a present. He couldn't sleep because of the ticking so I took it into my bedroom. What a revelation! The ticking noise whilst loud to my son was blissfully peaceful to me!



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