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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / March 2004Does tinnitus neccessarily lead to deaf?
Views, please. FP > Views, please. > > FP Most of us who have tinnitus will die with it, but not from it. Remember, go toward the white light, not the white noise. :-) >Views, please. > >FP NO. So you had a hearing test and it showed that you had a hearing loss. Many, many people have a hearing test which shows a hearing loss. But many, many people have hearing that returns when the Tinnitus improves. Therefor the hearing was not permanent. Imagine a garden hose. Imagine a kink in the hose. So now the water cannot get through. That does not mean the hose is damaged. It just means it is blocked. If we undo the kink the water flows through again. The hearing must be like that. The hearing mechanism appears to be blocked. Some sound cannot get through. If we can undo the blockage then the hearing will return to normal. This happens quite often. An operation on the ears is not the answer. Unnecessary damage might be done. And an ENT knows that. They do not as a rule advocate surgery. Just as an operation on the kinked garden hose is not the answer. Cutting the kink out of the hose would certainly allow the water to flow through, but unnecessary damage is done to the hose. Tinnitus is a pain in the neck Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ http://meniere.eebee.net/ For email: elly at eebee.cjb.net >Views, please. > >FP I'm deaf and have tinnitus. The hearing loss came first and the tinnitus followed. Terri http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport > >Views, please. > > > >FP > > I'm deaf and have tinnitus. The hearing loss came first and the > tinnitus followed. I am meeting quite a few persons in the HBO2 chamber who all of a sudden lost their hearing for unknown reasons and then tinnitus came. They were fortunate because their doctors sent them to the HBO2 treatment right away. Most of them do have recovered to various degrees after a few days of treatment. I don;t know how old your T is, but is worth a try. FP ===================================== > Terri > http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport >I am meeting quite a few persons in the HBO2 chamber who all of a >sudden lost their hearing for unknown reasons and then tinnitus came. >They were fortunate because their doctors sent them to the HBO2 >treatment right away. Most of them do have recovered to various >degrees after a few days of treatment. I don;t know how old your T >is, but is worth a try. It would be interesting to talk to these people again in 12 months time. Tinnitus is a pain in the neck Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ http://meniere.eebee.net/ For email: elly at eebee.cjb.net > >I am meeting quite a few persons in the HBO2 chamber who all of a > >sudden lost their hearing for unknown reasons and then tinnitus came. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > It would be interesting to talk to these people again in 12 months > time. My ENT doctor in China told me that once the time is passed for deaf people, it is pretty difficult to revive the ear but tinnitus is different. He has treated people with many years of T and has scored a reasonable amount of success, according to him. The biggest successs has been in reducing the pitch of the tone, making it very tolerable for the sufferers. I think every new T sufferer should make an effort to get his or her T cured while settling into a mode of accepting. FP ==================================== > Tinnitus is a pain in the neck > Elly's Tinnitus Resources > http://eebee.net/ > http://meniere.eebee.net/ > > For email: elly at eebee.cjb.net >I think every new T sufferer should make >an effort to get his or her T cured while settling into a mode of >accepting. .................. I'll never "accept" mine. Habituate it? Sure. But accept it? No way. smn > >I think every new T sufferer should make > >an effort to get his or her T cured while settling into a mode of [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > But accept it? No way. Have you found out the cause of your T yet? FP ======================================== > smn Tinnitus is commonly found in persons with hearing loss but you can have tinntius without hearing loss. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com >> >Views, please. >> > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> Terri >> http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport Thanks for the idea, FP, but I've been deaf for over 40 years. I started noticing the T about 30 years ago. Terri http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport > I'm deaf and have tinnitus. The hearing loss came first and the > tinnitus followed. How do you cope? You can't even use external noise sources can you? Have you seen the devices used to send impulses to the brain so one can hear again? >> I'm deaf and have tinnitus. The hearing loss came first and the >> tinnitus followed. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Have you seen the devices used to send impulses to the brain so one can >hear again? I cope by realizing there is nothing I can do about it so I accept it as "normal". Nothing masks the sound and some days are worse that others, but I do not react to it any more than other continuous "pain" like an arthritic ankle, etc. I am aware of cochlear implants and have been evaluated for one and will go that route when I am no longer able to perform my job using speechreading. Terri http://pub219.ezboard.com/btinnitusactivismandsupport |
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