Interesting that you touch the subject. I suffer of Tinnitus during the
last 18 years. It is a high multiple frequency pitch (around 8kHz), in
both ears, in a sound intensity that looks like to be always above the
hearing sound level, all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days in a week.
Tinnitus is a perfect worker, never goes out for vacation, never sleeps,
never got sick and skip a day job... :)    I can hear it at the same
"audible" intensity in ANY sound ambient, blowing my window glasses with
my 400 Watts surround or in a complete silence, the tinnitus still there
all the time, as my forever partner.  There is no possible cure or
solution, since no science can explain exactly what is it or what causes
it.  I already made all the possible medical exams during years, not a
single possible clue.

Medical literature says hearing ringings or high frequency pitch (the
same as tinnitus) works like a red lamp at your car's panel, it
indicates something is wrong at your body, but other medical literature
also says that the "actual tinnitus" simple uses the same lamp but
doesn't mean the same problem.  It is the same as if the lamp's
transistor driver short circuit, you can search for the problem source
forever, not finding it.

I think this subject is totally valid to discuss, since it is known that
more than 30% of the population is suffering of this thing, and some
good discoveries are found here and there with natural medicine, plants
and so on.  I have been reading Internet about Tinnitus for years,
collected thousands of information. Most of them leads to recognize
patients with normal-high to high blood pressure, but it is not a rule,
lots of low blood pressure persons suffer of it also.

Tinnitus never was reported before 1982 or around. Some good percentage
of tinnitus patients used antibiotics and they are more sensible to sore
throat and flu viruses. It is a new disease that leads few people also
to act as crazy and some attempted suicide to get rid of it, terrible.
There is a special clinic in Georgia that helps strong and difficult
cases, not controlling it, but helping people in learning how to live
with it.

It also seems to be present in certain groups, and it is so spread that
it is impossible to say it is genetically transmitted. My mother has it
intermittently, as well my small daughter. My wife has is in low
frequency waves (as sea waves sounds), and talking about it around I
found out several, several friends and relatives that suffer from it
from years.

I already made some sound experiences, including white, pink and other
"color" noises, no result at all.  The only thing that changes the
tinnitus intensity during one or two seconds is when I bite, (forcing my
lower against upper teeth), as if the muscle activity around the ears in
some way causes this change. It is not related to reducing external
sound by collapsing ear canal or something like that. It is clear that
the tinnitus intensity was changed.

Interesting is that I can learn how to ignore lots of background sounds,
except for tinnitus. It looks like that it is generated far ahead of the
place where it can be ignored or controlled.

Again I am sorry by the long text, but millions of people are in search
for a cure, or at least to help in reducing this annoying noisy signal,
am I pissed off to not be able to use a Tektronix scope to locate the
source of it and cut some wires....  I simply can not remember anymore
how is a quiet and normal summer afternoon silence.

Wagner

Jinx wrote:
>
> From: Wagner Lipnharski
> >
> > Once at the new IBM building in Curitiba city (Brazil), it was installed
> > white noise generators to blast down room to room human voice.  White
> > noise is something your hearing can ignore, but it takes down a great
> > level of ambient sounds too.
>
> The same technique used to relieve tinnitus. The patient is fed white
> noise, which they soon become used to and ignore. As the volume of the
> white noise is gradually reduced over a period of time, it "takes" the
> tinnitus with it as the patient's auditory system adjusts