I have not been here in awhile
April 28, 2008 3:16pm
I am really NOT doing any better. I have kind of given up on the demag thing and hope for something else. Work has kept me really busy. Some days are …
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I am a psychology instructor who has had tinnitus a long time, but a few months ago it got a lot worse. I love singing. I have a wife, Nancy, whom I live with. I have one natural daughter and a natural grandson and some lovely stepchildren and stepgrandchildren. I believe in doing the best you can with what God gave you.
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Singing, camping, and reading. I watch the Discover channel a lot. I like things also about the supernatural, but don't go overboard with it. I just kind of keep an eye on it. I like trivia, esp. about music from the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Old classical rock is my favorite, but I also like anything from George Jones to Weezer. I am also looking into alternative medicice for things.
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Loud tonight but my health is better
April 16, 2008 11:42pm
Although I am making improvements in my health which makes the T more tolerable, it is so loud tonight, for the first time in over a week, that it is …
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improving
April 15, 2008 4:32pm
Wow, for a few days I was doing well; the T was low grade and I went for long stretches without noticing it. It is louder again but not as bad. In …
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Rocking along - 4/08
April 8, 2008 3:01pm
The demag - well, the jury is still out, but I do have hope. I seem to be habituating somewhat, and I could swear that at times, the sound is lower. …
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4/2/08 Wednesday - seeking a demag
April 2, 2008 9:57am
The tinnitus contiues but I am habituating a little better. I slept pretty good last night. I looked in two Wal-Marts and a Radio Shack …
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thanks for asking it went ok ive to go back in two months if its any worse he will send me for an mri scan but he def thinks its tinnitus and i will just have to live with it but he told me not to use an mp3 player
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Hi Greg, I am happy that you are close to Emory, it will make it much easier for you if you decide to go with the TRT therapy. I live about 500 miles away, and I have an appointment about every three months but for the help it is giving me , it doesn't matter I would go a thousand miles. My T was very quiet for the first 6 years that I had it. I had a bad head trauma that caused it. Last year I had surgery,and took a lot of antibotics and that's when it started up louder. I have it in the right ear and sometimes in the left but not to often. I know the TRT is helping me because sometimes when I wake in the morning I forget to put my generators on. I always sleep with a sound machine on , I like the sound of rain best. Never stay in complete silence, always have some sound on , a radio ,television CD ,something to distract you. I have sound all around my house and when I'am in the car. Never give up hope, because there is help for us, some people say that you have to learn to live with T. That's not true, you can learn to habitate to the noise so that it won't bother you and that's what TRT is all about it won't cure it but it will make your life 100% better. Take care and let me know how you are doing. God Bless Fall
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Hi Grego, TRT therapy is a therapy to re-train your brain to not hear the Tinnitus. It could take up to two years, but it's worth it. I went to Emory University in Atlanta to see Dr.Jastreboff he is the inventor of the ear generators that you use in the therapy. What the generators do is emit a soft soothing sound that mixes with your tinnitus, to help habitate your brain so that you don't notice or hear the Tinnitus unless you listen for it. I have been on the therapy since Oct. of 07. It's been about 5 months and I find my T is a lot lower in tone and most days I don't even think about it. The ear generators look somewhat like hearing aids,but they emit a pleasant sound that is very soothing. The phone number to the Tinnitus Clinic at Emory is 404-778-3109 Give them a call , You'll be glad that you did, it has helped me tremendously. Insurance usually doesn't cover the cost of the generators, they cost me around $3,000 for the pair,but it was worth every penny., I was going crazy from the noise, I know what you are going through. Good luck. If you want to talk I am here for you. Fall
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hi grego your tinnitus sounds just like mine.
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I got tinnitus about 20 years ago. It was not bad and I got used to it. Back in 11/07, one night after my wife and I went out to eat, it got worse. I was taking stuff for what I thought was the flu including some antibiotics. In February my sinuses were scoped out bc an ENT told me the tinnitus was made worse from stopped up eustachian tubes. The surgery has not really helped. Sometimes it gets better but never for long. It is loud and high-pitched. It scares me.
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