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Someone here may know a little about tinnitus. Here's a link to read.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/...to-reduce-ear-ringing/?mc_cid=7f0d1afb8e

Interesting, mines not bad but sure wish I had worn hearing protection when I was young.

Yup

I’m with ya👍

The earplugs the USAF issued in the 1970s were worse than useless- - - -made us think we were doing something to save our hearing!

Have issues, but it sounds like a field full of crickets. Fortunately, that's a pleasant background.

Growing up on a Skeet and Trap range, without the proper hearing protection, and being the puller, when I was not shooting, I suffer from it big time.

For me, it's either listening to hundreds of sparrows chirping their brains out in the distance, or a very high-pitched continuous buzzing. I have had it for many years and have even forgotten what silence sounds like, it must be very nice.

I have looked high and low for a cure and there is no cure as far as I know. If I drink my Tinnitus gets louder.

Rock and Roll stars and people who play in bands suffer from it badly too. It really sucks, but you learn to live with it since there are no other options.

The person who discovers a cure is going to be one very rich individual, that's for sure!

Interesting read. I got it bad, and it's ALL the time! Too many years drilling holes in concrete with hammerdrills to anchor the electrical work I was installing.

Got mine from my Mom. I just learn to live with it. It does get worse when my BP is getting too high, some will say that doesn't happen, but they are wrong in my case.

With today's loud music, in 20 years 95% of the younger set will have it. Ear buds are especially bad because they can be way too loud and the ears will adjust...until they don't.

Mine is just a shrill pitched note all the time,too many years diving,too many years piledriving.

2 Live Crew ruined my hearing

Gunfire, Rock ‘n Roll, power tools. The sounds of freedom. Now mostly Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Have it slightly, sometimes not at all. Had it bad for a couple months when it started.

Always wore ear plugs even when doing mundane things like mowing or shooting 22 from the time I was old enough to know better because I seen too many older guys that couldn't hear from doing a variety of things, including my Dad.

Never had an issue and always good hearing. It took just a single unexpected shot in underneath a shooting house, from somebody else using a 220 swift when I was way too close to the muzzle and no ear plugs in. Left ear was towards the muzzle. It rang after words, and couple months later all of a sudden started ringing constant at a decibel level I didn't know was possible. I was in misery for about 2 months. I'm very thankful it's gone or near gone most days. I'd of about done anything to make it stop when it was bad.

Way to many charge 7 white bag for me. Basically deaf in both ears. Tinnitus is horrible raven with deafness.

Doesn’t seem as bad since I stopped drinking. Also, hearing aids help. Just realized mine’s barely noticeable at the moment.

History like many, shooting at a young age, duck blinds at a young age, pistols without hearing protection (including my unit’s pistol and skeet teams while in the Navy…no one wore hearing protection in those days.)

A career in manufacturing didn’t help. I’m surprised mine’s not worse than it is.

Sorry, maybe I'm overlooking an obvious, but what is that?

Led Zepplin, too much M-16’s and M-60’s is my excuse. I used muffs when shooting rifles and pistols but didn’t while hunting until my first rifle fitted with a muzzle break. I found out the hard way when I shot a bobcat with my 300 mag. I blew the bobcat in half but he still came out ahead in the deal.

I have constant super high pitched ringing in my ears that, honestly, doesn’t bother me all that much. HOWEVER,
at times it goes into overdrive with a much lower pitched ringing that drives me crazy. Feels like my heads going to explode from the noise. It will last about 2-3 days and nights and goes away eventually. I have to give myself a pep talk…”Come on old man…you’ve been through this many many times…you know it’s not fatal and it’ll eventually go away..” I cannot sleep at night and cannot concentrate at all for the ringing in my ears, mostly in my right ear. It happens once a year or so. Last week was when it happened for me. I had to get up at 3AM two nights in a row to just walk outside, look at the stars and get my mind off the noise. I’ll take an ambien to go to sleep but many times the ringing is just too loud for it to work…and Ambien works like a charm usually.

Triggers for me: aspirin, which is a known trigger for tinnitus. Continued stress of some sort. Congestion in my head (last week). Loud noises don’t trigger it for me, nor does caffeine.

The old saying regarding the level of ringing in your ears….if it’s too much, etc…is standing in the shower. Does the water drown out the noise in your head? If so, you have a mild case. If it doesn’t…you have a bad case.

God bless you guys who, like me have it. Do everything in your power to lessen your exposure to loud noises of any types.

A buddy who’s land we duck hunt asked if we would bring his friend out duck hunting. Sure. We put him in the middle seat of the boat blind and established fields of fire. First duck is off the stern (my cone) and I miss twice. Dumbledorf can’t wait until it reaches his fof and touches off a 3.5” 12ga at 13” from my ear. Worse, he was shooting a short barreled ported Mossback 935. Oct 3, 2019. A thousand crickets ever since. Sucks.

When my older son was about 10 we were out in the woods one day. He said “it sure is peaceful out here.” I said “yeah, nothing but the crickets.” He said “what crickets?”