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After seeing an MD and an ENT, I have no hearing loss. (ENT said I have great hearing and he can "guarantee" it was not from headphone use.) Have any of you had a similar experience? When I was taking the test I almost freaked out sitting in a sound booth trying to hear tiny beeps. Over exposure to microwaves-- I live damn close to a cell phone tower-- Do I want to open that box? This is my advice coming from a sufferer of 22 days.
1 No caffeine, sugar, alcohol, salts
2 Do not make it worse! Do not listen to music for extended periods and pay attention to how many decibels you are being exposed to during the day. Find yourself some nice earplugs and wear them when you can; it helps but you may not realize until later in the day.
3 Drink distilled water. Purchase yourself a nice fan or two, and get your body on a regular sleep cycle so when you go to bed you are ready to K.O. The ENT was all too willing to prescribe me an array of medication to help sleep at night/ deal with the ringing--- don't do that, it will only make you dependent, and wont fix anything.
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Last edited by dylanmj (11-01-2012 08:28:00)
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Dylan,
I think the cell phone tower is very unlikely to be an issue here. I suppose you live already near it for more than a couple of weeks, so it would be strange if it would have triggered your tinnitus only now. The association with your headphone use is much stronger, and this is likely to be the cause, whatever your ENT says. My tinnitus was caused with certainty by headphones as well, although in my case by in-ear headphones (ear-buds). With these, as well as with closed headphones, full pressure equalization in the ear is not possible anymore (even at low volumes), and this could trigger the tinnitus (I have discussed this in more detail in another thread regarding headphones and tinnitus). It is not a noise damage (so your ENT won't find anything wrong), but the missing pressure equalization due to the headphones has just confused your nervous system, and it has reacted to this with the tinnitus.
Even if you listen only for short periods to music, I would recommend not to use the closed headphones any more. Don't use headphones at all or open ones (I use the PX-100 by Sennheiser, which has very good sound quality and is portable as well).
Thomas
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