[kj] Tinnitus (OT?)

[Greyson Stoehr]

Me...all those years of standing up front with my
camera equipment (RIGHT in front of the PA system) at
gigs totally left me with major tinnitus.

Now, many sounds are quite painful to me, including
soprano singing, some instruments, etc.  It's a bitch.

Greyson :?

> From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
> 
> Waitaminute, who else has got tinnitus? I must admit
> I've only been 
> skimming through Gathering posts these days.
> 
> I have tinnitus in my right ear and have done since
> about 1999. I take 
> a homeopathic "remedy" for it called --
> optimistically -- "RingStop." I 
> can't honestly tell if it's legitimately working or
> not, but it does 
> seem to tone it down a bit.
> 
> The things that make tinnitus worse, supposedly:
> loud music, alcohol, 
> salt, sugar and caffeine  --- basically, my entire
> life.
> 
> Fuck the world.
> 
> Alex in NYC
> 
> 
> On Friday, November 5, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Matthew
> Burke wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Random tinnitus thoughts:
> >
> > I'm only slightly affected, kind of a seaside
> whooshing in a quiet 
> > room at bedtime.  I remember coming home from
> shows as a lad and the 
> > ringing was so loud it prevented me from sleep.
> >
> > Pete Townshend said he thought he did a lot of
> damage coming home 
> > drunk and putting on the headphones to practice
> guitar.  It's harder 
> > to judge volume when you're smashed, s'why drunks
> talk so loud.
> >
> > Also, in the late 80's Townshend's hearing was
> supposedly so bad he 
> > could no longer play electric on stage, and in
> fact they needed to 
> > reorient the sound system so that all high pitches
> left the PA on 
> > stage right, furthest from him, because his doctor
> said one specific 
> > high tone could lose him his hearing permanently. 
> He seems to play 
> > with immunity now and I wonder what changed.
> >
> > William Shatner is also affected.  He claims
> before diagnosis, in the 
> > evenings, he'd search the house madly looking for
> a radio that was 
> > left on because he kept hearing the muffled sound
> of conversation 
> > somewhere in the distance.
> >
> > John Entwistle said he found relief at higher
> elevations, and on the 
> > drive back down the ringing would return.
> >
> > I have lists of boring facts in my head on almost
> any topic.
> >
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