Study finds women who drink more coffee have less tinnitus

[Black]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles...nfid=78096

[deckeda]

Read the link but missed why caffeine's stimulus might "focus" or reduce tinnitus.

I'll "get" (or experience) tinnitus in one ear about once every other month? for like 10 seconds. Really weird.

[Mini 9]

is this a big deal/issue?

[Black]

Mini 9 wrote:
is this a big deal/issue?

You were probably too busy starting new threads to read the past threads on tinnitus.

[Paul F.]

If you have a permanent "ring" in one or both ears (like I do in my left ear), yeah, it's a moderately big deal. It sucks!

If it's caffeine that "helps", I've got my choice - lots of caffeine, and suffer my heart having 1-2 "PVC's" a minute, or tinnitus.

[Mini 9]

I have had 90% hearing loss in one ear, ringing in other for about 40 years. I pay no attention to it.
I would not say busy (threads) but it's well within possibility that I had no basis to think this was related to a prior conversation. THis, i think is a downfall of how phorum is configured here. why start a new thread when one could keep an older thread alive?

[RAMd®d]

why start a new thread when one could keep an older thread alive?

Because threads that gp on and on on and on and on and on and on and on when they should have died a natural death are annoying at best.

Even worthwhile threads degenerate into stupid lame humor or somebody answering a question that was answered years ago and hasn't been asked since… They get stale and need to be replaced.

I have tinnitus in both ears, more severely in the left. It has two levels- a constant ringing in both ears that will randomly (and somewhat frequently) ramp up louder, reminding me that I'll never get used to it, just as I'm about to think I am.

Some people react very poorly to severe cases. I do remember what it was like not to have it, and I miss those days. It's been over 40 years for me, and I see no sign of ever being comfortable with it.

[Paul F.]

I can look up the exact day, and time, I got Tinnitus in my left ear..
It was during a rifle competition. I had "slipped" my hearing protection off my left ear to talk to a shooter to my left, when a shooter to my right (several positions down) fired his rifle (with a muzzle brake that directs an inordinate amount of the noise sideways, towards me at that moment...).
Left my ear ringing, and three days later, I concluded that it wasn't going to stop. And it hasn't.

The "bright side" is I have now become the "hearing protection nazi" for the gun club, and try to keep other people from hearing damage.

FYI; Electronic "earmuff" hearing protection with built in amplifiers and volume controls (blocking the loud sounds, while amplifying conversation) are SO very worth the money!
If you work in a loud environment where you have to converse, or hear people, and still protect your hearing - don't be a fool, buy a pair!

[deckeda]

Paul, I concur ... hearing damage can occur when we "least" expect it, or in my case, when I should have known better. Standing about 2 ft. from a P.A. during a show. that ear has had reduced hearing sensitivity ever since. But the very temporary, tinnitus in the other ear is a mystery.

[Paul F.]

Oh, I definitely knew better... I was wearing ear protection! But I got sloppy, and slipped it off my ear to talk...
I don't do that any more (not since going 100% electronic muffs, most times OVER earplugs - at least one plug in my RIGHT ear... trying to keep one "good ear".).

And your temporary tinnitus does sound odd... (no pun intended there...).