[jambutty]

Originally Posted by steeljack

ok, I'm approaching the big 60 later this summer, and I'm begining to wonder if the sporadic 'whistling' noise I sometimes get in my left ear is Tinnitus or just a sympton of getting older or could it be a reaction to blood pressure/cholesterol meds I take . Any other "coffin dodgers" have this problem ?.
Should mention I have spent all of my working life in Boiler/steel fabrication shops where the noise levels are pretty high, the scary thing about it is the TV level ....when I turn the TV on in a morning it blasts out , set from the previous nights level when the set was turned off .
Any other walking wrecks have this problem ? or anyone have a solution ?
MargaretR .........a special herbal remedy ?

thanks ....

Having already galloped past sixty and seventy I can identify with your ‘problem’ even to the extent that I too imbibe a selection of blood pressure/cholesterol pills and worked for much of my life in an above average noisy arena. Identifying with you even closer I suffer from tinnitus in my left ear as well. But late in the day I get tinnitus in my right ear too but that is in a slightly lower pitch.

Plus that during the evening I also have to turn the TV sound up past what would be considered as normal to hear what is being spoken. Strangely when I listen to the radio I can have the sound turned right down and still hear the music quite well. But with the radio I have greater control over the quality of the sound in that I can reduce the bass content thus allowing higher frequencies greater prominence.

Until recently I had an old portable TV which when I watched and listened to it I didn’t need to turn the volume up.

In a quiet room I can actually hear a pin strike the carpet after it has been dropped. Yet if the radio or TV is on at a normal level or I am amongst ambient noise like traffic noise, I have great difficulty in hearing someone speak to me.

I’ve learned to live with it after waiting for more than ten years for my tinnitus to be ‘investigated’ by the audiology department at my hospital.