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Miffed

Miffed

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I am constantly getting real loud ringing in my ears, I called Diabetes UK about it but they said it was not a common problem, does any one else suffer from that? It's so loud :(
 
Welcome. Other agreeing with them, no I have not. Though just want to say , it is quite easy to try and blame everything on Diabetes.
 
It could just be ear wax interfering with the ear drum? Does it appear to improve if other noises are going on? If so, then it probably is just that. Well, it was for me (except mine was more a loud hum than a ringing).
 
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I had ringing in one ear, off and on, for over a year, more pronounced when i was stressed or tired. I get bouts of high BP . , Then the other ear decided to join in. It got more frequent and it was pointed out to me that the TV was getting turned up and up. I went to Boots & had a free hearing check, they determined something not quite right, so had hearing test via Dr/Hospital for more advanced test. Now i wear hearing aids in both ears - Lost the 'high frequencies'

My tinnitus subsides when i wear them. (i was told, this is because the brain has something finally to 'listen' too). When i dont wear them, the high pitched whine in my ears returns, sometimes unbearably... You do learn to block it out at times, but sometimes i just doesnt go away... was told by the audiology dept, that tinnitus can be a pre-cursor for hearing loss.

I liken it to listening to one person in a very crowded room, fully of chatter, clinking glasses/cutlery crashing about, and you are focusing on the voice of the person you are talking to - you hear the background din but you fade it out in your head - tinnitus is like that, sometimes you can ignore it, sometimes you cant.

I would suggest go have a hearing test - just to be clear. Have BP checked too if its not been done for a while.
 
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Tee G said:
I liken it to listening to one person in a very crowded room, fully of chatter, clinking glasses/cutlery crashing about, and you are focusing on the voice of the person you are talking to - you hear the background din but you fade it out in your head - tinnitus is like that, sometimes you can ignore it, sometimes you cant.
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My brain works differently. It's the person's voice which fades out, all I can hear is the background din!!
 
haha Andy - we are all different i guess 😉..
 
Hi miffed. I have it as well. It is called tinnitus and only somebody else who has it has any idea of what living with it is like. Go see your gp and he will look in your ears and if he can't see anything he will probably send you to see an ENT person. Chances are they won't find anything either. That is a bit of a relief in a way because it means there is nothing sinister going on although it means there is not a lot that can be done about it.

Out of interest, did it start up around the time when your diabetes was diagnosed?
 
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Hi miffed. I have it as well. It is called tinnitus and only somebody else who has it has any idea of what living with it is like. Go see your gp and he will look in your ears and if he can't see anything he will probably send you to see an ENT person. Chances are they won't find anything either. That is a bit of a relief in a way because it means there is nothing sinister going on although it means there is not a lot that can be done about it.

Out of interest, did it start up around the time when your diabetes was diagnosed?
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No long after, it started Friday last
 
Andy HB said:
It could just be ear wax interfering with the ear drum? Does it appear to improve if other noises are going on? If so, then it probably is just that. Well, it was for me (except mine was more a loud hum than a ringing).
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It's all day and night, so loud sometimes I can't hear anything else, it's very disturbing, Im trying to get to see the doctor but they are all on lockdown and their waiting lists have tripled.
 
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No long after, it started Friday last
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I asked because my tinnitus started at the same time as I was diagnosed with diabetes, some 12 years ago. At the same time I acquired a nystagmus - a weird twitching of the eyes. Its only recently that the idea they are all related and due to a single cause, a mitochondrial disorder has surfaced. This is currently being investigated.

As for the tinnitus I have come to the conclusion that you have to learn to live with it. If you read around you will find lots of stuff suggesting things you can do but nothing has really worked for me.
 
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I asked because my tinnitus started at the same time as I was diagnosed with diabetes, some 12 years ago. At the same time I acquired a nystagmus - a weird twitching of the eyes. Its only recently that the idea they are all related and due to a single cause, a mitochondrial disorder has surfaced. This is currently being investigated.

As for the tinnitus I have come to the conclusion that you have to learn to live with it. If you read around you will find lots of stuff suggesting things you can do but nothing has really worked for me.
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Its awful, I hate it...
 
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Its awful, I hate it...
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Yep, and for what it is worth, you can rest assured you are not alone. Can you listen to stuff on earphones? Mine does subside when I have something else to focus on. It's one of the techniques that you might come across if you start researching it.
 
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Yep, and for what it is worth, you can rest assured you are not alone. Can you listen to stuff on earphones? Mine does subside when I have something else to focus on. It's one of the techniques that you might come across if you start researching it.
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Yes but it's always there, some people are saying its 5G which has just been turned on apparently,I was just readying about it, I cannot concentrate

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The chances of it having anything to do with 5G are so remote it does not bear thinking about.

If you want good info then check out the Tinnitus site - https://www.tinnitus.org.uk . There you will find good information.

If you can, get it checked out by a doctor. There is a small chance that it is something stupidly simple, like ear wax build up, which can be cleared up very quickly.
 
Docb said:
The chances of it having anything to do with 5G are so remote it does not bear thinking about.

If you want good info then check out the Tinnitus site - https://www.tinnitus.org.uk . There you will find good information.

If you can, get it checked out by a doctor. There is a small chance that it is something stupidly simple, like ear wax build up, which can be cleared up very quickly.
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Ultra low frequencies and microwaves are not good for the body at all, the height of their antennae is also much lower than what we have been used to. 5G waves find it more difficult to get through buildings.

I never rule anything out, but it does seem a bit weird that the ringing in my ears started around the time 5G was turned on where I am.

Diabetes could also be the cause, diabetes thickens the blood as you probably already know, apparently it makes it more difficult to navigate the smaller blood vessels around the ear.

But I live to learn!
 
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