I think I need to give up Hi-Fi

[archiesdad]

My tinnitus is a high pitched whistle or whine, but also due to 30 years down pit my ears are in poor working order, so I wear a pair of hearing aids, modern digital aids only help the frequencies required(if set correctly) and will mine even improve the tv sound, a friends husband has constant tinnitus and has hearing aids to help dull it, no idea how it does but he reckons it works and can help him sleep. New hearing aids improved my HiFi immensely and didn’t cost me a penny, I don’t a record of the test results but life is so much better for me and my wife is happier now volumes are lowered. Worth getting a test?

[Pharos]

Although I have loss, I also have hyperacusis which has increased my sensitivity to ordinary noise levels, and street sirens or the announcements in Morisons really are upsetting, especially the screechy voices.

My inarticulate friends call me deaf, but I can hear the HD spinning on my Humax PVR from 12 ft, and they cant, so hearing is very personal and trained.

I am on Furosamide, and it is a pain in the pisser, but I'm reducing the dose.

I cannot see how hearing aids cannot interfere with Hi-Fi, yet another interface.

[hifi_dave]

There are other Diuretics which haven't got the nasty side effects of the Frusemide. Can't remember what the Consultant put me on instead but it worked and I didn't notice anything untoward.

[Shovel_Knight]

I damaged my left ear in my previous job. I was required to write a certain application which was supposed to play some sounds and alter the channel balance depending on the input, but it didn't work initially. I thought the volume on my headset was turned down and turned it way up. Nothing changed. I started debugging the application and when I found and fixed the bug, it played full blast into my headset because I forgot to turn it down

I still hear up to 17 kHz with both ears (and can hear my wristwatch ticking from another room) but I now have constant ringing in my left ear and it's really annoying, in fact my wife tells me that I have become much more irritable since then

[walpurgis]

I dozed off after lunch earlier and woke up finding my tinnitus whistling away like mad. I expect it will fade and go overnight. It's the first time I've had it for weeks.

[Pigmy Pony]

I damaged my left ear in my previous job. I was required to write a certain application which was supposed to play some sounds and alter the channel balance depending on the input, but it didn't work initially. I thought the volume on my headset was turned down and turned it way up. Nothing changed. I started debugging the application and when I found and fixed the bug, it played full blast into my headset because I forgot to turn it down

I still hear up to 17 kHz with both ears (and can hear my wristwatch ticking from another room) but I now have constant ringing in my left ear and it's really annoying, in fact my wife tells me that I have become much more irritable since then

Mrs. P has found that I have become less irritable since going part-deaf in my left ear. But that's because I always sit to the right of her

[Pigmy Pony]

I dozed off after lunch earlier and woke up finding my tinnitus whistling away like mad. I expect it will fade and go overnight. It's the first time I've had it for weeks.

Geoff, this is probably not related to any of this tinnitus, but I seem to remember you once mentioning how you found Amlodipine to be horrible stuff, and I never got round to asking you what the problem was.

[walpurgis]

Geoff, this is probably not related to any of this tinnitus, but I seem to remember you once mentioning how you found Amlodipine to be horrible stuff, and I never got round to asking you what the problem was.

Where do I start? Freezing cold extremities, disturbed sleep, inability to focus or concentrate on anything, disorientation and general weirdness. I felt as though I was being poisoned!

[Pigmy Pony]

Where do I start? Freezing cold extremities, disturbed sleep, inability to focus or concentrate on anything, disorientation and general weirdness. I felt as though I was being poisoned!

Apart from the cold extremities, the rest of it sounds like the story of my life. Probably due to other "medications" in my younger years Otherwise maybe just a dry mouth, but that could just my body's way of saying more beer please. So what alternative did they give you?

[Pharos]

Where do I start? Freezing cold extremities, disturbed sleep, inability to focus or concentrate on anything, disorientation and general weirdness. I felt as though I was being poisoned!

I currently take 7 tabs a day, and as a sufferer of Raynaud's syndrome one pill sotalol really makes my hands cold, and I lose feeling in them. The dose was halved because of this factor. Concentration is hard, and I get burning sensations and stings randomly over my body which also affect it.

Also involved is an increased sensitivity to UV both in the eyes and on the skin.

It seems to me that many of us are at an age such that ailments are causing us to be on pills.