does any body have any idea on how to get rid of tinnitus in the ear and what causes it?
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What causes tinnitus?\nThe exact physiological cause or causes of tinnitus are not known. There are, however, several likely sources, all of which are known to trigger or worsen tinnitus.\n\nNoise-induced hearing loss - Exposure to loud noises can damage and even destroy hair cells, called cilia, in the inner ear. Once damaged, these hair cells cannot be renewed or replaced. Millions of Americans have hearing loss due to noise exposure, and up to 90 percent of all tinnitus patients have some level of noise-induced hearing loss.\n\nWax build-up in the ear canal - The amount of wax ears produce varies by individual. Sometimes, people produce enough wax that their hearing can be compromised or their tinnitus can seem louder. If you produce a lot of earwax, speak to your physician about having excess wax removed manually-not with a cotton swab, but by an otolaryngologist (also called an ear, nose, and throat doctor).\n\nCertain medications - Some medications are ototoxic-that is, the medications are toxic to the ear. Other medications will produce tinnitus as a side effect without damaging the inner ear. Effects, which can depend on the dosage of the medication, can be temporary or permanent. Before taking any medication, make sure that your prescribing physician is aware of your tinnitus, and discuss alternative medications that may be available.\n\nEar or sinus infections - Many people, including children, experience tinnitus along with an ear or sinus infection. Generally, the tinnitus will lessen and gradually go away once the infection is healed.\n\nJaw misalignment - Some people have misaligned jaw joints or jaw muscles, which can not only induce tinnitus, but also affect cranial muscles and nerves and shock absorbers in the jaw joint. Many dentists specialize in this temporomandibular jaw misalignment and can provide assistance with treatment.\n\nCardiovascular disease - Approximately 3 percent of tinnitus patients experience pulsatile tinnitus; people with pulsatile tinnitus typically hear a rhythmic pulsing, often in time with a heartbeat. Pulsatile tinnitus can indicate the presence of a vascular condition-where the blood flow through veins and arteries is compromised-like a heart murmur, hypertension, or hardening of the arteries. \n\nCertain types of tumors - Very rarely, people have a benign and slow-growing tumor on their auditory, vestibular, or facial nerves. These tumors can cause tinnitus, deafness, facial paralysis, and loss of balance.\n\nHead and neck trauma - Physical trauma to the head and neck can induce tinnitus. Other symptoms include headaches, vertigo, and memory loss.\n\nThere is no cure, per se, for tinnitus in that there is no one magic pill that will make the millions of people with tinnitus no longer hear the noises in their ears and head. However, in some cases, tinnitus can be quieted. For example, some people have excessive earwax that blocks outside sound from coming in. When ear wax or any foreign object, such as a hair, touches the eardrum, tinnitus can be a result. By having a physician or audiologist remove the wax, the source of the tinnitus is also removed. Some people with severe hearing loss have found that a cochlear implant helps them hear the world around them, which in part makes the tinnitus in their heads much less noticeable. Neither of these examples is a hard and fast cure, but the examples do represent that relief is available and possible. \n Treatments: http://www.ata.org/about_tinnitus/consumer/treatment.html
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I have tinnitis. I lost it in the service working around helicopters. It is very annoying being 26. I also have high frequency loss in both ears, 6500K to 8000K. I have a tinnitis masker it makes white noise in my ear, and it is also a hearing aide cause it blocks sound with the "old style hearing aide" in my ear. \n\nThe constant ringing: lets see it makes it hard to go to sleep, some tv's annoy me cause of the increased ringing it causes in my ears. The doctor tells me if i wear my masker religously after 10 to 15 years, sometimes one can train the brain to not hear the ringing and only the white noise. Since i am only in a few years, I cant answer that well at all. Hearing loss is irreversible! Once damage is done it is done. I have dead spots where if people come up from behind me, i can't even hear them talking, which often spooks me and sometimes I have acutally hit them. \nIf you shoot guns a lot, usually you will get it in the left ear more so than the right. Wearing hearing protection for anything over 80 decibles is what keeps ones hearing good. If i dont use ear protection when using the vacuum, it makes my ringing in my ears louder and this takes several days to dissapate down to its "normal" level again.  Getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist with the ultra sonic cleaners.. OUCH! sends my ears into major ringing even with ear plugs... the high vibrations are transferred through my jaws to my ears. Anyways, if you want to talk about this, ya can IM me.. duhibrokeit2000. Wish ya luck, and sorry you have this as well.
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Audiologists often use white noise generators (known as maskers) to treat tinnitus. They generally look like hearing aids, either in-the-ear or behind-the-ear, and can generally be adjusted to mask the frequency of the tinnitus. Some patients find they make little difference, whilst others report enormous relief from the tinnitus.
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It sounds like tinnitus.  It can be caused by many things.  Everyone experiences it at one stage or another in life - like when coming back from a rock concert or something.  Some times it can be related to other health problems, so it might be worth a visit to the doctor to see if it can be linked to any other problems you may have.  \n\nIf it IS tinnitus, at this stage, there is no cure for it.  There are some drugs on the market, but some of the most well known like Trebonin are actually severely over-hyped and have not had the success they claim to have had.  I found this out from my doctor when I went to enquire about using it myself!
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I have it too from a car accident.  So far none of the things I have tried or places I have been sent have worked.  I think we are stuck with it.  One thing I do is put headphones on and listen to music when I fall asleep.  It sort of distracts me from the ringing.
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This question can't answered until you find out what has caused it.  The condition is called Tinnitus, and it is usually permanent, and nearly untreatable.  It is also usually progressive, meaning that it gets worse as you get older.  It is caused by the sensor hairs being permanently bent over in the cochlear section of the inner ear, or by nerve damage. See an audiologist, fast.  It can be brought on, or aggravated, by certain medications.  Ibuprofen and antibiotics make mine worse.  But the most important thing to know is; recognize if you are causing the damage yourself.  Do you work with power tools?  Shoot guns?  Play your stereo way too loud / in the clubs regularly or jam with the band unprotected?  If yes to any of these, then it is you that is causing the damage, and it will only get worse.  People have committed suicide because the noise drove them mad.  So; to sum up, get checked out, and take a close look at your habits.  Damage can occur in thousandths of a second, and once done, there is NOTHING that can be done to repair or heal it.
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have your ears checked by an EENT specialist.  you might have an inner ear infection or meniere's disease.  i also have the same problem for years already & the docs can't give a solution to it.
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It is not tinnitus.  TInnitus is described as any sound (usually ringing or buzzing) that you HEAR in your ear.  If you are FEELING a sensation then it is not tinnitus.  \n\nMy two thoughts are:\nIt could be a muscle spasm.  The stapedius muscle contracts in response to loud sounds to protect your hearing.  If you have been exposed to a loud environment (anything as loud as a lawnmower can cause hearing loss) then it could be having spasms from abuse.  Usually this would occur in both ears, unless there was an acoustic trauma to just the right ear.  The key here is to always protect your hearing by wearing hearing protection. \n\nThe eustachian tube could just be popping.  Some people can actually feel this (I can actually feel mine when it pops).  Do you have allergies or sinus problems?  Allergies are high right now, so that could be a cause.  \n\nMy advice is to see an otologist or otolaryngologist (commonly known as an ear, nose, and throat specialist/ ENT).  If you have never had a hearing evaluation that would be very important.  What concerns me is that you have it only in the right ear.  Best to have a doc check it out to make sure nothing serious is going on.
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Tinnitus is not easy to just get rid of.  You may be stuck with it for life.  It is usually a cochlear problem that is associated with hearing damage.  Tinnitus is a warning of something going wrong, and not usually the main problem.  Your best be is to be checked out by an Audiologist, to determine your next move.  \nThings to consider:  Is it in both ears?  Is it associated with dizziness?  Do you get a pressure feeling in one ear, especially the one with the tinnitus?  Do you have a one sided hearing loss?  If you answer yes to any of these questions, you really should go to an audiologist.\nBeyond that, studies show that if you intake a lot of salt and caffine this MAY be a cause of making the ringing worse.  Cut these out of your diet for a week or two and see if there is a difference.  You will know.  If you see anything at all, it may go away completely for awhile.  If the ringing keeps you up at night play a fan, radio, tv, or get one of those noise machines from bed, bath, and beyond (these are great!).  \nUnfortunately there is no pill or shot that can get rid of your tinnitus.  it is hard to study since the only person that knows its there is you.  \n\nGood luck.
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Don't use Qtips this will just puch it back in to your ear cannel farther, when mine get bad i go to the Dr. and they will clean it out for you.
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I have the same thing and I looked it up on the internet and a big cause of that is chocolate be cause of the caffine I qiute eating chocolate and dring decaf and stay away from alot of soda that has caffine in them there could also other reasons for it and it could be inner ear problems but I would go to the dr and find out what is causing it. I should take my own advise but I have a fear of drs, god bless.
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If you have the ringing in your ears you are probably gonna have it for the rest of your life!! just try not to listen to music real loud or if you go to concerts wear ear plugs or if you work around machinery then wear ear plugs as well. you can reduce the ringing but it wont go away. sorry!
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What is tinnitus?\n\nTinnitus is a ringing, swishing, or other type of noise that seems to originate in the ear or head. In many cases it is not a serious problem, but rather a nuisance that may in time go away. It is not a single disease, but a symptom of an underlying condition. Nearly 36 million Americans suffer from this disorder. In almost all cases, only the patient can hear the noise.\n\nWhat causes tinnitus?\n\nTinnitus can arise in any of the four sections of the ear: the outer ear, the middle ear, the inner ear, and the brain. Some tinnitus or head noise is normal. If for example, one goes into a sound proof booth and normal outside noise is diminished, one becomes aware of these normal sounds. We are usually not aware of these normal body sounds, because outside noise "masks" them. Anything, such as wax or a foreign body in the external ear, that blocks these background sounds will cause us to be more aware of our own head sounds. Fluid, infection, or disease of the middle ear bones or ear drum (tympanic membrane) can also cause tinnitus.\n\nOne of the most common causes of tinnitus is damage to the microscopic endings of the hearing nerve in the inner ear. Advancing age is generally accompanied by a certain amount of hearing nerve impairment, and consequently tinnitus. Loud noise exposure is a very common cause of tinnitus today, and it often damages hearing as well. Unfortunately, many people are unconcerned about the harmful effects of excessively loud noise, firearms, and high intensity music. Some medications (aspirin, for example) and other diseases of the inner ear (Meniere's syndrome) can cause tinnitus. Tinnitus can in rare situations be a symptom of such serious problems as an aneurysm or a brain tumor (acoustic tumor).
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Tinnitus is more of a ringing in the ear - Sounds more like a circulation thing - the blood vessels in the ear are some of the thin-est in the body. - even a slight constriction will sound like a drum - you're likely hearing the sound of blood trying to get through after every heart beat. - My mom had carotid surgery for blockage, and before she did the noise in her ear was deafening - she said it was like rushing water - actually kept her from sleeping. - I'd see a Dr. - Just to be funny, you could try some aspirin or Tylenol (thinner, anti-coagulant) and see if there's a difference. - If there is, it's probably a circulatory thing. - an ultrasound will confirm, but a Dr. should be able to listen with a stethoscope and get an idea if you've got some pathways that are blocked. - Do get it checked. - Depending on your age and health, blockages can lead to stroke. - Hope it's nothing at all.
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Find out why you are having it. Demend testing not just medicine to treat the symtoms. My doctor gave me an ENG and a tilt table test. There are also other medicines like transdermal scopolamine that works well, its a patch for the back of the ear and it stays on for 3 days. Also the meclizine works too. If its a problem in your inner ear there are surgical options to fix the problem if it gets so bad that you can't function. If you aren't satisfied with the treatment that you are getting from your doctor then see another doctor because you need to find out what is causing the problem.\n\nGood luck!
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1.  Try blow drying the ear gently.  It could be trapped water.\n\nor\n\n2.  Try a drop of rubbing alcohol in the ear a couple of times a day and give it a few days to work\n\nIf all else fails, it could be that soft wax has blocked the ear canal and it needs to be irrigated.  You can buy flush kits at the pharmacy, but it may be better to see your doctor
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Try dropping a few drops of rubbing alcohol in your ear.  Wait for a few moments, then tilt your head the other way and it should all come running out.