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Sadly, tinnitus never goes away. My personal experience is that the ringing or "whistle" will taper off the less I am exposed to loud noises. However, one loud noise event (i.e. a lawn mowing) will put it back into high gear. As everyone else has stated, hearing protection and more hearing protection. A rule of thumb is if you have to talk over the noise, it is time to get away or put on hearing protection.

None of these guys can hear...seems I like read something about it.

I have it too.

I heard that joE! White noise "maskers" are used to habituate one to the sound. Vide:

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/856916-overview

Me too. Too many dove shoots, rifle and pistol shots, starting and hot fueling A-4 Skyhawks for several years, and a lifetime of farming around loud tractors and other machinery.

Ken, I read that the "new" drug that is being touted on the info-mercials, Quietus, is just a rip-off. I was in hopes that it would me for real, but the reports are that it's just another marketing scam. The stuff is around $99 a bottle, as I recall, and they have a scheme to hook you into automatically receiving it and being billed, once you start with them.

Only time I don't hear it is when I'm asleep.

I spent a couple of years at Ft Sill, OK, the Artillery center. We shot regularly with, of course, no ear protection. I am now paying the price.

I strongly agree with Stan--medication touted to "cure" or lessen the ringing is pure snake oil. Nothing known to mankind can help. Perhaps some of the newest generation of hearing aids can produce enough volume and clarity of higher frequencies to hear them better. You'll get used to it--I've had it for 45 years. Though it's there all the time I seldom am aware of it. It has just become a part of living. Could be worse things to happen.....

Be advised, folks, that it's not just loud noise from firearms discharging that can wipe certain bands of hearing.
ANY loud noice, repeated often enough can cause damage.
Even constant background noise in the workplace (white noise) can wipe certain frequencies.
I lost part of my hearing to white noise,...six or eight ticker-tape oldie teleprinters clacking away hour after hour in a Communications Center. It was really noisy on Transmit, when I had an hour's worth of balled-up perf to send out. After several years of that, it dawned on me that I was experiencing "noise" and started wearing my civilan pattern hearing defenders in 1972. Had already lost some hearing, but didn't lose it all. Before I retired, I went thru the Medics and ended up(1988)with a hearing aid.
Odd thing is, that when it's quiet, I can hear well. When there is background noise (pub, background music, group gabble etc) I'm scrod.

I've lived with for 40yrs. Acquired it in the Marine Corps of all places! The VA gives me a few bucks a month for hearing loss and says they'll set me up with hearing aids whenever I want.

Thank you all for your input.

During my last audiometry the technician allowed me to record some of the sounds he uses to do the test and I have them loaded in my iPod and hear them before going to sleep. It has helped some and I only just started. I'll report later as to what the results are.

I'll keep taking care of what is left as per the advice.

Again thanks.

JC

Glad to see I'm in a good group with this problem. I've had several operations for a different hearing loss problem, helped some, but the ringing continues.