Guest guest Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 It may help to know that the story you relate is a familiar one. This is tinnitus which can take many forms. As a child I had a kind of tinnitus that was something like the feedback from a radio or a microphone. It would come in loud at times and then fade away a bit. It wasn't till one day I mentioned "the noise" to my mother, who had no idea what I was talking about, that I realized it wasn't a part of normal everyday hearing. Children hardly ever bother to tell their parents about tinnitus because, as you say, they don't know any different and they are not terribly troubled by it. it's quite different for adults who acquire tinnitus. They experience it as a great intrusion and are often driven to despair by it. Is this temporary or will he have to find a way to get used to it? I would imagine he is already habituated to it - how could he not be? I think the neither to be dismissive of tinnitus nor to make to big a deal of it. There is very little that can ever be done to help and if your son suddenly gets the idea that tinnitus is something abnormal then he may start to get bothered by it. Personally, I haven't heard anyone who had tinnitus from day one who ever got rid of it. Just the form of the tinnitus tends to change from time to time as one gets older. Sometimes, if there is some improvement in the level of hearing, it can lessen the tinnitus - but there is no guarantee of that. Phil No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.7/620 - Release Date: 08/01/07 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Phil, Thank you for taking the time to reply. My son saw his Dr. who told me basically the same thing that you did. God Bless YouPhil <psmorris@...> wrote: It may help to know that the story you relate is a familiar one. This is tinnitus which can take many forms. As a child I had a kind of tinnitus that was something like the feedback from a radio or a microphone. It would come in loud at times and then fade away a bit. It wasn't till one day I mentioned "the noise" to my mother, who had no idea what I was talking about, that I realized it wasn't a part of normal everyday hearing. Children hardly ever bother to tell their parents about tinnitus because, as you say, they don't know any different and they are not terribly troubled by it. it's quite different for adults who acquire tinnitus. They experience it as a great intrusion and are often driven to despair by it. Is this temporary or will he have to find a way to get used to it? I would imagine he is already habituated to it - how could he not be? I think the neither to be dismissive of tinnitus nor to make to big a deal of it. There is very little that can ever be done to help and if your son suddenly gets the idea that tinnitus is something abnormal then he may start to get bothered by it. Personally, I haven't heard anyone who had tinnitus from day one who ever got rid of it. Just the form of the tinnitus tends to change from time to time as one gets older. Sometimes, if there is some improvement in the level of hearing, it can lessen the tinnitus - but there is no guarantee of that. Phil No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.7/620 - Release Date: 08/01/07 Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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