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Any advice or tips welcome feel like im going mad

In Tinnitus symptoms asked on 12 Oct 2008

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Tinnitus symptoms
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Worked in heavy engineering all my life,im 40 years old.tinnitus has got a grip and getting me down big time.used hearing protection for the last few years ,but like an idiot for years i thought i would be ok without it...wrong.stuck in a noisey job and cant afford to re-train.Ive got 4 children and a mortgage.bleeting on feeleng sorry for myself.Under the hospital for hearing loss.cheer me up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Hi Rob.
In yr situation you probably need direct advice more than anything.
So - heres one contribution anyway..
1. Distract yourself from it. Work out in yr day how and when you can create and engage distracting activities. Walking, sports talking socialising etc etc.
2. You should consider noise generating software, hardware to play in background to mask 'T'. Could use in headphones instead of protectors at work?
Theres a free one on the net - google, Aire freshener - or here for a good one. - http://www.vectormediasoftware.com/tinmaskerhome.htm
3. Speak to yr doctor soon about TRT therapy - considered to produce gd results by many.
4. My own method. I have moved my conscious mind with all my life files over to the left leaving 'T' away over there on its own. I work to reduce my emotional connection to it to zero. The worse; the harder I look the other way.
Hope something here helps. Dont get down thats what it feeds on!
Yrs Aye

from robbi, 18 Oct 2008

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Hi Rob.
In yr situation you probably need direct advice more than anything.
So - heres one contribution anyway..
1. Distract yourself from it. Work out in yr day how and when you can create and engage distracting activities. Walking, sports talking socialising etc etc.
2. You should consider noise generating software, hardware to play in background to mask 'T'. Could use in headphones instead of protectors at work?
Theres a free one on the net - google, Aire freshener - or here for a good one. - http://www.vectormediasoftware.com/tinmaskerhome.htm
3. Speak to yr doctor soon about TRT therapy - considered to produce gd results by many.
4. My own method. I have moved my conscious mind with all my life files over to the left leaving 'T' away over there on its own. I work to reduce my emotional connection to it to zero. The worse; the harder I look the other way.
Hope something here helps. Dont get down thats what it feeds on!
Yrs Aye

from robbi, 18 Oct 2008

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