The Forgotten Pilots of WW 2.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi JC (YOUR QUOTE I've been totally deaf with tinnitus )

I know exactly how that feels ,as I too have had that terrible Tinnitus for many Years (going on for 34 Years now) due to my time in the Gold Mines in South Africa and all the noise with the large Drills they used to make the holes for the Explosives!
I was lucky in a way that only one Ear was affected,but at times can drive one to Drink!
But funnily as you may know one seems to get used to it ,its mainly at Night when all is quiet that it is at its worst!

Its amazing that they have not found a cure for it! Oh there are some remedies that the claim to work,but alas none for me as yet!
Wearing a hearing Aid with a Tinnitus Aid does help a fair bit as the background noise sort of muffles that horrible ringing sound!
Oh well that's life as they say!
Many many much worse off than me~
Cheers

[John F Collier]

#11, Hi Doc I first noticed the tinnitus coming intermittently when I was in my twenty's one of the reasons I left the MN
was because of my deteriorating hearing, I left just before national service ended and had to go for a medical which I
failed on my hearing and so I didn't do national service. When I was a kid at school I found I was missing a lot of
what the teachers were saying, as parts of words were missing it seems that's how it goes with noise damage, in
those days after the war the attitude to things like that was vastly different from today and I kept it to myself, I was
often scolded as a kid for not listening "well kids don't do they" . They tried fitting me with two hearing aids about
1985 and when they were switched on it nearly blew my brains out with the tinnitus and extra noise I was receiving.
I could lip read very well even to the extent that I could tell an accent e.g Scottish, Irish or Welsh. Today my sight
is too bad for lip reading and I have tinnitus going through my head 24/7, I have learned to live with it as life must go on, as I am I think I cope with it ok and still enjoy my life and won't give in these things. Cheers JC

[Ivan Cloherty]

One of my daughters, a Doctor and Psychologist working closely with Harley Street Specialists says don't take any notice of these 'so called cures' because there are none, as she says would she let her poor old dad suffer 24/7 all the stress of tinnitus if there was even an inkling of a cure. I'm afraid we just have to live with it and to those who say 'Oh I know what its like, I had it for a few days' they really haven't got a clue, yes we learn to live with it, what option do we have, one I wouldn't contemplate but hundreds have because that is the only way to end it. Some said to me 'Oh I wear ear plugs for my tinnitus' I wonder what type of tinnitus he has, because the only one I know is internal and nothing alleviates the constant whistling drone with you 24/7

[Doc Vernon]

I have tinnitus going through my head 24/7, I have learned to live with it as life must go on, as I am I think I cope with it ok and still enjoy my life. Cheers JC
and I won't give in to these things

Ditto John C that's the way we are mate!
I only wear my Hearing Aid on occasions when I am with other People ,as I am deaf in one ear only!
What a mess LOL

One Ear
One Eye (bad sight in one only)

Gwad!!!!

[John F Collier]

One of my daughters, because the only one I know is internal and nothing alleviates the constant whistling drone with you 24/7

I understand and agree with all you say there Ivan, people do top themselves because of tinnitus and it can be a
huge distraction but you have to push it aside and occupy your mind with other things, I must say I am surprised
that you can go to rock n roll evenings as any noise aggravates it for me and brings it on with a vengeance. JC

[Captain Kong]

I dont have tinnitus, and those that have it have all my sympathy. I cannot imagine how awful it must be.

Mine is a simple one. If I shake my head, bells ring in my head, this only started about two months ago.

SHE says, "then stop shaking your head" but because it is there, I do.
Sorry to disrupt the conversation.
Cheers
Brian

[Doc Vernon]

Were you ever a Cow Herder Capt! LOL (Cow Bells) Sorry just had to!

[John F Collier]

I dont have tinnitus,
Mine is a simple one. If I shake my head, bells ring in my head,Cheers
Brian

Are you sure it's your ears Brian and not something come loose in there jangling about . Cheers JC
PS that is good advice from Ann.

[Captain Kong]

I must have whisky and water on the brain. I must stop drinking BELLS WHISKY
Brian

[Ivan Cloherty]

I understand and agree with all you say there Ivan, people do top themselves because of tinnitus and it can be a
huge distraction but you have to push it aside and occupy your mind with other things, I must say I am surprised
that you can go to rock n roll evenings as any noise aggravates it for me and brings it on with a vengeance. JC

John I still want to enjoy life, so go dancing including rock n roll and the music rarely aggravates it, occasionally it does but one must continue living whilst still active, my best friend younger than me also very fit and very strong had a stroke last week and is now paralysed and speechless, so you never know what is around the corner, you have to live for today. Although my tinnitus is very debilitating my hearing paradoxically is very acute and can hear things coming from a very long distance away