Is this tinnitus?

[JohnnyHF22]

Is it normal to hear ringing in ears for a short time after turning off the shower or turning off the fan? Also, I sometimes hear ringing but when I cup my ear with my hand my ear gets very quiet and no ringing. Is this tinnitus? Thanks for any help.

Johnny

[Dalubaba]

To Nancy T and W/a/J
I am  posting this message to settle the controversy over my nationality, my intelligence and importance of chochlier implant.
I am 78.
hI am from India. My mother lounge is Hindi (Indian national language) My English language may be atrocious, but I could pull on with such language-skill in my career. I started my career as  a medical representative and retired as as a depot manger after 37 years' service and did consultancy for 10 years with the same company.I was with the same company for 47 years.Please note my deafness started after I retired. I do not attribute my lack of skill because of my hearing. I am happy that I am successful in my career as I have a very wide circle of friends who are in medical profession.My son and my daughter are in medical profession. My other son is an engineer. I am self sufficient financially. So I can conclude that in spite of having Tinnitus and deafness coupled with age-related - macular disorder I am self contented.  
I sympathize with people affected by this constrain. However I have acclimatized with my condition and trying to converting my hobby of reading to something else like yoga, meditation, and holistic therapies.
I thank Nancy for being pragmatic and I assure WAJ that i do realize your views are correct and you have expressed your self in you own way.I am sure your intention was not to hurt anyone.
I am all for successful aural or optical transplant.However i had a bitter expedience of lens transplant, which is forcing me to read with a magnifying glass instead of regular glasses.I am told that i will have to stop reading as the deterioration of macula is progressing fast. I will be happy if you can suggest a treatment for Tinnitus.
I again thank Nancy T request WJA to ignore this controversy.I do wait for your suggestion for Tinnitus.

[Nancy T]

I don't get your analogy, but whatever.

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

Ok, an adult with 3rd grade reading skills is deemed as having "limited proficiency."

Kind of like saying Mt Everest is a hill.

[Nancy T]

W/a/J, I'm not disagreeing with anything you say about cochlear implants, etc., just that I would not characterize someone's skills with a second language (which, of course, English is to those whose first language is ASL or another sign language) as "atrocious" or "horrible," words that have a highly and unnecessarily negative connotation. Rather, I'd say something like they were "learning" the language or had limited proficiency, which is more accurate and less judgmental. Yep, I'm a PC-type person! :) Which simply means that I try to put myself in other people's shoes and respect them, and understand the reason or background behind their beliefs, behavior, skills, etc. But now I've got waaay off-topic.

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

Regardless if DaluBaba is a native English speaker or not, all statements I posted were true.

1) Cochlear implants are costly

2) DaluBaba's English skills are atrocious, regardless if he is deaf or a non-native English speaker.

3) Deaf people do have horrible English skills, written, reading and of course verbal. (It is a fact that the average deaf adult reads at the 3rd grade level.)

4) Deaf people do on average earn approximately 50% less than the hearing population.

5) If one was to calculate the cost to life time benefit ratios of a cochlear implant....  that would find that a cochlear implant is in fact one of the if not the best investment a person could make in their life time...

Period....

I agree with you, DaluBaba is probably not a native English speaker.  "Da Lu" spelled phonetically, means "China" in Mandarin Chinese, and "BaBa" spelled phonetically, means "Daddy/Father" in Mandarin Chinese.

So my guess is, Dalubaba, is of Chinese descent, and that his first language is Mandarin Chinese.

All a guess....

AuD. CCC-A

PS

"There is no treatment for tinnitus...." (Excerpt from Dalubaba) actually there are loads of treatments...  and sometimes, depending on the cause, there is a cure.

[Nancy T]

I would hypothesize that Dalubaba is not a native of an English-speaking country. Note that he/she has been deaf for 10 years but must be well over 39 years of age (thus must have had at least 29 years of not being deaf).

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

Sure cochlear implants are costly, but the benefits are obvious.

For example your English skills are atrocious, which is rather common for deaf people.

Secondly, in the US, the average deaf person makes 50% less than the hearing population.

So while your doctor is correct, cochlear implants are costly, they are probably the best investment any one could ever make.

[Dalubaba]

I have ringing sound (tinnitus)for the last 39 years,defnes since last 10 years.I am using hearing aid.There is no treatment for tinnitus.You can mask it bytapes of natural sound.This problem is genetic.My mother and my siblings have it.we are also hypo-thyrodic.Chochlio-implant is a costly and unguranteed surgery for deafness. quite coslt as well.that if what my ent doctor told me.

[johnnyflyhalf]

Why when you cover your ears does the ringing stop? Also, do hearing aids help?

Johnny

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

I doubt you focused on it in a noisy invironment you would be able to hear it. It is just the physicis of sound etc, that would not allow you to hear the tinnitus in such invironments.

90+% of all those with a hearing loss have tinnitus, so you are within the stats.

[johnnyflyhalf]

Thanks - yes I do have a small high frequency loss in one ear. You mean ear noise has always been there we just focus on it and hear it more. I usuallly don't sweat these things so I'm sure I'll habituate. Thanks for info.

Johnny

[Wear/a/Jimmy]

Yes that is tinnitus that you discribe.  Most people state that tinnitus flares up at night. The truth of the matter is, the tinnitus was always there, it is just that it was "masked" our covered up by environmental sounds such as the fan, the tv, ratdio etc etc.

(it is a noisy world)

So when you go to bed, you inter a silent world again, and boom, here comes the Tinnitus.   Another good example is, if you walk in to a walk in closet, and shut the door, you will notice the tinnitus comes back. That is because the clothes act like a sound damper, and the closet it very quite within it.

5 bucks says you have a hearing loss.  Go get tested and see what you find.

AuD.  ccc-a