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molomaf
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 Posted - 08/13/2005 : 11:45:13
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I don't have tinnitus but my 90 year old mother-in-law does(She also has meniere's colitis and back pain). However, she doesn't believe that the noises are coming from her own head. She lives in an apt on the upper west side of Manhattan and believes that her upstairs neighbor is harassing her with some sort of machine that makes this noise every night. She cannot sleep. No one else hears the noises but that still doesn't convince her. Okay, she's not the brightest bulb. We have been there when she hears it and we do not. It is in fact amazingly quiet at night.
Can you have tinnitus just at night? Can it sound like it's coming from somewhere other than one's ear?
This has been going on for many many years so if it were a tumor, we would have known by now. She blasts her radio to annoy this innocent neighbor. I am afraid she is going to get kicked out of her apt.
TIA
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Laura
USA
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Posted - 08/13/2005 : 12:13:21
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Hi, Michelle,
No, I don't think you could have tinnitus just at night. It's just that at night time, you don't have the traffic noise, the noise of construction, the noise of people talking etc. so you are more tuned into it. When tinnitus was my main TMS equivalent years ago, I would notice it at night time more too because it was so quiet and because I felt alone with my thoughts. I have used a ceiling fan for years and it's just enough to help drown out the noise. The more you focus on the noise, like Cameroid was talking about in his post, the more amplified it becomes. It just gets louder and louder. Does your mother-in-law have a ceiling fan? Sounds like she's suffering from some dementia as well (like my father-in-law). Why don't you guys get a ceiling fan installed for her in her bedroom and tell her it will drown out the noise (even if she thinks it's coming from the neighbors it will still help to drown it out). They also sell white noise machines - someone gave me one and it different selections like the ocean, nature, rain, and then white noise.
Good luck!
Laura
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cameroid
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Posted - 08/15/2005 : 12:25:41
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| I don't have too much to add to Laura's comments, except to second the idea of running a fan (or some other noise generator) and to point out that, for very sound neurological reasons, tinnitus is one of the few conditions about which you can truly say: Ignore it and it will go away. But ignoring it is a pretty tall order. So, run a fan. |
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