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Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a phenomenon of the nervous system connected to the ear, characterized by perception of a ringing or oscillating (often percepted as sinusoidal) sound in the ears. This sound may be quiet, or loud enough to drown out all outside sounds. Tinnitus can be caused by the following things:
- A sudden loud noise,
- Hearing loss (20 per cent of cases: chronic noise damage and presbycusis),
- Head injury (especially basal skull fracture),
- Drugs: aspirin overdose, loop diuretics, aminoglycosides, quinine,
- Temporomandibular and cervical spine disorders,
- Suppurative otitis media (also chronic infection and serous OM),
- Otosclerosis,
- Ear wax,
- Meniere's disease,
- Impacted wisdom teeth,
- Hypertension and atherosclerosis,
- Acoustic neuroma,
- Palatal myoclonus (objectively detectable),
- Arteriovenous fistulae and arterial bruits (objectively detectable),
- Severe anaemia and renal failure,
- Glomus jugulare tumours (objectively detectable),
- Stress and depression
Some types of tinnnitus can be treated while others become permanent and very annoying to its host. Under these circumstances, silence become painful, and the host may have to generate artificial noise that drowns the tinnitus sound in order to fall asleep.
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Inner ear | List of diseases | List of diseases with short names | List of rare diseases/T | List of rare diseases starting with T | Middle ear | Outer ear
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Tinnitus
jakersb@aol.com - September 15th, 2006
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I recently got tinnitus from prolonged use of pain killers, and i have since discontinued use of the painkillers but the tinnitus has not decreased at all. It has become very hard to concentrate on work and fall asleep at night. I was wandering if there is any encouraging words you could offer me as to when and if my tinnitus will go away. thank you.
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