I have the ringing
Posted By: MTinNC on 2008-10-01
In Reply to: tinnitus - medmaw
constantly and it may be a little worse in the last few years from the MT work, but not sure. I've had it so long, I don't even pay attention to it until I lay down at night.
Something that may help you, which I did after attending a concert last weekend: My ears rang louder than usual for maybe 12-16 hours after the concert, and they were sensitive to noise, so I put cotton in my ears while working around the house for a few hours. I think it helped quite a bit to give them a rest. The ringing was back to my normal level after a few hours of quiet.
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I have both ringing and hypersensitivity from TMJ ...
and my hearing is excellent. While ringing may be associated with nerve deterioration or damage hearing loss, it's not ALWAYS associated with either. In TMJ, it's a secondary effect of the muscle tension (though there is a vicious cycle aspect to TMJ).
Get checked by an ENT for all the usual and TMJ. Night guards are a life saver by preventing jaw-locking (and also thereby preventing eventual tooth loss from periodonal disease which is a big money saver and pain avoider.)
The hypersensitivity is called "hyperacusis" and is truly a very strange sensation. Avoiding loud noises helps a great deal but I was told that using ear protection routinely actually tended to make it worse. I wear my headphones (stethescope) model as little as possible because -- much as I love them -- they do exacerbate end of the day waves of tinnitus. Neck stretching helps me some times as often does soothing sounds (soft pretty music) and deep "relaxation" breathing. Good luck.
No, acutally it is have the phone ringing
close to you and the dictation has to keep going so it is unable to be heard OR answer your cell phone in the middle of your dictation and just hang it up then, we understand.
I was trying to take a nap and was so ANNOYED cause phone kept ringing.(sm)
I was so mad, said WHAT is going on here? Got up and listened to messages. My friend said something about praying for those people on the plane. Had no clue. Some of those things you'll never forget. BTW, used to live in NJ and always wanted to work in NY but never did.
Sometimes if I can't get off I say, "I"m sorry. My business line is ringing. Can I call you
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I love it too! I have my emails from work make a ringing tone
and pop up on my desktop,much like Yahoo messenger or IM. It's great. Never miss an email and can respond right away.
Oh, forgot to say all the phones ringing, overhead speaker blurting out pages, background talking
dictator's cell phones ringing, kids yelling from dictator being at home, machines in the ICU beeping off and on during the entire dictation, saws going from casts being removed nearby, and you can just imagine all the other noises such as nose blowing, sniffling, chomping on food while dictating, and on and on. EXSpeech doesn't like those noises, so the machine lets the MT"s transcribe those YUKKY reports all day long and all night long. Exspeech gets the good guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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