Tinitus - A terrible endless problem
Autor: Bosco Esmeraldo | Publicado: 2008-08-02T01:30:00-07:00

I have tinnitus. Big deal!But what is tinnitus?According to article published by the Ruben Berta Hospital, tinnitus "is a kind of hum experienced by some people. It consists in the sense of perceived noise inside the ear, in the absence of an external source of sounds. It may be related to excess ear wax, infections in ear canal, stress, use of drugs affecting the internal structures of the ear, continuous exposure to noise, among other causes.Sleep Disorders are common in people who have tinnitus, as researchers note of the German University of Regensburg. In turn, not yet known whether the inconvenience of sleep is caused by an abnormal reaction to the perception acoustics.The trouble of sleep associate themselves to significant deterioration in quality of life, worse than the symptoms of patients with tinnitus. The research assessed the relationship between one of the most common disorders of sleep, insomnia, and the sensation of tinnitus in the ear. Were included in the analysis thirteen people hospitalized, who had coexisting symptoms of insomnia and tinnitus, and other thirteen people, suffering from disorder of sleep only.The results released showed no differences in psychological structure, in both groups of participants. It was observed that the quality of sleep is worse among patients with tinnitus, compared to those who have only insomnia.The authors conclude that the coexistence of both diseases, requires imposition of appropriate therapy to improve the quality of sleep and promote the remission of hum headset. "Probably I have this much longer, but I realized this problem in the day I defended an "unconsistent thesis."In 1988 even when I still lived in Fortaleza – CE - Brazil, in the neighbourhoods close to Serrinha and Itapery and to a certain season I realized that the mosquito's cloud wich tormented us, suddenly had disappeared.I associated that event to the presence of crickets in my home (I had seen some into house). Then I deducted that there was a great incompatibility between the two classes of insects. I then spent to defend that crickets extermin mosquitoes. The curious thing is that no one challenged me. To strengthen my idea, as during the time we lived in that place, I never more had seen, heard or even felt the presence of mosquitoes.Later I moved from there to other neighborhood or cities, but the crickets had folowed me.Some days, being uncomfortable with that song for Cricket constant in my ears, inocently I asked my dear wife:"Honey! These crickets singing all the time to your ears, does not bother you?"I was surprised when she replied me that she did not hear any Cricket singing and that everything was in the most absolute silence. I kept about the idea of singing crickets and she assured me that there was no cricket singing at that moment.As the crickets continued nuisance and each day I was the highest intensity led me to believe that I was going crazy. I thought:"Oh my God!""And now? I must be getting crazy. "That's because I remember that for some time, is heard someone saying that who is getting crazy uses to heard crickets in one's head.So I decided to go for expertise. In Barbalha - EC, and shared that to Dr. Francisco Carlos, our friend and doctor of our family and reported everything was mading me afraid of getting mad. It's always good seek expert help and Dr. Francisco Carlos miraculously calmed me and guided me to a phonoaudiologue. Hearing tests and impedanciometry concluded that what I had was in fact an injury in timpanes a result of exposure to the environment remains hostile and unhealthy than 110 decibels on average over the 21 years I worked in the industry of refining, oil, despite abafadores use of noise together om the ear protectors.The Phono explained to me that the sounds of machinery, high frequency were recorded in my timpani as an audio CD. Similarly, as well as the CD plays what was written on it after being stimulated by a laser beam, so also my timpani reproduce the sounds recorded on them when stimulated by the ambient air on vibration.The worst thing is that there is no cure for this and we must accept and live with this problem while living or even to receive divine healing, receiving new timpani.The silence, sacred to the majority, is what I want less, since the "crickets" are intense in evidence. An environment with an ambient noise able to override the tinnitus is what I want more every day. For me, a good crop or music is something essential in my day-to-day.May the Lord God bless the abundant in everything.