Treating Tinnitus with Medical Marijuana?

DaSleeper

DaSleeper

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After working in a noisy environment for 40 year I developed tinnitus.... to be able to sleep at night I have to play music at night or use an app on my phone called "white noise".....
I have to alternate between the two, because one or the other looses it's effectiveness...I use a small speaker in the pillow, so as not to disturb my wife.
During the day I can focus and after a while manage to ignore it.
If I'm focusing on the TV or reading a book, and my wife ore anyone else start to talk to me, I have to get her to startover because I missed the first few words because of the background noise.
She says I'm going deaf, yet I can hear things that she doesn't...
Just yesterday, I tell her..."your cell phone is ringing" ...She couldn't hear it above the TV ,...She had left it in her handbag in the entrance closet.
She argued with me that I was hearing thing until she looked at her phone and seen, one missed call in the previous minute.
I tried Gaba, Valerian, melatonin, unisom , to sleep good.
I have an appointment with my doctor thursday for my annual check-up and prescription renewal, I'm gonna ask him if he can prescribe medical cannabis....the edible kind...(Only need it to sleep and don' want to screw up my lungs.
 
DaSleeper

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They showed this on TV the other day as the most relaxing music...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcAVejslrU

So I downloaded it from Itunes on my Ipod for $1.29 and tried it in a continuous loop last night...

Seems to work......for now :lol:
 
MHz

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If any hippy has it then it doesn't work. That would seem to apply for any ailment/cure would it not?

You might find some relief in this playlist. Each is quite different but 15 min two times a week is suppose to eliminate it and even a short time there is supposed to be the largest improvement. My favorite seems to be more like Enigma music.
For my self it is hard to say as the tinnitus I hear is in my ear that is deaf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFG09IP5fw&list=RDPiFG09IP5fw#t=1707
 
bobnoorduyn

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Sounds like there're are a lot of tinnitus sufferers here. And I'm one as well after years of sitting behind or just ahead of very loud piston and turbine engines. I also did a lot of competitive shooting. Some days are worse than others. I've had two audiograms in as many years and have been told, surprise surprise, I have high frequency hearing loss. I have also told both doctors that I also have tinnitus, but that's okay because it drowns out the voices in my head. As far as I know there is no cure, at home I sleep with a CPAP machine, on the road I leave the fan on the heat/ac on. My biggest frustration is trying to carry on a conversation in a large group where the din on other conversations is just a bunch of noise. It makes socializing tough. At least at work I have control of the volume in my headset, but still I know there will be a time I will no longer be able to function. Yeah it sux.
 
DaSleeper

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bobnoorduyn said:
Sounds like there're are a lot of tinnitus sufferers here. And I'm one as well after years of sitting behind or just ahead of very loud piston and turbine engines. I also did a lot of competitive shooting. Some days are worse than others. I've had two audiograms in as many years and have been told, surprise surprise, I have high frequency hearing loss. I have also told both doctors that I also have tinnitus, but that's okay because it drowns out the voices in my head. As far as I know there is no cure, at home I sleep with a CPAP machine, on the road I leave the fan on the heat/ac on. My biggest frustration is trying to carry on a conversation in a large group where the din on other conversations is just a bunch of noise. It makes socializing tough. At least at work I have control of the volume in my headset, but still I know there will be a time I will no longer be able to function. Yeah it sux.
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I dunno if you are covered by workman's compensation where you work but it would be a good a good idea to do like I did before I retired,
I opened a tentative compensation claim on the advice of the audiologist because of the narrow frequency of my hearing loss he knew, before I told him that I worked on paper making machines, so that whenever I need them they will be fully paid for by compensation.
 
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Retired_Can_Soldier said:
Feel free to move thread if there is a more appropriate venue.

So that's the question really? Anyone heard of this? After 12 years in the Artillery, 18 years driving a transport I suffer from the worse kind of tinnitus and nothing seems to work. My hearing aids don't work, background noise like a fan offers moderate relief, but at times it can be absolutely maddening.

I am in a job that requires the transport of dangerous goods, so I am apprehensive about experimentation because I can be randomly tested. Something tells me it may be an effective treatment, but I don't know if tinnitus qualifies for medical marijuana treatment.

Thoughts?
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I have it in both ears along with hearing damage. Went to hearing aids with noise cancelling, worked wonders.
 
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