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Tinnitus...

No this post is not about a Roman General. It is about the ringing, or in my case the high pitch noise, in both of my ears. This sound is constant twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. It began nearly four years ago and is to put it mildly driving me to the brink of insanity. Okay, in all fairness some would say I was on that path long before the tinnitus. Recently I was given the final medical analysis, for now and probably my lifetime, that I'm just going to have to learn to live with it. Many people suffer from the problem, some in one ear, others in both. In spite of all the things you can read on the internet and you should be very cautious on what you get drawn into, here is the no red tape, no bullshit truth about tinnitus. Medical science doesn't know what causes it and there is no cure or treatment for the disease. There are tactics to combat it and those are listening to music, watching T.V. or even using noise cancelling earphones ( don't drive with these...