posted on May, 17 2013 @ 01:32 PM
In a practical sort of way, there are a few things that will exacerbate it.
If you take aspirin or pepto-bismol, either of those will cause tinnitus. Any medication with bismuth in will provoke it.
A b-12 deficiency will cause tinnitus. I developed B-12 malabsorption about 5 years back, no idea why, and when it's time for a shot my ears will
sing.
Also, what you did in life can come back and make you pay for your sins, in my case, I was bad-arsed and didn't wear any sort of ear plugs while I
was blowing up stuff and shooting for your tax dollars, and now I've got middle range loss in both ears, but particularly the right side. The
audiologist tells me that the ringing bells I hear 24/7 are partially caused by my hearing being a bit whop-sided, apparently the right ear thinks it
ought to have the same tonal balance as the left, and it tries to compensate by boosting the gain on those frequencies, since the hairs are gone in my
cochlea there's nothing to boost so I hear singing instead. Apparently if I wear a digital hearing aid on that side tuned to match my left ear then
the ringing will stop, but I haven't gotten used to the idea of that quite yet.