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My dream job would allow me to travel, meet interesting people and to be on a never ending adrenaline high. Wait, I had my dream jobs. The first was when I was in the Army and the second was when I was an electrical lineman!

Jelena, I want to assure you that you do survive tinnitus. My tinnitus started in April 1972 when I was in close proximity to an explosion in a confined space. I was in the army at the time. My tinnitus has mostly been a hissing sound that has varied from very soft to quite loud. And at...

The above post is true. I responded to this type of electrical trouble call about once a month for the twelve years I worked as a Troubleman. These weren't pleasant to work because it meant that you had to root around back yards in the middle of the night trying to locate the correct trash...

...and when you replace an old smoke alarm-if it isn't hardwired in-pulled the battery. If you don't, it WILL start blaring in the middle of the night, and you will be calling your electric company to complain about the "noisy transformer!" Then you will find yourself standing in front of a...

TheGagagirl1234, first welcome to this board you will find that you have many fellow travelers here. I have had the privilege of visiting your beautiful country and my little girl (she will be 40 this summer) was in college spent a semester in Copenhagen. She has returned to visit her host...

Johnny, you are right on. My epiphany came when I was in the 4th grade. That was the year they introduce history in our curriculum. I took the book home that first day and had finished it by the end of the week. I fell in love with history then and it has been a life long love. Not a...

Thank you Teri.

I don't have an entity but I do have a philosophy that I follow. It is De Oppresso Liber. It is the motto of US Army Special Forces and it means "to liberate the oppressed." I interpret it to mean "protect those who cannot protect themselves."

It sounds like your T is pretty mild. Other than you description with the saw, you don't say what other exposure to loud noise you might have had. On the up side, if your T is permanent, you do survive. I've had T since early 1972.

I guess I was a nerd. I went to a small school in the midwest. So most of the boys played sports (I played football and ran track and was student manager for the basketball team.) And many of us were in the band too. In my Senior year I was the one voted to not try to avoid the draft. (I...

Brianna, we each have our own "normal" and we each have our own "hell." And like Erik's father, T is the least of my worries. For me the T was like living in a sound booth for eternity. For most of my working life my worries centered around the safety of my Lovely Bride and my Brilliant...

But if you want to experience real pain, play Aussie Rules football! For those who are unfamiliar with this sport, it's kind of a cross between Rugby and American football, with the intensity of Jungle Rules Volleyball (basically, throw away the ball and just start swinging.)

Shantelle, you are a mother, you have strength few of us can ever imagine. And you do survive. I have suffered from tinnitus since April of 1972. My T (and hearing loss) was also due to noise exposure but a little bit different from your experience. One night I found myself a little to close...

My T happened to me when I was 19. I was in the Army and serving in what was then West Berlin. My unit was training a unit from West Germany in how to fight in built-up areas. I was crawling through a tunnel when some one threw a hand grenade simulator (a very large fire cracker) in to the...

Just another day at the office!

Pat, like David's post above, my T was the result of military service and happened in 72 and was caused by being to close to a hand grenade simulator in a concrete tunnel. For most of the time my T is more of a high pitched hiss. My T has improved when my accompanying hearing loss became...

One of my least favorite Winter Wonderlands...Hohenfels, Germany I believe it is now known as the Hohenfels Joint Training Center but when I played there in the early 1970's it was known as the Hohenfels MTA (Major Training Area)

Lillian, I guess I've lived with T for awhile, and I don't recall feeling anxious about it, irritated, yes. My anxiety has been brought on more by the hearing loss I suffered than by the T. What I can tell you is that you do survive.

...or you can broadcast it as your personal theme song...

Ashliegh, Welcome to the this unfortunate club. In a way you are one of the lucky ones. You may actually recover from your T. My T started 43 years ago this month when my hearing was damaged do to being in close proximity to an explosion in a confined space. But no matter how it started, you...

That is a take on an actual experiment performed by the Nazis during WW II. In that experiment, a pair of subjects ( I remember reading of parent and child and then siblings be used) were seated at a table with a window separating them and each of them was strapped into a chair with electrodes...

Patton, especially the opening scene where the camera pans out on the American flag and then a voice yells out "Attention!" I was undergoing my Infantry training when I saw it at the Post theater (theatre-for you Danny) and 500 trainees all jumped to attention when that happened.

Not to sound insensitive to what you are going through, but it really could be worse. While I personally have never been pregnant, my Lovely Bride of almost 42 years has and we raised a beautiful and brilliant daughter. But, I have lived with T since my hearing was damaged due to being a...

Valentina, thank you for your kind words.

Billie48, I have hearing aids from the VA but the tinnitus gives me a 10% disability rating from the VA. My hearing loss was really more troubling for me (and my Lovely Bride of over 41 years) has suffered even more-she has always had exceptional hearing. My tinnitus showed marked improvement...

This is Monkey. She is my daughter's cat, and she is a Norwegian Forrest Cat. My daughter found Monkey when she was only a few weeks old (she's 13 years old now) and she still doesn't know that she is a cat. She can climb a ladder but is terrified of trees.

Welcome Valentina, I was 19 when my tinnitus started, but unlike you and many others here, I know exactly how and when my tinnitus started. It was in April of 1972 and I was a soldier stationed in West Berlin. We were using explosives and one went off in a confined space where I was located...

...but this one went much better.

I read about this game one can play with a pet...but I didn't see -itz at the end. This first attempt didn't work so well.

I only associate with animals who have unique personalities. This beauty is a bigger caffeine freak than I am. Many years ago, when I was a youngun' just home from overseas, I had a cat that just LOVED Jim Beam and coca cola.

I like that you can give newbies a taste of what T is like. When I was an apprentice, one of our instructors had been severely burned when he made contact with a 5000 volt conductor. At the beginning of each new apprentice class, he would show the new "apes" his scares. Sometimes half the...

Enough said.

... and the fun times...

There were many reasons why I loved my job...this was just one of the reasons!

Well, there are a few who will be pleased when I'm fully recovered.:rockingbanana:

About two weeks ago I had a surgical procedure done, and I've been home recovering and, well you know one must try to fight boredom!

Netflix and hulu plus. Crazy about the Brit shows.

Welcome Nina, While I'm an "old guy" I too was 19 when my tinnitus started, but I do know how it started. I was a little too close to an explosion while crawling through a fairly narrow tunnel. In my case the volume and intensity of the hiss sound was affected by fatigue, stress, or being...

Daisyjc, hello and welcome. I've suffered from tinnitus since the spring of 1972. My hearing was also damaged in that same incident. Over the years my tinnitus was fairly stable (usually a mild hissing sound f0ur to six times a day) but would increase after exposure to loud noises. At the...

...because girls like you better that way, or so I've been lead to believe.

...usually with your clothes off and a bar of soap in your hand...

"2 buck chuck" from Trader Joe's, from what I've been told by my less finicky inebriate friends. It is a higher class of wine than say Thunderbird or Midnight Express or even Ripple.

It's like standing in the rain, but indoors.

When I first started working for a utility an old lineman taught this to me..."the three rules of linework...righty-tighty, lefty-loosy; what goes up may come down; Don't touch that, I don't know what it is but it WILL kill you!"

Sorry to hear about the increase in your T, but your question makes the assumption that I was sane to begin with! Hang in there!

I truly enjoy British humor. My first real introduction to it was in West Berlin in the early 1970's when we did joint training exercises with units from "the Queens Regiment" (I understand that the regiment was disbanded a while back.) Since then several British and Australian and Canadian...

Just an observation here: when faced with insurmountable difficulties (such as your friend's cancer) most people attempt to use humor, especially gallows humor, to try and distance themselves from the horrors of that day to day reality. But some times that humor flops.