Have you ever gotten an ear infection? Lots of us have. Did you ever hear a ringing or wooshing sound in your ear while it's infected? That's Tinnitus.
I suffer from Tinnitus every single day of my life. It's terrible. When taking tests at school and the room is completely quiet, I can't focus, I just want to rip my ears off and just make the noise stop. I can't even be in my bedroom without my sound machine on. I wouldn't get any sleep without the sound machine. The noise is always there. The sound machine just dulls it out.
It's different for everyone, sometimes it's ringing, wooshing like an ocean (trust me it's not a pleasant ocean at all, wooshing is what I have.) Or even heatbeats and plenty other sounds.
Where is the sound coming from? It's your brain making you think you hear a sound. ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME. I'd like to slap my brain really hard sometimes and beg it to stop.
For me, it will never stop, but it's not too late for you guys. You can prevent this so easily. Don't blast your iPods, that can be a major cause, although that's not how I got Tinnitus. I got mine from my eardrum blowing up BUT that's not likely to happen to you. (I hope.)
I saw this on the news just now, that's why I did this post. They came up with something to help it that costs $5,000. I'm like wow, thanks SO MUCH.
So many people suffer from this and I don't want any one else to have to go through what I go through every day. So please, don't blast your iPods, it's for your own good. I'm a teenager and this happened to me, so it doesn't just happen to old people.
If you have tinnitus, leave a comment and tell me, I never get to talk to anyone about it because no one understands.
