Tinnitus expert John Currie and his wife Ellen Currie founded T-Gone Tinnitus Remedies in 1999 and have been running a hearing loss and tinnitus related website http://www.t-gone.com ever since."Initially most of our clientèle were older and middle aged people such as the 'Baby Boomer' generation, but these days we are increasingly finding our clients to be of a much younger generation," remarked T-Gone Tinnitus Treatment Remedies CEO, John Currie.John cited a recent survey they conducted amongst their clients which found conclusively that noise induced hearing loss was responsible for tinnitus in over 90% of cases.

Almost 70% of respondents younger than 40 years of age were also habitual MP3 users and actually blamed the Apple iPod and similar MP3 players as the root cause of their tinnitus."More and more of the calls we receive on our Toll free number are noise induced tinnitus related and only about 10% of the calls being stress tinnitus related," said Ellen, a tinnitus sufferer herself who handles the majority of support calls and emails. "It is actually amazing how many of our clients are blaming the iPod for their tinnitus and hearing loss problems."Not really knowing how to bring this important subject to the notice of the general public, we decided to do a press release.

"Tinnitus caused from hearing loss is probably the last thing on their mind when the average person purchases a device such as the Apple iPod," said John. "Increasingly we find ourselves dealing with more and more people who are suffering from noise induced tinnitus caused directly from using MP3 players to pipe extremely loud music directly into the ear canal.""It is indeed our opinion that all MP3 players including the Apple iPod should now have a warning label or statement printed prominently on the device," stated John Currie.

"How else can the millions of potential hearing loss and tinnitus sufferers be warned of the potential these devices have for causing tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss?" asked Ellen."Tinnitus is currently experienced by about 17% of the population but I predict a huge increase in the numbers of tinnitus sufferers within the next few years unless something is done to warn people of the dangers they face when they put those cute little earphones into their ears!" said John.

Tinnitus is defined as the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head when no external sound is present. It is often called "ringing in the ears," although some people hear hissing, roaring, whistling, chirping or clicking.Though statistics vary, according to the American

Tinnitus Association, more than 50 million Americans experience tinnitus to some degree. Of these, about 12 million people have tinnitus severe enough to seek medical attention. About 2 million people are so debilitated by the noise that they can't function on a day-to-day basis.According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, most tinnitus comes from damage to the microscopic endings of the hearing nerve in the inner ear. In older people with tinnitus, the tinnitus could result from hearing nerve impairment that often comes with advancing age. In younger people, the leading cause of tinnitus is exposure to loud noise.

Thousands of people suffering tinnitus, the hearing problem, at first believe that the infuriating sounds are coming from their noisy neighbours.

Tinnitus is usually described as ringing in the ears but the noise can sound like whistling, buzzing, humming and the thumping of loud music from next door.
A survey revealed that about 2,000 people a year go as far as complaining to councils about annoying external noise that turned out to be inside their heads.
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The Royal National Institute for the Deaf and the British Tinnitus Association, which conducted the survey, spoke to more than 1,000 tinnitus sufferers.

One in four said that when they first experienced the symptoms they did not realise the sounds were internal. Many thought the noise had come from the neighbours, traffic, the television or the refrigerator.

Nearly five million people in Britain are believed to suffer from tinnitus, for which there is no cure. Relief is offered through therapy to manage the sounds and devices to distract a person from it using, for example, bird song or the sea.

Famous People with Tinnitus-Part 5

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Famously deaf, Beethoven was also a famous tinnitus sufferer. The great composer was driven mad by "rushing and roaring sounds" in his head.
Robert Schumann - composer
Bedrich Smetana - it was a high E, and it was in his string quartet "From My Life."Charles Darwin - who kept records of its daily amplitude and frequency
Clive Barker - T? disturbing story "Dread"
Mick Fleetwood - T? Fleetwood Mac drummer; "The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper." source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Stewart Copeland - hearing loss but no T yet
Keanu Reeves - plays bass in the band Dogstar
Ed Rush & Optical - (aka Ben Settle and Matt Quinn) Ed Rush the famous drum/bass DJ and producer and his producing partner, Optical, both aquired tinnitus from working the the studio.
Larry King said he has tinnitus on his left ear. He also said his is very low and it dosn't bother him
Dave Swarbrick - fiddle player Fairport Convention mammoth onstage amplification (ironic for a 'folk rock' band).
Charles Arthur - guitar player
Charlie Haden - jazz bassist, Charlie Haden to Charles Arthur (Q&A), "Over the years I have learned to adjust my life to this problem and accepted these ear problems as part of my being. In other words, I tell myself that I've been this way since I was born. This helps me to reduce the stress and frustration of this condition. I wear earplugs when I play that cut out 32 db's, as well as using plexiglass baffles. You are seeing the right person in Dr. Jack Vernon. Many musicians have this problem. I take it you know about "Tinnitus Today" and "H.E.A.R." from Dr. Vernon. Good luck and keep positive, Charlie Haden"
Kathy Peck - bass player/singer-songwriter: "My life had really changed when I experienced the loss of my hearing and Tinnitus damage after the Contractions opened up for Duran Duran." H.E.A.R. - "As a former bass player and singer for the San Francisco rock band The Contractions, Kathy had suffered hearing damage while playing a set at the Oakland Coliseum in l984. The repeated exposure to excessive noise caused a ringing sensation in her ears called tinnitus, as well as decreasing her ability to hear."
Michael Tomlinson - musician/singer-songwriter: After an ear infection, he temporarily lost 90% of his hearing for a few weeks, but still has Tinnitus in one ear. Source from: E-mail correspondence
Al Di Meola - musician/guitarist: "I do. That's why i don't play electric anymore."
John Densmore - drummer for The Doors, Ray Manzarek says that things are looking grim for Densmore, in terms of his future as a musician: "Tinnitus, man, you can't...You know, there's nothing you can do about it. It doesn't get better. It can only get worse--that's the hell of that thing. You'd say, 'Well, you know, when it's better, you're gonna play, man.' Well, it doesn't get better. The nature of that problem is that it can only get worse."

Tinnitus caused from exposure to noise

By far the great majority of tinnitus sufferers have somehow damaged the delicate structures of the inner ear, resulting in damage to the cochlea, the cochlear nerve, the ascending auditory pathway, or the auditory cortex.
When the cochlear hair cells are injured by exposure to noise or head trauma, they discharge repetitively, thereby stimulating the nerve fibers to discharge synchronously in a way that the central auditory system cannot discriminate from actual sound.
This can be likened to a switch being left in the on position. i.e. Those hairs that are damaged are permanently in the "on" position, resulting in a continuous stream of perceived sounds being generated.
Tinnitus caused from sinus problems

Sinusitis and allergy sufferers also frequently suffer from tinnitus. This tinnitus "type" is caused from blocked Eustachian tubes, which results in a pressure buildup in the inner ear.
This condition is normally caused by prolonged taking of anti-histamines and antibiotics which can cause a thickening of the mucous in the inner ear.
Excess inner ear mucous would normally simply drain out through the Eustachian tubes but is prevented from doing so because it has become too thick to drain out of the very narrow Eustachian tubes.

T-Gone Remedies are natural homeopathic tinnitus treatments that could help you achieve either a complete elimination of the ear ringing noises or a substantial reduction of the perceived sounds.
If you find the buzzing, ringing sounds in your head annoying or debilitating, we can help you reduce the volume or even to get rid of those noises permanently.
Apart from these natural tinnitus treatments that are available here, there is a host of valuable tinnitus information, help and advice available right here at this site. You will find many tips, dietary advice and lifstyle changes to help you to cope with tinnitus.

Tinnitus is an annoying phenomenon, which usually occurs as a condition related to certain forms of hearing loss. Conditions frequently associated with tinnitus are: Meniere's disease, presbyacusis, otosclerosis, hyperacusis and noise damage induced forms of hearing loss.In many cases the tinnitus is a high-pitched tone.The frequency (perceived noise you experience) of the tinnitus matches the area where the hearing loss is the most profound.Simply put, the specific area where the patient hears the least sound from the outside world, is "taken over" by the noise of tinnitus. For the tinnitus sufferer, this noise is a clearly detectable sound, although objectively viewed it does not exist.

Famous People with Tinnitus-Part 4

Kevin Shields - guitarist/singer for My Bloody Valentine: "I did the damage to my ears listening to mixes in headphones at very loud levels without giving my ears time to recover." Blinda Butcher - bassist/singer for My Bloody Valentine: "I had a punctured ear drum which fortunately they were able to put right but for a while I couldn't hear out of one ear and it was very depressing. On stage we all wear hearing protection and encourage anyone who sees us regularly to do the same." George Martin? - retired from music due to hearing lossGeorge Harrison? - had hearing damage from loud musicThomas EdisonGraham Cole - UK actor and singer, suffers tinnitus and hearing loss Sylvester StalloneTed Nugent - Amboy Dukes guitarist: "My left ear is pretty much whacked. But I can still hear really good in my right ear. Early on, I would stick shell casings, which I always had handy, in my ear, to protect my right ear because that was the one that was facing the amp the most." Rick Emmett - Triumph guitarist, source from Guitar Player MagazineBono - U2 lead singer, he even sings about it in his lyrics. Bono derived his name from a hearing aid store in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland which had a sign that read 'Bonavox Hearing Aids'.The Edge - U2 guitar playerBen Bossi - Saxophone player for Romeo Void. From a VH1 interview: His ears had started ringing and he was losing his hearing when the band was in it's heyday. He quit playing the sax after the band broke up and hasn't played since. Peter Jennings Jerry Stiller - Frank Costanza on SeinfeldLorence HendersonHusker Du/Sugar - frontmanDwight D. EisenhowerMartin LutherPhil Collins - sources: newspapers/website. From Sky News: He will have to severely cut back on live performances "thanks to the buzzing in his ears." "Phil Collins recently declared an end to his concert touring because of the hearing loss he has suffered. The 51 year-old former Genesis drummer and vocalist announced that he will perform live only occasionally to avoid further hearing loss on his hearing damaged left ear." source from hear-it.orgCher - actress/singer, Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere Morgan Fairchild - T? Actress; She was born a preemie who developed scarlet fever. She has so many kidney and ear infections as a child that she admits she is "partially deaf."Cheryl Tiegs - Super model Blixa Bargeld - (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Einstuerzende Neubauten) Ozzy Ozborne Huey LewisTony FranklinAlan Shepard - (T and Meniere's Disease)Ira Flatow - National Public Radio - Host, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday"Some interesting and hopeful news for people, like myself, millions of us, who have a constant ringing in one or both of our ears... Researchers have figured out where in the brain that ringing- called tinnitus - originates." Click on the below link to view and listen to Ira Flatow's program on Tinnitus with guests: Dr. Alan Lockwood (Professor of Neurology, Nuclear Medicine, and Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Physician, Veterans Administration Hospital, Buffalo, New York) and Dr. Richard Salvi (Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York) Science Friday: Tinnitus Don ImusVincent Van Gogh - maybe why he cut off his earFrancisco de Goya (1746-1828) - Spanish artist that had tinnitus and hearing loss from a severe illness.

Famous People with Tinnitus-Part 3

Dave Pirner - (Soul Asylum) (loud music)

Bob Mould - (alternative music icon)

Neve Campbell - loud dance clubs

Jeff Beck - band Yardbirds (loud music), From an interview with rock guitarist Jeff Beck: "Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's not true to say that it doesn't but, uhh... It doesn't... The doctors say it won't... It isn't actually going away - you've just gotta suppress... They try to come to terms with what it actually... Why some people fear it - that's the psychology behind it. They know it's there but why is it such a horrible sound? Well, you can say why is a guy scratching at a window with his nails such a horrible sound - I couldn't put up with that! This is worse!" As Jeff told MTV - June 1993, He was asked to do a special guest spot with Guns 'n' Roses but had to cancel out. Jeff was going to play "Locomotive" with the band, but during the rehearsals, he used Slash's amp rig which aggravated his tinnitus forcing him to drop out of the gig.

Douglas J Noble - musician, guitar instructor, and music journalist out of Edinburgh, Scotland. From a Jeff Beck interview: "I've got tinnitus in my left ear...I mean it's permanent! Like just now..."

Mike Patton - T? lead singer for Faith No More; Wrote the Mr. Bungle's tune "Slowly Growing Deaf".

Burt Reynolds

Sting - (loud music)

Liberty Divito - (Billy Joel's drummer) (loud music)

Eric Clapton - (loud amplifiers)

Eric Johnson - has developed T (loud music/amps); source from Guitar Player Magazine interview: "I'd run two Marshall stacks onstage and crank the monitors. I started using Fender Deluxe Reverb amps and 50-watt Marshalls around '97, after I started having some problems with tinnitus. It was my own doing -- being irresponsible and thinking I was invincible...Yes, though it has been better lately. Take care and wear plugs. Don't think it can't happen to you. When I had a speaker reconed at the been here for years reconing shop in Austin the owner said, "I've reconed speakers for every guitarist in Austin for years and as far as I know there aren't any rock 'n roll lead guitarists here who don't have tinnitus to some degree or another. Many have it so bad they have trouble sleeping."

James Hetfield - Metallica rhythm guitar and uses Sonic II Ear plugs

Lars Ulrich - drummer for MetallicaVanilla Fudge - Tim Bogert (bassist): "Tinnitus, big time. That’s the price you pay for having a darn good time. Nothing’s free!"

Radiohead - lead singerMotorhead - Lemmy Kilminster (thrash-punk-metal pioneers): "We just like it loud, you know?"

Kevin Shields - guitarist/singer for My Bloody Valentine: "I did the damage to my ears listening to mixes in headphones at very loud levels without giving my ears time to recover."

When the inner ear become unstable, the effect is akin to a radio coming in and out of signal.
TINNITUS IS A condition in which a person hears a constant ringing, buzzing or other steady sound. One belief is that the condition stems from some sort of malfunction of the inner ear. This malfunction causes transmission of a signal to the brain that is interpreted as the phantom sound, usually a ringing.

There are a number of theories that attempt to explain why this tinnitus signal is produced. Most people think it is the result of an instability in the inner ear, a very dynamic structure that is constantly being stimulated. When the inner ear become unstable, the effect is akin to a radio coming in and out of signal.

This malfunction may not be detectable on a routine hearing test, so some patients may have “normal” hearing yet suffer tinnitus. Others have detectable hearing loss associated with the ringing sound.

In most cases, the brain learns to tune out the ringing by a process called sensory adaptation, in which any routine, meaningless signal is adapted to and ignored after a period of time. The best example of this process is of someone who lives near a train station. After living there a while, they don’t notice the trains going by.
Sometimes after a rock concert or other loud event, people experience temporary tinnitus. But this usually resolves fairly quickly.

Famous People with Tinnitus-Part 2

Steve Martin - musician (banjo player), actor, comedian. He acquired Tinnitus while filming a pistol-shooting scene in "¡Three Amigos!" in 1986. "You just get used to it."
Leslie Nielsen - actor in such movie spoofs as "Police Squad!", "Airplane!", "The Naked Gun" series
Mark O. Hatfield
Ronald Reagan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Influential eighteenth century political philosopher. From "Confessions" (1780) "...a great noise started up in my ears, a noise that was triple or rather quadruple, compounded of a low and muffled humming, a softer murmuring as though of running water, a piercing whistle...This internal noise was so loud that it robbed me of the keen ear I had previously enjoyed and made me, not completely deaf, but hard of hearing... in spite of the throbbing in my arteries and the humming in my ears, which since that time, some thirty years ago now, have never left me for a moment...The noise was irksome, but it caused me no suffering: it was not accompanied by any chronic affliction, apart from insomnia at night..." P. 222, Oxford World's Classics paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 2000
Jean-Francois Champollion - (1790-1832) Champollion was a French Egyptologist and scholar who is acknowledged as the father of modern Egyptology. He is best known for deciphering the Egyptian Hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone. His deciphering of hieroglyphics laid the foundations for modern Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology. In the book "The Keys to Egypt", it describes how Champollion drove himself to complete an encyclopedia of his work. "Depressed and feeling more and more unwell, Champollion now wrote to his brother about the damage done by the strain of work: 'My poor head hurts, my tinnitus, the humming and buzzing noises, has worsened and leaves me neither day nor night. I have frequent spasms and am incapable of occupying myself seriously for more than a quarter hour...' "
Richard Thomas
Brian Wilson? T? - deaf in one ear from when his father hit him in the head with a board at an early age

Famous People with Tinnitus-Part 1

Celebrities & Musicians with Tinnitus:

Neil Young - (loud music) main reason for his "acoustic" music during early 90's

Barbra Streisand - "Streisand has ascribed her volatile temperament to the tinnitus from which she has suffered since she was seven." source: news.independent.co.uk

Pete Townshend - "I have severe hearing damage. It's manifested itself as tinnitus, ringing in the ears at frequencies that I play guitar. It hurts, it's painful, and it's frustrating." Townshend is completely deaf in one ear from an explosion when Keith Moon blew up his drum set live on stage in the early 1960's and loud amps. He has tinnitus, resulting partly from the band's live gigs but mainly the deafening volume in which he and Entwistle used to listen to playbacks over the studio "cans." There are reports saying that he is unable even to hear his phone ring. The Sun newspaper reported Townshend said his hearing got worse after the band's recent US tour. Quote from Pete: "The recent return to touring and to me playing electric guitar - albeit more quietly than in the 1970s - led to further deterioration of my hearing," the 57-year-old said. "My right ear, which encounters my own edgy guitar and the machine gun strokes of the drums, has suffered badly. Luckily for me, I still have my left ear, which seems to be less @#%$ up. When I've worked solo in the past five years I've not used drums. This has meant I could play more quietly I think. With The Who, there is of course no way to play the old songs without drums. I've no idea what I can do about this. I am unable to perform with in-ear monitors. In fact, they increase the often unbearable tinnitus I suffer after shows." source from Sky News John Entwhistle - According to Who scholar Andy Neill, Entwhistle was pretty deaf, and tended to rely on lip-reading. He didn't have tinnitus but still played bass at his usual "everything on 11" volume.

William Shatner - stage/prop explosion on set of StarTrek (during mid 1960's)

Leonard Nimoy - stage/prop explosion on set of StarTrek (during mid 1960's)

David Letterman - T in one ear, has had T a long time: Dave mentioned that he too had ringing in his ears, and has had it for a long time to William Shatner Paul Schaffer - "He's got that?! I've got that!" on Billy Bob Thornton's character with Tinnitus in 'BANDITS'

Bill Clinton? - (wears hearing aid) T probably?

Tony Randall

Engelbert Humperdinck

Rosalynn Carter

Steve Martin - musician (banjo player), actor, comedian. He acquired Tinnitus while filming a pistol-shooting scene in "¡Three Amigos!" in 1986. "You just get used to it."

Leslie Nielsen - actor in such movie spoofs as "Police Squad!", "Airplane!", "The Naked Gun" series

Mark O. Hatfield

Ronald Reagan