Dan Snodgrass wrote in a message to Alex Vasauskas:
 DS>     out company that we had to wear hair nets and safety glasses
 DS> and ALSO 
 DS>     EAR PLUGS.  I have worn them for almost  a year i think. I have
 DS> no wax 
 DS>     to speak of and i no longer hear that tearing paper.  It makes
 DS> some people 
 DS>     think they are crazy. The Doc told me that the brain is so used
 DS> to hearing 
 DS>     noises that when they aren't there it will make the noises up. 
 DS>     I thought i would pass my experience with tinnitus along to
 DS> you. 
Thank you for the thought.  You never know when your experience
might be helpful to someone else solving a problem.
It seems that noise can often be a cause of tinnitus, and apparently
noise-induced tinnitus can in certain cases be reduced or eliminated
as in your case by cutting out the noise.  One fellow I know apparently
got it like you -- on a noisy job without ear protection.  Another
figures he got his by not wearing hearing protection while shooting --
his father taught him to shoot guns but never during the teaching
process taught him to protect his hearing.  The fellow who got the
problem on the job has cured it like you did, but it took wearing
ear plugs also off-the-job for over a year to do it.  I'm glad it
worked for you.
Apparently tinnitus is also caused by other things, including low
blood circulation -- this is the kind that ginkgo is supposed to
help.
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