Living With Tinnitus

Coping with ear-ringing is a constant and irritating problem when you have tinnitus. An article written by David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, attempts to give us more information on this condition and how to cope with it.

Most of the 50 million Americans who have tinnitus also have some hearing loss and these are mostly caused by exposure to loud sounds. Tinnitus is the leading cause of service-connected disability claims made by military veterans, with hearing loss as the second.

Some of the hearing losses can be reversed surgically and the associated tinnitus usually goes away. …read more