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keep in tuch, if any questions, about what situation with tinnitus, hard to do, but 'listening to it' makes it worse, but at same time, 'ignoring the syptoms and ignoring what you ate/drank/did/ will make it difficult to know the triggers but yes these are common triggers, oh another one to be really careful with is, red wines, esp with firmstrong tannins, salty foods (takeaways , take outs, fast foods) and another one is foods with high sodium is to watch out for.
i found for myself, apple juice helps, but try get the one with no added sugar add' or similar but do realise no add sugar doesnt means theres NO sugar, it just means they still used sugar to make it but didnt added MORE for a more sweeter taste...it is like distingiushing the difference between 'best before' and ''use by' dates on food items, which the formers means it is still edible for a while longer, just its not as 'fresh'...it doesnt even means 'will taste bad' just no quite as 'the best' but on other hand, use by, its full stop dont or avoid using it if its well over a 1 week pass due date...
back to added sugar, also youy could check (if you buy margarine) 'salt reduced'... and so on, peanuts, potatoes chips have high salt and high sodium, so experiment...if you find those affect your ears, then reduce or eliminate it... Everyones is different you might cope with sodium fine, or sugars. But those two are actually vey common triggers.
so Red wine, salt, and sodium are another things to watch out for ok.
also try avoid complete silence as you'd start to notice the ringing which 'makes you listen to it in , too hard' a bad habit to avoid!, so but same time avoid noisy places...just quiet with some hum or tv down low or whatever will best policy around home.
good luck and just relax, getting stress wont help in fact it will make it worse... thats one of the hardest thing for me to do. as im not a very relaxing type of person - i had to learn to...(can now( - tai chi is one of those methods that I do)...so there...sorry for long ass reply but i felt its important for you to know those things, to learn the easy way from others (mine) experiences
oK cheers! have good day
Thank you that is great advice!! The more advice the better if you ask me. I don't get much from the ENT or the audi they are too busy trying to get me to agree to exploratory surgery then they are at helping me just live with the Hearing loss which is what I prefer to do.
I will definitely go get some apple juice to try! For most of the list I never use salt and hardly ever eat out and only drink white wine but I will pay better attention now to what causes the ringing. I was unaware that it had so many causes, the doc's made it out to be just another thing that goes with loosing a lot of decibels.