ringing in the ears | ADHD Information

DADwithADD... I think I may know something to help.

Have you ever tried Ginkgo Biloba? I know a lot of people consider it "quackery" and stuff, but one of the few things it's actually been scientifically studied for is it's ability to cure or alleviate tinitis.

I don't believe it will have adverse reactions with medication, either.

Just don't get fed-up or impatient if it doesn't work right away... Ginkgo has to get established in your system first, which can take anywhere from a couple of days to 4 weeks - depending on the person.

Make sure you get a standardized extract (you get what you pay for with Ginkgo). The time-release stuff doesn't seem to work all that great for me, so I would focus on the non time release.

That's my 2 cents.Does anyone else have ringing in their ears???  I've always had some, but in the last year or so it's gotten much worse.  In that time frame I was diagnosed with High BP and ADD.  Wondered if the medication for either was responsible.a constant ringing in the ears is called tinitis. you may want to visit your doctor.Some medications can cause/worsen ringing in the ears. Also, allergies can cause it too.

I've always had ringing in my ears. I remember being a child and lying in bed listening to the ringing. It's just always been normal for me, and I didn't know until quite recently that apparently it is NOT normal.

My hearing has been tested at above average, both as a child and as an adult. Structurally everything is fine. There seems to be no physical reason for the ringing.
yeah I would get that sometimes as a child but don't notice it anymore.I have had ringing, but has improved since I've been on high BP medication.

bcgirl: My hearing has been tested at above average, both as a child and as an adult.

I also always had above average hearing...perhaps why we are so sensitive to noises. ??   Anyway, I used to hear a watch ticking across the room in school. Sometimes, I wish my hearing was as acute as it is.
[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]I also always had above average hearing...perhaps why we are so sensitive to noises. ??   Anyway, I used to hear a watch ticking across the room in school. Sometimes, I wish my hearing was as acute as it is. [/QUOTE]

I can LITERALLY hear a pin drop across a crowded room. I did once, sort of. I was in the changeroom after gym class one day and one of the girls dropped the pin out of her watch. I was able to follow the tink tink tink as it bounced across the floor and I found it.

Amazing how can I catch these minute little sounds, and still ask my boyfriend to repeat himself three times in a row.

[QUOTE=bcgirl1978] Amazing how can I catch these minute little sounds, and still ask my boyfriend to repeat himself three times in a row.
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You must be hyperfocusing allot. You propably hear your boyfriend, but just don't understand what he is saying, until you have changed your focus towards him.

Do you also have trouble with hearing what people say in noisy places? I can't, propably because my mind is analyzing all the other sounds in the room/car. Attention deficit... so annoying hehe...

I've always had it. When I'm stressed out it is a lot worse than when I'm not. [QUOTE=Taag Man]Do you also have trouble with hearing what people say in noisy places? I can't, propably because my mind is analyzing all the other sounds in the room/car. Attention deficit... so annoying hehe...[/QUOTE]

I have audio language processing problems (self-diagnosed, for now). I can actually be paying attention to someone and their speech will sound mumbled to me. Sometimes I just can't make sense of the words. This can be another characteristic of dyslexia, which often co-exists with ADD. I mentioned this in the post about slurred speech too.

I'm pretty sure I have dyslexia as well as ADHD.

bcgirl1978, it sounds more like you have problems shifting attention. After all ADHD is an Attention Deficit. I have the exact same problem, because i have my focus on what I am doing, and when people talk to me, it is mumble in my ears... but i just turn my head towards them, and wait a second, and then i say "What?"... and by then I have shiftet my focus towards them and their voice.

Are you medicated? If so, have it become better since you startet the medication? It could be a problem with dopamin and noradrenalin levels in your brain... that you don't have enough of those signaling drugs. I know that is why I have the problem... and haven't been medicated for it yet.

Dopamin and Noradrenalin are used to transport information between brain cells, and if your levels are low, it might take longer time to establish communication between your ears and speech processing parts of the brain... and even so, their might not be enough "bandwidth" to transport the information. And then there will be wholes in it, and It wont make much sence.... perhaps. What do I know... I'm no doctor of any kind

n e one get frequent ear infections as a young child???? 

i read that lots of adhd-ers had lots of ear infections as children...(others had bad asthma... my husband had the asthma, he has add too, and I had the ear infections....)

think there is a connection????

I've got this darn ringing in the ears too, and wondered if it was Tinitis.  William Shatner (Capt. James T. Kirk of Star Trek) has severe tinitis that he said nearly destroyed his life.  But with all the meds I take (seven of them) they may actually be the cause.  I know I should see the doctor, but I never think about it unless I'm very quiet, then I suddenly notice the ringing.  Guess when it gets bad enough I will seek medical help.  

Peace~