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constant loud ringing in his ears that he couldn’t get relief from. Three days after this conversation, a friend and former co-worker of mine, who just retired this spring, laid down on the tracks in front of a train in Brandon. Everyone who knew him was shocked, as he too seemed to have the perfect life. At his funeral in Brandon last Saturday, 975 people showed up. It was the saddest funeral I’ve ever been to mostly because we were all trying to understand what drove him to take his own life. Then on Tuesday, I found out that he too suffered from Tinnitus and had kept it a secret. This has definitely helped myself and hopefully a lot of other people to cope with our friend’s death.”
    â€œMy husband & I have lived through some of the same things. We were in a car accident 23 years ago and his injuries have caused him to be completely disabled for the last five years. The pain was so intense that he was only able to get out of bed to see the doctors. He was on antidepressant medication and high levels of Oxycodone. There were four times that he almost ended his life. These were very hard times with little understanding from others. I applaud you for telling your story and for sharing a very difficult time in your life. It is through the sharing of your pain that you will help others going through they own tragedy. “
    â€œI have been suffering from Tinnitus for years (more than 10) and have the same high-pitched ringing in my ears 24/7 – 365 days a year. You learn to live with it but it is not easy. For example, I cannot hear birds chirping, or the rustle of leaves in the wind and many more noises because they are drowned out by this high-pitched noise. The most frustrating problem is that I do not hear the initial word spoken to me on most occasions because of this noise and concentrating on some other things that I am hearing at the time. My wife says I need a hearing aid because I never hear what she says. This is not true; I hear what she says, but not the first words spoken because I may be listening to something else at the time. I can turn down the volume of the radio or TV fairly low and still hear everything if I concentrate on that one item only. I have obtained information on Tinnitus from a number of sources, but there is no cure, you live with it, frustrating as that is.”
    â€œI went through the same problem four years ago. It started with an awful pressure in my ears, and ended with the sound of a fire engine in my head for three months, I couldn’t sleep, work, think. I went to emergency departments, ear specialists, counsellors for help, both medical and emotional, and all the websites I could find, even phoning people in Calgary who specialized in tinnitus. I totally relate to this man and his family, it was a living hell. There were times that I thought how can I live with this for the rest of my life? And no one really understands. I still have it, but nowhere near as bad. I got dependent on sleeping pills, and eventually got off them. Unfortunately no one can help you. My sympathies to his family, hopefully someday someone will do research on how to help people afflicted with this problem.”
    â€œI know it is hard to deal with because I have had tinnitus since March 1995; non-stop noise, never lets up. I have dealt with it by not dwelling on it. I have practiced tai chi for 16 years and find that when I am practicing I do not hear the noise. I find that when I am absorbed in an activity it does not tend to bother me. The worst time is at night when the house is quiet. When all you want to hear is silence and there is none. I know there are support groups for tinnitus but to me being in a support group and talking about it all the time would only make it worse by keeping it in your thoughts constantly. It is better not to dwell on it and just get on with things, as difficult as that is. I have had relief from the noise (lessening of the noise slightly but it