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RE: lipo-flavonoids
You have to find out why they are ringing, then act accordingly.
Did you come off the shooting range and they still ring days later (grin and bear it for a while)?
Do you work in a very noisy environment without hearing protection and the tinnitus just got worse, or did it just develop?
Are taking any new medicines or did you increase the dosage of the old ones?
Do you wear hearing aids? If so, and the tinnitus was caused by excessive noise, hearing aids may help mask it.
Does the tinnitus sound like ringing, a waterfall or something else?
Will running water from a faucet mask it or do you still hear it?
Is it in both ears equally (at worst and least likely, could be a brain tumor)? Again, I emphasize that you have to find the cause, of which there are many, before you attempt to treat it successfully.
Many doctors will tell you to “live with it” so you have to find one that’s sympathetic. There are treatments (drugs and long-term habituation activities) but they can have major disadvantages.
To get started, the American Tinnitus Association ATA can give you some background info. You have to determine the cause before you work on a solution.
Perhaps changing your thread's title, by associating it with "tinnitus", will result in better responses.
Edit" fixed link and added last paragraph
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traxtermax
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11/18/08 07:26am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: The Economy & Bail Out Options
A little interesting reading on the subject...
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Exchange/9807/Charts/SP500/Outlook.htm
Part of the above article, dated 9/21/08 states:
...Dillution of the Dollar is Inflation to Everyone Else: Last wednesday when the FED announced they were going to print and issue new Dollars as part of the inital bailout....
The author stated or alluded to the U. S. government not honoring older U.S. paper currency and that would "save" $1 trillion dollars.
Has anyone heard of this or anything similiar? Does the term "new Dollars" mean the current printing of the complete currency series of more secure bills as is done now, or a redesigned dollar to be traded for existing dollars at a ratio determined by the government?
I haven't heard of this but even if it's in the planning stage, we are going to be in for a world of hurt.
Edit: fixed syntax
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traxtermax
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11/16/08 02:38pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: leaving home in winter
I have a "magicbus sensor" too and it works well. You may want to set the alarm at a temperature that gives you a "time cushion" so that if you loose power in a snow storm (others will too), the repairman will have enough time to get to your problem before your house freezes.
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traxtermax
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11/11/08 05:19pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Border Difficulties
That's true. I had to "hoof it" back to the U.S. side to deposit pepper spray in a trash barrel and then get a note from the U.S. customs to prove to the Canadians that I did so. I could have driven there and started through the long, long, customs line all over again but that really wasn't a reasonable option.
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 08:43pm |
Full-time RVing
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RE: "Advise" versus "Advice" Just Another Rant
...If I were to post something like, "My advise to you is to hurry home because your house is on fire!", there are those who would point out the correct use of "advise/advice" while their house burned down. Others perhaps not so gifted in syntax and spelling would hurry home, put out the fire and perhaps say, simply, "Thanks!"GM
So those who are "gifted in syntax" would be willing to argue syntax while their house burns? What a ridiculous, flimsy statement!
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 08:14pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Our future in this country
... When my youngest was in high school he was having trouble with his math, so I asked him why he didn't go to the teach to ask for extra help in the morning. He told me about the cruddy way the math teacher would speak to him and all his classmates. I found that unacceptable and went to the school principle about it. He wasn't the least surprised and he knew it was going on. His response to me was "we have to follow a certain path to deal with this teacher because of the union contract...."
All I'll say is BULL. Several weeks ago I took hours to address and DOCUMENT the same issue in the PENCIL SHARPENER THREAD but it was deleted as was the thread after it ran for a while. No where did I use words that wouldn't be used in middle school classes, including Sex Ed.
If the administration carefully takes the time to document their case, this guy would be history in Pennsylvania. The principal doesn't want to bother with the documentation or the case is weak in the first place.
After re-reading your post, that "certain path" could be the documentation I'm talking about and a Pennsylvania teacher could be gone within the year if he hasn't met the "improvement standards". I was much more specific in my PENCIL SHARPENER post but I'm not going to try that again--too much time and too little gain.:R
Edit: Added last paragraph
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 07:37pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Our future in this country
Nobody's perfect but we should strive to be. Others don't care, that's my point and they emphasize it by intentionally posting inane "statements".
I'm not casting stones but words mean something and they have nuances of their own--that's why we have them.;)
Where's the punctuation mistake?:@
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 07:22pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Our future in this country
So, if you aren't "perfect", improper grammar and spelling are excusable and maybe even expected? Spelling counts (ask a pharmacist) and so does grammar (ask those who write product directions--oh well, maybe that's not a good comparison. :B)
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 04:46pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Border Difficulties
Mr. Mark:
Did you have all the wine receipts? How did they determine the $182 duty?
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traxtermax
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11/05/08 10:31am |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Border Difficulties
...The border agent asked the typical questions and then asked us how much alcohol we had. Honestly, I didn't know and told her that I was not exactly sure. So, we were asked to pull up so that they could check the coach. I did not know that there was a limit that you could bring in. Now you do. The coach had been packed 2 months previous to this trip so it was hard to remember how many bottles of wine, etc., that were brought.Geeze, how much did you load? Did you drink any on the way?...I ended up having more wine than I realized and had to pay a tax of $182. (the wine cost a lot more than that)!...That's a lot of wine, huh?MM.
Now you know your limits. :B
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traxtermax
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11/04/08 05:01pm |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Electric Mattress Pads vs Electric Blankets
Just wondering: A long time ago there was question about the safety an electric blanket because of, I think, the electrical fields it generates. Did they resolve that issue/studies? Would that parallel some of the present concerns about cell phone usage now?
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traxtermax
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11/03/08 08:03pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Real Reason Titanic Sunk ?
I think a program on the Discovery Channel a while ago also thought that the hull cracked from impact because of high sulfur steel or something else in the alloy that made it brittle when cold. I guess the idea was that a hull puncture was much less threatening than a lengthwise split.
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traxtermax
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11/03/08 04:42pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: RVs sales down 80%
"The working men and women of need representation to help protect them from the ills of corportate greed. I was on both sides of the fence working in a union plant and a non union facility."
I lived in Johnstown, PA... and {now} there are no steel industry jobs. Why? The union "negotiated" excessively high wages, exorbitant benefits, and up to 13 paid weeks vacation days a year. Guess who could no longer compete with overseas steel? I'm not against unions, but when you talk about greed I wonder which side you're on.
The other side of the coin is Bethlehem Steel. Instead of replacing their Bessemer furnaces with a continious casting process like their Japanese competitors (as I recall), they built a country club and a tower to house their CEO's. They created golden parachutes for themselves and went bankrupt five years later.
Later, a big shot business man bought Bethlehem Steel, "confiscated" its pension fund, then sold the company. That of course, screwed the retirees out of their pension but apparently didn't raise any eyebrows in the court system.
Don't forget, the management approves employee contracts and those contracts provide an enhances base on which to formulate new CEO/CFO salaries.
Raw materials like steel and copper have increased three times or more in price and I can see why RV manufacturers are pushed to the brink in an already fragile market.
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traxtermax
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11/01/08 08:18am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: AOL account TERMINATED! laugh or cry?
In the long run, you've been blessed. Watch your credit card because they are/were highly unethical. I used to pay monthly and one time, without authorization, they charged my credit card with two years of payments at a slightly discounted rate. They are proof that American business ethics started its decline a long time ago.
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traxtermax
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10/31/08 07:23am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Songs you still wanna CRANK UP, even after all these years!
wa8xym's plus one of the many others like: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". Looking at the others' replies, I realize what an old fart I am.
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traxtermax
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10/30/08 06:45pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Blowing Out Water Lines with 12 Volt Water Pump
...The pick stuff gets diluted with the water and you end up using more until you see it coming out faucet nice a pink. By blowing out the lines first, I can winterize my trailer with just a gallon of anti-freeze.
That's why I said let it run for 5 seconds. I winterize our camper with a gallon of antifreeze but let it run for about 2 seconds instead of five. I said five seconds to make sure you wouldn't have any problems if you followed my advice.
In pure theory, I understand your point; in practice, I think it's inconsequential and totally unecessary. Our camper has been exposed to temperatures down as low as minus 25F and I never had any problem with the resulting admixture of minute amounts of water with large quanities of antifreeze.
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traxtermax
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10/30/08 01:25pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Blowing Out Water Lines with 12 Volt Water Pump
I always use anti-freeze after blowing the lines with the water pump....I am trying to see if other RVer think that it will lead to premature pump failure by running it dry from using it to pump the lines.....
If you are using antifreeze, why run the pump dry before pumping antifreeze through the lines--it seems pointless? Why can't you allow the antifreeze to displace the water in the lines by letting the faucets "run until you see pink plus five seconds"?
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traxtermax
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10/30/08 07:35am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: well they freeze????
I'm guessing you'll be OK since the house takes a day or two to cool down to a point that things inside start to freeze--especially with temperatures in the'30's. Make sure the plumber gets the job done tomorrow!
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traxtermax
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10/29/08 07:26pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Blowing Out Water Lines with 12 Volt Water Pump
As I understood the question, the poster wanted to run the pump as a SUBSTITUTE for using the pink stuff.:?
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traxtermax
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10/29/08 07:10pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Blowing Out Water Lines with 12 Volt Water Pump
To answer your question as a whole, I think it's a bad idea.
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traxtermax
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10/29/08 06:52pm |
General RVing Issues
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