[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Traffic.

Or rather: poor road design.

Well, imagine this for annoying:

I just returned from a long trip. Haven't slept in 30 hours. Haven't eaten in 7. Tired and shitty shape.

I arrive at my doorstep, only to discover that my bloody keys are gone! Must have been lost in transit somewhere (fallen out of the bag?). No way to get in. I call the houselord and he comes by with the masterkey to let me into my apartment. Some small comfort in that I don't have to break up the lock for thousands of kroner. I have extra spare keys for the two main house ones, although the security key is gone forever. The bike lock I have to break up and replace.

Oh, well.

I get in and start to unpack. Then I discover that my bloody IPOD is gone too! WTF?!

Not the best end of what has been another fantastic trip otherwise.

Call your bank and get it inactivated. (Or whatever thas is in English.)

Dude, bad luck.

An insignificant complaint in the grand scheme of things but last.fm's website (specifically their scrobbling service) has been pretty unreliable/useless the last few days - and there's no stability in sight either.

...and soundtrackcollector.com isn't working too well at the moment.

Also lost my expensive new dictaphone which I use to record my webcast. I hope my insurance will cover these things (I have some hurdles left).

Exam stress.
It my finals for this year tomorrow and I'm getting more stressed by the minute. You would think that after all these years taking exams I would have gotten over it but nooooo, I still feel streesed and unprepared. Pffff, I tired of this feeling!

I find nothing helps.
Grin, stress out, shout at people, be impatient and short-tempered and insufferable, and just try and survive the coming days.

My tinnitus has gone completely bananas these last 5-6 days. I'm trying to get a doctor's appointment, but everyone seems to be on holiday.

All I can say is that if THIS is the new chronic volume level I have to live with for the rest of my life, I'm totally fucked. I'd rather be deaf.

Sounds bloody nasty. I hope it can be sorted out or at least controlled Thunderer.

That must be awful, Thor.

Btw, could one reason for the fluctuation be due to how much ear wax one has? Could it help to give the ears a flush with one of those ear syringe bulbs?

Anyway, I just realized that I might have tinnitus as well, but mine isn't too bad. I've always had some ringing, but most of the time I don't really notice it. It seems worse now than normal, but I think it's because I used a cotton stick a little while ago, which is what led me to the ear wax theory.

Peter

Yes, but try to see a doctor anyway. In such cases immediate treatment is crucial. Can't you turn to a hospital in Oslo with "ear specialists"? That's what we do in Germany if no resident doctor is available.

No, I'm not better. But I can't fight the system in terms of time. First I need to get a reference from my doctor on Friday, then I need to use that for a specialist who can hopefully take me in next week.

Yeah, the sound is constant, day and night (although I obviously sleep reasonably well at night, so I'm not aware of it then). It's been that for 5-6 years, but I've become accustomed to it somewhat. I've learned to live with it.

Then this thing new thing happens, where it's in a whole other league. Imagine the sound of an old tube television, multiplied by 20, pulsating back and forth. I HOPE it is stress-related, or some other thing, and that it's temporary. I'll find out soon enough, hopefully next week.

Untill then, though, I can only use music listening for masking, not enjoyment. I hope it's not the end of my music listening.

Not yet. I'll find out as soon as I've been to the doctor's and then the specialist after that.

I'm not stressed as far as workload is concerned; more stressed about the general life situation -- many things that I won't go into here. That would be a blessing; if it was only a matter of unstressing to reduce it to "normal" tinnitus level.

As for sleeping, I have a 'sound pillow' that I've been using for some years (soothing sounds within the pillow that are supposed to shift the focus away from the noise to the sounds), but I've managed to wean myself off that in the last couple of years, especially as the pillow became so flat that the speakers are felt through it. Now I have different rituals for falling sleeping and 'fooling' the brain to ignore the sounds -- funnily enough, it consists of reading through John Williams' filmography, discography, biography etc. that I've printed out and somewhat memorized by now.

For chronic tinnitus like I have, the problem is the brain, not the ear damage that occured at some point. It is the brain that is creating the 'counter-sounds'. I guess that's why there is no cure.