My telly is about to die on me... :(

[wiseheart]

Certain colours have simply vanished from the screen since yesterday, the blues have become greens and all that shit. I hope I won't have to buy a new one - that certainly would spring the family budget for this trimester!

Now I can't watch me shinies... :(

On other news, I'm going to have my neck ultrasound tomorrow. And then will have to go to the neurologist. And then to the rheumatologist. All in order to find out where my tinnitus comes from.

Well, crap, I can tell them half-gods in white lab coats where it comes from. It comes from stress and from working in a *very* noisy environment. Otherwise known as primary school. So there.

I'm willing to do these three things, but when they get other fabulous ideas, I'll just quit. I've had my tinnitus for five years by now, got used to it, don't want their poking around make it any worse. 'Nuff said!

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[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Aw! Might it just be a minor age fault? In my youith, we didn't have a TV - but people who did have them often had to adjust the colour on theirs. These days, people seem to have new TVs much more frequently

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope it's just a minor failure. I've had this telly for over 15 years, and it served me well. I don't want a new one!

We'll call the mechanic tomorrow and see what he says.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I do hope it turns out the TV issue is just something minor -- easily and cheaply fixed. There are people I know who decided to get rid of their TV because they don't feel they needed. That is all good and well for them and I am sure I could do the same; I just don't want to! My TV gives me access to the wonderful imagination of all sorts of brilliant people and I hope yours will keep doing the same for you for many years to come!

The neurologist seems fairly reasonable for your tinnitus; they do tend to think it is something, somehow misfiring in your brain don't they? The other two baffle me somewhat, but then again I do rather suspect the medical profession of simply making it up half the time. They just can't admit that they don't know how things work so they just keep testing things until they find something that is 'wrong' and then try to fix that, whether it is related to the issue you came to them about or not. Hopefully what they do for you will be the other half where they actually do know what they are doing and manage to alleviate the problem. Fingers crossed!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really hope I can keep my trusty old telly, too. I don't want a new one. And I certainly don't want to watch anything on my computer screen.

Watching TV is a genre unto itself - you make yourself comfortable, have something to eat or drink (which, I'm told, is unhealthy, but so is smoking and see how many people do it!), you lean back and you enjoy. No computer screen can give you that.

As for the doctors, I think they're just guessing, cos they don't have a clue. I wouldn't have gone to the doctor at all, hadn't I have a new symptom in December: for a few days, I heard that weird whistling noise when speaking. In the same ear with the tinnitus. I got this termin, in the meantime my 8th grade students told me that I should keep the ear in question warm, since that was what helped them, I did so and the symptom vanished. By then,I had my termins and decided to have the ear looked at, and that was what started the avalanche.

But I sure as hell won't go to any MR or head CT or other weird stuff for a simple tinnitus that Mum has, that Grandma had and for which we clearly all have an affinity.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

I guess one problem with an older TV is parts. Found that out myself a year ago. I'll keep my fingers crossed your telly can be mended, though.

I know a couple of people with tinnitus, and it doesn't bother them too much. Both have other hearing problems, and one works in a noisy stressful environment, in this case a coal mine.

Good luck! *hugs*

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Good luck, both with the TV and the doctors (many of them are a little too happy to use their machines on patients).

[artemis10002000]

Ouch, hope your TV will make a magic recovery overnight or be easily fixable.

Good luck for the doctors' visits. Hope they'll find something so it's worth the hassle.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The telly has been mended, thank God - actually, it didn't even need to be mended. Apparently, I ought to switch it off once a month completely, instead of keeping it in standby mode, so that it can be magnetized or de-magnetized or whatnot. It's back to its old self.

The tinnitus is annoying, but in the last five years, I've got used to it. I only went to the doctor because of an additional problem, and now I'm buried in examinations. *sighs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And they always find something, too. I could have happily ignored all the small things he found for the rest of my life.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Telly did magically recover indeed. And the doctor found things that aren't worth the hassle, and I would have preferred not to know about them.

Drei miniatüre Kröpfchen und eine Zyste von 3 mm Durchmesser in meiner Schilddrüse sind zwar nichts Schlimmes, die meisten Leute haben solche Sachen, nur wissen sie nicht darüber. Ich wäre auch froh nichts darüber zu wissen. :(

[artemis10002000]

Urghs, kann ich mir vorstellen! Manchmal ist Ahnungslosigkeit wirklich besser! *tröstknuddel*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Danke. Ich bin fest entschlossen alles zu ignorieren. Solange die Dinger mir keine Probleme machen, kein Arzt will ihnen zu nahe kommen.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

*nods* I have heard some tellys like to be switched right off at times, it must be what you are talking of, magnetizing or something.

And doctors...well you know them. They don't like to leave a 'problem' unsolved..

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And who cares if the patient ends up in a lot worse condition, eh?