50 Million Tinnitus Sufferers Just Got Some Bad News and Some Good News - Facts So Romantic
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Fifteen years ago, almost as soon as she arrived in the Cleveland suburbs, her hometown, a high-pitched ringing disturbed Katie Hellmuth Martin’s sense of peace. She was looking forward to settling into the gentle sounds of summer she’d grown up with: birdcalls during the day, the relaxing cadence of crickets at night. Instead, her respite from the bustle of New York City was cut short within days, and she began to experience extreme sensitivity to all kinds of noise—a person chewing, a cat’s meow, her husband kissing her near the ear, even someone biting her nails, were suddenly excruciating to listen to. It felt “like lightning striking in your ear,” she says. Today, she is only now planning to seek out a doctor’s care for what 50 million other Americans suffer from: tinnitus, a condition (...)
