The potential offered for all members of a New England family during the Industrial Revolution in America, for men, women, and even children, was not the only important paradigm shift that occurred.
Often the tinnitus is only in one ear. In some of these situations, the tinnitus can be treated surgically, and thus a visit to an otologist (a physician specializing in the ear) is advisable. Sensorineural tinnitus can have many causes (e.g. noise, medications, head injury, infections, and aging).
Some medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen, certain antibiotics, and diuretics can be ototoxic - damage the inner ear, resulting in tinnitus. Other possible causes of tinnitus are: Head and neck injuries. Ear infections. A foreign object, or earwax touching the eardrum.