Tinnitus is a hearing disorder that can be described as "ringing" ears or the 
perception of other sounds in the absence of any externally generated noise.  
Tinnitus has many causes, with overexposure to loud sounds being the most 
common, but also due to some potentially serious underlying medical conditions.
Many treatments are available, ranging from simple nutritional approaches to 
dangerous prescription drugs.  Unfortunately many cases of tinnitus are 
incurable.  There are a number of tinnitus organizations you can join that 
will use your dues to fund research on possible cures.  The largest tinnitus 
organization in the United States is the American Tinnitus Association (details
in FAQ below).

The most recently published version of the FAQ is always available from the 
FAQ maintainer's site at:

	<URL:http://www.bixby.org/faq/tinnitus.html>
	<URL:http://www.bixby.org/faq/tinnitus.txt>
	<URL:ftp://ftp.bixby.org/pub/faq/tinnitus.html>
	<URL:ftp://ftp.bixby.org/pub/faq/tinnitus.txt>

To retrieve individual pieces of the FAQ via e-mail, send a message to 
majordomo@bixby.org, and in the body of the message use the following commands
(specify .html if you prefer HTML instead of plaintext ASCII):

	index faq			(to list all available pieces)
	get faq tinnitus.txt		(to retrieve the root document)
	get faq tinnitus/whatever.txt	(to retrieve a sub-document)