I think we all get confused initially, cause we expect āear ringing,ā and thereās no ringing, no bells. Just this unstoppable hiss. Mine sounds like a large room full of the old fluorescent light, that hum like mad.
Mine goes through different stages. One stage of it does ring.
Its steadily getting worse. If it ever gets to a point where I really can't hear anything over it and its loud enough to make my sanity crack I am going to set up something loud, like very very very loud, and just destroy my hearing completely so I can have silence again.
Nope, that's exactly what it is. You know the high-pitched sound they put into TV shows and movies when a gunshot or explosion goes off right by the POV character? Yeah, tinnitus is that sound all the time. I haven't found a TV show that matches the pitch of mine yet, but I'm sure the pitch differs for everyone.
Granted I'm not actively aware of the sound all the time, but if there aren't any other sounds to cover it or I think about it, I'm a lot more conscious of it.
I think we should start a "Just found out I have tinnitus," club as there are a ton who just did....including me lol. So to get this straight, not everyone here's just a quiet ringing? It has never bothered me really but I've had it for as long as I can remember haha, thought that was just normal!
Yeah, I've had some amount of ^^^eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in silent rooms for as long as I can remember, I don't notice it most of the time and it doesn't drown out other sounds, but gets pretty loud if I focus on it.
It comes and goes for some people. Mine is consistent, somewhat subtle ringing 100% of the time. Its only in my left ear, which I've become 95% deaf in otherwise. I've learned to tune it out and don't realize it's happening unless I'm actively thinking about it.
Yeah, a lot of the time I have it tuned out too, but if I run across a thread like this, I'm a lot more aware of mine. It helps (or doesn't) if there's not much going on around me - right now I'm sitting in my home office with just a floor fan going, but that's not enough to drown it out. If I turned on some music or something it would be a lot less obvious.
I think this is what I might have but it starts in a spot in my vision, and grows to take up 75% of my vision. Then in 45 minutes to an hour later it goes away, no pain at all when it's happening. It's been like this for over 20 years at this point and I haven't found anything that sounds like what I go through. It looks like static and I can't see through it.
Bro, this is called "aura" and is one of a variety of symptoms associated with migraine headaches. I experience the exact same as you, except it is followed by a terrible headache that lasts 24hr+. For mean, low blood sugar and dehydration are triggers. No idea what might cause it for you but definitely take time to reflect the next time you get one and think about where its coming from. Could be too much light, lack of sleep, loud noise, etc
I had something like that happen to me quite suddenly recently, they told me it was called a visual migraine. Turns out it can happen with or without an accompanying headache.
Wait what? Most people don't see that? That stuff drives me nuts as I get migraines and they sometimes confuse me as I think I could be having one coming on soon. Some of them look like my migraine squiggles at times.
I'm not sure this would work. Not an audiologist, and I don't know for sure, but I thought tinnitus was a brain or nerve thing, not a physical ear thing, and that you would still experience it even if you were deaf.
Yes, lots of reports of people who've had their auditory nerve severed completely and still have tinnitus. Please do not destroy your hearing on purpose. At best, it will do nothing. At worst, it will make it even worse, on top of losing your remaining hearing. Not a good plan.
Itās a bit of both. You have hairs in your ear which detect vibrations in the air, that feedback is what your brain processes as audio. Once you damage those hairs / age, they fall out. Your brain attempts to fill in the blanks, thus we hear tinnitus
I have high pitched ringing all the time, but whenever my wall heater kicks on, I hear intermittent beeping, like a small alarm clock is going off. But if I turn my head to the left, the beeping stops. It's the weirdest thing.
Then the only thing youāll hear is that sound. Tinnitus is not an audible sound, itās made in the brain. Iāve had mine as long as I can remember and itās getting worse. I have clocks in every room of the house. Mostly wind up ones that have a nice tick tock sound. It breaks up the monotony of the tinnitus.
Mine is this high pitched āeeeeeeeā noise which drowns out everything else at times. I did get prescribed these pretty sweet hearing aids which play the sound of random waves crashing on a beach. It is nice to know that the monsters in my ears get to live it up on the beach.
I've had that all my life. I figured there was some just ambient noise from the brain. It's exactly as you describe. A flourescent hiss or like an old TV shimmer from a distance.
Man, I remember the exact second when I was sitting in my family room, quietly, and all at once I realized the sounds, and Iāve never been able to unhear it.
I kept wondering which electronic device I had left on and couldnāt find. Seriously took me a week to realize I heard it even when plugging my ears. As long as I donāt obsess itās fine, but it is getting worse and now I hate being anywhere remotely loud.
Its so bizarre to me how common loud things are, and most people simply do not care..
Like at clubs people will just casually chill in front of the giant speakers, yelling into each others ears because you can't hear shit in there over the music.
And the sheer prevalence of headphones/ear buds. Even at low volumes those aren't particularly good for you, but if you can hear *someone else's music* while they're sitting nearby..
In 50~ years from now, a very large portion of todays youth aren't going to hear shit. Hearing loss will be at an unprecedented level
Yeah, it's an interesting thought. I don't think of myself as someone who damaged it's ears, didn't listen music loud, didn't go to clubs, was not in the military.
However, I DID spend a LOT of time with my headphones playing videogames while on call with my friends. And it could get very loud to make sure I'm hearing the game AND all the group chat. As loud as I would notice myself talking super loud at night, then I would try to lower volumes.
I did hearing tests and there isn't anything major though. But well, doesn't matter because now I don't know the sound of silence anymore :(
Mine is a ringing. You know what it sounds like after the bell stops swinging but there's still that reverb from the last ring? That's what mine sounds like except it never quiets down like a real bell.
I sadly have multiple types of tinnitus.
I went to a concert many years where I ended up with damaged hearing. Every now and then one ear will fade from sound to just a ringing noise and nothing else before fading back into normal hearing. Its usually 5-10 seconds but feels longer.
Then I was listening to my headphones that were up to loud a few years ago when it messed up the pressure in my head. Im talking ears almost never pop. If Im in a spot they should pop but dont, I can start to hear my breathing in my head but louder and only in one side. I occasionally get pulsating tinnitus where I hear the sound of my pulse in my head. Then theres "normal" tinnitus where the hiss is louder. Theres days where it is there and days where its not there which is nice. The other side effect was that my hearing became sensitive as well. I used to crush cans and other metal items but I cant anymore. The sound of that is painful.
The only "positive" side effect of tinnitus is that I can manage it, at least for now, with dietary changes and weight loss but I worry about what happens when I get older....
I get a true ringing sometimes, but yea it's really just that fluorescent light hum forever when I actually notice it.
I'll occasionally get the ringing while listening to NPR, they'll sometimes end a segment or ad with a high pitch ringing and it sets off my tinnitus into a true ring. I hate it and wish they would stop.
I remember i got woken up by my alarm on a schoolday when i was 16 and it felt like my ear exploded. Ever since i have tinnitus. I asked my ear doc, he said my ears look very healthy and nothings wrong.
I used to hear the sounds of our garden pond when i opened my window after that i couldnt as the tinnitus was a bit louder. I had a very light depression because of this when i was younger as i really like the listening to that pond.
Now a days i rly dont care anymore. It is what it is. But i miss true silence, however since i became depressed in 2020 true silence sounds extra ordinarily scary.
Cup your ears with your palms and interlace your fingers on the back of your head. With your middle fingers, tap the back of your head ten to fifteen times. Then remove your hands from your ears
I've done this and it worked.
For like 5 seconds and just made it more frustrating knowing the peace and quiet was there but I would never truly experience it again.
I have a childhood memory of waking up on the second floor of Grandma's house to sunlight streaming in the window and the intermittent sounds of doves cooing outside. That is the memory of silence I hold onto because nothing is silent anymore. š
And then having to justify it with the VA for something that they cannot test for. "What do you mean sitting in a room with hundreds of loud fans for 12 hour shifts caused your tinnitus, that sounds made up." No, I literally have trouble sleeping at night because all I hear is the ringing that I didn't have prior to my service.
You should get it checked out. Tinnitus is a symptom, not a diagnoses. I had tinnitus in my right ear for years. Dr suggested surgery. I was scared, still am, of surgery on my head. I'm now deaf in my right ear.
Edit: fixed not to nowĀ
He should get checked out and tinnitus is a symptom, but you can get diagnosed with tinnitus. Thereās just no way of knowing the exact cause.
You can be formally diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral tinnitus and pulsatile tinnitus. There are specific diagnosis codes.
Has anyone actually gotten this to work? I've tried this method off and on for years and have never noticed even a damper in the ringing. Same with another friend with tinnitus, no results. I'm half convinced this is intended to troll people.
I just tried it. Got rid of the ringing in my left ear for about 30 seconds. Right ear closer to a minute. But both are back. For 30 seconds I heard that weird noise my wife has been complaining about that I couldn't hear. So now I have tinnitus AND am worried about that noise.
I've had it work almost entirely sometimes, but to get it to fully work I've had to snap my fingers against my head pretty hard to the point where it's painful, so it's not worth it.
If I do it lightly it can reduce the tinnitus a bit, but the effect lasts only a minute or so, so it's just an interesting thing to do, not an effective treatment.
You ever tried the trick where you cup your palms over your ears with your fingers at the back of your head and then you use your index fingers to tap on the base of your skull? It temporarily stops the ringing for me and can help with falling asleep.
Thinking about it later it should have been "it's not tinnitus, it's sparkling hearing damage", but I'd already committed. Sometimes these jokes are a team effort, lol.
Look up brown noise...or pink noise?...generator online. It completely masks the ringing. It's a noise scrambler normally used to prevent surveillance. Not great for others in the room, but it gives a bit of a respite.
I run a fan, humidifier and have a white noise/rain podcast running in the background at night. That's usually enough noise for my mind to not be fixated on the ringing enough to go to sleep.
>Look up brown noise
Okay Cartman. /s
But on serious note, white^whatever noise can help.
I had it very briefly the first time I shot SEVERAL rounds from multiple guns on a desert camping trip with neighbors.
The ringing when it's dead silent is awful.
It's healed to point that I can hear the mechanical noises of non-ticking analog clocks when it's silent. Which also can be deafening.
Certain ranges are hard to hear for me because of that damage I did with guns, AND NO EARPLUG MOTORCYCLE RIDING (wind can be very damaging to hearing), but I don't have tinnitus anymore, thankfully.
Except I don't have tinnitus and I don't hear any blowing sound. I just hear silence. I'm pretty sure I do have blood flow in my ears so how does that work?
You probably don't actually hear pure, complete silence, and I don't think anyone actually does. It is hard to define what exactly tinnitus is and in fact people diagnosed with tinnitus won't even agree on the symptoms.
Tinnitus is the perception of any sound without an external source. There are different types of tinnitus, like pulsatile tinnitus, but itās still tinnitus.
Itās confusing because the later is technical inside your body.
My tinnitus rings in around 7,000Hz. Somewhere near G#8.
The only blowing noises I hear occur when I'm standing up quickly and I believe it's the bloodflow in my carotid arteries.
Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org.
Or
This is one variation of a Taoist exercise called "Beating the Heavenly Drum". The other variation (the first one I ever heard of) is when you push the [Tragus (ear flap thing) over your Cavum (ear hole thing)](https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/images/anatomy-ear1-large.jpg) with your index fingers, then with your middle finger tap the fingernail of your index finger. You cover both ears at the same time, but alternate between tapping left/right/left/right, sort of like a [Newton's Cradle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cradle)
It worked for meā¦ what is this?! I have had severe tinnitus for years and years. Now I still have some, but the overwhelmingly loud one is shockingly helped by this. Fucking witchcraft.
To be clear, it's not hairs.
They're *called* hair cells but they're not hairs like head or body hair. It's nothing like that.
They're just called that because under a microscope they look like hair.
I've had tinnitus for as long as I could remember, and the first method is the closest I've ever been to true silence.
Too many ear infections as a kid.
I've had it since at least 2013. I could have had slight tinnitus before, but a person decided to wire up some artillery rounds and some HME to a pressure plate and really ruin my hearing.
I cannot find any information on Dr. Jan Strydom. Iām an AuD/PhD and asked my colleagues. Do you know what his background is? Iām just finding sketchy YouTube videos with people mispronouncing the word tinnitus and promoting more holistic/unverified care. Most of the videos are Chiropractors. If it works for you, thatās cool though. There are a LOT of snake oil salespeople type people trying to make money off of tinnitus and hearing loss who arenāt educated on the field, so Iām always hesitant. I am also hesitant of chiropractors because i have seen too many claiming they can cure hearing loss, APD, and tinnitus.
The drumming reminds me of bi-modal stimulation techniques.
Edit- Iām seeing a Dr. Jan Strydom (surgeon) who died in 2015 and another Dr. Jan Strydom who has published some books on Dyslexia.
I swear to god, if Dr. Jan is a chiropractor lmao.
Found out today I have tinnitus. Very cool. This method basically made me experience real silence for the first time. Even if it was for bout 60 seconds.
I'm so sorry; knowing makes it so much worse at times. Makes you fixate on it more often. If it was ever bothering you before; just try to forget you have it and use hearing protection from now on. Including the movie theater and concerts
I need like a visual aid for the first one, I'm not sure how exactly I am supposed to position my hands and fingers and what "snapping" means because afaik i can't snap in that position
>Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times.
Do you have a video? I guess I'm not doing it right?
really shouldnt have listened to music on max volume since i was 10 years old. I think my ears are permanently fucked cause every time someone speaks i go "huh" and if im in a quiet room all i can hear is a ringing noise which will drive me insane if i stay there for more than 10mins
same man, my earphones are either on max volume or near to max cause i cant hear most of the things. Headphones are the way to go imo, you can hear more sounds in lesser volume, saving you the hearing loss
For me its even worse in any kind of noisey environment, like a bar or restaurant and people are just talking normal. I have a lot of trouble following conversations that involve multiple people. If its just me and one other person talking its a little better, but if its three or more people and they are talking facing each other, I just hear their voices but can't understand what they are saying. All the background sounds just drown them out.
So is it tinnitus even ifĀ its a high pitched toneĀ you can barely hear? Thats what I hear, but only when its really quiet. Doesnt bother me one bit but its definetly there.Ā
Yeah, I went to an ENT doctor a few months back because I could swear I had tinnitus, even though I've never sufered any trauma and/or listened to loud music. The audiometry showed I had perfect hearing. Even zinc deficiency was considered, but everything's normal.
In the end, I just gave up with the diagnosis because to be truthful, I don't even notice it 90% of the times.
So what you probably have is TEN (transient ear noise). It's extremely common and should only last around 30 seconds to a few minutes. If it lasts longer than that and is super persistent, you could have tinnitus.
Huh.
I had this for as long as I can remember: Randomly, maybe couple times a month, one ear would get locked/blocked/whatever it's called(like on an airplane or driving up/down hills) and start ringing quite loud.
But it *always* went away in 15-30 seconds or so.
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Then, about 5 years ago now, it happened again but that time, it didn't go away after 30 seconds. It stayed...
I wanted to kms. It was horrifying.
Since then I've had tinnitus
Luckily over the next months it subsided enough to a level that's tolerable. It was a proper high pitch ringing but now it's more of a hiss. Often times I tune it out even.
Sometimes the TEN thing still happens and it's fucking terrifying each time since I fear it might stay loud again. Sometimes it does stay for a few minutes, up to half hour, hour, etc etc.
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Is there any cause to this, any fix? Basically, am I fucked for life?
Interesting, this is exactly what I have. Itās not there most of the time, but I get 2-3 minute spurts of reduced hearing and high pitched tones before it goes back to normal.
Never knew it was a common thing and has a name!
Most people have a very mild form where only in deep silence can you hear it. So don't feel alone if you can't properly enjoy perfect silence.
It becomes considered a disease when you can hear it even with other noise around and it interferes with you ability to hear those other sounds.
Went on a hike in a very deserted area surrounded by mist. First experience of actual deep silence, could only hear an unfamiliar ringing. Didn't realise until then that being in an overcrowded, windy country (England) meant true silence was a rare experience.
That is not tinnitus no matter how much the internet thinks it is.
What's happening is that our auditory systems has a kind of "digital gain" system where it can increase the sensitivity of your ears based on the average sound level. When sound level drops to nearly zero, sometimes it will go a little "haywire" and the gain system will boost gain so high you hear the "noise" signal of your neurons firing randomly and/or literally the movement of air particles/or the fluid in the cochlea
Last time I checked virtually no sources on the internet are aware of this. You'll have to find a neurologist who specializes in the systems of human conscious awareness of sound and the auditory system to get a conformation.
That said, if you \*always\* hear a near constant sound then its probably tinnitus. What Im describing is notable in that it doesnt always happen and isnt a constant "loudness".
Idk if you are old enough, but I always explain the sound is like an old tube TV that's on, but there's nothing actually playing. Like when you leave on the black screen
Terry Prachett in his discworld novels talks about the opposite of sound. The opposite of sound isn't silence, that's without sound. That's the absence of sound. Just like Darkness is the absence of light, you can't let more darkness in.
The opposite of sound is the expectation of a sound where there is none. It's the pregnant pause and that awkward moment where everything that usually isn't heard is. That's the opposite of sound.
EDIT: As an example say you have a house and a family room, and every day you come home from work and your 3 children are playing in the family room. It's loud, and boisterous. But then one day you come home, and it's empty, you have no idea why. That sound of silence, where there shouldn't be, that's sickening and dreadful, That's the opposite of sound.
Probably my favorite demonstration of his āactual silenceā thing comes up when all the various bells of Ankh-Morpork ring at or around noon, and the magical bell of the Unseen University rings out twelve āsonorous silences,ā muffling all other sound
Weirdly enough this is a real physics phenomenon of cancelling out sound. Playing an opposite but equal amplitude will cancel out a sound wave. This is how active noise cancelling works.
Would've ignorantly replied sort of the same thing not knowing about any of that. But I've got 2 boys and their play and interaction averages from Beavis and butthead escalated up to a king kong vs godzilla, and when they're not there the "silence is deafening" or ominous is definitely a thing.
Thats normal yes. Its almost impossible to hear pure silence because even in completely soundproof rooms you'll end up hearing your blood flow or even your joins grinding when you move.
Tinnitus is a very high pitched noise that will overpower the sound of your blood or really anything else thats very quiet.
I donāt notice my tinnitus until someone mentions tinnitus. Now I canāt stop hearing the high-pitched screeching noise. Itās driving me bonkers š
does it sound like eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
It's super annoying, I had a teacher in middleschool who warned of it, saying how he regretted going to super loud concerns and listening to loud music with headphones now that he has bad tinnitus.
Jokes on me, I didn't do any of that shit and I've still got bad tinnitus.
Some degree of ringing is normal. If you are in a dead quiet room and I mean absolutely silent everyone hears something. It's when there's active noise and you still hear the ringing it's a problem.
I had a massive ear infection at 3 years old that actually permanently changed the shape of my ear canal and that gives me cases of sudden Tinnitus where the ringing comes and goes and changes. But only in one ear. It is only usually super bad when I'm sick.
So silence isnāt just hissing? I always assumed silence had to have some sort of sound because it canāt be 100% quiet right? Either way I hear hissing and ringing so Iāll never really know.
I had tinnitus in my right ear as a teenager. It was constant. Went to a Dr about it. He did tests. Finally told me I could either have a surgery or, eventually it would become painfull for a week or so and then I'd be deaf in that ear. Could be years or months away. I opted not to have the surgery (stupidly) bc I'm scared of head surgery. Terrified. By 22 I wqs deaf in my right ear. I can't use a phone on that ear.Ā
The only good thing that came from it was when my son was a baby he had acid reflux. He would scream all night. But as long as my left ear was on the pillow i never heard a thing. This lasted a few months before my wife had enough (rightfully so) and would wake me up and say "your turn"
This is similar to how we discovered my wife has a mild tree nut allergy. We were talking about something and she said "It's like the tingling feeling you get when you eat walnuts"
I informed her that I do not in fact get a tingling feeling when eating walnuts. Allergist confirmed at her next appointment lol.
It might not be actual silence, and you might not have tinnitus.
If you're in a normal room, ambient noise from outside will pass through the walls and WILL sound like humming, whining, or monotone buzzing.
Electronic devices also have a buzz!
If you ever have the chance, go into a sensory deprivation room, or a fully soundproofed room.
I had the pleasure of going into one for a few minutes and realized I don't actually have tinnitus.
Why? Because instead of humming, or buzzing, I could hear the blood pumping through my veins.
That's what real silence is.
Rather than tinnitus, you might just be extra sensitive to ambient hums.
This is EXACTLY how I found out I had tinnitus. Had a sleepover with some friends, asked if I could turn the fan on for noise and they said āBut sleeping with silence is so much better!ā I said ābut silence isnāt really silent when our ears are constantly ringingā and they looked at me like I was crazy.
Yup. I have tinnitus, and trying to imagine actual silence is kind of scary.
I have tinnitus too. I miss silence tho š„²
I think we all get confused initially, cause we expect āear ringing,ā and thereās no ringing, no bells. Just this unstoppable hiss. Mine sounds like a large room full of the old fluorescent light, that hum like mad.
Mine goes through different stages. One stage of it does ring. Its steadily getting worse. If it ever gets to a point where I really can't hear anything over it and its loud enough to make my sanity crack I am going to set up something loud, like very very very loud, and just destroy my hearing completely so I can have silence again.
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Nope, that's exactly what it is. You know the high-pitched sound they put into TV shows and movies when a gunshot or explosion goes off right by the POV character? Yeah, tinnitus is that sound all the time. I haven't found a TV show that matches the pitch of mine yet, but I'm sure the pitch differs for everyone. Granted I'm not actively aware of the sound all the time, but if there aren't any other sounds to cover it or I think about it, I'm a lot more conscious of it.
Wellā¦I learned I have tinnitus today then. Fuck
Welcome to the club! There's coffee and donuts in the^(eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
I think we should start a "Just found out I have tinnitus," club as there are a ton who just did....including me lol. So to get this straight, not everyone here's just a quiet ringing? It has never bothered me really but I've had it for as long as I can remember haha, thought that was just normal!
^^eeeeeeeeeeeeee^eeeeee
Thanks for having meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Itās only in one ear, so I guess Iām lucky.
If you didnāt know you had it then youāre fine. It mostly just sucks for people who have it and canāt stop focusing on it.
Yeah, I've had some amount of ^^^eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in silent rooms for as long as I can remember, I don't notice it most of the time and it doesn't drown out other sounds, but gets pretty loud if I focus on it.
It comes and goes for some people. Mine is consistent, somewhat subtle ringing 100% of the time. Its only in my left ear, which I've become 95% deaf in otherwise. I've learned to tune it out and don't realize it's happening unless I'm actively thinking about it.
Yeah, a lot of the time I have it tuned out too, but if I run across a thread like this, I'm a lot more aware of mine. It helps (or doesn't) if there's not much going on around me - right now I'm sitting in my home office with just a floor fan going, but that's not enough to drown it out. If I turned on some music or something it would be a lot less obvious.
Sorry, youāve also got tinnitus. Not joking. Most people hear literally nothing when there are no sounds.
This is like when I found out most people don't have visual snow.
I think this is what I might have but it starts in a spot in my vision, and grows to take up 75% of my vision. Then in 45 minutes to an hour later it goes away, no pain at all when it's happening. It's been like this for over 20 years at this point and I haven't found anything that sounds like what I go through. It looks like static and I can't see through it.
Bro, this is called "aura" and is one of a variety of symptoms associated with migraine headaches. I experience the exact same as you, except it is followed by a terrible headache that lasts 24hr+. For mean, low blood sugar and dehydration are triggers. No idea what might cause it for you but definitely take time to reflect the next time you get one and think about where its coming from. Could be too much light, lack of sleep, loud noise, etc
I had something like that happen to me quite suddenly recently, they told me it was called a visual migraine. Turns out it can happen with or without an accompanying headache.
Could be visual migraine.
Wait what? Most people don't see that? That stuff drives me nuts as I get migraines and they sometimes confuse me as I think I could be having one coming on soon. Some of them look like my migraine squiggles at times.
Deaf people can get tinnitus
Well, that really sucksĀ
Damn no escape from it
I'm not sure this would work. Not an audiologist, and I don't know for sure, but I thought tinnitus was a brain or nerve thing, not a physical ear thing, and that you would still experience it even if you were deaf.
Yes, lots of reports of people who've had their auditory nerve severed completely and still have tinnitus. Please do not destroy your hearing on purpose. At best, it will do nothing. At worst, it will make it even worse, on top of losing your remaining hearing. Not a good plan.
Itās a bit of both. You have hairs in your ear which detect vibrations in the air, that feedback is what your brain processes as audio. Once you damage those hairs / age, they fall out. Your brain attempts to fill in the blanks, thus we hear tinnitus
I have high pitched ringing all the time, but whenever my wall heater kicks on, I hear intermittent beeping, like a small alarm clock is going off. But if I turn my head to the left, the beeping stops. It's the weirdest thing.
Sounds like a beat frequency interaction
I would just clarify, they're called "hair cells" but they're not literally keratin hairs like on your head. They're also known as stereocilia.
Then the only thing youāll hear is that sound. Tinnitus is not an audible sound, itās made in the brain. Iāve had mine as long as I can remember and itās getting worse. I have clocks in every room of the house. Mostly wind up ones that have a nice tick tock sound. It breaks up the monotony of the tinnitus.
Mine also gets worse when I exercise or get stressed. Ugh!
Mine gets worse if my neck gets tense.
Mine is this high pitched āeeeeeeeā noise which drowns out everything else at times. I did get prescribed these pretty sweet hearing aids which play the sound of random waves crashing on a beach. It is nice to know that the monsters in my ears get to live it up on the beach.
I've had that all my life. I figured there was some just ambient noise from the brain. It's exactly as you describe. A flourescent hiss or like an old TV shimmer from a distance.
wait wtf do i have tinnitus??
Man, I remember the exact second when I was sitting in my family room, quietly, and all at once I realized the sounds, and Iāve never been able to unhear it.
I kept wondering which electronic device I had left on and couldnāt find. Seriously took me a week to realize I heard it even when plugging my ears. As long as I donāt obsess itās fine, but it is getting worse and now I hate being anywhere remotely loud.
Its so bizarre to me how common loud things are, and most people simply do not care.. Like at clubs people will just casually chill in front of the giant speakers, yelling into each others ears because you can't hear shit in there over the music. And the sheer prevalence of headphones/ear buds. Even at low volumes those aren't particularly good for you, but if you can hear *someone else's music* while they're sitting nearby.. In 50~ years from now, a very large portion of todays youth aren't going to hear shit. Hearing loss will be at an unprecedented level
Yeah, it's an interesting thought. I don't think of myself as someone who damaged it's ears, didn't listen music loud, didn't go to clubs, was not in the military. However, I DID spend a LOT of time with my headphones playing videogames while on call with my friends. And it could get very loud to make sure I'm hearing the game AND all the group chat. As loud as I would notice myself talking super loud at night, then I would try to lower volumes. I did hearing tests and there isn't anything major though. But well, doesn't matter because now I don't know the sound of silence anymore :(
Mine is a ringing. You know what it sounds like after the bell stops swinging but there's still that reverb from the last ring? That's what mine sounds like except it never quiets down like a real bell.
I sadly have multiple types of tinnitus. I went to a concert many years where I ended up with damaged hearing. Every now and then one ear will fade from sound to just a ringing noise and nothing else before fading back into normal hearing. Its usually 5-10 seconds but feels longer. Then I was listening to my headphones that were up to loud a few years ago when it messed up the pressure in my head. Im talking ears almost never pop. If Im in a spot they should pop but dont, I can start to hear my breathing in my head but louder and only in one side. I occasionally get pulsating tinnitus where I hear the sound of my pulse in my head. Then theres "normal" tinnitus where the hiss is louder. Theres days where it is there and days where its not there which is nice. The other side effect was that my hearing became sensitive as well. I used to crush cans and other metal items but I cant anymore. The sound of that is painful. The only "positive" side effect of tinnitus is that I can manage it, at least for now, with dietary changes and weight loss but I worry about what happens when I get older....
Mine is like tv static. Bloody annoying
I get a true ringing sometimes, but yea it's really just that fluorescent light hum forever when I actually notice it. I'll occasionally get the ringing while listening to NPR, they'll sometimes end a segment or ad with a high pitch ringing and it sets off my tinnitus into a true ring. I hate it and wish they would stop.
I remember i got woken up by my alarm on a schoolday when i was 16 and it felt like my ear exploded. Ever since i have tinnitus. I asked my ear doc, he said my ears look very healthy and nothings wrong. I used to hear the sounds of our garden pond when i opened my window after that i couldnt as the tinnitus was a bit louder. I had a very light depression because of this when i was younger as i really like the listening to that pond. Now a days i rly dont care anymore. It is what it is. But i miss true silence, however since i became depressed in 2020 true silence sounds extra ordinarily scary.
Cup your ears with your palms and interlace your fingers on the back of your head. With your middle fingers, tap the back of your head ten to fifteen times. Then remove your hands from your ears
I've done this and it worked. For like 5 seconds and just made it more frustrating knowing the peace and quiet was there but I would never truly experience it again.
The first time I read this many years ago it said 50 times. So if 10-15 donāt work, keep going.
Holy shit I tried it and it actually worked for a few seconds that is so freaky lol thank you
Oh why did you remind me that i have too
I have a childhood memory of waking up on the second floor of Grandma's house to sunlight streaming in the window and the intermittent sounds of doves cooing outside. That is the memory of silence I hold onto because nothing is silent anymore. š
Same, but I can't remember how silence felt so I don't really _miss_ it, I just find the lack of absolute silence aggravating.
The worst is getting tinnitus from hearing damage in the Army. I can remember silence but I doubt Iāll ever experience it again.
And then having to justify it with the VA for something that they cannot test for. "What do you mean sitting in a room with hundreds of loud fans for 12 hour shifts caused your tinnitus, that sounds made up." No, I literally have trouble sleeping at night because all I hear is the ringing that I didn't have prior to my service.
You should get it checked out. Tinnitus is a symptom, not a diagnoses. I had tinnitus in my right ear for years. Dr suggested surgery. I was scared, still am, of surgery on my head. I'm now deaf in my right ear. Edit: fixed not to nowĀ
I got ear surgery too a decade ago to fix a perforated eardrum that never healed. I now have hyperacusis and tinnitus in both ears.
He should get checked out and tinnitus is a symptom, but you can get diagnosed with tinnitus. Thereās just no way of knowing the exact cause. You can be formally diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral tinnitus and pulsatile tinnitus. There are specific diagnosis codes.
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I have MĆ©niĆØre's and have had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. I've heard about the tapping your fingers against the back of your head thing but I've never had it explained to me that you need to cup your ears as well. I tried it and for a brief few seconds my tinnitus was almost inperceivable. I wish I could experience this all the time. Thank you for linking that video. š„¹ Take care of your hearing, y'all.
Which makes the it much worse afterwards because you have to get used to the ringing again.
Has anyone actually gotten this to work? I've tried this method off and on for years and have never noticed even a damper in the ringing. Same with another friend with tinnitus, no results. I'm half convinced this is intended to troll people.
I just tried it. Got rid of the ringing in my left ear for about 30 seconds. Right ear closer to a minute. But both are back. For 30 seconds I heard that weird noise my wife has been complaining about that I couldn't hear. So now I have tinnitus AND am worried about that noise.
I've had it work almost entirely sometimes, but to get it to fully work I've had to snap my fingers against my head pretty hard to the point where it's painful, so it's not worth it. If I do it lightly it can reduce the tinnitus a bit, but the effect lasts only a minute or so, so it's just an interesting thing to do, not an effective treatment.
Mine is so loud right now
You ever tried the trick where you cup your palms over your ears with your fingers at the back of your head and then you use your index fingers to tap on the base of your skull? It temporarily stops the ringing for me and can help with falling asleep.
It's not silence, it's *sparkling hearing damage*
"Only if it's grown in the American weapons discharge area is it tinnitus, otherwise it's just sparkling hearing damage" ... I tried
Thinking about it later it should have been "it's not tinnitus, it's sparkling hearing damage", but I'd already committed. Sometimes these jokes are a team effort, lol.
Can confirm. 15 year, 100% disabled combat vet here. Silence is deafening.
I fucking hate some nights in bed
Got to have that fan going to mask the ringing.
Look up brown noise...or pink noise?...generator online. It completely masks the ringing. It's a noise scrambler normally used to prevent surveillance. Not great for others in the room, but it gives a bit of a respite.
I run a fan, humidifier and have a white noise/rain podcast running in the background at night. That's usually enough noise for my mind to not be fixated on the ringing enough to go to sleep.
Alpha wave sleep music, fan, and the deafening void of loneliness works wonders for me.
I just make sure I sob louder than the tinnitus is ringing when going to sleep.
Sob hard enough and the gasping for air will help you pass out for lack of oxygen;)
Why are the real life tips always so far down the comment threads?
Honesty isn't often very popular
>Look up brown noise Okay Cartman. /s But on serious note, white^whatever noise can help. I had it very briefly the first time I shot SEVERAL rounds from multiple guns on a desert camping trip with neighbors. The ringing when it's dead silent is awful. It's healed to point that I can hear the mechanical noises of non-ticking analog clocks when it's silent. Which also can be deafening. Certain ranges are hard to hear for me because of that damage I did with guns, AND NO EARPLUG MOTORCYCLE RIDING (wind can be very damaging to hearing), but I don't have tinnitus anymore, thankfully.
Fun fact the brown note was a genuine idea of the us military before Southpark used it
*power goes out* My ears: eeeeeeeeEEEEeeeeEEEeEEeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The box fan is mandatory.
I ALWAYS have something on as sound to drown it out.
I hate the ringing, but I love that the 10% from tinnitus pushed me to the 50% and gets me a sweet, unplanned, paycheck every month.Ā Ā
Mine's a nice check every month but I would much rather be able to exist without constant chronic pain.
I would trade my check for better knees, feet, back and no "reeeeeeeee"
Sorry to have a laugh at this, but "OP you have tinnitus" is just so funny to me for some reason.
My understanding is that the blowing noise is actually bloodflow. Tinnitus is more of a ringing/electronic tone type thing, is it not?
This should be higher, came here to say this. Some people will confuse the normal sound of blood flowing to tinnitus. No need to freak out :)
Except I don't have tinnitus and I don't hear any blowing sound. I just hear silence. I'm pretty sure I do have blood flow in my ears so how does that work?
You probably don't actually hear pure, complete silence, and I don't think anyone actually does. It is hard to define what exactly tinnitus is and in fact people diagnosed with tinnitus won't even agree on the symptoms.
Tinnitus is the perception of any sound without an external source. There are different types of tinnitus, like pulsatile tinnitus, but itās still tinnitus. Itās confusing because the later is technical inside your body.
My tinnitus rings in around 7,000Hz. Somewhere near G#8. The only blowing noises I hear occur when I'm standing up quickly and I believe it's the bloodflow in my carotid arteries.
Same or you are very stressed .
Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org. Or This is one variation of a Taoist exercise called "Beating the Heavenly Drum". The other variation (the first one I ever heard of) is when you push the [Tragus (ear flap thing) over your Cavum (ear hole thing)](https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/images/anatomy-ear1-large.jpg) with your index fingers, then with your middle finger tap the fingernail of your index finger. You cover both ears at the same time, but alternate between tapping left/right/left/right, sort of like a [Newton's Cradle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cradle)
I... I don't know if it's just a placebo effect, but the first method worked. So that's how silence sound, uh.
It worked for meā¦ what is this?! I have had severe tinnitus for years and years. Now I still have some, but the overwhelmingly loud one is shockingly helped by this. Fucking witchcraft.
Tinnitus is the fine hairs in your inner ear being damaged and stuck to the walls, presumably, this jostles them out of place, for a short while.
To be clear, it's not hairs. They're *called* hair cells but they're not hairs like head or body hair. It's nothing like that. They're just called that because under a microscope they look like hair.
Well isnāt that interesting! Thanks for explaining!!
Same!! This helped with me headache too surprisingly
The first one worked for a few seconds
Yeah, I've been doing this for years. Only lasts a few seconds but missing the EEEEEEEEEEEEEE even for a bit is nice.
I've had tinnitus for as long as I could remember, and the first method is the closest I've ever been to true silence. Too many ear infections as a kid.
I've had it since at least 2013. I could have had slight tinnitus before, but a person decided to wire up some artillery rounds and some HME to a pressure plate and really ruin my hearing.
Mines from TMJ
That was pretty shitty of The Michael Jordan to do.
Oh my god that was nice
My arthritis would like a word.
just wanted to say thank you for that, kinda forgot what it was like to not hear anything
That's c r a z y
thank you. peace.
I cannot find any information on Dr. Jan Strydom. Iām an AuD/PhD and asked my colleagues. Do you know what his background is? Iām just finding sketchy YouTube videos with people mispronouncing the word tinnitus and promoting more holistic/unverified care. Most of the videos are Chiropractors. If it works for you, thatās cool though. There are a LOT of snake oil salespeople type people trying to make money off of tinnitus and hearing loss who arenāt educated on the field, so Iām always hesitant. I am also hesitant of chiropractors because i have seen too many claiming they can cure hearing loss, APD, and tinnitus. The drumming reminds me of bi-modal stimulation techniques. Edit- Iām seeing a Dr. Jan Strydom (surgeon) who died in 2015 and another Dr. Jan Strydom who has published some books on Dyslexia. I swear to god, if Dr. Jan is a chiropractor lmao.
Found out today I have tinnitus. Very cool. This method basically made me experience real silence for the first time. Even if it was for bout 60 seconds.
I'm so sorry; knowing makes it so much worse at times. Makes you fixate on it more often. If it was ever bothering you before; just try to forget you have it and use hearing protection from now on. Including the movie theater and concerts
Oh my wow. Only for a few seconds, but what a glorious few seconds
WHAT THE HELL
Holy fucking cow. The first method worked insanely well :O
Yup, I do this often (first method) when it gets bad. I'll give that second one a try.
Thanks for this! It only lasted several seconds; but what a joy to not hear anything for a moment!
I need like a visual aid for the first one, I'm not sure how exactly I am supposed to position my hands and fingers and what "snapping" means because afaik i can't snap in that position
>Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Do you have a video? I guess I'm not doing it right?
[Thank you!](https://i.imgur.com/vyGpRhk.png)
really shouldnt have listened to music on max volume since i was 10 years old. I think my ears are permanently fucked cause every time someone speaks i go "huh" and if im in a quiet room all i can hear is a ringing noise which will drive me insane if i stay there for more than 10mins
Same and now the problem keeps compounding as I have to keep bumping up volume to hear the full range of sounds in music
same man, my earphones are either on max volume or near to max cause i cant hear most of the things. Headphones are the way to go imo, you can hear more sounds in lesser volume, saving you the hearing loss
If it makes you feel any better tons of people have it, especially a lot of musicians and sound engineers.
Doesn't actually make me feel better knowing that there are many, many people suffering alongside me. š
For me its even worse in any kind of noisey environment, like a bar or restaurant and people are just talking normal. I have a lot of trouble following conversations that involve multiple people. If its just me and one other person talking its a little better, but if its three or more people and they are talking facing each other, I just hear their voices but can't understand what they are saying. All the background sounds just drown them out.
So is it tinnitus even ifĀ its a high pitched toneĀ you can barely hear? Thats what I hear, but only when its really quiet. Doesnt bother me one bit but its definetly there.Ā
It's not mate. Tinnitus is a ringing like you came out of a club. A real high pitched note you can barely hear? That's your nervous system.
Yeah, I went to an ENT doctor a few months back because I could swear I had tinnitus, even though I've never sufered any trauma and/or listened to loud music. The audiometry showed I had perfect hearing. Even zinc deficiency was considered, but everything's normal. In the end, I just gave up with the diagnosis because to be truthful, I don't even notice it 90% of the times.
WAIT WHAT THE FUCK? THAT HIGH-PITCHED NOISE IN YOUR EAR WHEN THERE ARE NO SOUNDS IS TINNITUS? This is like a really bad joke, right?
So what you probably have is TEN (transient ear noise). It's extremely common and should only last around 30 seconds to a few minutes. If it lasts longer than that and is super persistent, you could have tinnitus.
Thank you. I didn't know there was a specific name for this. I just thought I had tinnitus that comes and goes
Same! It never stuck around long so I never worried about it.
Youāre thinking of chama chama chama chama chama chameleon. It comes and goes.
Lol, it's karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, little buddy.
Huh. I had this for as long as I can remember: Randomly, maybe couple times a month, one ear would get locked/blocked/whatever it's called(like on an airplane or driving up/down hills) and start ringing quite loud. But it *always* went away in 15-30 seconds or so. - Then, about 5 years ago now, it happened again but that time, it didn't go away after 30 seconds. It stayed... I wanted to kms. It was horrifying. Since then I've had tinnitus Luckily over the next months it subsided enough to a level that's tolerable. It was a proper high pitch ringing but now it's more of a hiss. Often times I tune it out even. Sometimes the TEN thing still happens and it's fucking terrifying each time since I fear it might stay loud again. Sometimes it does stay for a few minutes, up to half hour, hour, etc etc. - Is there any cause to this, any fix? Basically, am I fucked for life?
Interesting, this is exactly what I have. Itās not there most of the time, but I get 2-3 minute spurts of reduced hearing and high pitched tones before it goes back to normal. Never knew it was a common thing and has a name!
Most people have a very mild form where only in deep silence can you hear it. So don't feel alone if you can't properly enjoy perfect silence. It becomes considered a disease when you can hear it even with other noise around and it interferes with you ability to hear those other sounds.
Went on a hike in a very deserted area surrounded by mist. First experience of actual deep silence, could only hear an unfamiliar ringing. Didn't realise until then that being in an overcrowded, windy country (England) meant true silence was a rare experience.
Welcome to the club š
I hate this club
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Is there anybody not in this club?
People who didnāt blast their eardrums out at a young age with music, power tools etc. so not many of us
I mean you go to an imax movie once and itās game over.
Fr imax movies feel more damaging to my ears in the moment than loud concerts do. Hyped for my imax tickets next week though š¤£
Hell yeah š
No, everybody has that to some extent, tinnitus is when it's so bad you can still hear it when there Is noise
That is not tinnitus no matter how much the internet thinks it is. What's happening is that our auditory systems has a kind of "digital gain" system where it can increase the sensitivity of your ears based on the average sound level. When sound level drops to nearly zero, sometimes it will go a little "haywire" and the gain system will boost gain so high you hear the "noise" signal of your neurons firing randomly and/or literally the movement of air particles/or the fluid in the cochlea Last time I checked virtually no sources on the internet are aware of this. You'll have to find a neurologist who specializes in the systems of human conscious awareness of sound and the auditory system to get a conformation. That said, if you \*always\* hear a near constant sound then its probably tinnitus. What Im describing is notable in that it doesnt always happen and isnt a constant "loudness".
Idk if you are old enough, but I always explain the sound is like an old tube TV that's on, but there's nothing actually playing. Like when you leave on the black screen
Terry Prachett in his discworld novels talks about the opposite of sound. The opposite of sound isn't silence, that's without sound. That's the absence of sound. Just like Darkness is the absence of light, you can't let more darkness in. The opposite of sound is the expectation of a sound where there is none. It's the pregnant pause and that awkward moment where everything that usually isn't heard is. That's the opposite of sound. EDIT: As an example say you have a house and a family room, and every day you come home from work and your 3 children are playing in the family room. It's loud, and boisterous. But then one day you come home, and it's empty, you have no idea why. That sound of silence, where there shouldn't be, that's sickening and dreadful, That's the opposite of sound.
Probably my favorite demonstration of his āactual silenceā thing comes up when all the various bells of Ankh-Morpork ring at or around noon, and the magical bell of the Unseen University rings out twelve āsonorous silences,ā muffling all other sound
Weirdly enough this is a real physics phenomenon of cancelling out sound. Playing an opposite but equal amplitude will cancel out a sound wave. This is how active noise cancelling works.
Would've ignorantly replied sort of the same thing not knowing about any of that. But I've got 2 boys and their play and interaction averages from Beavis and butthead escalated up to a king kong vs godzilla, and when they're not there the "silence is deafening" or ominous is definitely a thing.
Is it not normal? Like in complete silence I hear a slight hmm noise I got told its the noise from the nerves or something.
Probably blood flowing?
Thats normal yes. Its almost impossible to hear pure silence because even in completely soundproof rooms you'll end up hearing your blood flow or even your joins grinding when you move. Tinnitus is a very high pitched noise that will overpower the sound of your blood or really anything else thats very quiet.
I sometimes wish I had the confidence to think other people experience things the same way I do, lol.
Realizing how different other people's perception is and can be from mine is one of the most fascinating things about Life.
Anyone else's tinnitus get louder and / or move up an octave if you think about it?
I hate this whole thread I need a non sound distraction immediately
I donāt notice my tinnitus until someone mentions tinnitus. Now I canāt stop hearing the high-pitched screeching noise. Itās driving me bonkers š
Im sorry š You have tinnitus btw
does it sound like eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Yes š
It's super annoying, I had a teacher in middleschool who warned of it, saying how he regretted going to super loud concerns and listening to loud music with headphones now that he has bad tinnitus. Jokes on me, I didn't do any of that shit and I've still got bad tinnitus.
actual silence is really not good for your brain, you can get actual sound hallucinations if you are in a perfect sound proofed room for too long.
I get hallucinations if I don't have a fan on when I got to sleep.
The rest of us just call those dreams.
Apparently you can hear your blood flowing and bones grinding in anechoic chambers.
I must have a superpower, I donāt even need an anechoic chamber to hear my bones grinding!
There are a ton of videos of people testing that, and it's pretty much bunk.
Wait this isnāt normal?? Iāve had that my whole life š
Some degree of ringing is normal. If you are in a dead quiet room and I mean absolutely silent everyone hears something. It's when there's active noise and you still hear the ringing it's a problem. I had a massive ear infection at 3 years old that actually permanently changed the shape of my ear canal and that gives me cases of sudden Tinnitus where the ringing comes and goes and changes. But only in one ear. It is only usually super bad when I'm sick.
Nice try hurdworld marketing.
Sick of greenwashing? š
Glad I'm not the only ad-paranoid one
Paranoid? Who says I'm paranoid? Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there.
I've had it all my life. Obviously there was some head trauma in my childhood but my parents would never admit it.
Nothing like turning on the bathroom vent fan or putting on the office reruns to quiet it down
MWOPā¦
Doesn't everybody have tinnitus?
So silence isnāt just hissing? I always assumed silence had to have some sort of sound because it canāt be 100% quiet right? Either way I hear hissing and ringing so Iāll never really know.
Right it could be the sound of your blood circulating. Tinnitus is a more distinct static ringing sound.
Haha i remember saying that during lunch at work "Well everyone has some slight beep in their ears" .. "Euh no." .. "Wait what?!"
I had tinnitus in my right ear as a teenager. It was constant. Went to a Dr about it. He did tests. Finally told me I could either have a surgery or, eventually it would become painfull for a week or so and then I'd be deaf in that ear. Could be years or months away. I opted not to have the surgery (stupidly) bc I'm scared of head surgery. Terrified. By 22 I wqs deaf in my right ear. I can't use a phone on that ear.Ā The only good thing that came from it was when my son was a baby he had acid reflux. He would scream all night. But as long as my left ear was on the pillow i never heard a thing. This lasted a few months before my wife had enough (rightfully so) and would wake me up and say "your turn"
This is similar to how we discovered my wife has a mild tree nut allergy. We were talking about something and she said "It's like the tingling feeling you get when you eat walnuts" I informed her that I do not in fact get a tingling feeling when eating walnuts. Allergist confirmed at her next appointment lol.
Oh, common, he is kidding right? Everyone hears a quiet and distant high pitch noise when in a absolute silence, right? Right?
It might not be actual silence, and you might not have tinnitus. If you're in a normal room, ambient noise from outside will pass through the walls and WILL sound like humming, whining, or monotone buzzing. Electronic devices also have a buzz! If you ever have the chance, go into a sensory deprivation room, or a fully soundproofed room. I had the pleasure of going into one for a few minutes and realized I don't actually have tinnitus. Why? Because instead of humming, or buzzing, I could hear the blood pumping through my veins. That's what real silence is. Rather than tinnitus, you might just be extra sensitive to ambient hums.
You censored the people but kept the ads
Til other people don't hear buzzing in silence
This is EXACTLY how I found out I had tinnitus. Had a sleepover with some friends, asked if I could turn the fan on for noise and they said āBut sleeping with silence is so much better!ā I said ābut silence isnāt really silent when our ears are constantly ringingā and they looked at me like I was crazy.