Tinnitus, anyone?

[Septembersrain]

I had severe ear infections as a child. The only thing that helps me drone out the ringing is white noise. Laying in a completely silent room will prevent me from sleeping.

I use a fan or an air purifier. Sometime I'll listen to rain or ocean sounds if it's really bad.

 

[ejb190]

Had it for decades 24/7 - and I'm only in my early forties. Upon testing, there's nothing wrong with my hearing. I just have a really high pitch ringing in the background. Soft noise (music, ambient sound, talking to myself) helps my concentration, but put me in a quiet room and I'd go insane.

 

[Mefisto]

...but after you have it, ear plugs don’t help. A friend has needed double earingaides since her 30s due to standing in front of 8’ tall speakers at concerts.

Yep, true.

Personally I didn't listen to people who knew better than me when I was younger, but maybe others will.

 

[senseless]

Also consider high quality noise cancelling Bose earbuds for loud environments. Even with no music playing they will drop the room volume by 75%. They're great for the gym because I don't have to turn the music up to overcome the outside noise. I've even used them at an earsplitting wedding reception, but it must have looked strange.

 

[maflynn]

I have to say my tinnitus has gotten worse these recent years. The ringing is there low to medium grade all of the time, then it can boost up to the point where I can't hear anything in one ear. Loud ambiant noises causes my symptoms to get worse.

I've gotten what seems to be a worse symptom though. Some sort of clicking, its intermittent, but that intermittentness (if that's a word) has decreased and its occurring more often. At first I didn't think it was connected to tinnitus, but googling it, I guess it is.

 

[MacNut]

I've gotten used to my tinnitus, the high pitch ringing starts, fades away but in a quite room I can hear the faint low pitch hum. My doctor said I could go to an audiologist if I wanted.

 

[MacDaddyPanda]

I rarely get a loud ringing and then goes away. If it's dead quiet I can hear a mild ringing that's constant. Ambient noise is enough to drown it out for me. Otherwise I haven't really done anything to treat it. My guess for me is the cause was probably from Pantera Concert way back in the late 90's. I had ear plugs but I took them for like an hour of the show. Plus I play loud music all the time and I played drums in HS, so all that combined probably contributed to it. Now I wear ear plugs if I'm doing anything that's super loud noise. Like mowing the lawn or vacuuming.

 

[MacNut]

I rarely get a loud ringing and then goes away. If it's dead quiet I can hear a mild ringing that's constant. Ambient noise is enough to drown it out for me. Otherwise I haven't really done anything to treat it. My guess for me is the cause was probably from Pantera Concert way back in the late 90's. I had ear plugs but I took them for like an hour of the show. Plus I play loud music all the time and I played drums in HS, so all that combined probably contributed to it. Now I wear ear plugs if I'm doing anything that's super loud noise. Like mowing the lawn or vacuuming.

I'm certain it was drumming that caused mine. And being right up against a speaker filming a few concerts.

 

[maflynn]

I've gotten used to my tinnitus, the high pitch ringing starts, fades away but in a quite room I can hear the faint low pitch hum. My doctor said I could go to an audiologist if I wanted.

I've largely gotten used to it, but the clicking issue is fairly new and its been bothersome.

 

[I7guy]

I've largely gotten used to it, but the clicking issue is fairly new and its been bothersome.

I have tinnitus as well and it’s a mild case. It developed in my 20s and I went through a battery of tests all negative. So no medical cause.

My wife has clicking in her ears and it’s drives her crazy. She finds there is no rhyme or reason to the severity so I can relate (as an outsider)

 

[Huntn]

I've gotten used to my tinnitus, the high pitch ringing starts, fades away but in a quite room I can hear the faint low pitch hum. My doctor said I could go to an audiologist if I wanted.

My understanding is they sometimes recommend an MRI to check for an ear tumor, if the hearing loss is substantially different from one ear to the other. That would be answered by a hearing evaluation from a nose, ear, throat doctor. My mother had a tumor in the vicinity of her ear, and although I have tinnitus, I did not have that much difference in my hearing from ear to ear, but because of family history, I got an MRI.

 

[MacNut]

My understanding is they sometimes recommend an MRI to check for an ear tumor, if the hearing loss is substantially different from one ear to the other. That would be answered by a hearing evaluation from a nose, ear, throat doctor. My mother had a tumor in the vicinity of her ear, and although I have tinnitus, I did not have that much difference in my hearing from ear to ear, but because of family history, I got an MRI.

I might get an Evaluation just to know how bad my hearing loss is. I think it's equal, just usual ringing that goes away after about 30 seconds.

 

[Huntn]

I might get an Evaluation just to know how bad my hearing loss is. I think it's equal, just usual ringing that goes away after about 30 seconds.

My ringing never goes away, I only notice it though, in a quiet environment. It’s not so much a ringing but a white noise kind of sound.