Do you hear "The Hum"

I read the other day that a possible cure/treatment for tinnitus is magnesium supplementation though not when the mag is mixed with calcium, I haven't got tinnitus so haven't tried it and it was a link off a link browse so I don't even know where I read it but I noted it as tinnitus is one of those things I fear, worth a research maybe though if you're a sufferer.
 
It's probably psychological. Make sure you are getting enough sleep, if you are stressed or worried address the problem and importantly of you have been drinking, smoking, doing drugs or even coffee cut it out.

If it carries on go to the doctor.
 
Mine sounds like a transformer but then I hear ringing noises kind of inside the hum, it sounds like a phone ringing 4-5 miles away, wierd.
 
Yes Yes Yes! i get this bad, started around 2010 i started to hear the car/truck idling outside noise at night, drove me completely mad for weeks and weeks, was on ladders at all hours of the night listening to each and every wall and also went to almost every house on my street to see if they heard it or had installed new boilers etc in their houses, the more mad i got the louder it got, until one night i was laid on my right side and could hear it coming from my pillow, then laid on my left side and could hear it from above me which confirmed to me i was just hearing this from one ear so it "couldn't" be the neighbours having something on in their house.

I'm going through a good period at the moment though and i haven't heard it in quite a bit, but when it first started and when i get it now the only thing that stops it on a night is sleeping with a fan on and even sometimes i have to have the fan a bit stronger because when its bad i hear it over the fan, so since 2010 i've slept everynight with a fan on, sometimes if i'm laid in silence it comes on after about 45minutes and sometimes stays all night until i put the fan on or it will go away within minutes, their isn't really a pattern to it.

At one stage, i was in a pretty deep correspondence with Wakefield council to come out and do tests to see if they could find a source, but both me and the lady did some research online about it and we decided against them coming out because apparently no one knows if it's a psychological condition, where your ear latches onto a low pitched sound and amplifies it causing this sound, but that would mean there is actually a source, or low pitched tinnitus and her bosses wern't to prepared to send someone out until further research was done.


::EDIT:: just had a proper read through this thread and would like to add that this isn't a constant hum, its more like like a fluctuating hum and i'm really glad there is a thread about this.
 
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I have tinnitus in my right ear, like a high pitch whistle sound. I can live with that, but my left ear I can hear the hum, can never sleep with it so just get drunk enough everynight to fall flat asleep! :D
 
86JR said:
Don't you think it is a bit wierd that loads of people developed tinnitus at the same time?
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I genuinely don't think it is tinnitus, i think there is a source for the sound and this sound whatever it may be is making our ears latch on to it and amplify it and at once stage i started reading some research, that i believe a professor at Salford Uni was being paid to do on the matter and until the point where it started to make my brain frazzle with the sciency bits i think that's what he believed too, but that was when it first started happening to me, i haven't really looked into it for a while especially since i haven't heard it in a few months.

One thing that did peek my interest though, when you read through all the stuff online one thing that pops up quite a lot is the use of high pressure fuel lines and the genrators that power them like at petrol stations is sometimes attributed to this "hum" and it just happens around the same time as i started hearing it Asda built a new superstore nearby complete with a petrol station, and one night when it first started happening i actually walked up to the petrol station and it did seem to get a little louder as i got closer, but when i actually got to it the noise of the traffic "cut out" the "hum" and i couldn't hear it anymore and as i walked away it never came back, after that i started to worry messen 'cos i thought i was going to go all conspiracy nut trying to find out what it was, so i stopped that straight away and started to just live with it.
 
After 15 years of trying to get to the bottom of The Hum, Mr Witherington is now working on the theory that it has been the subject of a government cover-up. Why, he and fellow sufferers ask, has no serious government funding ever been put into researching a problem that destroys the lives of hundreds of people?
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Why indeed. The Hum has truly driven this chap mad.
 
Ok, so I've found that the humming sound I'm hearing is exactly the same pitch every time. It seems to match a frequency of exactly 60hz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Sf7rSOU78

I will hear this for short periods at a time, anything from a couple of seconds up to no more than 20 seconds, and then just silence in between. The pauses between the humming can be any length of time.
 
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