Tinnitus who suffers from it

Had a high pitched eeeeeee in my ears ever since I was a teen. I used to go to a lot of gigs and clubs and would always have my headphones really loud. I'd say I'm pretty used to it nowadays though but I'm aware of it always being there. I couldn't even begin to imagine what silence must be like nowadays!
 
Liquidfox said:
Even though I wore earplugs all weekend at Creamfields whenever I felt it was getting a bit too loud my tinnitus has morphed into something far worse than what it was.

I've experienced it a couple of times where if I'm really tired, it kind of pulses to the point it affects my vision. Now it's every night since I got back. I should probably get it looked at to be honest!
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Be careful with loud events man. I've decided to give up concerts for at least a couple of years to see if any improvements happen. I have read some horror stories about people let kept going to clubs and gigs wirh ear plugs and it got so bad to the point where they can not work. I decided its not worth going to concerts to potentially get a louder tinnitus. Just a heads up.
 
I think for many years I've had a eeeeeee noise in my ears, but it seems to have got worse over the past few months, to the point I can hear it even sat watching TV. I think in the past it was just in quiet rooms I would notice it.

I think I'll book to get my ears syringed on the off chance that might help. I guess there's not much else I can do?

I worry the new bike might be linked to it, but at the same time, I've not done a lot of riding since I got it a few months back due to the poor weather. I do wear noise isolating earphones when I ride too.

I guess there's not a lot else I can do.
 
AndyCr15 said:
I think for many years I've had a eeeeeee noise in my ears, but it seems to have got worse over the past few months, to the point I can hear it even sat watching TV. I think in the past it was just in quiet rooms I would notice it.

I think I'll book to get my ears syringed on the off chance that might help. I guess there's not much else I can do?

I worry the new bike might be linked to it, but at the same time, I've not done a lot of riding since I got it a few months back due to the poor weather. I do wear noise isolating earphones when I ride too.

I guess there's not a lot else I can do.
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I think mine started when i got mine syringed so i will never have that done again. I just use sodium bicarbonate drops which usually cear any wax blockages up within 2-3 weeks.
 
Tinnitus is a broad term and there are forms of it that are vastly different. A lot of people here seem to only hear it in silence, look after your ears and hopefully it will stay that way. I read a forum dedicated to tinnitus where wome people hear the noise(many have multiple tones) over everything including the shower, outside on a busy street ect. But thats not all, additionally there can be "hyperacusis" where someone is sensitive to sound and thus causing pain. I've read some really horrible accounts from people. Hopefly a cure is coming soon. I think mine is mild-moderate and i am mostly habituated to it.
 
I've had tinnitus in both ears for three years now caused by vestibular neuritis. I can hear it whilst driving, on the train, in a noisy restaurant, in the street..so you get the idea of the volume I am dealing with.

I have no idea if it will decrease or ever go. Luckily I get a couple of days per week where it is very quiet so I occasionally get some respite.
 
I have had tinnitus for a few years, it's not diagnosed and I have no idea what has caused it. I assume their is not point going to the doctors about it?
 
It's been 7 years next month since my tinitus started :( I have also suffered with balance problems and at times dizziness and nausea. Been to doctors and specialists and even had an mri scan but nobody has a clue what's causing it. I have just had to learn how to deal with it.
 
I've only read a bit of this thread, but most seem to be high pitched sounds, i get the opposite, i've got low frequency tinnitus in my right ear, i don't hear it at all usually through the day or if i'm active at night, but i get it if i've been laid down in bed for anything from a few minutes to hours and BOOM it's like there is a lorry idling outside my room, so i have to sleep with a fan on, have done for about 10 years now.

When it originally started, i went a little crazy ie very crazy due to lack of sleep, because i thought it was an actual noise, even so much to go out and walk for miles at the early hours to find it, i obviously never did, but one day inbetween me going mad, i was laying in bed on my left side and i could hear it coming from above me, to which i got the ladders out and listened to my ceiling, but because the normal sounds you make when moving it had gone away, so i laid back down on my right side this time and almost straight away it came from down below, thats when i realised it was my ear and not a sound, ive got a fan for in the house to cope with it and when away i have a LectroFan which is brilliant really.
 
wnb said:
I have had tinnitus for a few years, it's not diagnosed and I have no idea what has caused it. I assume their is not point going to the doctors about it?
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Don't really need a diagnosis for tinnitus. You could get a hearing test to see if you have any hearing loss.

I had an mri because mine is mainly in my right ear.
 
I've had tinnitus all my life, from my earliest memories, a tingly high pitched sound. It had been the same up to recently, but I've recently had a bout of sine wave tones, which is something that previously only happened once or twice a year (one tone lasting about 7 seconds). Bit of a worry.
 
There's a guy called Julian Cowen Hill out there who has a few video's on youtube that gives people some hope. I believe he is a psychotherapist who's suffered himself and trained his mind and body to accept and therefore ignore the sound... Doesn't sound like its an easy thing to do, but the worst thing to do is dwell on the noise and make a habit of searching for it.. Which you'll find within seconds and then spend however long locked on to it.
 
Mine has been the same since I've had memory. Hasn't got worse, or better.

Just patiently waiting an inevitable cure one day.

For now though it's part of normal life so I don't hear it most of the day.

I have heard though, if you have it, and go completely deaf for whatever reason, you'll still hear the tinnitus, which is frightening.
 
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