Tinnitus who suffers from it

Lightnix said:
If I could just figure out what pitch my tinnitus was I could use it to fake absolute pitch by identifying the interval between it and whatever I'm listening to... Wait maybe I can do this in reverse.

Edit: pretty sure it's G#
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I think my tinnitus is around the 13KHz mark - if the app on my phone is anything to go by.
 
Got a new tone to my tinnitus thanks to COVID - a low rumbly one, kind of like some distant A/C. I think its sinus related/Eustachian tube dysfunction that isn't clearing up. When I yawn the rumbling gets louder, but if I only mimic the yawning then nothing happens. I'm guessing the whole movement that happens to the tubes to change ear pressure during a real yawn is amplifying it.

Only thing I can think of to clear it up at this point is a short course of prednisolone.
 
Tephnos said:
Got a new tone to my tinnitus thanks to COVID - a low rumbly one, kind of like some distant A/C. I think its sinus related/Eustachian tube dysfunction that isn't clearing up. When I yawn the rumbling gets louder, but if I only mimic the yawning then nothing happens. I'm guessing the whole movement that happens to the tubes to change ear pressure during a real yawn is amplifying it.

Only thing I can think of to clear it up at this point is a short course of prednisolone.
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I have started getting this recently. When i turn my neck left or right it briefly stops before starting again, I usually get it when waking up in the morning (on top of my regular persistent high-pitched tinnitus) then it goes away.

Has me a little worried, not sure i could handle having that low hum on top of the high pitched noise, would be a nightmare to live with it permanently.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
I have started getting this recently. When i turn my neck left or right it briefly stops before starting again, I usually get it when waking up in the morning (on top of my regular persistent high-pitched tinnitus) then it goes away.

Has me a little worried, not sure i could handle having that low hum on top of the high pitched noise, would be a nightmare to live with it permanently.
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Agreed. If I had to choose, though, I'd take the low rumble over the CRT-like whine.

But not both.
 
Tephnos said:
Agreed. If I had to choose, though, I'd take the low rumble over the CRT-like whine.

But not both.
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I have the CRT-like whine constantly, it never stops. The low rumble, like a car is sat outside the house with it's engine running, comes and goes now and again - that I'm not sure I could live with constantly. Thankfully the low rumble only comes and goes very infrequently - I can go for months and not hear it, then it starts all of a sudden.
 
This year, seemingly overnight, my left ear has got progressively worse, for no reason I can think of.

It's now what I'd class as loud and distracting. And constant. Day and night.

I guess it's just aging.
 
I get the high pitch ringing fairly constantly. Sometimes it is louder.
I also get a ticking noise - mostly when lying down - this is something else though I think - it seems like it is a muscle moving - I think this started after loud music in headphones but not sure.
 
At least my "extra" amplification of tinnitus, by having had Covid has come to an end. Hopefully.
The dual tone and much increased volume was concerning, expecting that it would not go away.
Well at least that has just gone back to the regular levels, in that respect I'm relieved.
 
Vimes said:
At least my "extra" amplification of tinnitus, by having had Covid has come to an end. Hopefully.
The dual tone and much increased volume was concerning, expecting that it would not go away.
Well at least that has just gone back to the regular levels, in that respect I'm relieved.
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Glad for you.

Whats your normal level like? Can you hear it in the shower?
 
Bassmansam said:
Glad for you.

Whats your normal level like? Can you hear it in the shower?
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If I focus on it, then it is pretty bad. Rare it goes to dual tone but it is often high pitch single tone that can vary in intensity. That is almost constant. As mentioned, due to the many years of having it I get somewhat conditioned to it being the norm.

Rarely happens but it can go to absolute silence and it is then noticed by no longer being there. Those rare moments are wonderful, if short lasting.

Worse at night when the ambient levels of noise is low and no TV on etc. In the shower, just the same as it is an internal noise thing. I do try and not focus on it tho.
 
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