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My car is loud on a highway and since it's only very low humming and general low frequencies, earplugs don't really block them and they'll get to the inner ear by bone conduction . Globally, I avoid long drives as much as I can. Nothing longer than an hour a few times per ear. Driving in town is...

I also have that humming noise and your experience sounds like mine. Does your hum get loud from time to time or is it stable?

I know it is highly individual, but trust me, there are types of low frequency tinnitus which is awfully hard to cope with. Mine is lower and more hollow than the refrigerator, sounds like thumping, rumbling, foghorn, idling motor, and so loud and vibrating, that it makes me suicidal. It also...

Hello Keylime! I came across your posts about your recent ear humming issues, and you describe your symptoms exactly like mine! It's reassuring to see that i'm not alone! Obviously, too much research and self diagnosis can increase anxiety. I've been reading that what we have could be a...

I have a very similar sound, unilateral, left ear, very low humming/engine noise, which stops if I cover my ears, or put my finger in it. For me it does not stop if I plug my ear. Weird, isn't it? It also often feels like a physical feeling, like the left side of my head was vibrating...

Update. Noticing patterns in tinnitus now. When I wake up the hum is very low, easy to ignore. This wasn’t always the case. The volume use to be the same regardless of the time of the day now I have different intensities. When I come back from work or a walk it sounds like an engine. Not...

I've had it for four years now and no remission ever. sigh Did clonazepam helped calm the low drone/humming? Interesting. Thanx for the link. I'll take a look at it. Once...

High pitch EEE, along with a vibrational/low base humming sound pounding in my head/ears. It's strange though, cause when I cup my ears, the vibration kind of goes away and I'm left with the high pitch EEE. Not sure what it means though.

Does anyone get spikes followed by long periods of relative silence? I normally have a low humming/buzzing in my left ear sometimes with a gentle high pitch intermittently. However walked the dog this morning, came back with a screeching eeeee for approx 20-30 mins and the nothing... relative...

@Phendran, it sounds as if your tinnitus might be somatic-sensory. How is it these days? By the way, I lived in Stockholm for a year. It's a beautiful city.

...I've got noise induced hearing loss from working and playing piano in noisy environments. My tinnitus is frankly insane with tones from low humming below 100 Hz to hissing at 10 kHz with stuff inbetween. When my tinnitus first started I immediately stopped doing noisy stuff and it was only...

1. Who knows! 2. Not my case. 3. I'm not sure. But when my low drone/humming started I had a bout of allergies. Now after 4 years the low humming is still here AND that's after taking allergy shots for 2 years. 4. Yes, exactly the same. I hope it goes away for you and me both. The...

I'm sorry that you're having ear issues. I have something similar and some of us on the forum do so. If you search for low frequency tinnitus or low frequency hum, you can find some experience. Mine can be stopped by covering the ear with my palm, putting my finger in it, humming, talking...

I would need an active one, but it would only need to be very low activity. Basically it would be enough if something mechanical would be moving inside the earplug, brushing lightly against my ear canal, just like my finger would. @Christiaan, I'm afraid I have to backpedal on the fact that...

Gin, there is another thread about this low hum affliction that you might want to read. In it, I describe the hell I've been through, off and on, for the last 20 years: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/humming-sound-in-left-ear.6437/

How long did you have it? Thanks I will try that! No he hadn't done that. However that could very well be the problem. I am at bit under underweight so I guess I should start gainning some kilos, and hope it might help. Did you have this humming sound as well when you had the patulous...

Hi, I have been reading this forum to get me through the past few months and the people and info are wonderful. It has answered so many questions for me. I know that I am supposed to habituate and have been trying so hard. It's a losing battle so far. I also suffer from severe chronic neck...

Im also having a down day, mostly due to the stupid story:( Also, I developed a low humming in my one ear for no apparent reason:( I suggesst you visit a doctor for the meds though. very hard to give advise on a board.

Hi , I have had a bad chest infection and cough over the last few days and have been taking a cough medicine - decongestant every 6 hours. I have noticed that my tinnitus is definitely reduced from its normal high pitched squeal to a low level humming in my left ear only. Has anybody got any...

I get this too, and it's really loud if I set my fan to medium, so I keep it at low or high. Dryer, vents, fridges and some music cause a loud whistle or humming. It's louder then the source sound, especially the dryer, I've had it for a few years and it is quiet, but now I hear a really loud...

Hi. I'm 21, female, and I have mild/moderate low frequency hearing loss in both ears. I also have chronic tinnitus, which consists of a hissing/ringing sound (do to noise damage, I used to listen to music with headphones a lot) and at some point I also developed a low pitch humming/sometimes...

Shaking my head doesn't make a difference but like a lot of other people have said here, having noise constantly on in the background stops the low pitched noise completely. I only have it in my left ear. Only my right ear showed hearing loss on the audiogram but my high pitched tinnitus is...

May not be the same what you have but I've had drone/engine noise for 5 years now, started with cold. Hissing for me started few years ago as a new sound in my "until then" healthy ear, thanks to Zoloft! T must have been created in hell!

Yes, I commented. Well, technically i did get a high pitched tone in my right ear, but it disappears and when I can actually hear it, I ignore it because its not loud and its too thin. The low hum is bothering me. And the feeling of vibration.

Many people (with low hum tinnitus) have this effect of LONG residual inhibition. I even emailed about this effect to one of the people that researched residual inhibition with tinnitus sufferers but he said he found it very peculiar that my inhibition could last for a couple hours (after being...

Forever Hopeful, As someone who has had tinnitus since 1996, I can tell you that it doesn't always get worse as you age. I'm 61, and my hearing is "perfectly normal" (according to my ENT) for someone my age. I started hearing a high-pitched hissing 26 years ago this month for reasons that were...

Hi I hear a low humming when my house is quiet which I thought was an electric motor noise from neighbours. I use an Android frequency generator app and a Bose speaker to generate a background noise of about 52-56 hertz at a low level which I find masks the tinnitus. I also have an app which...

@Mumtobe I had a low humming noise exactly one month after my twins were born. Fortunately, it went on and off for a week, and it hasn't been back since. Unfortunately, it was replaced by a higher pitched sound that has taken up residence in my head. I think this humming was more mechanical -...

Hi Lana. Yes I get a low humming as well. My main tinnitus started a couple of months ago and it's a loud high pitched whistle. Over the last few weeks though I've started to get a low hum on and off. It's a bit like having a beehive in my head. Unlike my other sound, I only really notice the...

Hi Everyone, I'm so glad to have found this forum. My heart goes out to everyone who is currently having difficulty coping with tinnitus. I'm hoping that in time I'll gradually habituate and find this easier to deal with. My tinnitus is very low pitched, a humming sound with occasional extreme...

I do and some of us here do to, there are threads for low frequency tinnitus or low hum tinnitus or drone noise tinnitus. Mine is intermittent in a sense that I have it for a period of time during what I also have half days/days off then it goes into remission. The "active" periods are...

Hi This is a short account of something I noticed today. I returned back home after some years traveling and my parents home is an oasis of silence. It`s is deprived of sounds except for this little clock that ticks in the background. No cars, no city not even wildlife. Pure silence. So when I...

Low frequency is not always sensorineural and can be due to middle ear muscles vibrating/being lame, like the tensor tympani. Your ear fullness indicates it could be this, because middle ear muscles can affect ear pressure as they can interfere with the correct functioning of the eustacian...

I've had low humming in my ears on and off for years. Except when I had sudden hearing loss and it stayed in one ear. The humming I believe is a kind of intermittent tinnitus. I thought it was sinus related but last time I had the intermittent hum I did a test of playing that frequency in my...

So what's your theory/mechanism whereby steroids cause dysacusis? An autoimmune disorder? I do have a defective adrenal gland, and my hearing got worse with each (2) courses of Prednisone I did. I'm never touching that shit again. It gave me a bunch of low tones too. And now I've got white...

I've posted my story in other threads, but this thread is specific to our common enemy. In April 1996, I started hearing a high-pitched hissing in my head. After countless medical and hearing tests and MRIs, no cause or abnormalities were found, and I had no hearing loss. Eventually, I...

Anything disturbing cochlear blood supply in theory should hit your lowest frequencies first (they are most vulnerable as they are fed with the smallest capillaries). High frequencies whilst more metabolic get plenty of oxygen, so that damage is usually metabolic (ROS). Similar thing happens...

I also did two little experiments this week. First experiment: The other day, the low pitch humming T was very loud and really getting to me, almost feeling like it was vibrating the side of my face. I inserted one of those blue foam earplugs into my right ear (where the humming seems to be...

Dear members - I wonder if I could ask if anyone had the same experience. I started to have humming tinnitus that I notice in September this year. That first time it was in one ear and pulsatile and disappeared in a few hours after I had some Ibuprofen, it was just as I felt I was getting a...

Humming, rushing sounds, distorted hearing and hearing loss. Meniere's doesn't always start out with dizziness. I guess you would call it Hydrops at this point if there is a hearing loss, especially a low frequency one.

...I provide below a link of his discussion of tinnitus with William Shatner. He seems to have handled his tinnitus ringing well. Also, if there is not enough response here, you can do a search on 'low hum' and there should be plenty prior discussions on low humming tinnitus. Take care. God...

Yes low sounds feel like humming / rumbling in the affected ear

After 1-2 weeks of 200 mg of Tegretol or 300 mg of Trileptal I noticed the effect. The low humming was nearly gone unless I "awake" it by car ride, pressing the bad ear, expose to vibrations etc... When I stopped taking the drugs, it returned. Now I am trying Ambroxol as experimented by some...

My ears are fine. Nothing to see. But she told me because i have a nosecold everything is swollen and it wil take a couple of weeks to settle down. I really hope so want this low humming sounds is driving me crazy. Is there a change that it will go away?

Mine is similar to this. It sounds like a car idling in my head. I can actually feel it. But only in silence, like when trying to sleep, of course.

Yeah - being talked to and shaking my head in a "no" manner stops my hum. Having a very low volume ventilation on during the day keeps my hum completely away. At night I keep a laptop on with VERY low volume humming noise and it keeps my hum away. Last time I heard my hum being REALLY loud was...

I've had a low-pitched buzzing/humming in my head since 1996, although it has been known to go away for periods of up to three years. I've been on the antidepressant Escitalopram (generic Lexapro) for 15 years which I stared taking for depression, anxiety, and OCD. The buzzing in my head stayed...

I've had a loud, low-pitched hum since 1996. It started from out of the blue. I saw tons of doctors and had many tests performed including 3 MRI's. Everything came back normal. My hearing is also fine. The humming is mainly in my right ear, but I can also feel it engulf my entire head. It's...

With heat, massage, and most importantly the mouth guard, I’d say within a week to ten days it was completely gone. Have not heard it since. And I had it bad. I am so grateful this fixed it.

Please let us know which antidepressant you switch to. I would highly advise against Celexa. If you're going to take an SSRI, Sertraline has been the one better tolerated for tinnitus from what I've read. I'm on a low dose of Nortriptyline (10 mg) but that has not helped the head buzzing...

I guess this could be true. I am a little skeptical that the solution is so easy but it’s possible. The TMJ could impact the Eustachian tubes and that one cause but in reality it much more complicated than this. My low drone had gone away and now it’s back along with hyperacusis after a chiro...

I've had a low-pitched buzzing/humming in my head since 1996, although it has been known to go away for periods of up to three years. I've been on the antidepressant Escitalopram (generic Lexapro) for 15 years which I stared taking for depression, anxiety, and OCD. The buzzing in my head stayed...

I'm sorry to hear it and a bit in the same boat. I got a low humming sound 2 weeks ago and it is really unpleasant to hear. It also increases intensity randomly and nobody has answers. Do you hear the hum when you plug your ears? I can't. I hope it'll all work out for us eventually.

Nothing particularly stressful happened the day it returned. In fact, I had gone to the gym, had a good workout, came home, and ate a healthy dinner. Just another boring day. It was a few hours later that I started hearing the hum again. At first it was faint, but then it got louder. It's been...

The last time I checked the frequency it was 15000 khz. My tinnitus just melts with that tone and I can't hear it. I also have that low humming pulsating sound which I only hear when I go to bed. It dissapeared for some time but it came back recently :eek: Hang in there my friends! :love:

Oh man, that's awesome! Hope things continue to improve! What sort of humming did you have by the way? For most of my life I had a low/deep hum in my head, didn't bother me at all either because I was so habituated to it, it went away when I got my tinnitus though.

@Jerad, thinking in agreement from your introduction post, including residual inhibition, that your problem is ear related. This is what I found from more study research. Downward deflection from using an inversion table could cause the elastic basilar membrane to move down and also increase...

...pitched electronic ring in my right ear, along with the low intrusive hum in the left ear. The reality is I can ignore the high pitch T, but the low humming is just unbearable. if you don't have the headzaps, you can mask it better. For me it subsided so im confident it will for you too. Hugs. :)

I've read some older threads here, but it seems to me that the answers were all very different. I thought, let's give it another try in 2021. So I'm 21 years old, and thanks to homeopathy I "manage" my tinnitus quite well (I do have spikes sometimes, but on an everyday basis I hear a...

I have ultra high pitched, normal pitched, shrill and very low humming tinnitus. So that means I have almost 5 different tones. You have to hear inside of my head. I have my T in both ears and in the head. Oh, almost forgot to mention. I also have some pulsatile T in my right ear.