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You might have just experienced fleeting tinnitus, which is completely separate and only lasts for short periods. It may seem much louder, especially if it’s a new sound. I will say, if you’re concerned about sounds as low as 30 dB, you’re already venturing into the realm of overprotection. I’m...

Hey Dr Nick, I understand your concerns. I felt the same way for quite a while, especially with sensitivity to bass sounds at first. However, over time, it didn't seem to get worse from bass exposure. These days, I'm no longer sensitive to it, and my tinnitus is often very low or even...

Yep, I’ve experienced a lot of hyperacusis symptoms, ranging from sound distortions to actual pain, but I still manage to live a relatively normal life. It all started with a few months of tinnitus back in 2020, which seemed to coincide with ear pain caused by ear drops. The pain subsided...

I think evolution did address this; we could handle a lot until humans created extremely loud environments that we chose to immerse ourselves in, slowly wearing our hearing down. I experience mostly the same distortions above 75 dB, where certain frequencies jump up by about 20 dB. Now, even...

From an outside perspective, it seems like the way you're speaking reflects classic anxiety. Your thought process is driven by fear, which is understandable. However, it's likely that nothing has changed, and you'll be fine. I have many friends with tinnitus who are exposed to 110 dB multiple...

Hey, I’m sorry to hear about your situation. I’m also a musician/DJ and have been worried about my condition worsening, so I've been avoiding gigs. When I do occasionally go, I make sure to wear earplugs the entire time. Did your situation happen while you were wearing earplugs, or were you...

I'm sorry to hear that this has become a problem for you. I've experienced distortion from other voices for a long time. I first noticed it around age 22. After the first year, I stopped paying attention to it, but I believe it continued for about 15 years. Only when my pain hyperacusis...

Mine has got better over 2+ years.

Hey, I don't think you should worry here. This sounds like a minor setback. Don't focus on it. 99% of the time, a short event will not cause any permanent change. Understandably, we, people on the edge of worsening, would be very tense from every event. But you have to try to learn to let go as...

Was there a cause for your increase in 2022? Or was it spontaneous? How would you rate it before and after?

If it means anything, I had pain hyperacusis (noxacusis) 15 years ago. It took around 18 months to go away back then. I continued to work in loud environments with earplugs 2-3 times a week during that period and since. Try to remember to keep your perspective positive if things do head in that...

Hi guys, A little background: I've had pain hyperacusis twice in my life - one being now. However, I've never really considered the "sound" of loudness hyperacusis like many of you describe. I always just thought things were loud in one ear because one frequency that would distort or whistle...

Man, it just sucks that tinnitus can go from a 2 to an 8 that easily! Scary stuff. Have all your spikes in the last 40 years jumped like that, or did the spikes start at a lower level? I know it's really scary to think something may be permanent, but a jump that level is usually always a spike...

Hey guys. It sounds like fleeting and extended fleeting attacks. I’ve had these before; they’re like the regular ones but in a lower frequency and, for some reason, can linger. I had a fear like you guys but never noticed a permanent result. For me, they haven’t happened to that degree for...

At what age did your hearing start to significantly roll off? And have you seen it continue to progress by itself? I think that maybe noise damage simply doesn’t show for the first 80% of damage, then becomes increasingly apparent when we start to lose the final 20% in a given frequency.

I fly long haul often - I don't have reactive tinnitus very often but I do have hyperacusis and I don't think either is affected much. Most of the sound in a plane on long haul flights is low frequency, so not the blaring highs that would usually give you reactivity (I assume). You'll be...

Hard to tell but mine started when I was on tour and wore noise-cancelling headphones or earplugs inbetween every show - so it was either the shows (I played fully plugged) or the constant protection that sent things over the edge for me.

Hey, it's very unlikely the earplugs could do that. You'd have been wayyyyy worse off with loud power tools around you. Why are you making that connection to the earplugs causing the damage?

Out of interest, what makes it sound like ETD?

My understanding is that regular tinnitus can exist at all frequencies. I’ve definitely seen people with it in that range. However, it generally seems to work differently to what most people call “low hum,” cutting in and out with the slightest sound in that frequency. And sometimes amplifies...

I don’t know much about that. I’ll only pay attention to upcoming treatments if in desperate need of hope, otherwise it’s important to just move forward positively until they happen. Just know I’ve been in your exact position where the hum was full blast, non-stop (in between any noise) for...

Yeah, basically it can be immediately inhibited by certain level of low sound, it requires different amount depending on how strong it is that day. You may not notice it on holiday at all for example due to outside sound or hotel A/C. Or people who live in NY definitely wouldn't even know if...

Hey, check the Low Frequency Tinnitus thread! Lots of information there and people with similar symptoms.

That’s great news, Ben! I have the same thing with head tilting down. So strange. And then it gets louder as I tilt up and worse as it goes back. I’m currently down to 0 hum myself too.

What age are you? It’s common to lose those frequencies above 8 kHz with age. It’s not necessarily the cause unless you’re young.

Sorry to hear! At least you’ve had some good time in-between the spikes. Are you saying that the spike is just you paying more attention to the sound after the acoustic trauma? Or did the volume actually spike?

Yeah, I'd always say there's a glimmer of hope, especially if it happened with a sudden acoustic trauma. I know a few people who had overtones, one had a whistle randomly for a month, one from SSHL, and they both went away. Mine has gotten better in a general sense. Things can 'stabilize' over...

Interesting that a few people have said this exact range for beeping and distortions. If anyone else does or doesn't have their distortions in that 1-2 kHz range, please chime in. I have no hearing loss in that range so it's odd. @Cmspgran, do you have hyperacusis? My audiologist suggested...

Update: It has been several months with no evening fan/inhibition and still my low hum is around 1/10 most of the time. It can flare up to 2/10 with lots of music. But there are not many days where it’s full blast non-stop like the first year. So this is getting close to 5 months of it being...

I’ve found I can pinpoint the area by running a tone generator on my phone at the absolute lowest volume in a completely silent room. As I reach certain frequencies, I hear wind or slight crackling on top and it swaps ears around the 1 kHz mark. I’d be interested to see if other people hear...

Is it low frequency?

I recently spoke to someone who had the sound distortions only when they speak. Many people have it from women’s or loud voices and whatnot, and it can sound like a robot or whistle on top. So it is common but less common from your own voice at a lower volume. I think the intensity can change...

Yes, I have that exact sample whistle reacting mostly to those things you mentioned. I can count at least 6 friends who do as well. It's almost like a distortion of that frequency (usually around 2 kHz) at mid high volumes. When it comes to resonances and distortions, it seems like there are...

These may be setbacks while your hyperacussis is still recovering. As you've probably read on here, it can go two ways. It's usually related to whether you have significant hearing loss or not. Either these can be setbacks/the pain will stop once recovered from hyperacusis or if the damage is...

Oh man, that does sound annoying. It may be the occlusion effect enhancing your voice and thus the whistle. Not sure how new you are to this, but you can sometimes find earplugs that get deep enough or are soft enough that your voice isn't as loud. I use Earasers, they soften the highs from...

Do you have any significant hearing loss yet?

I think in some ways you're extremely lucky it is just at that final moment of the day, which should be very easy to get used to if it is not loud. It is really about whether you're focusing on it. Anything new demands your attention. If it makes you feel better, I have had different tones come...

Sorry to hear. Yeah, I've had similar with my slight highs, seems there's a bunch of things that are controllable but regular high-frequency tinnitus isn't one of them. Glad we can get some control over the lows though.

Back here with some positive news. After 2 years my hum is still taking large breaks and maybe yours will too. I was certain it was here to stay. It's been almost non-existent for a few months - it was gone for the same period as last year, June-August, and when I hear it, it's 1/10. The only...

That's great. How long did it last? How long has it been back to normal? Don't take the fact it's gone for grated, at least for a while - simply because you want to make sure you don't aggravate it again. Hopefully it never comes back again, but like you said - be careful!

Sounds a bit more dysacusis/diplacusis. Definitely take a break. Is there any reason why this would have happened suddenly? Loud noise exposure? Any other symptoms?

Brain cancer is extremely unlikely to be the cause, you are definitely catastrophizing so best to stay calm and speak to professionals. You have almost nothing to fear in that aspect. Almost nobody's tinnitus on Tinnitus Talk is caused by brain cancer.

Sorry, I was referring to many mild case newcomers. After all this is what the thread was kind of about. I completely understand your situation and maybe I’ll soon be there too.

One thing I’ve seen a few times on Tinnitus Talk is that newcomers should know is that once people got their anxiety under control, they felt a lot better. It’s often far more about the anxiety than the symptoms. For me it was the same. As soon as I focused on other things and had a Valium or...

Hey, I’m just starting with this exact wine glass sound now. So you had it mild for roughly 30 years? Or am I reading that wrong? I’ll do anything I can to avoid any more progress.

For entertainment purposes, I asked ChatGPT about potential theories as to the cause of our low hum. I found it pretty interesting considering it has a pretty detailed knowledge base, far deeper than the first few pages of Google and can reason with said knowledge. You'll see a lot of familiar...

This isn’t typically considered true. This is Juan’s opinion and experience. You may have noticed I’ve asked for age, timeframe and whether this progressive hearing loss has been measured but without an answer, it makes it hard to assess as I’ve never heard this before. An audiologist would...

OK. Interesting. I have a few questions if you don't mind. How about the time frame? You mentioned you have lost hearing fast in the last few years. Was this change/loss measured and how quickly has it changed? Age-related? I myself have noticed my audiogram moving about 3-5 dB a year in those...

How bad is your audiogram and how quickly did it start to change?

Interesting. I have a similar variation between ears; the louder ear is sharp and the other ear has a hum and dull pain. When you say vibration, do you mean vibrating hum or clicking? Do you have any hearing loss? I’ve been getting a few “EQ peaks” at certain frequencies like 1 kHz - I have...

I’ve experienced things like that before but no after effect. From my limited knowledge, anything that can crack would result in pain; middle ear bones, round window. Otherwise it’d likely be opening of sticky ETD, dried fluid, neck, jaw or something non serious. We tend to pay more attention...

Hey, not sure if you're around, but do you know what type of Magnesium that brand has in it? Magnesium has seemed to work for me too, but there are different types.

I notice when I wear half of a foam earplug, I can often get my distortion squeak happening from my own voice’s volume, thanks to the occlusion. So it felt like I was improving one situation and making another worse. Maybe if they stuck out for you, they were too big? Sometimes they start to...

Earasers. Invisible, about 10 dB reduction. Low occlusion effect for me.

The starter pack is probably a good option as it includes two sizes. They’ll take some playing around with to find the best way to work for you.

I can’t remember how good my custom earplugs were with occlusion, but being a 26 dB reduction, I think there was a pretty mid level of occlusion effect. Nowhere near as bad as half a foam earplug but I still remember preferring not to talk. The good thing with Earasers is you can sit them in...

Yep, my ear canals are slightly different size too. I almost need one earplug to be in between the small and medium! Good note for anyone considering these. I've also found customs pretty worthy! But I continually lose them at $200 a pair.

Some of you may already be aware but I’ve found the best earplugs for sound sensitivity: Earasers. I’ve been trying different combos for a while now, mainly for things like airport and restaurants where things get just above a comfortable level. I’m sure many of you have also tried a range of...