First of all, English it's not my native language, so sorry for all the mistakes in redaction.
I am 25 years old, and about a month ago I heard very loud music in my car for several days in a row. Then the ringing began. The noise has been changing in these weeks -later I will talk about it-. When the T began, apart from the exposure to noise, I was in a time of great stress.
I've never been more scared in my whole life. I have never felt more vulnerable, desperate, unprotected and helpless. I have never felt the panic of living in a mind that ringing 24/7 and I can't stop it. I have no control.
I have visited ENTs and I have no hearing loss, in fact, it is above the average of my age - at least in the range below 8 kHz. Everything seems to be correct.
My noise started being more noticeable in the right ear and in the entire head. First sounded like some type of electric very high pitched intermittent sound. It seemed to me that I had "layers" of fluctuant high-pitched frequencies rather than flat tones. I could almost feel it. It's hard to describe, but I could feel this extremely high pitched electric zapping inside mi right ear and brain, mixed with other undescribible sounds. After two weeks, those electric sounds seems to have faded a little, decrease volume and has moved to background.
Now I have more like hiss and white noise type, a static ssssshhhhh background noise. Like a badly tuned radio or something. A metallic static-hissing sound. More in the hight pitched spectrum than the low one. That sound doesn't seem like it's coming from my ears, but inside my head.
I do not know if it's a good sign that the sound is changing. But I feel as if this new sound has been established in my brain. As if it were inside, blocked in my auditory memory and nobody could take it out. I do not know if I still have hope that all of this would disappear. I feel lost and scared. I want silence back. My whole life has been turned upside down. I can't relax doing anything, I don't ever feel comfy anymore, I hope that this noise in my head could go away.
Thanks for reading.
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I have been taking antidepressants for 5 years. I stopped them immediately when I read that they could be worsen or cause tinnitus. It's been only 15 days without taking them.
I am 25 years old, and about a month ago I heard very loud music in my car for several days in a row. Then the ringing began. The noise has been changing in these weeks -later I will talk about it-. When the T began, apart from the exposure to noise, I was in a time of great stress.
I've never been more scared in my whole life. I have never felt more vulnerable, desperate, unprotected and helpless. I have never felt the panic of living in a mind that ringing 24/7 and I can't stop it. I have no control.
I have visited ENTs and I have no hearing loss, in fact, it is above the average of my age - at least in the range below 8 kHz. Everything seems to be correct.
My noise started being more noticeable in the right ear and in the entire head. First sounded like some type of electric very high pitched intermittent sound. It seemed to me that I had "layers" of fluctuant high-pitched frequencies rather than flat tones. I could almost feel it. It's hard to describe, but I could feel this extremely high pitched electric zapping inside mi right ear and brain, mixed with other undescribible sounds. After two weeks, those electric sounds seems to have faded a little, decrease volume and has moved to background.
Now I have more like hiss and white noise type, a static ssssshhhhh background noise. Like a badly tuned radio or something. A metallic static-hissing sound. More in the hight pitched spectrum than the low one. That sound doesn't seem like it's coming from my ears, but inside my head.
I do not know if it's a good sign that the sound is changing. But I feel as if this new sound has been established in my brain. As if it were inside, blocked in my auditory memory and nobody could take it out. I do not know if I still have hope that all of this would disappear. I feel lost and scared. I want silence back. My whole life has been turned upside down. I can't relax doing anything, I don't ever feel comfy anymore, I hope that this noise in my head could go away.
Thanks for reading.
More data that may have some relevance:
I have been taking antidepressants for 5 years. I stopped them immediately when I read that they could be worsen or cause tinnitus. It's been only 15 days without taking them.
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I think regular ENTs do not practice that test, but here in Spain I went to an Audiologic clinique that seems to do that type of test... The name is "GAES", maybe you could try to find something similar in Sweden.
