Hi all,
I woke up with my tinnitus suddenly about 7 years ago. Mine is a combination of crackling and/or buzzing in one ear. It isn't constant - it responds to the ambient volume around me. If I walk from a quiet room out onto the street, it goes crazy. Often it goes away when I'm outside, but if it gets really bad then it doesn't stop at all and I feel like I will lose my mind. It comes on bad at night usually, and will start happening spontaneously, to the point where I get a loud buzz every 30 seconds or so and it's impossible to sleep. I wake to this every morning right now, but usually a shower calms it at least to the point where it isn't spontaneous. But every morning, I wonder if this is the day that it doesn't go away at all this time, and it does my head in.
There are very few obvious triggers that cause it to spike, but one is alcohol + loud environment. Consequently I can't go out and meet friends in bars anymore. I've paid a high price for that multiple times, and it isn't worth it. The fallout could be a day of constant buzz-crackle-buzz, or a week, or months of it being pretty bad - all just from a beer or two with friends. It's like a sick joke.
Anyway that's me. I have a hard time finding other people with the same symptoms as me so if mine sound like yours, let me know! I know this is probably neurological - I've had all the tests and seen all the ENTs, yada yada.
Good luck to everyone out there suffering this bastard condition.
Allan
I woke up with my tinnitus suddenly about 7 years ago. Mine is a combination of crackling and/or buzzing in one ear. It isn't constant - it responds to the ambient volume around me. If I walk from a quiet room out onto the street, it goes crazy. Often it goes away when I'm outside, but if it gets really bad then it doesn't stop at all and I feel like I will lose my mind. It comes on bad at night usually, and will start happening spontaneously, to the point where I get a loud buzz every 30 seconds or so and it's impossible to sleep. I wake to this every morning right now, but usually a shower calms it at least to the point where it isn't spontaneous. But every morning, I wonder if this is the day that it doesn't go away at all this time, and it does my head in.
There are very few obvious triggers that cause it to spike, but one is alcohol + loud environment. Consequently I can't go out and meet friends in bars anymore. I've paid a high price for that multiple times, and it isn't worth it. The fallout could be a day of constant buzz-crackle-buzz, or a week, or months of it being pretty bad - all just from a beer or two with friends. It's like a sick joke.
Anyway that's me. I have a hard time finding other people with the same symptoms as me so if mine sound like yours, let me know! I know this is probably neurological - I've had all the tests and seen all the ENTs, yada yada.
Good luck to everyone out there suffering this bastard condition.
Allan
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