I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the most troubling part of my tinnitus, the low end warbling. It basically sounds like somebody playing rap with a subwoofer in a distant car passing by.
When it first started 2.5 weeks ago, it was super loud in my left ear. Devastating. My tinnitus is due to acoustic trauma of hammering metal and a nail gun. Audio test shows mild hearing loss of 35 dB in 6k range.
After about 3 days of Prednisone, that went away and turned into a high pitch, which elevated and elevated all the way to 15,000 Hz and now is mostly a hiss, however, the low end warble came back, although much quieter once I tapered off Prednisone.
Last weekend I had to attend a wedding. I sat outside, avoided the DJ and noise like the plague. That went fine. I slept well in the hotel, as the wall AC unit was a great noise maker which masked almost everything but my hiss.
The next day the drive was long, 5 hours. Drank lots of water, kept the radio low, and the AC high. The road noise and ac fan were good distractions.
When I got home, I went upstairs into the bedroom and laid down, and listened. I listened carefully. The low end was gone. I cried like a baby. Tears of joy.
That was Sunday. Monday it mostly stayed gone. Unfortunately Monday evening I began to hear it again. Although faintly.
Tuesday I had to work, way out in the country. Again I used the road noise and AC fan to my advantage. When I got out there I shut off my truck and listened. Sure enough it was there. At one point a car with a subwoofer playing rap did pass by. It nailed the frequency and I felt joy that it was a real thing passing by, fading into the distance, only to hear "it" still.
Here's what I notice about it in the most recent form. The volume of it is faint. What's somewhat new, its also triggered by things that make noise in similar frequencies, as if I'm hyper aware of that sound.
When the AC unit cycles on at my house or my in-laws, I hear it. There's a moment of relief when they cycle off and it stops momentarily, and then continues quietly.
I also notice I can hear it in jets passing by, trucks passing by, etc. It's triggered by them and when they leave it almost stops, only to warble quietly.
Interestingly, when I pee, it makes the low end sound, and when I stop, again it stops momentarily, or at least to a lesser degree.
So this time around its beginning to coincide with real sounds, even though they themselves are very low/safe volume.
I'm 2.5 weeks in, so I'm hoping this aspect goes away. The hiss is the least of my worries, which is constant. If anything, that part gets a little louder during everyday noise, and returns to a lesser volume when in silence long enough.
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