How Many Forms of Fleeting Tinnitus Have You Experienced?

[LukeYoung]

Basically wanting to know if you have had more than one type of fleeting tinnitus sound. Example: beeping, rushing, thumping or do you only experience sounds similar to your main but amplified?

 

[Michael B]

For me personally, only sounds similar to my main but amplified.

 

[HootOwl]

Mostly the typical tried and true high pitched eeeeeeee. Sometimes it's more low frequency like a dial tone. Once in a while the hearing will completely blow out with it.

Only a few times have I ever gotten a different noise and it was like an alien static screech that was extremely frightening.

 

[Barbara777]

It's always the same for me, dulled hearing and murderous shrill sound.

 

[Kriszti]

Before developing "normal" T, I experienced fleeting T as an electrical buzzing once in a few months. Since T I have basically two types of fleeting sounds: One is when everything goes silent and a tonal eeeeee happens which is high frequency, but lower than my regular T. That lasts about 1-3 minutes. The other one is the same as before, electrical buzzing, and it normally lasts for a shorter period of time.
I don't know if that's fleeting T, I guess it's not, but some mechanical stuff, but when I put foam earplugs in, my more problematic ear, the left one, starts to have thumping. But it's not constant. If I change the position of my head, it stops, but later comes back.

 

[Regal]

Only one type sometimes left or right. My classical tinnitus turns off (actually he stops for 1 second) and I have that loud beeping coming from nowhere. I had it before tinnitus but not so much as now... that last for few seconds at few minutes.

 

[Candy]

One type... I now find that my ear not only feels quiet with the beep but also feels fuller... anyone gets fullness? Sometimes the fullness taking a few minutes to subside... wonder what's coming...

Anyone else?

 

[Jaysterk]

Mostly the typical tried and true high pitched eeeeeeee. Sometimes it's more low frequency like a dial tone. Once in a while the hearing will completely blow out with it.

Only a few times have I ever gotten a different noise and it was like an alien static screech that was extremely frightening.

This! I lose hearing (or seems like I do) with my fleeting tinnitus sometimes. I thought I was the only one. Is this normal?

 

[Kriszti]

This! I lose hearing (or seems like I do) with my fleeting tinnitus sometimes. I thought I was the only one. Is this normal?

I think it's quite common. I have the same. Scared the hell out of me first and still do to a lesser extent, because I always worry what if it doesn't stop, but til now it always did. This whole tinnitus business is an anxiety trip.

 

[Jaysterk]

I think it's quite common. I have the same. Scared the hell out of me first and still do to a lesser extent, because I always worry what if it doesn't stop, but til now it always did. This whole tinnitus business is an anxiety trip.

It just happened to me a few minutes ago. I had fleeting tinnitus along with what seemed to be a slight hearing loss. Maybe it just the fleeting shifting around the hearing. While I was typing this it happened for a third time in less than 15 months. Is this normal?

 

[Juan]

It just happened to me a few minutes ago. I had fleeting tinnitus along with what seemed to be a slight hearing loss. Maybe it just the fleeting shifting around the hearing. While I was typing this it happened for a third time in less than 15 months. Is this normal?

Yes, that's quite common.

 

[Kriszti]

It just happened to me a few minutes ago. I had fleeting tinnitus along with what seemed to be a slight hearing loss. Maybe it just the fleeting shifting around the hearing. While I was typing this it happened for a third time in less than 15 months. Is this normal?

Nothing and everything is normal around tinnitus. In the first few months, it happened to me on a weekly basis, sometimes even more often. Since around February-March, calmed down and episodes got much rarer. For me 3 times in 15 months doesn't seem concerning. I know it's extremely scary though. I got woken up by this and that's awful too.

 

[Jaysterk]

Nothing and everything is normal around tinnitus. In the first few months, it happened to me on a weekly basis, sometimes even more often. Since around February-March, calmed down and episodes got much rarer. For me 3 times in 15 months doesn't seem concerning. I know it's extremely scary though. I got woken up by this and that's awful too.

I had a total of 9 in the last 8 hours.

 

[Kriszti]

I had a total of 9 in the last 8 hours.

That's a whole lot of a different story, I never experienced fleeting tinnitus that often. Maybe someone who's had it can chime in whether it's something dangerous. I hope it calms down.

 

[Jaysterk]

That's a whole lot of a different story, I never experienced fleeting tinnitus that often. Maybe someone who's had it can chime in whether it's something dangerous. I hope it calms down.

Hmm I see. Yea I had 8 last night before bed and one today when I woke up.

 

[Thuan]

I have two tinnitus sounds. The first sound is what most people have with a very high pitch "eeeee" where it's like someone scratching a blackboard and the second is a coil whine "eeeee". Usually throughout the day, it's a combination of both but the first one is predominant. On my good days, the coil whine is louder and scratching blackboard sound is lower. On bad spike days when everything is loud, the scratching blackboard "eeeee" is obnoxiously suicidal.

 

[LightBrownPillow]

I've got my constant, super-high pitch T. It seems like there are a few tones which come and go underneath it, all lower and gone within a few minutes. The frequency with which the lower tones appear varies from day to day.

 

[Steph1710]

I experience fleeting tinnitus at least twice a day, everyday, which is a high pitched single tone that's different from my normal T.

Hope that helps.

 

[ASilverLight]

I get it occasionally. Sometimes it's just a tone rising over the others, sometimes it feels like I go deaf for a fraction of a second, regular tinnitus stops and I get one loud tone that slowly gets softer and then regular tinnitus comes back.

Happens only very occasionally though, and only since tinnitus onset. Never had any fleeting tinnitus before in my life.