This is a little lengthy, but I guess it's better to be more detailed for anyone who might be able to point out where my issues came from.
I'm currently having a bit of an episode with my right ear right now. The ringing isn't always there, but it is there. The times I am most likely to hear it is when I'm talking or humming, when a chair is dragged across the floor, or a similar sound is made/heard. I will say that even with the above scenarios, it isn't always heard. When I whisper, it seems to be more rarely heard, if at all. The ringing also seems to react to certain sounds, in addition to the ones I mentioned above. Then again, it might be because the sounds that my ear reacts to are similar in pitch/frequency to the sounds above. Sometimes the ringing doesn't react straight away, but maybe a couple of seconds after I hear the sound? I'm not too sure about this part.
I think what bothers me most is when I speak, because it's basically my own voice. That isn't exactly calming.
Now, the thing is, when I'm about to burp, I sometimes hear the ringing right before I let the air out. Kind of like when the air is like somewhere within my head/throat. It then goes away after I burp.
To add to all that, I have had ETD since 2015, the same year I first encountered tinnitus. My tinnitus has/had gotten much better, and the ETD has not really been an issue since.
The reason why I mention my respiratory system is because the ringing seems to mostly occur when I speak, or when I'm about to burp. That has got to be related to the airway in my body, right?
But then it also reacts to sounds like a chair being dragged across the floor or anything similar. And when I lie down or sleep, it seems to get better. In fact, I think I'm probably fine for the first few minutes after I wake up.
I have also used earphones/headphones since the end of 2016 up until last Friday, when I kinda heard ringing sounds, seemingly all of a sudden, from the Bluetooth earphones I was using at that time. I don't know how significant this fact may be, I'm just adding it. I first heard the ringing when I was talking through the mic, and when certain sounds from certain songs were heard. I kept using the earphones for a few more hours. Hopefully that was all that happened with regards to the earphones. I will say that I don't use the earphones a lot, though. At most, maybe around 75% of the entire time the last ~15 weeks. This was also mostly only on the commute to school/back home. Volume has on average been no more than 60%.
I should add that sometimes, when I breathe in through my nose, I can kind of hear the air moving through on the right side of my face(assuming that was the nasal cavity). The right side is where I have ETD and the ringing sounds from time to time.
Also, when I try to cover my ear to test for the sound, I hear this ringing sound which may or may not be the same ringing sound I usually hear. It is heard right when I'm about to cover my ear, or right after I take my hand off. I may not hear it at all when my hand is over my ear or completely away from it. Why is this?
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