Hi all, found this site whilst Googling hum in ears. I am new here and well, it's more about support as nobody not even docs seem to be able to help let alone know anything. Firstly, in 2007 my left ear all of a sudden went deaf totally, it felt like a vacuum effect whilst losing hearing the more it 'sucked' so to say. It brought on instant vertigo which lasted 2 weeks and the hearing slowly returned over 9 months, but it left me with a permanent soft ringing which over the last 11 yrs I've got used to.
Sometimes it 'fine tunes' is what I call it. The ringing will go up real high for a few secs, then return to normal. All good.
Anyway, my main concern now is that 18 months ago, I started hearing what sounded like an alien spaceship hovering at night when I got home from work outside. I'd even look up! I started hearing it inside so thought it was something running but because I house sit a lot and noticed it in just about every house, I clued on after about 3 months that it was coming from me.
I also noticed that it would be worse when I drove anywhere and for however long. As soon as I turn the engine off BOOM there it is all around me but always more on my left side and what's really strange is that if I stick my fingers in my ears, it goes away, but it can start to come back slowly after a few minutes.
I went on an instant anxiety downward spiral thinking I had everything from tumours to aneurysms to HIV to anything you can think of. I have exhausted the medical dictionary 10 times over and have driven myself mad with what it could be. No doc has ever had an explanation or even been able to say anyone has ever presented with this before. Had every test and all clear, hearing, MRI's, scans etc. The only thing ever found was a left anterior sphenoid mild mucosal swelling which they ignored completely.
Last year, almost to the day it started but 1 year later, I left with my bf to go on a road trip which I was dreading due to the driving and it disappeared. That very same day! I didn't get it back until about 3 days before we were due to return but it never came back full force, only for a few days then gone again. That was November last year.
3 days ago, I noticed a slight rumble in my ear/head when I'm in bed watching movies on my laptop and today well it was back like it never left after I drive and now in bed and is worse if I lie back. I am so depressed as I thought it had gone and swore I'd die if it came back. I can deal with the noise...it's the not knowing what it is that kills me as I'm terrified it's something fatal or malignant.
The way driving brings it on big time and the way blocking my ears make it go away if only temporary should give me a clue to what it is and I'm a clever person but this one has me stumped!
On top of that in the last 3 months when it left I started getting acid reflux symptoms, again I thought nothing of it at first but 3 months later it's like wtf is causing it? Same deal......no idea.
So now I get the hum plus get to feel sick with heartburn too, which funny enough seems to feel better if I lie down and sleep, it almost disappears and some days it's not even there.
I feel like my body is attacking me. I am devoid of energy and tired all the time but docs don't seem worried.
Has anyone ever found a definitive answer to this humming? It seems to have a pulsating effect to it but it's not quite to the rhythm of my heart.
I'm at my wits end with this thing......sinuses? Fluid? Eustachian? Arteries? Oh my God it's enough to send you mad and I feel my fear and anxiety coming back over it. Thanks guys
Sometimes it 'fine tunes' is what I call it. The ringing will go up real high for a few secs, then return to normal. All good.
Anyway, my main concern now is that 18 months ago, I started hearing what sounded like an alien spaceship hovering at night when I got home from work outside. I'd even look up! I started hearing it inside so thought it was something running but because I house sit a lot and noticed it in just about every house, I clued on after about 3 months that it was coming from me.
I also noticed that it would be worse when I drove anywhere and for however long. As soon as I turn the engine off BOOM there it is all around me but always more on my left side and what's really strange is that if I stick my fingers in my ears, it goes away, but it can start to come back slowly after a few minutes.
I went on an instant anxiety downward spiral thinking I had everything from tumours to aneurysms to HIV to anything you can think of. I have exhausted the medical dictionary 10 times over and have driven myself mad with what it could be. No doc has ever had an explanation or even been able to say anyone has ever presented with this before. Had every test and all clear, hearing, MRI's, scans etc. The only thing ever found was a left anterior sphenoid mild mucosal swelling which they ignored completely.
Last year, almost to the day it started but 1 year later, I left with my bf to go on a road trip which I was dreading due to the driving and it disappeared. That very same day! I didn't get it back until about 3 days before we were due to return but it never came back full force, only for a few days then gone again. That was November last year.
3 days ago, I noticed a slight rumble in my ear/head when I'm in bed watching movies on my laptop and today well it was back like it never left after I drive and now in bed and is worse if I lie back. I am so depressed as I thought it had gone and swore I'd die if it came back. I can deal with the noise...it's the not knowing what it is that kills me as I'm terrified it's something fatal or malignant.
The way driving brings it on big time and the way blocking my ears make it go away if only temporary should give me a clue to what it is and I'm a clever person but this one has me stumped!
On top of that in the last 3 months when it left I started getting acid reflux symptoms, again I thought nothing of it at first but 3 months later it's like wtf is causing it? Same deal......no idea.
So now I get the hum plus get to feel sick with heartburn too, which funny enough seems to feel better if I lie down and sleep, it almost disappears and some days it's not even there.
I feel like my body is attacking me. I am devoid of energy and tired all the time but docs don't seem worried.
Has anyone ever found a definitive answer to this humming? It seems to have a pulsating effect to it but it's not quite to the rhythm of my heart.
I'm at my wits end with this thing......sinuses? Fluid? Eustachian? Arteries? Oh my God it's enough to send you mad and I feel my fear and anxiety coming back over it. Thanks guys
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