Phantom Piano Scale Manifested After Playing Piano Scale

[CrazyMike]

Have you any experience w/ this?

My Tinnitus sometimes hears a high pitched sound, burns it onto a CD and just replays it forever.

Today I played a scale from the top of the piano relatively loudly and, lo and behold, I now have a faint phantom scale of it constantly playing in my head. This phenomenon happened awhile back when I listened to several high pitches for a hearing test. Even the way I inputted the notes was perfectly replicated, exact same tempo as what I did.

Once my laptop computer broke and it gave off beeps to let me know something was up. And, well. Now those beeps are seared into my mind as well.

I'm literally terrified of beeps and brief high pitched sounds now. Plenty of video game sound effects as well.

 

[Kolisar]

Hi @CrazyMike. I have never heard of tinnitus that echoes recently heard sounds. I am not a doctor, so I have no training from which to make that statement, but you may want to consult a doctor. The high-pitched sound paling constantly certainly could be tinnitus, but the echoing and replaying of recently heard sounds (in your case, you have only mentioned pitches) is certainly something I have not heard of nor have I seen it mentioned in this forum.

All that being said, everyone experiences tinnitus differently, which is very obvious when you google "tinnitus sounds" and listen to the simulations of what people hear. With your particular tendency to have sounds get stuck in your head I would not recommend that you do that. You will have to take my word on that (and search this forum for descriptions of what others hear, there is a very wide range of sounds including tones, static, hissing, clicks, fire-alarm like sounds, etc..)

I wish you luck and hope that you find a solution for your problems. Please keep us updated in your progress.

 

[CrazyMike]

Hey there, just thought I'd report. I've been struggling with a lot of new sounds lately. You know that sound when your computer's working? That's been ingrained into me. Also, a phone was ringing loudly near me and now that's stuck as well. I have two different ringings and their rhythm overlaps which has made it hard to hear quiet music without it warbling. Like if you take your finger, put it in front of your lips, and rub your lips up and down rapidly while talking, that's the sound effect I'm getting during quiet music. The piano scale vanished completely from my thoughts unless I think too much about it.

Seeing as I have roughly 16 sounds, I'm thankful they're quiet at least. I don't hear 16 at once, at the most like 6. Thank God for habitation. The one thing is that I take Lamotrigine for Bipolar Disorder. The other day I accidentally overdosed and experience a VERY LOUD beep for a few days, but it went away completely. I can't help but wonder if going off of it completely may take some of my stress away. I'm very high functioning, just BP II with mild hypomania. I'm also obese, 208lb at 5'5 isn't good for someone who's 29.

I'll let you guys know how my improvements go. I have a hearing appointment at a doctor soon. I hope this all goes away...at least to some degree...Here's my list of sounds.
1. Computer working
2. High descending piano scale
3. Hearing test
4. Ringing like a phone
5. Ringing like a phone bit diff frequencies and different rhythm
6. The Pokemon Red/Blue "press A" sound effect.
7. A series of 7 beeps from my dell laptop's emergency code
8. I accidentally attributed words to sounds. I hear "Combo breaker" (The Killer Instinct Announcer). I know that's funny but not when you're stuck with it.
9. Same thing as a bove but its a pirate that goes "ARRRR YA MATEY" This isn't a hallucination like Schizophrenia though. Its like if you watch a video on YT with google translate and how google translate messes up constantly (Or if you listen to a choir in a diff language and hear "english" lyrics in the sounds.
10. A churring sound.
11-13: three constant high pitched sounds
14. A constant lower sound, just a pure pitch.
15+ just particular patterns of notes.

I only focus on like 3-4 particular ones every day though so that's good at least.

 

[sven1987]

I've had this once when I was in bed and a mosquito kept buzzing by my ear. After a succesful mosquito hunt the sound of it's buzzing was stuck in my head for some time. It went away after a few minutes, but I've never heard of it lasting as long as it does for you. If only it were possible for you to imprint silence that way.

 

[astaff14]

Have you any experience w/ this?

My Tinnitus sometimes hears a high pitched sound, burns it onto a CD and just replays it forever.

Today I played a scale from the top of the piano relatively loudly and, lo and behold, I now have a faint phantom scale of it constantly playing in my head. This phenomenon happened awhile back when I listened to several high pitches for a hearing test. Even the way I inputted the notes was perfectly replicated, exact same tempo as what I did.

Once my laptop computer broke and it gave off beeps to let me know something was up. And, well. Now those beeps are seared into my mind as well.

I'm literally terrified of beeps and brief high pitched sounds now. Plenty of video game sound effects as well.

Did it ever get any better? I am terrified of this; right now I keep phantomly hearing the sound of the phone ringing at my work.

 

[JohnAdams]

Did it ever get any better? I am terrified of this; right now I keep phantomly hearing the sound of the phone ringing at my work.

I used to get that even before I had tinnitus.

 

[astaff14]

I used to get that even before I had tinnitus.

Same here to a lesser extent. How long does it take to go away for you usually?

 

[JohnAdams]

Same here to a lesser extent. How long does it take to go away for you usually?

I haven't heard it in years, actually since before I got tinnitus. When I hallucinate noises now, it's when I'm dosing off and I hear loud bangs and yelling. It's called exploding head syndrome.

 

[Gabriel]

I got the same before tinnitus, it's just your memory acting up.
Your brain memorizes the sound just like music you keep hearing in the head.

For me it was, and is, the phone at work. But it always goes away when I focus on something else or just move on.

It's funny because when I first got my tinnitus, I tried to kill it using this mechanism: I would play the tinnitus sound long enough, and then have a phantom sound of it, and hoping my brain would kill the phantom sound and in turn kill the tinnitus sound.
But it didn't work, was a nice theory though.

 

[Sybelle]

Welcome to the nebulous world of Auditory hallucinations and musical ear syndrome that is often concomitant, in my experience, with incapacitating Tinnitus.

I've just been through the most anxiety inducing period of my life where I was under the misconception that I had onset schizophrenia because my Tinnitus simulated a radio with human voices. It was incoherent rambling or indistinct voices accompanied by jingles and an obscenely loud rumbling. It was a simulation of my journey to work in my car every morning!

It deteriorated into choirs singing and sinister like whispering sounds. You can empathise with why I presumed I was going insane!

Inevitably, I was assessed by mental health workers who treated me with contempt as a time waster; this was obviously not psychosis.


It was musical ear syndrome with severe aeroplane jet tinnitus because, of course, this vindictive affliction will not be out done!

My profound condolences to anyone who is persevering with this too. I don't know if habituation is attainable for someone like me....just relax and do some tai chai is the platitude I hear the most.

 

[Elfin]

Have you any experience w/ this?

My Tinnitus sometimes hears a high pitched sound, burns it onto a CD and just replays it forever.

Today I played a scale from the top of the piano relatively loudly and, lo and behold, I now have a faint phantom scale of it constantly playing in my head. This phenomenon happened awhile back when I listened to several high pitches for a hearing test. Even the way I inputted the notes was perfectly replicated, exact same tempo as what I did.

Once my laptop computer broke and it gave off beeps to let me know something was up. And, well. Now those beeps are seared into my mind as well.

I'm literally terrified of beeps and brief high pitched sounds now. Plenty of video game sound effects as well.

Had this on many occasions, brother. Usually much worse in periods of high stress. The noise would mimic hoovers, music, the buzzing of a wasp or a humming of an engine. Calmed down after a period of time, but was irritating at its worst