Poll: Tinnitus in the Ear(s), Brain/Head, or Both?

[RaZaH]

I am wondering if everyone with tinnitus has it in their head/brain as well?

 

[ceauses97]

Yeah i do.. Ive had ringing in ears before after loud events which would subside the next day, and i can tell you it was A LOT easier to cope with and less annoying. When its in the head its harder to mask and you feel like there is no escape. I wouldnt mind if my T went from brain to my ears, even if it kept the same volume...

 

[RaZaH]

Agreed , when it goes to my ears , I am happy , when in the brain , not so much ..

 

[Dan H]

I have a high pitched tone that is in my head, and another tone that only accompanies other sounds, and this one feels like it is actually coming from an external source rather than in my ears or head.

 

[Alue]

How does one differentiate the two if it's bilateral?

 

[linearb]

I have a central tone in my head that's fairly similar to the way I remember my head ringing after a loud concert, except not nearly as severe. That doesn't bother me very much, if that was all I heard in silence I don't think I'd think about it at all... in fact, sometimes when I'm meditating I use that as a focal point because it's very constant and less annoying than traffic sounds and that sort of thing.

The noises that sort of drive me up the wall are experienced much more in the ears than in the head.

But, we are all different. I am sure that some people would be driven bonkers by the central sounds that I have basically accepted as normal, and I have a good friend who has the sort of high-pitched ear chirp that drives me nuts who doesn't give a fuck about it.

 

[Sailboardman]

My T is definately on the right side of my head or in my ear. It's like mid to high pitched ringing and hissing, comparable to a high pitched tuning fork and old steam radiators. This combination of sounds, saturates my head with noise. Additionally, being severly deaf in my right ear, adds a hollowness, like holding a seashell to your ear. It's madness!

 

[Cheza]

Started in my right ear, eventually migrated to central head, or right upper quadrant of head, or lower back of head. It moves around from day to day. Mostly an electrical static hissing, and sometimes sounds like a balloon neck being squeezed so the air comes out in a squealing hissing sound. Tea kettle whistle on top of it.

Shouldn't be thinking about the nature of my T, as I'm trying to be diligent about the Back To Silence method. Let me just say, I hear it and I feel annoyed and distressed.

 

[Dan H]

I've had my high pitched central tone for about six weeks or so and I can largely filter it out now. It's the undertones that accompany other sounds that bother me, they are much more noticeable sometimes. For example I can now hear a continuous beep that sounds like it comes from my water pipes, or certain TV sets etc. Even when music plays, certain tones will add this weird humming sound to it and it all sounds like it is actually coming from the external source rather than in my head or ears. Has anyone else got something like this?

 

[Mathew Gould]

Mine most of the time feels like it's in my head...

 

[PaulBe]

I know what you are saying.

 

[Bill Bauer]

When it gets quieter, you stop hearing it in your ears and start feeling it in your head...

 

[David G]

For me, it seems it's massively in the head. Which I find more scary.

 

[DebInAustralia]

i have surround sound .. head and both ears ☺

 

[MBH]

Mine is in my head, on top, side, neck I can feel it sometimes.

 

[Mathew Gould]

Is it more likely to go away if its in the head or ears?

 

[Bill Bauer]

Is it more likely to go away if its in the head or ears?

If it is in the head because it is too quiet to be heard, then it is more likely to go away. If it is in the head and is loud, then this hypothesis does not apply.

 

[Mathew Gould]

If it is in the head because it is too quiet to be heard, then it is more likely to go away. If it is in the head and is loud, then this hypothesis does not apply.

Mine is in the head mostly and if I'm in a quiet room the T is quiet. If I'm in a room with noise the T is amplified.

 

[Bill Bauer]

If I'm in a room with noise the T is amplified.

Can you hear it in your ears, at that point?

 

[Mathew Gould]

Can you hear it in your ears, at that point?

90% of the time its in the head and it moves around in there and it sounds like crickets.

 

[1000]

I can hear it very very loud all over my head. The tinnitus from left ear I feel it mostly in top of my head and near my forehead. Obviously when I plug my ear I hear it there very very loud.
The tinnitus in the right its just more in top of the head and top of my ear.

Intrusive can be heard all over.... I wish i didn't had it or was less louder at least 50% below....

 

[Jemina]

The high pitch ringing is in my head, more to the left, and I have a morse code beeping and crickets in my left ear.. there's a tea kettle in my right ear... both ears have pulsatile bass like thumping and fluttering/rapid clicking sounds.

 

[TheDanishGirl]

Feels like it's both in my ears and my whole head. Like it's all around me.

 

[Kriszti]

First it started from my left ear. I also could stop the buzzing by putting my finger into my ear. Then when it got really bad, I felt my whole head was buzzing. Mainly still the left side, but not just my ear.

 

[Gman45]

Mine is either concussion or ETD related, according to an ENT, and from what I can tell. It started overnight a week after a mild concussion. It's almost as if my electrical head noise radiates to both ears. My left and right ears have tinnitus at the same subjective volume and form in unison most of the time, but sometimes the ultra-high frequency hiss goes back and forth like a stereo effect (not often).