So almost one week ago I had a major exacerbation of my tinnitus due to tympanometry.
2 days ago I woke up in the middle of the night because my tinnitus had changed again.
Now there's a low humming sound that "feels" kinda different than the other rather high pitched hissing noise I have.
It's waaaay more intrusive and bothersome but it seems to go away when I cover my ears or put on ear muffs. I'm not sure if that's because the blood rushing masks the sound then or if it's something else.
Has anyone else got a similar sound that behaves like this?
Is it just a steady humm, or does it feel like a vibrating pulse that's low frequency? Does it change in it's rate, or just continuous? Can it get worse by doing anything like driving and turning car off and hearing it worse, or using earplugs? If it's just a low drone/hum sound, and right after medication, that may be the cause. If it's the second description I mentioned it may be something else entirely.
How is your low frequency humming doing now
@Bill_ ?
I've had that issue in the past and have also experienced the weird sensation of having the "hum sound" disappear when I plug my ears.
I've found that for myself, my low frequency hum usually kicks up when I have TMJ/TTTS/jaw stiffness, or really stiff shoulders. I know there are lots of muscles that connect from our neck along and behind your ears, and when stiff, can aggravate T sometimes.
I know it can be frustrating to deal with, especially at night when you are trying to sleep. I'm not sure how familiar you are with TTTS, so I attached a document that explains it a bit better how it can exasperate T and H.
Hope you are doing better
Can you describe it a bit more?
I reacquired this vibration type sound in my ear (also can feel it) in May after not having it for a few years. I don't usually use the word hum, but maybe it could be a hum. I describe it as a bass like, 60hz tone that pulsates (not to my pulse). It gets aggravated and changes for no reason sometimes, otherwise I can make it worse. It can be a continuous type vibrating sound, so imagine a loud truck idling outside your house. Or it can sort of ebb and flow and have a slight second break inbetween. Sometimes it's rhythmic and can go vroom, vroom, slight pause, vroom, vroom , vroom, slight pause. So there's a lot of changes at times.
It's made worse, so 10/10 when it becomes a continuous vibration without pause, so driving and then turning car off it's like this until it calms down to more of intermittent. Using earplugs or earmuffs or sleeping on the ear, will do the same thing.
Strangely, as I do have TMJ issues on my jaw near the ear from childhood injury (but it never causes anything other then clicking and never had this issue as I wen't 14 years after the injury before getting this) when this issue came back intensely it started to make my jaw sore and even slightly stiff to open, though this improved so I'm not sure if there was a connection, if anything the ear vibration caused the jaw problem.
I also oddly will pick up low frequency sounds easier in the ear and it reverberates inside. Like even the dyer going on the opposite side of house I can't hear it at all in my room. But I can feel the vibration in the bad ear.
I'm terrified this is actually MEM. But so many people have semi-similar type of things with all different reasons it's hard to pinpoint similarities. Any info on what you experienced and felt and how you describe it would be appreciated.
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