Some quick background: got an ear infection 2 months ago, definitely had lots of ringing over the next several weeks, tones of many different pitches. That ringing has, I would say, gone away 100%.
Now, however, I'm left with a really unsteady noise that I will do my best to describe....it will make a little rumbling, crinkling, maybe crackling noise for a few seconds, and then for about 0.1 seconds, it pulses to a much higher volume, enough to jump out noticeably.
You might think "oh that sounds like pulsatile tinnitus", but it's not in tune with my pulse at all. It's completely random.
And the other thing is that there are times of total silence inbetween. At its worst, it does rattle continuously, but the interesting thing is that when it worsens, it just increases in FREQUENCY, not in VOLUME. It still always does its "crinkle crinkle crinkle ZAP! silence...."
Sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and all I will hear is just a single dull click every 5 - 10 seconds, barely noticeable at all. But on average it does the "crinkle crinkle crinkle ZAP! silence...." with regularity.
Based on my research, the closest thing this seems to align with is muscle spasms. But I worry that the ZAP! I hear is like a hair too long to be just a "click". Because "clicks" are always associated with things like stapedial myoclonus or typewriter tinnitus, and I've listened to the audio files and yeah, those are clicks. But literally none of it is locked into any sort of regular noise at all. At least when someone talks about the "static" sound of a TV, you are fully aware that the noise itself is crackling and not a solid tone, but the noise can be continuous. This isn't continuous at all.
Also I'm pretty sure that certain mechanical noises, especially ventilation fans, aggravate it. But I'm not 100% sure on that.
Any thoughts on what this is? Does anyone agree that this is probably muscle spasms? Is irregular, intermittent noise always muscle spasms? When people say "irregular" and "intermittent" on this board, they seem to mean that something only lasts for a few hours. I'm talking something that lasts for just a few seconds.
Now, however, I'm left with a really unsteady noise that I will do my best to describe....it will make a little rumbling, crinkling, maybe crackling noise for a few seconds, and then for about 0.1 seconds, it pulses to a much higher volume, enough to jump out noticeably.
You might think "oh that sounds like pulsatile tinnitus", but it's not in tune with my pulse at all. It's completely random.
And the other thing is that there are times of total silence inbetween. At its worst, it does rattle continuously, but the interesting thing is that when it worsens, it just increases in FREQUENCY, not in VOLUME. It still always does its "crinkle crinkle crinkle ZAP! silence...."
Sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and all I will hear is just a single dull click every 5 - 10 seconds, barely noticeable at all. But on average it does the "crinkle crinkle crinkle ZAP! silence...." with regularity.
Based on my research, the closest thing this seems to align with is muscle spasms. But I worry that the ZAP! I hear is like a hair too long to be just a "click". Because "clicks" are always associated with things like stapedial myoclonus or typewriter tinnitus, and I've listened to the audio files and yeah, those are clicks. But literally none of it is locked into any sort of regular noise at all. At least when someone talks about the "static" sound of a TV, you are fully aware that the noise itself is crackling and not a solid tone, but the noise can be continuous. This isn't continuous at all.
Also I'm pretty sure that certain mechanical noises, especially ventilation fans, aggravate it. But I'm not 100% sure on that.
Any thoughts on what this is? Does anyone agree that this is probably muscle spasms? Is irregular, intermittent noise always muscle spasms? When people say "irregular" and "intermittent" on this board, they seem to mean that something only lasts for a few hours. I'm talking something that lasts for just a few seconds.
