- Jun 3, 2018
- 97
- Tinnitus Since
- 2/6/2018
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic Trauma (Concert)
Hi,
So after 1 year of the same low pitch tinnitus, I recently got a very high pitch that is constant but seems to fluctuate (kind of like a electronic sound that is always there but is static). It's very hard to ignore and although my old pitch seems to be gone -- or at least I can't hear it anymore -- this really takes me back a year in terms of habituation. It's also a lot harder to mask.
Although I recently got a hearing test and there was nothing new there, I am wondering if it may be related to my current cold. The cold and this pitch almost started simultaneously and have both lasted for a little more than a week now.
Do you guys think this might be permanent or do you think it might be a spike triggered by the cold. I usually get spikes when I have a cold but never a consistent new pitch. I was not worried for the first week too much because I figured it would go away with my cold. But since my cold is almost gone now, I am wondering if my tinnitus is changing in character or if this was triggered by something else. Did anybody experience a sudden and very annoying shift in both the volume and the pitch of their t as a spike and if so how long did it take to go away?
Also friends with high pitched tinnitus, have you habituated/what do you use to mask because my usual masking sounds really don't work. And after a year of progress have become more aware of I've been of my t for a while. I am feeling incredibly hopeless...
So after 1 year of the same low pitch tinnitus, I recently got a very high pitch that is constant but seems to fluctuate (kind of like a electronic sound that is always there but is static). It's very hard to ignore and although my old pitch seems to be gone -- or at least I can't hear it anymore -- this really takes me back a year in terms of habituation. It's also a lot harder to mask.
Although I recently got a hearing test and there was nothing new there, I am wondering if it may be related to my current cold. The cold and this pitch almost started simultaneously and have both lasted for a little more than a week now.
Do you guys think this might be permanent or do you think it might be a spike triggered by the cold. I usually get spikes when I have a cold but never a consistent new pitch. I was not worried for the first week too much because I figured it would go away with my cold. But since my cold is almost gone now, I am wondering if my tinnitus is changing in character or if this was triggered by something else. Did anybody experience a sudden and very annoying shift in both the volume and the pitch of their t as a spike and if so how long did it take to go away?
Also friends with high pitched tinnitus, have you habituated/what do you use to mask because my usual masking sounds really don't work. And after a year of progress have become more aware of I've been of my t for a while. I am feeling incredibly hopeless...
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