Hi All. I just joined and I've been reading some of the threads but I'm not finding anyone having the same mix of noises that I have.
This is going to be a bit long. Sorry.
My tinnitus was a sudden onset. I was sitting at the kitchen table talking with a friend and her daughter. It felt like someone gave me a good, solid thump on the head just above my right ear. I turned around ready to thump them back but there was no one there. Then the high pitch ringing in my right ear started. I tried everything I could think of to stop it, but nothing worked. Two months later my left ear began to ring. Sounds I knew should be there started to disappear quickly.
I went to an ENT about a year later. By that time I was no longer able to hear most of what people said to me. The ENT looked into my ears and said everything was fine. I disagreed. She sent me to an audiologist who said I was very good at piecing together what people say from the bits I could hear. I had lost 30% hearing in my right ear and 70% in my left. After this, the Dr said, "Something definitely ruptured somewhere. We could do surgery to see if maybe we can find something that we might be able to fix." I declined the surgery.
Hearing aids were a bust. I can't hear white noise. All these masking tracks are drown out by the ringing. Loud sounds are painful. Bass sounds are very painful and ironically they're the sounds I can hear.
I've had T for 18 years now. There is such a mix of sounds that I truly believe my brain is just making it up as it goes along.
Constant 24/7:
*multiple high and medium pitches
*buzzing
*pain
*pressure
Intermittent sounds:
*car horns
*metal wind chimes
*bamboo wind chimes
*high pitched *ting*, like some one quickly strikes a musical triangle then stops the sound
*bathroom fans may sound like 80's rock music minus lyrics
*crickets or birds chirping
*the theme song for Two And a Half Men when the female news anchor is talking
I'm not able to hear alarms which scares me. I was standing by a fire alarm at the hospital didn't realize it was going off until everyone else covered their ears
I'm not able to talk on the phone. I have to have someone make all my calls for me. My business is suffering. I can't go to any appointments alone because I can't hear or understand what they say. When I think I clearly heard something, I'm almost always wrong.
My kids laugh at the way I hear things. I laugh and say life is more interesting in my ears, but really, I feel so isolated from the world.
Does anyone else have all of this happening in their ears?
This is going to be a bit long. Sorry.
My tinnitus was a sudden onset. I was sitting at the kitchen table talking with a friend and her daughter. It felt like someone gave me a good, solid thump on the head just above my right ear. I turned around ready to thump them back but there was no one there. Then the high pitch ringing in my right ear started. I tried everything I could think of to stop it, but nothing worked. Two months later my left ear began to ring. Sounds I knew should be there started to disappear quickly.
I went to an ENT about a year later. By that time I was no longer able to hear most of what people said to me. The ENT looked into my ears and said everything was fine. I disagreed. She sent me to an audiologist who said I was very good at piecing together what people say from the bits I could hear. I had lost 30% hearing in my right ear and 70% in my left. After this, the Dr said, "Something definitely ruptured somewhere. We could do surgery to see if maybe we can find something that we might be able to fix." I declined the surgery.
Hearing aids were a bust. I can't hear white noise. All these masking tracks are drown out by the ringing. Loud sounds are painful. Bass sounds are very painful and ironically they're the sounds I can hear.
I've had T for 18 years now. There is such a mix of sounds that I truly believe my brain is just making it up as it goes along.
Constant 24/7:
*multiple high and medium pitches
*buzzing
*pain
*pressure
Intermittent sounds:
*car horns
*metal wind chimes
*bamboo wind chimes
*high pitched *ting*, like some one quickly strikes a musical triangle then stops the sound
*bathroom fans may sound like 80's rock music minus lyrics
*crickets or birds chirping
*the theme song for Two And a Half Men when the female news anchor is talking
I'm not able to hear alarms which scares me. I was standing by a fire alarm at the hospital didn't realize it was going off until everyone else covered their ears
I'm not able to talk on the phone. I have to have someone make all my calls for me. My business is suffering. I can't go to any appointments alone because I can't hear or understand what they say. When I think I clearly heard something, I'm almost always wrong.
My kids laugh at the way I hear things. I laugh and say life is more interesting in my ears, but really, I feel so isolated from the world.
Does anyone else have all of this happening in their ears?
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