Starting to Hear the Ringing in My Own Voice

[astaff14]

I think I have a bit of a cold but yeah if that makes sense I'm hearing the ringing in my own voice? Or it sounds tinny or something. Has anyone experienced this and did it go away?

It's really off putting, tinnitus is also a bit louder than usual either due to the cold or the other day when I had sirens pass by each time I was outside (3 times).

 

[PeteJ]

I think I have a bit of a cold but yeah if that makes sense I'm hearing the ringing in my own voice? Or it sounds tinny or something. Has anyone experienced this and did it go away?

It's really off putting, tinnitus is also a bit louder than usual either due to the cold or the other day when I had sirens pass by each time I was outside (3 times).

I have a cold but my tinnitus seems worse - if anything, the multiple tones are at a high volume and it's hell.

I think tinnitus spikes when you have a cold.

 

[Mark A]

I noticed on my recent bad spikes my voice sounding different and tinny to me. It is a little like talking with hearing protection on and sounds like my voice is reverberating in my nasal passage. The tinnitus also seems to compete with the volume of my voice. It went away the first time I experienced it. But I have it now again with my second spike. Running water and plastic bags also sound awful to me. Probably due the damage in my higher frequencies.

 

[Michael B]

I do notice this myself on occasion without even having a cold. Ugh!

 

[Hotspur2931]

Try not to focus on it or overthink it. Back in the summer I had a period of time where the wind in the trees sounded kind of metallic and whiny. The kettle and the extractor fan did as well. At one point the list of everyday sounds that had this effect included:
Food frying in the pan
Sound of my feet crunching on the grass
Hairbrush running across my scalp
My own pee in the toilet
Rustling of raincoats, bedsheets, fleece blankets etc
Dishwasher and washing machine

I did get to the point where I felt totally assaulted and didn't understand what was happening to me. My yoga teacher at the time gave me a good pep talk where she used the words "hypervigilant" and "sound sensitive", which sounded a lot less scary than "hyperacusis" or "reactive tinnitus".

I decided to accept it as normal and ignore it as best I could. I also tried to surround myself with a good variety of sounds at all times so I was never fixated on one sound.

Once I stopped stressing about it it subsided pretty quickly and these days it's a non issue. I am so grateful to that yoga teacher for talking me down and for normalising it. If she hadn't done that I would have kept obsessing and it would have become a real problem.

I wish I had approached my tinnitus in the same way back when it started and that might be a non-issue now as well!

I realise what I'm describing is a bit different from what you are but I honestly think it's all part of the same picture. It's your stressed out brain playing tricks on you. It will pass. Please try not to give it any attention.

Best of luck to you

Lizzy
Xxx

 

[all to gain]

I have a cold but my tinnitus seems worse - if anything, the multiple tones are at a high volume and it's hell.

I think tinnitus spikes when you have a cold.

I have got my first cold since my tinnitus began, and it's gone through the roof. Now living in hell... even moreso than before.

 

[PugDog1]

I get this when my Eustachian tube is blocked! My voice and any other female voice sounds robotic-y and often has an echo after it. In fact it's doing it right now!

 

[astaff14]

I noticed on my recent bad spikes my voice sounding different and tinny to me. It is a little like talking with hearing protection on and sounds like my voice is reverberating in my nasal passage. The tinnitus also seems to compete with the volume of my voice. It went away the first time I experienced it. But I have it now again with my second spike. Running water and plastic bags also sound awful to me. Probably due the damage in my higher frequencies.

Yes I'm getting the tinnitus competing with my voice thing as well, it feels so weird! I'm sorry you're going through the spike still, I hope it eases up on you.

 

[MRItechssuck]

Colds can block the Eustachian tube and cause hearing to be muffled... less hearing outside noises means more head noise.

 

[Mila9828]

Colds can block the Eustachian tube and cause hearing to be muffled... less hearing outside noises means more head noise.

I have echo hearing as of right now and audio especially sounds distorted it's very scary my ears were so full last night I couldn't hear very well and the constant popping hurt my ears and left them sore.

 

[Backpacker]

I have got my first cold since my tinnitus began, and it's gone through the roof.

@all to gain I wanna talk to you for a minute via pm.

 

[kiel]

Yeah, have had this too. My voice along with other sounds would make my Tinnitus increase, and it would quiet down again in silence. Very strange. Always goes away tho.

 

[DaveN]

I just got over a Sinus infection and my T was awful throughout, a lot of spikes and even just the baseline was worse than normal for me.

 

[OnceUponaTime]

I have got my first cold since my tinnitus began, and it's gone through the roof. Now living in hell... even moreso than before.

Oh dear, so sorry @all to gain.
How are you feeling today?? Is the cold any better?

 

[all to gain]

Oh dear, so sorry @all to gain.
How are you feeling today?? Is the cold any better?

Maybe a little better. Not feeling good though; I have in no way got used to my new life.

Thanks for asking.

 

[astaff14]

Try not to focus on it or overthink it. Back in the summer I had a period of time where the wind in the trees sounded kind of metallic and whiny. The kettle and the extractor fan did as well. At one point the list of everyday sounds that had this effect included:
Food frying in the pan
Sound of my feet crunching on the grass
Hairbrush running across my scalp
My own pee in the toilet
Rustling of raincoats, bedsheets, fleece blankets etc
Dishwasher and washing machine

I did get to the point where I felt totally assaulted and didn't understand what was happening to me. My yoga teacher at the time gave me a good pep talk where she used the words "hypervigilant" and "sound sensitive", which sounded a lot less scary than "hyperacusis" or "reactive tinnitus".

I decided to accept it as normal and ignore it as best I could. I also tried to surround myself with a good variety of sounds at all times so I was never fixated on one sound.

Once I stopped stressing about it it subsided pretty quickly and these days it's a non issue. I am so grateful to that yoga teacher for talking me down and for normalising it. If she hadn't done that I would have kept obsessing and it would have become a real problem.

I wish I had approached my tinnitus in the same way back when it started and that might be a non-issue now as well!

I realise what I'm describing is a bit different from what you are but I honestly think it's all part of the same picture. It's your stressed out brain playing tricks on you. It will pass. Please try not to give it any attention.

Best of luck to you

Lizzy
Xxx

First of all sorry for the delay in response, this site isn't giving me alerts when people reply for some reason. That must have been quite overwhelming to deal with with all those sounds being distorted and whatnot. I'm sorry you had to deal with that but it seems like you're coping better with that now so I'm glad for you.

For me it's seemed to have subsided a bit though I definitely notice it here and there. Usually exacerbated by other factors it seems.

Thank you for the kind words! And I hope you're doing well.

 

[Hotspur2931]

First of all sorry for the delay in response, this site isn't giving me alerts when people reply for some reason. That must have been quite overwhelming to deal with with all those sounds being distorted and whatnot. I'm sorry you had to deal with that but it seems like you're coping better with that now so I'm glad for you.

For me it's seemed to have subsided a bit though I definitely notice it here and there. Usually exacerbated by other factors it seems.

Thank you for the kind words! And I hope you're doing well.

Hiya,

No worries, no reply was needed, I just wanted to help! I'm about a year in and only just starting to feel like I've got any wisdom to share with others. I still get really frustrated that I'm not feeling as good as I want to, but I recently reread an old post of mine from around April and I was amazed at the difference. When things feel bad now I can look back at how much worse they were at the beginning, and realise that I HAVE made progress.

I think the early days are such chaos – you're still monitoring every change and the whole world of sound just gets so volatile. My T is still there and still annoying but it's so much more stable and I have learned to stop obsessing over every little sound. Everything really does calm down with time. The key is definitely to keep living your normal life as best you can.

Best of luck to you
Xxx

 

[El BUZZ]

I have a cold but my tinnitus seems worse - if anything, the multiple tones are at a high volume and it's hell.

I think tinnitus spikes when you have a cold.

Maybe a little better. Not feeling good though; I have in no way got used to my new life.

Thanks for asking.

How are your colds, guys?

I am dealing with one for more than a week now and my tinnitus has been particularly maddening all this time. Has happened to me before during my four years career with this junk. Always went back to baseline. I hope this time it does it again because hell can't burn more than this.

 

[all to gain]

How are your colds, guys?

I am dealing with one for more than a week now and my tinnitus has been particularly maddening all this time. Has happened to me before during my four years career with this junk. Always went back to baseline. I hope this time it does it again because hell can't burn more than this.

It's got a little better, thanks.

I really thought my time was up to be honest. Really was crawling up the walls.
Now pretty much back to my baseline... which is still crap!!

 

[El BUZZ]

It's got a little better, thanks.

I really thought my time was up to be honest. Really was crawling up the walls.
Now pretty much back to my baseline... which is still crap!!

Can't wait for mine to do the same. I'm going to take my old severe and loud tinnitus, hug it, kiss it, and walk with him by its hand in complete happiness after having stayed with this MONSTER for ten days now. Thing is I had a day of almost complete silence during this cold which is lasting like a lot. That day my ears were specially sensitive as well. I hope things go back to normal as soon as I get healed from this cold. What I don't get are the mechanisms behind cold spiking tinnitus. Inflamation? It is twisted!

 

[PeteJ]

How are your colds, guys?

I am dealing with one for more than a week now and my tinnitus has been particularly maddening all this time. Has happened to me before during my four years career with this junk. Always went back to baseline. I hope this time it does it again because hell can't burn more than this.

My cold is mostly gone but I went to a dentist appointment today. I almost didn't go. The drilling was hell. I think my tinnitus is spiking. It's always particularly bad at night though. It's REALLY loud. I am trying to watch tv but I need to turn up the volume because the tinnitus tones are so loud.

I don't want to live like this. I am scared of a loud base line. It's really rare to have a fluctuation. I would say my tinnitus is 99% of the time severe loud tinnitus and rate it 10/10 in severity. I often can't get to sleep until around 2 to 4 in the morning and I hate that. I don't know what to do and there's no relief.

I wonder if I should buy NAC and magnesium. Maybe I should have bought it already?

 

[El BUZZ]

My cold is mostly gone but I went to a dentist appointment today. I almost didn't go. The drilling was hell. I think my tinnitus is spiking. It's always particularly bad at night though. It's REALLY loud. I am trying to watch tv but I need to turn up the volume because the tinnitus tones are so loud.

I don't want to live like this. I am scared of a loud base line. It's really rare to have a fluctuation. I would say my tinnitus is 99% of the time severe loud tinnitus and rate it 10/10 in severity. I often can't get to sleep until around 2 to 4 in the morning and I hate that. I don't know what to do and there's no relief.

I wonder if I should buy NAC and magnesium. Maybe I should have bought it already?

Sorry to read you're going through that, mate.

I tell you something: I always have heard my tinnitus over tv. In fact I hear it over everything. Lately I can hear it in the shower and mine projects abundant amounts of water. It has been like this from day one four years ago. I don't know how but I've managed to ignore it for days, weeks and even months. Last good chunk of time I spent feeling fine about it was one and half month in a row during which I thought I finally got used to it. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to had increased in volume. A movement detector placed on the door of a shop sounded really loud above my head four or five times (deeee daaaa) and I'm afraid that could have damaged my hearing further. Now I am still having a bad cold and I think it could be that what makes me feel this beast fiercer. I can't wait until this cold resolves and see what it is.

Thing is you need to give it time and believe or not, you will get adapted.

 

[Shelbylynn]

I get this when my Eustachian tube is blocked! My voice and any other female voice sounds robotic-y and often has an echo after it. In fact it's doing it right now!

Hi did it ever clear up? I am experiencing this now

 

[PugDog1]

Hi did it ever clear up? I am experiencing this now

hi! No it comes and goes sporadically! I am due sinus surgery and hopefully my adenoids out so we'll see how that affects it xx

 

[Tybs]

hi! No it comes and goes sporadically! I am due sinus surgery and hopefully my adenoids out so we'll see how that affects it xx

Recalled this thread when reading this article... don't know if it's related to your condition, but I guess it won't hurt to drop it off here.

A case of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence.