I've been living with t for over 20 years now. It's mostly in the left side but there are many different sound - frequencies - some coming from the right. It hasn't affected my hearing (although getting older obviously has). I've tried a few treatments and had it checked out by audiologists. I have all the measurements in dBSL for the two dominant sounds - a low 'humm' and higher freq. 'hiss' and the measurements for the sizable level of white noise needed to mask these.
There seems to be little control over the sounds - distraction and mindfulness does seem to work if I wake in the middle of the night. Having a pod of a sound of nature played in a bud in the right means I can progressively lower all the sounds.
From what I have been told and read so far it seems that the solution lies in retraining the mind not to create these sounds. I am ok with accepting the sounds and I don't notice them when actively engaged at work. Being social is something different however and I avoid chatting in noisy places because I can't hear much of what a person is saying. And it is almost too easy to fall into the internal sounds when I am in quieter social places. Not participating in in some of these situations is probably not good for my mental health and for networking.
There seems to be little control over the sounds - distraction and mindfulness does seem to work if I wake in the middle of the night. Having a pod of a sound of nature played in a bud in the right means I can progressively lower all the sounds.
From what I have been told and read so far it seems that the solution lies in retraining the mind not to create these sounds. I am ok with accepting the sounds and I don't notice them when actively engaged at work. Being social is something different however and I avoid chatting in noisy places because I can't hear much of what a person is saying. And it is almost too easy to fall into the internal sounds when I am in quieter social places. Not participating in in some of these situations is probably not good for my mental health and for networking.
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