Hey everyone! I just turned 19 and I decided to create an account and share what I'm going through. I would really appreciate it if you all took your time to respond to me.
When I first got tinnitus
First of all, I'm very worried. When I first got my tinnitus it wasn't so loud and I only heard it when it was completely quiet. Even with that I freaked out. It sounded like crickets and mostly like a TV when the screen is on gray if you get me haha (like schhhhhhh). I was very sad and spent a whole month with anxiety and no sleep. I broke down so many times because I was scared that it would increase and I'd go crazy. Luckily though I did habituate and I completely forgot about it after a month or two and I thought the nightmare was over.
My tinnitus now
Recently in January my tinnitus came back but worse. I woke up and my right ear felt full with the loud sound of crickets and a TV when it turns gray like a (schhhhhh) lol. I began panicking and found out that noise became sensitive to me. It hurt my ears very bad. Oh boy did I get SCARED. It took me about 3 weeks to calm down and hyperacusis actually went away after those 3 weeks. Then my tinnitus seemed to lower down. It was still louder than it was before but it seemed like I had improved a bit and so I stopped caring about it. Now recently it's actually pretty bad. Now I have like 3 sounds going on. This new sound is the sound of a very high "eeeeeee" on my left ear. It's the sound when there is electronics connected and it just makes this static high noise (I apologize I'm very bad at explaining these stupid sounds).
What could be the cause
When I first got tinnitus
First of all, I'm very worried. When I first got my tinnitus it wasn't so loud and I only heard it when it was completely quiet. Even with that I freaked out. It sounded like crickets and mostly like a TV when the screen is on gray if you get me haha (like schhhhhhh). I was very sad and spent a whole month with anxiety and no sleep. I broke down so many times because I was scared that it would increase and I'd go crazy. Luckily though I did habituate and I completely forgot about it after a month or two and I thought the nightmare was over.
My tinnitus now
Recently in January my tinnitus came back but worse. I woke up and my right ear felt full with the loud sound of crickets and a TV when it turns gray like a (schhhhhh) lol. I began panicking and found out that noise became sensitive to me. It hurt my ears very bad. Oh boy did I get SCARED. It took me about 3 weeks to calm down and hyperacusis actually went away after those 3 weeks. Then my tinnitus seemed to lower down. It was still louder than it was before but it seemed like I had improved a bit and so I stopped caring about it. Now recently it's actually pretty bad. Now I have like 3 sounds going on. This new sound is the sound of a very high "eeeeeee" on my left ear. It's the sound when there is electronics connected and it just makes this static high noise (I apologize I'm very bad at explaining these stupid sounds).
What could be the cause
- Noise exposure! For sure this. I've grown up listening to music. Headphones, earbuds, or speakers. I wore earbuds on plenty of long road trips, school when we were allowed to and when ever I would study. I always carried my earbuds. I DID stop using them after my second spike and I will no longer pick them up.
- Anxiety/Stress! I'm a very anxious person. Any little thing and I feel like it's going to kill me. I do have hypochondria which means that I will believe I have any health condition by feeling any symptom. And then I go searching it up on Google. Yes I am working on this. Sometimes I'll get anxiety for no reason too. So you can just imagine how tinnitus is making me feel right now. Also if I get very very anxious or stressed I do get hyperacusis and a very loud increase of my tinnitus for a few minutes til I calm down again.
- TMJ! I do have TMJ. My jaws are almost always crackling. I've never got this checked out. It's honestly something I've ignored but I've seen that TMJ might cause tinnitus so there's that.
- For as long as I can remember, almost always I would hear a hummm or a boooop at night when I would go to sleep. I've always ignored it because I thought it was normal but it's tinnitus? I still hear it but now I have the other sounds I explained on top of that haha.
- When my hyperacusis was going away after those 3 weeks I began hearing click in my eardrum when I would hear a high pitched sound. Like instead of the sound sensitivity it would literally be an uncomfortable click. But that went away.
- 4 years ago I started feeling or hearing like this thumping sound in my right ear whenever I would yawn. It was almost like what you feel with a muscle spasm but instead in my ear. Well that recently came back again! Literally two days ago I started feeling it again when I yawn. I wonder what that is?
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