Tinnitus Pitch Changing Every Second (After Back/Neck Injury)

[Bernard85]

Hi,

I am new to tinnitus. I have been reading a lot of posts here and would like to thank you all for sharing your thougs and ideas.

I have a very high pitch in my left ear. Possible causes are a neck/back injury or a tooth extraction after a failed root canal threathment. I am in good health, 31 years and living in Holland.

My timeline:
Day 1: tooth extraction left side
Day 20: swollen tonsils
Day 30: feeling fine, no ringing
Day 32: the day after a painless workout, i could barely walk, sit or stand. Severy pain between shoulderblades and middle back
Day 34: ringing started in left ear
Day 55 (today): ringing persist

The weird thing I noticed is that after a visit to the manual therapist (exactly 8 days ago) the pitch is changing every 1 tot 3 seconds. The high pitch gets higher for a second, than goes back to the default high pitch. Something like this:
AA.. ABBCC... BBCCDD.. ACC... AA, AAEEEECC.... etc.

I am trying to make sense of it all but have a hard time dealing with the sound.
Does anybody know what the constant chaning pitch likely means? It is worsening or healing?

Cheers

PS. The sounds gets louder when I turn my neck en open my mouth to the max.

 

[glynis]

Welcome to Tinnitus Talk Bernard85.
Could be due to neck muscles or TMJ but with having swollen tonsils you could still have a virus in your system and your ears are the last to clear .
Tinnitus can change sound and strength and have pulsitile tinnitus and musical tinnitus that sounds a bit like what you have.
If you have not seen your doctor I would suggest you have your ears checked and hearing tested and blood pressure checked and might need anti viral medication to try.
If it still has not gone in a few more weeks then a ENT refural and audiology refural might be needed and a routeen MRI.

I hope your sleeping well and if you are having trouble with low mood due to it or anxiety your doctor can help so don't suffer alone.
We are here around the clock to support you so your never alone .....

Try keep sound on around you in the day and at night set the sound below your tinnitus sound as this helps your brain push hard to pick up the lower sound and not focus on your tinnitus.

Lots of love glynis

 

[Pirru89]

Hi,

I am new to tinnitus. I have been reading a lot of posts here and would like to thank you all for sharing your thougs and ideas.

I have a very high pitch in my left ear. Possible causes are a neck/back injury or a tooth extraction after a failed root canal threathment. I am in good health, 31 years and living in Holland.

My timeline:
Day 1: tooth extraction left side
Day 20: swollen tonsils
Day 30: feeling fine, no ringing
Day 32: the day after a painless workout, i could barely walk, sit or stand. Severy pain between shoulderblades and middle back
Day 34: ringing started in left ear
Day 55 (today): ringing persist

The weird thing I noticed is that after a visit to the manual therapist (exactly 8 days ago) the pitch is changing every 1 tot 3 seconds. The high pitch gets higher for a second, than goes back to the default high pitch. Something like this:
AA.. ABBCC... BBCCDD.. ACC... AA, AAEEEECC.... etc.

I am trying to make sense of it all but have a hard time dealing with the sound.
Does anybody know what the constant chaning pitch likely means? It is worsening or healing?

Cheers

PS. The sounds gets louder when I turn my neck en open my mouth to the max.

Hi,

First of all - no matter if your T will be permanent or disappear - things will get better sooner or later.

Your T sound EXACTLY like mine. Unknown cause, very high pitched sound and warbles in tone for every second.
I've had this for 4,5 months now. Some days are good, some days are "ok", but I never feel depressed anymore. I think the constantly warble tone is part of reactive T. I guess you have loud days and "quiter" days? In another thread I saw a research paper. The results showed that it's likely that fluctuating T disappear or become more stable.

 

[Bernard85]

Thanks glynis. Appreciate the info I am going to the ENT in 4 weeks.
In the meanwhile, I am trying Teobin gingko and zinc supplements. And a visit to a manual therapist each week. I will keep this thread updated if I find something that works.

I am optimistic. In my opinion, the majority of the people that had tinnitus don't come back to forums to let everyone know that they got better. So maybe there are a lot more success stories we don't know about

 

[Bernard85]

Hi,

First of all - no matter if your T will be permanent or disappear - things will get better sooner or later.

Your T sound EXACTLY like mine. Unknown cause, very high pitched sound and warbles in tone for every second.
I've had this for 4,5 months now. Some days are good, some days are "ok", but I never feel depressed anymore. I think the constantly warble tone is part of reactive T. I guess you have loud days and "quiter" days? In another thread I saw a research paper. The results showed that it's likely that fluctuating T disappear or become more stable.

I am happy for you that you are dealing with it that way. Hope it will even get better for you over time.

I am really curious about that research paper. Do you know where to find in? I can't seem to find anything on Pubmed.