What Do You Hear? Can You Describe Your Tinnitus?

[Poyraz]

Guys I want your help. My T sounds exactly like someone is pressing one of my nerves and it hinders the blood circulation. The sound is like ddd d dd dddd d dd dd. What should it be? It is in my left ear.

 

[i.m]

I don't know if I am the only one here, but i really cannot describe my T. I hear something ( according to the acufenometry, it is between 6khz and 8khz ) , but i can't describe what it is: it is not a ring, nor an hiss, nor a pulsating sound, nor a pure tone ( maybe this but I am not really sure ), not something like jets, dogs, anything like these.

The only T I can describe is the floating T: a pure tone that after 5 seconds fades away, but it happens rarely.

 

[Telis]

Squeak noise that bounces around my head along with some high pure tones that feel like they burn.

 

[Alue]

My main tone is a ultra high pitch electric sound in my head that pierces through everything and competes with ambient noise / music. I've had other tones that I'm able to tune out during the day, but this one seems impossible to ignore. Don't know if I'll be able to habituate to it.
It's hard to describe but it's like I'm listening to an inflamed nerve, actually, there may be some truth to that.

 

[Beste]

I used to have hissing, sizzling but now it turned out to be electricity feeling with sound. This is so disturbing!

 

[GregCA]

Helicopter turbine. Electric transformer. Cicadas. No natural noise seems to mask it, unless I go into unsafe volume territory. Shower is close to masking it though.
I can handle it better in the morning. When I wake up it feels like it's all around me and I can trick my brain into reducing its tones one by one until they seem to fade away, but it's only a brain trick because once I get happy with myself and think "there, now you're quiet" then I realized it's all an illusion and the overwhelming sound stage is still there.

 

[annabel16]

Two different swarms of locusts in one ear, with an intermittent tea kettle, and a higher cicada in my other ear, sometimes pulsing with exercise or extreme emotional upset. Sometimes a factory whistle, usually short lived, thank God.

 

[Cor]

Static just like a TV, mixed with a high whistle on bad days. Both are highly variable in perceived volume.

 

[Jkph75]

Well, reading this has made me feel slightly better. Apparently, i'm not the only freak out there with a circus in their ear. Some of this actually sounds worse than what I have. I'll be praying for all of us.

I have an ultra high pitched hiss, a low droning or lawn mower sound, mid frequency loud tone, and a mid frequency oscillating 2 tone. The volume varies. Usually takes 30-50 db to cover it, except for the high pitched hiss which can't be covered. Sometimes it reacts to other sounds.

 

[Jkph75]

Does anyone else with all these loud sounds have hearing in the normal range? It would make sense that it is loud if you have a significant loss. Otherwise, it makes no sense.

 

[william adams]

My T is very high pitched can hear over TV most music unless its high in frequency, in the car pretty much hear it everywhere except the shower. If I can get busy on a project or socializing with people or get my brain thinking about other things I dont hear it at all. Seems to be better when I first wake up and gets louder through the course of the day. Actually after 7 monthes im getting use to it although I will get days where it really can be annoying as hell. Its always there but thank God my brain tunes it out sometimes. I guess keeping busy helps habituate to this annoying condition.

 

[Sam Bridge]

30db loss in both ears at 4khz. Tinitus only in my right ear. I hear a buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz noise.