What Frequency Is Your Tinnitus?

[Danny Boy]

Mine is 13,000 Hz. Is that really bad tinnitus?

 

[Ed209]

Mine's around 12.5 kHz in my head somewhere. My left ear has a drone that's around 5.7 kHz and behind that I have a constant hiss. I get electrical zings and zaps in my brain and my sounds generally change every time I sleep. Sometimes new sounds appear but they come and go so I try not to pay attention to it.

My head is a cacophony of noise that I've half habituated to. It doesn't affect me anywhere near as bad as it did 18 months or so ago. My tinnitus is not quiet. I sometimes think people automatically interpret my posts like I have mild tinnitus because I try to remain positive. My tinnitus cuts through all outside noise and there is rarely a situation that naturally masks it. The shower is one such place however.

Our reaction to the noise, and our underlying emotions (mental health) play a huge role in how we cope. I've found diet, exercise and mindfulness to be extremely helpful.

 

[Allan1967]

How do you find out what the tinnitus frequency is?

 

[satya]

How do you find out what the tinnitus frequency is?

I used the below website to check the tone...

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

Cheers!

 

[ajc]

Currently my main tinnitus sound is about 10,000 Hz.

 

[TheDanishGirl]

I have like 5 or 6 tones, all kinds of frequencies, but my main one is about 14,500 Hz.

 

[Christiaan]

I have three tones:

• The lowest tone (more like a subwoofer) is around 125 Hz and mostly appears at night or when I'm tired.
• A medium hiss tone around 5000-6000 Hz.
• A high pitch hiss around 140000 Hz.

 

[linearb]

The ones that bother me are all in the 12-14 kHz range.

I hear stuff lower that that but it barely registers and I don't think of it as "tinnitus" even though it is. I believe that very deep bass would probably bother me as much as the very high frequency; midranges are easier to ignore (perhaps from a lifetime of ignoring the advice people were trying to give me, since the middle ranges are where human speech happens).

edit: It always really depresses me when DannyBoy threads get bumped. RIP, dude

 

[SadMan]

Mine is 12,000 Hz. I am curious about something, as one gets older, one cannot hear the high frequencies. I am 40 years old. I won't be able to hear the 12,000 Hz ringing when I'm 60, right?

 

[Kriszti]

Low hum/buzz was measured by an audiologist at 125 Hz. This is the one that comes and goes periodically.

The dentist drill/ electric wire type is around 12000 Hz.

The third one is much lower both in frequency and volume, but it's intermittently repetitive (can't find the right English word, sounds like a cuckoo clock and an ambulance in the distance), and I haven't measured it yet.

 

[Kriszti]

Mine is 12,000 Hz. I am curious about something, as one gets older, one cannot hear the high frequencies. I am 40 years old. I won't be able to hear the 12,000 Hz ringing when I'm 60, right?

I don't think it works like that. The tinnitus is generated by the brain, so I think we will hear our inner sounds even when we can't hear the same frequency from the outside. In theory, tinnitus is actually due to maladaptive plasticity of the brain which wants to compensate for the lost auditory input.
I read about cases where the auditory nerve were cut resulting in deafness, but the tinnitus stayed.

 

[Rosco99]

Mine is 12,000 Hz. I am curious about something, as one gets older, one cannot hear the high frequencies. I am 40 years old. I won't be able to hear the 12,000 Hz ringing when I'm 60, right?

Please let this be true! Ha.