Which Tinnitus Frequency Do You Think Is the Easiest to Deal with?

[uae96]

My tinnitus is mostly a mid frequency, more like a hiss. I can literally hear it everywhere but it's more like a pure tone accompanied with a hiss.

Many people here who have vibrating tinnitus say it's the hardest to cope with, along with the high-pitched shrill noise.

 

[GregCA]

The one that I can't hear.

 

[Rajin]

I think the one that matches with external noises such as outdoors ambience noise. That masks it better.

I think low frequency tinnitus is easier to deal with.

 

[grate_biff]

Jepp. I got the high pitch shrill (12500 Hz) that is killing me.
Also got a steady 4000 Hz tone. Not too bothersome.

 

[Basshell]

I think the one that matches with external noises such as outdoors ambience noise. That masks it better.

I think low frequency tinnitus is easier to deal with.

It certainly isn't !!!! Trust me I have had tinnitus for 30 years and have loud ringing and high pitch static noise. Somehow I coped with those but now I have a low frequency pounding vibrating noise. n can tell you it is another level of awfulness. Ruined my life . Everyday is misery .

 

[Audiophile_bg]

Having had both high and low pitched sounds, i would say the low pitched are more difficult to mask, and habituate to and tolerate. If its both loud and low pitched, i don't envy that person... When i got the low drone, i would say it wasn't as loud as it could have been amd when i went off the med that caused it, it kind of disappeared (the ear fluttering is still here unfortubatelly) But if it had stayed unchanged, i would be going out of my mind right now.

 

[Krolo]

I would say having just one sound beats having an orchestra. Would go any pure tone vs that

 

[Alex Matyjasek]

I have a high frequency vibrating T. I hear it over everything. There's no escape! Just keep myself distracted and try not to think about it. I occasionally feel the necessity to accommodate my life stile with this nightmare, might one day go to hell. I've had it for over 3 months and I find it so hard to addapt. I sometimes wonder how...

I don't know if low frequency tinnitus is easier to deal with. If it's easier to mask then what I can say, I prefer to have low frequency T. Better said I whish I simply didn't have it at all!

 

[Audiophile_bg]

I have had both high and low sounds, and the low sound was more intrusive.

 

[Nonna]

i experienced vibrating t yesterday for the first time, anything that u feel related to all of this is the worst. I once had a very loud drill blowing out my good ear. The drill came as a reaction to cat dander. That comes in second.

 

[Eric N]

If its both loud and low pitched, i don't envy that person

This is me on fortunately and it's a living hell

 

[Nonna]

i take that back. the drill blowing out of the ear is the worst.

 

[Gman]

Having experienced ultra low sub 100hz T (thanks to weirdo tensor tympani muscles vibrating or something) I can say it's very annoying and hard to mask, but can be somewhat soothing, in a bizarre kind of way.

Ultra high frequencies ie 10-16khz I've also found can sit above almost all background noise. These are the worst, in my opinion. They don't tend pack a lot of punch but they drill into your brain.

 

[-serotonin-]

I think the high pitched ones are the easiest to ignore because I know it's my own head noise. If it's low, I can't tell if it's from the environment or not and it really bothers me.

 

[Blue28]

I have multiple tones but the main one was measured at 12500hz... It's sucking all the life out of me.

 

[iGL0CK]

When my T started I had only one tone (about 4 kHz). I heard it almost everywhere but I felt ok with that.
Now I've got this tone too but I have to 'find' him.. I hear mainly crickets and white noise and my 'starting tone' under them. Some evenings I hear only this tone. They are my best days, so for me 4khz frequency tone is easiest to deal.
He even calms me down and is my lullaby.
I know personaly a few people with T and 90% of them hear only one tone (close to my description) and it isn't a big problem for them. Most of them developed T after using headphones btw.

 

[Jcb]

I have multiple tones, one is a high pitched shrill type of noise and there is also a lower type of frequency kind of sounds like a rattle snake (best way to describe it) it seems as if they compete with each other at times it's so frustrating.

 

[Bam]

Ultra high frequencies ie 10-16khz I've also found can sit above almost all background noise. These are the worst, in my opinion. They don't tend pack a lot of punch but they drill into your brain.

This is my poison. If I had to explain it someone I would say it's the sound of suicide.

 

[RingerBell]

I have sub bass T and high frequency T too. If I try to mask, the low freq T is above the masking sound or the recruitment and distorted sound that I get on many bass frequencies makes the masking sounds pretty much useless.

 

[PDodge]

I have ear sizzle around 13khz + mid and one low tone. I hate the sizzle!

 

[Yoshi]

It depends on the type, for me the random, high-pitched truck backing up beeping in my right ear can not be ignored. The constant CRT static that's centralized in my head I can pretty much ignore now.

 

[Tinniger]

I don't have any frequency, - it is like a hiss of white noise in my left ear, like a tire loosing air....

 

[Vicki14]

I have mainly a loud hiss that fills my skull, it changes to crickets and tonal eeeeee's which make me feel physically sick. God! Why can't 'they' sort this shit!

 

[Marko Nakovski]

I have 2 main sounds that are always present, the first one is hissing coming in waves, the second one is changing all the time, from broken tv sound like shh shh to insects and dentist drill (the worst). The 3rd sound is vibrating machine which is not always present and last one is literally copy paste sound of wind. So as far as I understand sharper sounds like dentist drill and similar are considered high frequency and low frequency sounds are bumping, vibrating and etc ???