I've had this for as long as I can remember (I've got a really long thread on it somewhere - lots of interesting examples from other people in there
- I'll dig it up... I don't want to take the thunder out of this thread tho!
- for me it's a serious issue that most people just don't
get).
Mine has just been getting steadily worse and it's driving me nuts :bnghd: depression, frustration, confusion - all the things that make it worse, so
a vicious cycle.
As I type it's about at it's worst it's been over the past few days, I have a variety of pitches, volumes and sounds but there is always something
there 24/7.
In my left side is the most annoying and consistent one, a high loud ring that seems a little distorted so it also has a hissing quality to it... It
seems to emanate from about 2 inches into my head, more insode the head that in the ears if you get me.
Then there are the shifting fluxuating one - I can live with those, the volume is usually relatively low.
There are also the random ones, I get these all the time, it might be one of the 'elements' from one of the regular sounds seems to go a bit haywire
and wants to steal the show up there! - you know fairly rapid shifting of tone and intensity... Quite often those feel like a switch has been flipped
on somewhere, I'm know to obsess about trying to locate machinery / equipment sometimes (people seem to think for no reason! - I get board explaining
my self
- I will open and close windows, duck and dive around a room, use things like magazines to try to alter the alter the noise - like you
can do with an old TV that has that high pitched tone that old people are oblivious too! :bash: )
And then last but most bonkers of all are the ones I term 'spikes' - these are rare, that's a very good thing because they really get my heart
pumping! - Gonna give me a heart attack one day! - They are a little like the random ones, they almost always happen while I am sleeping or deep in
relaxation - they seem to come from nowhere at all - again like some switch has been flipped my head, just for about 2 seconds, completely fills with
the noises!!! - and I mean all of them at like 500% their usual volume and intensity! - Jeese do they make me jump! - when I was a kid they would
scare me so much I'd cry, my parents (dumb asses - would say it was a dream...
Mind you they were convinced I was making up the tinnitus and would not let me tell a doctor about it! - Like I said dumb asses). But yhea these
spikes, only like once every few months, out of nowhere, for those 2 seconds it's such a shock I can't think or anything (I've usually just woken
up from deep sleep)... For some reason I think I may actually be kinda frozen in a sort of paralysis at the time also... Bam head fills with noise,
seems like 2 seconds and then quick as a flash gone again back to normal ringing. (also if I get one big spike in a night I tend to get 2 or 3
smaller ones later on).
I uses to keep a bit of a diary of my symptoms but had to stop, I was going mad trying to link the ringing to things like natural disasters, the
scheduled flights in my area, all sorts really. - My money is on just the general proliferation of various use of the radio waves etc, take the boom
in mobile phone use for instance... Low power consistent use of specific high freqs
Tinnitus sucks.