Ears ringing tonight

originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: MauiWaui

yes your describing Tinnitus, there are a number of things that can cause it, and some can start when your young.

blood vessel and heart problems
high blood pressure
diabetes
thyroid problems
rheumatoid arthritis
high cholesterol

also some medication can cause it.
best go see a doctor.

oh and there two types of subjective tinnitus, that only you can hear. and believe it or not objective tinnitus/ pulsate tinnitus might be adulate to your doctor

Most ED drugs can cause it. Viagra etc.

So, follow me on this...it is weird.

Every since I was a kid, I have had ringing in my ears. It is a come and go thing. Still happens to this day.

My right ear rings louder.

It gets better.

I started doing live sound when I was 16. In a house of worship, which makes a difference. I learned sound reinforcement, not rock and roll loud.

In my early twenties, I started doing rock and roll. I also started wearing earplugs.

Fast forward to today, 30+ years.

I still have the ringing in my ears.

My right ear still rings louder.

I still do live sound. (And wear earplugs)

I tested 2 years ago for my own curiosity.

My left ear can hear up to 19.7 kHz.

My right ear can hear 20.1 kHz.

I will be honest, silence drives me up the wall. I always have music or a podcast on.

For falling asleep, I listen to a 432 hz Playlist from Spotify.

I definitely suggest a similar Playlist for anyone struggling to sleep. Not only does it distract from the ringing, it is very relaxing.

At least for me.

a reply to: RAY1990

It took me about five years before the noise became normal. It does seem to make it so I cannot hear some frequencies because the noise is in that frequency. It is hard for me to diagnose wheel bearing noise and drive shaft noises or fan belt noises on a car. Mine is much less when I am walking in the woods or working in the garden which is next to the trees. It is worse around electrical circuits and when I get close to the wireless box. The noises coming out of the automatic dishwasher used to really bother me, all the plates and silverware moving around. Not anymore though, the vaccum packer and bottles of wine are now stored in our dishwasher. The side effect, if all goes to hell, nobody breaking into our house will steal our wine...they are not going to look in the dishwasher.

Mine is not in my ears, the filters are messed up in the temporal lobe so information that is not supposed to go to the hearing part of the brain is going there and causing sounds.....from my brain injury.

It took a couple hundred grand of tests to identify all that after the accident. Knowing what it is helps me to deal with it better, realizing those weird sounds are just caused by misinformation in my hearing center of the brain helps me to be able to filter them out manually by observing everything around. My noise is in both ears all the time and it just appeared on the saturday after the accident, something ripped off my backbone in my neck and wiggled down towards my shoulder at that time. I little part of that bump on the back of the spine had cracked off and it was kind of sharp...Ex-rays showed it still in my neck, the doctors said the bone chunk would be absorbed by the body. I do not know if it was a nerve or ligament that snapped off my neck that second day after, but from what I researched with the help of my chiropractor who also was a doctor, that neckbone is right where a biofeedback nerve comes out of the neck. Could be why my heart quit speeding up with exercise and my parasitic action of my large intestine quit working right after this happened, or it may just be something to do with the accident. Without the heart beat going up appropriately, it got hard to do anything, and I was used to working all the time and working hard, I worked construction. The physical therapy was always cancelled because of the problems it caused with my ability to breath and a weird heart beat too.

I am used to that now, it is part of my new life. just as the head noise is. There are multiple reasons for tinnitis like you said, although they could not directly pinpoint exactly what was causing it, they identified it had to do with the filters in the brain. Was the nerve in my neck involved in this? Nobody knows for sure. My neck was really sore for five years and it still gets sore really easy. I can't even sleep on my back very long.

Your life can change in a single day, I know lots of people who had bad things happen to them that caused them to be all messed up in life. A stroke not only destroys your life, if you're in debt it can make you lose everything you worked for. My advise is to watch your spending, pay off your debts when you are doing good, and once everything is paid off...then go out and enjoy your life. I know TOO many people who were not paying attention, they thought they were rich because they had a good job and went farther and farther in debt. You are not rich till you do not owe anything and have enough saved to last at least two months in case something happens. A simple heart attack or appendacitis can make people really go through hell if they have lots of debt, even if they have insurance to cover most of the medical bills.

a reply to: rickymouse

If I try to pinpoint mine it feels like it's in the skull, I hear electronics often also and sometimes it can send you a bit loopy looking for the source. Some of the things you mention actually line up with physical symptoms I've been getting over the last year or so which incidentally gets worse with the tinnitus.

Weird heart palpitations and 'trapped nerve' issues on the right side of the body. I've had plenty of tests which don't really show anything so the going theory is it's something musculoskeletal but some sort of spinal damage could make sense too... Or neurosis

I very rarely get that exploding head syndrome thing too.

Cheers for the post you've gave me some things to think about, totally agree with the independence part people often think "it won't happen to me" until it does and they realise there's not really a support network to fall back on. Money only goes so far and if you need proper care that stuff doesn't come cheap. That's life... A good comparison would be childcare and the costs of having a professional look after them whilst at work etc.

These days I try to minimise the amount of electronics where I sleep which does help a lot, there's a big link between stress, insomnia and tinnitus.

originally posted by: RAY1990
These days I try to minimise the amount of electronics where I sleep which does help a lot, there's a big link between stress, insomnia and tinnitus.

I use an old fashioned clock in my bedroom. The sort you wind up which ticks quietly. Seems to help a bit when I sleep as it's when I wake up my Tinnitus can get bad and it has been a lot better since I started winding time physically again.

I still don't like the alarm bells when I have to use them, but they get the job done really well. lol

a reply to: nerbot

I have my phone unfortunately, I try to keep it 5 foot away and leave the charger elsewhere.

Other than that just a lightbulb and a heater, I'd go further if I could but it's not really feasible. I suspect it's wireless stuff that's the main problem and that we're hearing things that don't quite register a lot. Almost like different frequencies combine and can be heard in certain locations and the like.

I know the streetlights are more audible when laying down, almost like the body becomes a larger reciever when in contact with the bed or floor etc. I recently moved and because I've got good hearing the neighbours are proving to be a really good alarm clock lol.

a reply to: RAY1990

It seems more like strings being pulled too tight around your ear drums.

You can even make your ears hum for a second by jutting your lower jaw forward.

a reply to: ByeByeAmericanPie

Sounds like the jaw jutting just happens to be flexing a certain muscle in or around your ear... I'm not that good with anatomy but I can flex that one individually as well as one in the eyes that defocuses vision. I'm guessing anyone can learn to use these muscles but it'll be a lot easier to learn them at an early age.

I've had some strange experiences flexing that ear one when meditating and sleeping but I'm far from qualified to talk about that. I always suspected the sound was a movement of air via the eustachian tubes but again I'm hardly an expert on anatomy.

Doing it now and it seemingly enhances tinnitus...

a reply to: RAY1990

Ya the complexity of the human body is beyond my understanding

originally posted by: RAY1990
Doing it now and it seemingly enhances tinnitus...

Same for me, but if I hold the position it fades.

Note: was outside gardening today and was shredding branches so wearing ear protectors.

Tinnitus is minimal tonight.

a reply to: nerbot

Some people swear by noise cancellation headphones but I've had tinnitus since 1 and it's mostly noticeable in silence for obvious reasons.

Tonight mine is pretty heavy but sound has been annoying me which often means a migraine is on the way.

Mine's been ringing since 2014, loud music might be to blame, how it hasn't recovered over that time is beyond me. I'm guessing inflammation has warped the nerve, and post recovery has no care for proper signalling, just functionality.

a reply to: MauiWaui

Hi Wowser and readers.

I see that this thread is mostly dead, but I just wanted to chime-in with some positive vibes, for any that may still be following.

Please give a little credence, to those posters whom have already suggested, that how much attention one gives to the ringing, relates to how much it bothers us.

I have about three different types of frequencies, ringing.
Seems to depend on fatigue, and other shiz.

As an exercise : go through the ringing, and observe what you can actually hear.

Birds singing, leaves rustling, the fridge in the other room, your girlfriend farting two rooms away, air-ventilation systems, etc...

If you can still hear these things, then is the ringing really taking-up bandwidth, or volume ?

I can still hear a wide variety of sounds, despite the various ringing.
It's like the seemingly loud ringing, doesn't really take-up any audible space ?

Has anybody else noticed this, or thought of this ?

Please investigate, and share.

Also : what kind of care do y'all give to your ears ?
I sometime rub coconut oil into them, but they get very dry here in the northern winter season.

Thanks, and best wishes to all.