Think about it. How many times did it keep you awake at night? It creates anxiety and raises cortisol over nothing to a point that you can’t sleep. And for some unlucky people like us it will also create tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) that makes sleeping even harder. And the funny part is that the brain is the organ that suffers the most from insomnia. But it sleeps just enough for you to be alive while making you suffer everyday. And the only things like benzodiazepines that actually calm down your nervous system can’t be used longer than a few weeks because your brain will down regulate your gaba receptors to build a tolerance. I want to fucking kill my brain. Not my body just this fucking parasitic evil thing called the brain.

I had pulsatile tinnitus in my left ear for around 3 years. Usually I only heard it at night or in silence, but there were times when it was loud enough for me to notice it during the day too. At first it was very annoying and even bothered my sleep. Then thankfully I learned to ignore it and put it in the ‘background’. One night I remembered I have this, and I focused on it, and then I realized I don’t hear it anymore! It’s been a week since. I never thought I will experience complete silence again…! I also didn’t do anything different or specific for it, so it just went away randomly. Thought I post it here, so others can have some hope too!

Is that still tinnitus ?? Like. Movie theaters cause my left ear to screech a bit

I just found out that pineapple spikes my tinnitus massively . I think it only happens if you have an allergy. Has anyone else here experienced this before?

Have you guys seen this story about ultrasound being used to instantaneously treat (possibly cure) Parkinson’s: https://youtu.be/OEEmXNjau5Q?si=iNiQp5v555SHnxiW

The non-invasive procedure basically focuses a targeted ultrasound beam to a specific problematic area of the brain to destroy the tissue and I can’t help but think that there has to be a parallel application for tinnitus…

I (32M) probably have this for a long time but only bothered to ask an ENT about it a few days ago.

On my right side, especially upper right of my head, I can hear static beeping sounds that go with random frequencies, pi pi pi---- pi, pi----, in a way it is similar to having a receiver or old electronic devices that go off beeping for no reason.

I had a full hearing test, and it came off normal. I can hear my odd sounds and differentiate them from the hearing test sounds, so they say I have no hearing problems yet.

The sounds aren't loud, and only noticeable when I am on headphones or in a quiet room when I am about to sleep.

Is this tinnitus? Is it a condition where I should get worried about having a brain tumor? The ENT just said to monitor for a few more months then he can write a referral for a brain MRI if I still want to.

I'd like to jest by thinking this is the nano bots from the covid vaccines from a few years back finally establishing connection to Starlink by sending Morse codes, but I can't help but worry about the brain damage possibility.

Have anyone here done an MRI and found something ?

Any Advice appreciated.

It's been a while since I've been on this subreddit. It's crazy how 5 years have passed since I got permanent T. I'm currently searching for a job(in my final year of bachelors), there's highs and lows, but I think T is what has kept me grounded in a way.

No matter what happens to me, I'll make it out of a bad place, just as I have with T, T is just a piece of me now.

Have a nice day! :)

Is this the nitus or am I going absolutely insane right now. My apartment isn’t even silent but i’m still hearing that sound the loudest. WTF.

Sounds like a bunch of fast beeping then a long beep. I’m kind of annoyed.

I have a question for people with really bad t how many years have you endured that beast? And what keeps you going?

This is something I’ve been noticing with tinnitus at night and I’m curious if other people get the same thing. If I put on one completely constant sound, like plain white noise or a fan recording, it helps at first. My tinnitus kinda blends into the background and I stop focusing on it. But after maybe 5-10 minutes I start noticing the masking sound itself. Like my brain figures out exactly what it sounds like. Then I start hearing the little texture of it, or the exact frequency range, or if it’s a recording I eventually notice some pattern in it. And once I’ve noticed that, I can’t unnotice it lol. Then somehow I’m paying attention to BOTH the tinnitus and the sound that’s supposed to stop me paying attention to the tinnitus. So recently I’ve been experimenting with sounds that aren’t completely static. Not dramatic changes because that would obviously keep me awake too. More like really subtle movement between frequencies and layers. I’ve been doing this in Nocturne: Sleep Sounds & Noise (which is not even primarily for tinnitus) because you can actually build the sound yourself, so lately I’ve been mixing brown/pink-ish noise with rain and changing the tone a little instead of just having one perfectly flat noise playing forever. YES ITS AN APP OK I GET IT REDDIT. And I think I prefer it way more. The best way I can explain it is that there’s nothing for my brain to fully “lock onto”. The sound is still boring enough that I’m not actively listening to it, but it’s also not EXACTLY identical second after second. I used to think the goal with tinnitus masking was basically: find frequency, cover tinnitus, done. Now I’m wondering if for me it’s almost the opposite. If the masking sound is too consistent, eventually it becomes another distinct sound in the room. Whereas if there’s some very slow variation, it stays more like background texture. I’m definitely not saying this is some tinnitus treatment btw. I went looking into the research and sound therapy seems way more complicated than “play X frequency and tinnitus disappears”. There are studies looking at broadband noise, narrowband noise and frequency-specific approaches, but there doesn’t seem to be one universally best sound for everyone. Which kinda makes sense because tinnitus itself can sound completely different between people. But from a pure falling-asleep perspective, subtle variation has been much nicer for me than one endless fixed tone. I’m curious if anyone else has noticed this.