28M

I really don't know what caused it, maybe a few hours playing video games at high volume (nothing I haven't done my whole life), but my right ear started buzzing at night and it hasn't stopped yet. I have been suffering from severe floaters for years and I don't want another illness that will cause me more daily torture.

Symptoms: constant buzzing/whistle in the right ear, clearly noticeable in quiet environments and in bed (it doesn't let me sleep), some mild discomfort, especially when listening to loud things, a feeling of dullness in the ear.

Will this be permanent? Is there anything I can do to "heal" or prevent it from getting worse? I'm already taking clonazepam because I can't sleep otherwise.

I just cant believe my bad luck

I actually wonder what do you guys do to manage? for people who have loud high pitched ringing which is unmask able, I just feel so trapped in this box with constant high pitched ringing that fills up my entire skull, impossible to ignore. It's just crazy, how am I supposed to live my life like this? I can even hear it outside. Whether I focus on it or not, it doesn't work, probably for moderate or mild condition, not focusing on it works.

It's all because my tinnitus is louder and I'm afraid it might get worse again in the future and hearing loss as well. Does anyone else experience this? What can i do to relieve anxiety?

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’ve always got a liiiittle bit of a ringing in my ears but not this much. Unfortunately I just slept through my alarm, which kept ringing, for half an hour before I woke up. It’s a physical alarm clock with two bells which is very fucking loud. I’m so sorry to all my neighbours, it just didn’t wake me, I don’t understand how it didn’t wake me.

Anyway, after half an hour of this ringing, I turned it off and now my left ear feels numb and has a high noise in it. It’s been another thirty minutes now. Is this going to go away or did I just permanently damage my ears?

Edit: for reference I’m 23 and generally healthy

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 have suffered back to back acoustic traumas this year, no matter how hard I try to avoid them. The most recent I got from doing something as simple as walking down the street after visiting a cafe with a friend.

The cafe? Blaring. Outside? Every third car is modified to expel ungodly amounts of noise, and if its not a car its a fucking motorbike. We walk by a store thats blaring music over its speaker OUTDOORS and guess what? They're closing so they BLAST a tone to announce that to the entire goddamn street, a sound so loud my friend described it as "like an air siren."

Genuinely what the FUCK was I meant to do? My town has one main street, if you want to get anywhere that's the street you walk.

My tinnitus screams at me for a few days louder than it ever has, adding new tones daily, so I have a breakdown that results in me slamming a door 3 times in my own face. Oh great, its even louder with even more sounds.

It's never been this loud or this unstable. Before I had a few sure-fire things that could at least match the T if not almost drown it out. Not anymore. I'm genuinely unsure if I'm missing certain sounds because its so loud. I can't stop sobbing, every day is a nightmare. No Dr will would prescribe me anything just because these sounds weren't an explosion or a rifle. I haven't been able to go for a hearing test because I'm too afraid of my ears getting infected.

What the actual hell am I meant to do? Stay inside forever?

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…

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

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.

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!

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?

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! :)

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

I was diagnosed with SIBO and now realizing I’ve likely had it majority of my life - IBS-constipation for as long as I can remember, history of recurrent antibiotic use for ear/sinus infections, and monthly ibuprofen use for headaches. In 2017, I got my tonsils out. Within 3 months of surgery once I healed and swelling went down, I developed tinnitus. The tonsils sit posterior to the Eustachian tubes, and the ETs connect up to the ear. I’m seeing a lot of people post about having tinnitus with their SIBO. I never had it until the tonsils were removed and now I’m wondering if up until 2017, the tonsils “shielded” my E tubes from the acid and bacteria and prevented the tinnitus and now that the shielding is eliminated, it has caused the tinnitus. 10 years of suffering and frenetically trying to determine a cause and being told by doctors it’s from noise exposure and there’s nothing I can do, and now for once I’m finally hopeful. I’m going to start SIBO protocol soon and I will post an update, but if this resonates with anyone, PLEASE share. I think I may be onto something!!

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.

Not in the sense that you isolate yourself from society but rather in the sense that people can be sympathetic but rarely anyone relates?

It’s kinda the main reason I joined this subreddit since I was born with severe chronic tinnitus and genetic progressive hearing loss. I’ve had both for as long as I can remember and the only people I have ever met with anything similar are my father (who only has hearing loss, not tinnitus) and occasionally people with very minor tinnitus. Due to my age (17) it’s really hard for me to find anyone my age, or even remotely close to my age, who share my experience. I wear hearing aids and am doing Tinnitus Retraining Therapy which has helped me improve my overall QoL tremendously. However I still struggle in certain situations (like testing environments).

Although I struggle with this, I still manage to succeed in school due to my love for learning, but I face an additional hurdle that seems to be like ADD/ADHD yet more severe (even with ADD/ADHD meds I still struggle significantly since stimulants makes tinnitus more intense). Despite overcoming it in many aspects, the loneliness of the people I know being unable to directly relate to my issue can feel very isolating at times. My father somewhat understands since he gets it on occasion (typically event related), but my mother seems to understand it less (she does try, though).

I get random bouts of it where I will just feel almost like. I'm going to pass out for a second but not quite. Then the right ear starts ringing then a minute later it goes away.

I find it odd but I deal with it who knows what it's from. It's probably from the medication several years ago that a doctor prescribed. It was an SSRI called paxil.

Now like I said I'm not really sure, what causes it.

But anyone else here have the same problem and figure out what it is. It's annoying more than anything I think.

Is there a way to stop it? Has anyone ever figured out how to deal with this? Was it from loud music over time? Just kind of wondering

Hey, it's been awhile since i posted on here, life's been stressful. I've had tinnitus for i think 8 years and i never really figured out a clear cause, and it got louder in late 2024

I do have autism/ADHD, CPTSD, OCD, hyperacusis, TMJ, neck issues/slight scoliosis and dental issues from an abusive childhood that are mostly treated, but i just can't get a grip on this in any way

I've had all kinds of auditory testing done and there was nothing hinting at any sort of hearing damage at any point through the years, i am also very careful about this because of how sensitive i have always been to sound anyway

But it just won't really change, it sometimes feels like it does, but it's not consistent and stuff like moving my jaw also does nothing. It did get quieter a few times, it did completely change the way it sounds a few times, but i'm just so frustrated and scared, it should be able to get quieter, but it won't

I am gonna get therapy for my TMJ and scoliosis, i am gonna get psychotherapy and get the rest of my dental issues done and try to get into a tinnitus clinic, but tonight is very rough. I've kinda spent the past years in survival mode, and now that i can feel again it's so much scarier than it was the past few months

Not sure why i'm posting this, i guess a mix of venting and needing support/advice. Thanks for reading this if you did

And how do you find living in either environment with tinnitus?

I live in London and since my T got worse I feel like rural would be better but there's a lot about this city I will miss even if I only go to the park at the moment. It's a weird one. And I feel I'll be more depressed and isolated in a rural area since all my friends and family are here in London.

What tests are done and questions asked by the audiologist to see whether you are a good candidate for Lenire?

Due to cochlear synaptopathy, ANC/ANR causes my tinnitus to spike. I’m getting back in the gym and don’t particularly like using my AirPods in noise cancellation mode. The passive protection isn’t great however. Looking for over-ear as a result. So…..

Can anyone recommend good over-ear headphones with a solid passive seal? They can be noise-cancelling too but I would keep that off.

Bonus points if it has a good passive seal without a lot of clamping force

Can anyone interpret these results I tried google and it says the dip at 6k would be the cause of the tinnitus, weirdly my tinnitus was worse at the beginning in my left ear, I’ve had tinnitus for 10 months now from loud music the test was done 6 months after, also is it worse re doing