Tinnitus - the sound of Silence

Check your blood pressure with a doctor too. My tinnitus usually flares up with any ear infections or a lot of stress that causes my blood pressure to stay elevated.

There’s also this that helped me with some relief (don’t believe that it’s instant though but it helps)
 
I also have tinnitus behind my left ear mostly. It's a high pitched whistle. I notice it mostly in very quiet rooms when it becomes quite loud.

I read somewhere that it is often caused by brain or nerve damage and can have nothing to do with your ears.
 
Also got the ringing and it's getting worse. Have to wonder what it does to my mood. There's a Doc on YouTube that has multiple exercises to help relieve it. I tried and they worked a bit, but it's not an instant solution of course
 
NR7 said:
Check your blood pressure with a doctor too. My tinnitus usually flares up with any ear infections or a lot of stress that causes my blood pressure to stay elevated.

There’s also this that helped me with some relief (don’t believe that it’s instant though but it helps)
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+1 on this, I cannot explain it but it dow provide temporary relief.
 
schuits said:
Also got the ringing and it's getting worse. Have to wonder what it does to my mood. There's a Doc on YouTube that has multiple exercises to help relieve it. I tried and they worked a bit, but it's not an instant solution of course
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There is no real solution or cause. I think I was born with it as I have never heard silence or can remember not having it. But the main cause are my jaws as they do grind against each other and I do bite on my teeth when I sleep. But usually it is only half this bad if there is an infection. So I think definitely the neck pain I have and combined with stress and not getting sleep.

Good grief, sound like an old man.
 
cguy said:
Also note that coffee can make tinnitus a lot worse (any stimulant can).
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True. Alcohol, caffeine and nicotine are only going to aggravate the condition.
 
I.am.Sam said:
thank you though

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Hello ringing, my old friend
I've come to cope with you again
Because a sound so softly creeping
Echoed loud while I was sleeping
And the sound that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the noise of tinnitus

In restless nights, I lay alone
Endless tones that chill my bone
'Neath the hum of a ceiling fan
I tried to muffle what I can
When my ears were pierced by a screech so bright
That split the night
And cut through the noise of tinnitus

And in the quiet dark, I heard
A thousand echoes, maybe more
Sounds of buzzing without stopping
Ringing on without any warning
Tones recurring that no silence can erase
A constant chase
Disturbing the peace of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Tinnitus like a river flows
Hear my plea that I might warn you
Take my hope that I might calm you"
But my pleas, like silent raindrops fell
And mingled with the noise of tinnitus

And the silence turned to dread
As the endless hum spread
And the sound screamed out its warning
In the tones that it was forming
And the sound said, "The cries of the sufferers are written on the silent walls
In empty halls"
And lingered in the noise of tinnitus
 
RedViking said:
I swear I can rip my head off my shoulders just now. It's so bad I wake up with a panic attack.

It's always been there, communicating with space, a broken radio, unknown frequencies. But lately I wake up and the noise is deafening. It's usually if I have infection in my ears, mouth or jaw which aggravates it.

The excessive lower pitched "eeeeeeeeeee" seems to go away after about 30 minutes of banging my head against the wall. But the higher pitched noises stick around 24 hours and louder than usual.

I thought it might be the new earphones I use for noise cancelling, but I don't listen to music and the inverted frequencies shouldn't be loud. Then I remember I haven been struggling with neck pain
this last while, so maybe it is that.

Doesn't help that the night is so silent. Need some white noise.

Ggggggggggggggg... Eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee.... Gggggg... Eeeee....

3:00 am....
3:30 am......
And the noise just continues.
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I have it too, It was just like you said until I just accepted it.
I don't notice it anymore very often.

If you really can't get over it put another type of noise on like a fan or something.
You should then not hear the ringing and just the other noise.
 
Lupus said:
Also check you've not got bruxism
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Bruxism and Tinnitus: Causes and Treatments | Amplifon UK

Bruxism is a condition characterized by involuntary grinding and clenching of the teeth and can cause tinnitus.
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The link between our teeth and our ear | Amplifon

Learn how our hearing is related to our dentition and how it can cause ear pressure, ear pain, tinnitus, and hearing loss.
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I do have, yes. And the temporomandibular joint is also grinding when I talk or move my mouth. That's the main cause. Which is why when there is an infection it us much worse. But currently I don't have anything besides the usual. Except this neck pain.
 
Insint said:
I have it too, It was just like you said until I just accepted it.
I don't notice it anymore very often.

If you really can't get over it put another type of noise on like a fan or something.
You should then not hear the ringing and just the other noise.
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It's currently louder than the traffic, birds and neighbours dogs barking, hence the anxiety. Otherwise I live with it, no problem.

ENT is probably my next stop.
 
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