Tinnitus - the sound of Silence

Man, I feel your pain.

I always used to be hyper sensitive to all kinds of wireless frequencies always hearing the access points and other similar devices.

Must have been two years ago now I would wake up at night and have 5G from space and at first thought it was the smart switches I had installed but process of elimination over a few nights eventually realised it's IN MY HEAD and not external at all.

Went on for months where I would go to bed just fine but if I woke up in the night for any reason it would keep me awake for hours so I'm not surprised by your 3am annoyance at all.

Now reading this thread is the first time I've thought about it again and realised it went away and oddly might very well relate to the teeth work I had done as I never even considered that which makes so much obvious sense.

I still get it now and then, even thinking about it now it's in my left ear but not so much that it bothers me.

Far worse for me these days are these random moments where it triggers a sound inside my ear/head almost like when a manual flash on a SLR is charging but super loud and cuts out any other sound entirely.
 
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.
Go to a dentist and get that sorted out :)
 
Far worse for me these days are these random moments where it triggers a sound inside my ear/head almost like when a manual flash on a SLR is charging but super loud and cuts out any other sound entirely.
This usually happens once or twice a week for many many years now, but it goes away after 30 seconds or so if I do the suction cup thing with my hands.

So what I experience now is exactly that but it goes on for hours. Last night was in the right ear, woke me up at 3 and started going away around 6:30. But the usually constant ringing is super loud as well. If I could describe it in decibels, around 75-80 db.
 
Think a lot of tinnitus is caused by ototoxicity, especially in the older generation who as kids were given what we now know to be ototoxic antibiotics.

I wonder... is there a way to manually match the frequency and phase angle and noise-cancel the sound?
 
I'm in the same boat my dude.

Years of working with big generators despite wearing PPE has caused me to have severe tinnitus.

For people who dont know what it sounds like, you can try it yourself on this website. Mine is a 7.8kHz sawtooth tone at about the same volume setting as this:

What do you guys get at https://onlinetonegenerator.com/hearingtest.html

Goes quiet at 16 kHz for me.
 
For wax build up use Hydrogen peroxide , most pharmacy's should stock it.
It dissolves and loosens the ear wax.
Like putting popping sherbet in you ear ,:) wierd feeling , but works.
 
I've never thought of neck trouble having an impact, but now you mention it, my tinnitus did start around the same time I had an almighty whiplash. Hmm.

For the last 20 years it sounded like the 15kHz emitted by old CRT TVs - constant, faint, not really bothersome. Two years ago I had covid, and that seemed to have fiddled with the knobs, so to speak. Now the volume is cranked up to distracting levels, and it sounds almost exactly like this:


The only thing that seems to lower the volume a little bit is maintaining a regular sleep routine - 8-9 hours per night, same bed time every night. But of course, the ringing in my ears makes that nearly impossible.

I have a friend with some bad Tinnitus, he severely damaged his neck as kid and has been struggling with it his whole life. So there's definitely some kind of link there (although there are probably a lot of other causes as well).
 
What do you guys get at https://onlinetonegenerator.com/hearingtest.html

Goes quiet at 16 kHz for me.

For tests like this you need to add your age as well haha. I lose the sound at around 13500 (47yo).

The nice thing about that is that for the last few years mosquitos don't make me lose sleep anymore, unless if they're hovering right by my ears.

But having said that every 2nd day my one monitor does this annoying electrical whine that I can still hear, and I need to let it warm up/turn it off/on a few times to get rid of it.
 
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