I read a lot of the posts and think it’s a great group. A few especially, take time to try their best to help others. I only have a general question.
I’ve had T for about 3 years now. Started left ear. It was the fullness that drove me mad but that’s mostly gone.
Now my high pitched T is definitely louder. I’ve living with it and trying not to focus on it but I’m unsure if it’s now in my right ear. I know you probably think I should know what ear its or both but it’s so high pitched it seems to be in my head.
Anyone experience T like this? So high pitched it’s difficult to know which ear or both?
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Oh yes, still really difficult to deal with at times, usually when it`s quiet, more first thing in the morning, hearing aids help, apparently your brain will accept the extra sounds you hear and `maybe` reduce the tinnitus sounds. Possibly try a meditation app?
Me too, for me like static around whole head as i said sound like modem dialing made me feel kinda like inner head itchy that i cant scratch , mad innit
I am only 41for goodness sake google scientist often says like hair cell dead then no remedy , it seems its the legit reason for most mysterious causes or unknown, anyway prepared to with t for good
Mine is in my head as well, not in any one ear (and are we Tinnitus people lucky we only have TWO ears to worry about...just think if we had three, or four?.....Perish the thought!).
When I first got T the doctor wouldn't confirm it as I said the noise was in my head and he said the definition of T is ringing in the ears!
Mine is very high pitched, pulsating and bl**dy annoying sometimes but mostly I can manage. I do wake with a 'full' head sometimes which I don't like, I have taken painkillers occasionally as if it is a head ache - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't 🙄
I first had tinnitus about 6 years ago and it was in the left side of my head/ear. A year ago it increased and is now all over my head. It’s hard to describe but it’s not in the ear. Feels like it originates more from the back of my head. I have multiple sounds and frequencies so it’s hard to pinpoint.
Hi Mat188, I too have the same issue whereby the T just seems to be in my head and not any particular ear. It’s very hard to distinguish between ears. During the day when I’m really busy at work I don’t notice it as much, as soon as I stop for a break or finish work it’s there instantly, high pitched with varying tones up and down. I work in quite a noisy environment so I think that masks it most of the time. I’m not sure what the answer is but those times where I do stop and sit somewhere quiet, it’s so bothersome!
I can hear several sounds simultaneously all the time. I have the high pitched hum or whine in both ears, left more dominant than right, but I can tell where they're coming from and the left is sometimes unnoticeable. I also have a low frequency buzz in the left ear, but I also have an all around hum at all times. I would say it's more on the right side than the left but it doesn't seem related to a particular ear, more just hovering around my head. I have often wondered if other people experience this kind of tinnitus and now I know they do! Good luck.
I get a very high pitched loud tone. It's in my head rather than in my ears. It's seperate from my hearing. I get hyperacusis too. Even with the loud tone in my head I can hear a pin drop in the next room.
My advice is that there is no evidence-based tinnitus cure. Any promise to do so is likely designed to relieve a sufferer of their cash, not their tinnitus.
My t is screaming at me in both ears. It’s excruciatingly loud especially when I am stressed and feeling run down like now. Normally I can dissociate quite well.
I used an app to locate the actual frequency and realised that there is more than one. The loudest one is 10000 Hz
I totally understand your condition because I have that same intensely high pitched noise which feels like it's in my head NOT my ears. I have rumbling/roaring in my ears aswell. When I go to bed I lay there thinking how the hell will I get to sleep but eventually I do. Good luck with your fight against this invisible affliction.
It’s tough this T. I’ve been on antidepressants and forgotten to take them for the last two nights. My head is fried! T worse, weakness and dizzy. Would two days make a difference? Didn’t realise it may be so quick?
If T is psychosomatic, it wouldn’t know which ear to speak to, or would it? The wring we get in one ear usually fades away after a few seconds. The super high pitch sound we hear in the center of our brain, is close to the brain stem. Many would say this is where whiplash has its effect. Although damaged cochlear could be the culprit here, many of us have an instinctive feeling, something else is going on. We visit our ENT, neurologist or audiologist and they usually say the same thing: “nothing you can do about it, here are some pills for the stress. Good luck”
Well, I can’t accept that with all the science we boast, we can’t do better than that with something that affects perhaps 1/5 the population.
If we as the patient focus on searching for the answer, our attention to it just makes it worse. If we push the clinicians for answers or help, they cancel us. Now, if you had any type of cancer, they'd react when pushed a bit. With T, they order a brain scan that they know will reveal nothing, prescribe some antidepressants, pat you on the ass and complain about you to their colleagues as you walk out their door. Why is this any less serious than cancer?
I believe we will eventually discover what’s really causing T and perhaps find a cure.
In the mean while, I’ve learned to distract myself from it by keeping very busy, so much so, I fear I may burn myself out. After a couple of years your brain will develop its own coping mechanism. We might call this habituation. In my case, my brain adopts a theme song. It’s a lick from I song I’ve heard earlier in the day and it plays over and over again, involuntarily, even throughout the night. In the beginning, it stuck for over a month. I eventually learned to change stations, or my brain decided it had finally had enough. YES, this is complicated stuff when you get down to it. We might like to hear ourselves talk because the muscles near the ears tighten and replace the mode of hearing for a bit. We may type compulsively because our focus will move to a similar mode. (As I’m doing here)
By keeping ourselves busy we are frantically distracting our brain from hearing the hissing, glaring warning alarm, that something is seriously wrong, but we don’t have the tools to cope with it beyond just getting immersed in our work or drinking a couple glasses of wine to take our whits away from it.
After a while, I figured out, once I came to grips with it and stopped questioning it, I could still find happiness and wisdom in the cyclone of my tinnitus, no matter how frigging loud it gets. It’s now who I am but it’s less important than who I want to be.
Hi Mat189. Sometimes mine sounds like its in both ears but it is definitely only in one . Don't know why that happens , maybe a change in the pitch ? High pitch T is the most common. I used to think that if it was any higher , I wouldn't be able to hear it.
if I stick my fingers in my ears , I can still hear it . So not sure about that ! Plus I had a hearing test and I have lost or can’t hear the high pitches in that ear.
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