Recent content by Mark London

I think this condition needs to be more recognized by ear doctors. In any event, here are some of the situations when my hum started and stopped several times. While I might have mentioned all of this in a previous post, I'm going to add one more thing at the end, which is new. During my first...

If you can't sleep, find a doctor who knows how to prescribe correct sleep meds. Without that for me, the noise would be way too loud for me to sleep much. And if you don't get good sleep, you will be more likely to be anxious and suicidal. My noise used to drive me to suicidal thoughts. But...

Anne - My hum can be variable during the day, but it's always there when I lie down to go bed. Long ago, I developed a sleep problem, so I'm familiar with sleep meds. OTC ones are bad for you. Dramamine is a fairly safe alternative. My hum initially came and went away on it's own, for no...

There is another long thread of people talking about their low frequency tinnitus. It real, but not very common. If you need the link for that, if you can't find it, let me know. Unfortunately, there are no real fixes, but there are ways to cope. I did have ear surgery done a year ago...

I'm glad that I'm not the only one with both high and low tinnitus problems. Like many other people, I had high tinnitus first in one ear, and then the low frequency tinnitus buzzing started decades later. In desperation, I found a doctor willing to cut the inner ear muscles, in the hope that...

I recently had surgery to cut both the stapedius and tympani muscles in one ear. Although I probably just had stapedial myoclonus, I think the doctor wanted to avoid having to redo the operation. I should note that my doctor is very conservative, and wouldn't have done the surgery, if he...

Hi - I have very low frequency tinnitus. I used this web page, to determine the frequency. It's only 76 Hz (cycles per sec). I'm trying to determine if it's tinnitus or stapedial myoclonus. If the latter, I'm going to opt for surgery. But can tinnitus occur at such a low level? It...

I have a buzzing noise in one ear that was damaged 35 years ago. The buzzing started about 4 years ago. It is often triggered by lying down, and becomes worse during the night. I wear an ear plug to tolerate it. But sometimes it can be constant for hours during the day also. Any...

Has anybody found a treatment for buzzing sound that gets much worse when lying down? I have this problem also, in one ear. I think it's likely a form of an inner ear spasm (stapedial myoclonus). The buzzing can also start up, when I'm in a very quiet room. I've been using a silicon ear...

Since only high frequencies were affected by my ear damage, surgery really was never suggested to me.

I've tried magnesium with other tic and spasm problems with success, but it hasn't helped my ear problem I i. So perhaps my ear problem is less a spasm problem, and more a neurological one. Try taking either magnesium citrate or aspartate, balanced with calcium (to avoid the laxative effect...

Hi - I am wondering if I have a tinnitus, or an inner ear muscle spasm problem. I have a damaged left ear (inner bone dislodged) ,that has had a constant high frequency tone for decades. About 5 years ago, I started having an intermittent, low frequency vibrating noise, in that ear. It...