Recent content by naddy99

Summer is here and every morning when I wake up my left ear is completely blocked. Sometimes it will return to normal quite quickly, other days I'm stuck with it all day. There's a faint hiss but nothing too bothersome. It's just the feeling of pressure/clogginess that's annoying. What could it...

My tinnitus is more of a hiss that I do notice but it doesn't bother me much these days. I can hear it in quiet rooms but I need to focus on it for it to be a problem. I also occasionally get fleeting tinnitus that momentarily creates panic. Here are some questions, though. When I wake up in...

For a long time now (years) I've had visual snow. Relatively mild I'd say, and I only notice it occasionally. However on this forum I read there MAY be a link between tinnitus and visual snow. This really bothered me for some reason, because tinnitus is a nightmare scenario for me, and I am OCD...

Hey all, if I'm completely honest, my tinnitus (if it's even that) is really not so bad. A low hiss that I've had for ages but as I'm an obsessive anxiety-driven person, I latched onto it a week or two ago and it made me panic and think worst case scenario. Since then, because I've got myself...

Thanks, Greg. You're right. I do have one question. Because this has had me so stressed, my ears/jaw feel very tight and tense. Would that likely be due to the stress? I have made an appointment with an orthodontist to check for bruxism/tmj - which I'm certain I do have. If I can couple this...

So for the last five days I've been really stressed about a hissing in my ears and fearing that I have tinnitus. It's had me extremely stressed and I am already an anxious person. And today, in my left ear, all of a sudden I think I hear a ringing type noise but I can hear it when I move etc...

Thing is, I don't have hearing loss and my hearing is as good as it has ever been. Strange.

Yep the rumbling noise is correct, and it hides the hissing. As for the checking, you are right in that it shouldn't be done frequently, if at all. This is a way of giving it more power. As I said, it's really not too bad and quite easy to mask, so I would consider myself fortunate and will take...

One other thing I forgot to put in my original post, Greg. This might sound odd, and it's why I wrote that I was unsure I even had actual tinnitus. When I put both fingers in my ears (and apply a decent bit of pressure), that hiss more or less disappears. Why would that be? Surely tinnitus would...

Thanks, Greg. I think I am going to go into help for my actual anxiety. Maybe if I can get that sorted, everything else will fall into place, or at least improve my life.

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read my message. I am a 31-year-0ld man who has been anxious and a hypochondriac basically since I was a kid. I am very 'body-aware' and have been told my hearing is so good I could "hear the grass grow". I had heard about tinnitus and because of...