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Just noticed that I can still hear mild tinnitus in my left ear if I plug it. This is not the case for the other ear. I kind of think that I have had that constant mild tinnitus present for a while now and it just amplifies every now and then for some reason.

Nope. My hypochondria philosophy is to avoid diagnosis (and therefore knowledge of impending death) as long as possible.

I've been getting some random moments of it in recent weeks and when they came on, I was already worrying this was eventually going to become the permanent state. Well, I think that day has arrived, as it came on in my dream and I woke up with it. It's subtle at the moment, but I still don't...

Had it for about 2 weeks. I started tolerating stuff better, but I wasn't sure if it was because I was just learning to tolerate the sensation or what. But this was fairly sudden, I guess. I woke up on Tuesday and felt like crap with dizziness, but when I took a shower, I noticed I wasn't...

My hyperacusis has been basically gone since a couple nights ago, except when I'm lying down. And this relief in that symptom was brought about by an increase in dizziness. Lying down/sleep seems to be a trigger for changing/worsening symptoms. What is going on?

I think I just heard some tinnitus coming on while I was watching a video. Is this a matter of your ears being more at risk when they're more sensitive to sound or something?

Doesn't matter anyway. I can't do surgery. I'm terrified of anesthesia (even since I learned it's the equivalent to knocking you into a coma/removing consciousness) and even more terrified of it wearing off during the procedure.

1. Whenever I'm exposed to certain sounds over a long duration (more than a few seconds), my ear starts to feel full...like pressure changes on an airplane. 2. When I lie down on the back of my head, I get a dizzy sensation that takes a little while to settle down. 3. I have a low, humming...

I'm not talking about acoustic neuroma. I'm talking about a malignant tumor. You can find some people who survived brain tumors, but you can also find some people who won the lottery.

Why? So they can ask me a bunch of questions and say nothing in response, as they did when I saw them on and off for 20 years? Here's the thing: I don't care whether or not my thinking is "rational." I'm aware of the fact that logically, it seems pointless to avoid a cancer diagnosis because...

I had always thought that "tinnitus" just referred to that high-pitched ringing I would sometimes randomly get in my ear for several seconds out of nowhere (that would fade), and assumed that anyone who has having tinnitus problems had that, but it wasn't going away. But in the last couple of...

Does anybody know what mechanism this is? When enough of the sounds that bother my ear are going on for long enough, my ear starts to feel like I'm on an airplane and they're clogged. Except instead of pressure causing it, it's noise (but normal, everyday noise like my car engine when I'm...

In my case, that's gotta be nonsense. EXTERNAL SOUNDS are directly causing everything. Whenever it's quiet, I'm basically fine.

I read an article about people who killed themselves because of intractable hyperacusis. I mean, can't they just surgically make people deaf?

You won't save your life if there's a brain tumor. Brain tumor = terminal. Every time. I would rather live in fear of cancer than know I have it. And whatever "peace of mind" I would get with no tumor detected would be undermined by the fact that I have incurable hyperacusis. "OK, it's not a...

See, but the whole reason they do the MRI is to check for a tumor. If it's a malignant tumor, I'm dead. If it's not a malignant tumor, there's nothing they can do anyway, unless it's an acoustic neuroma, but I don't think I would go for either of the treatments. If it's surgery, I've never had...

If it's not an acoustic neuroma, I guess it's a malignant brain tumor then? I don't see any other plausible explanation for sudden, intractable hyperacusis in one ear. I'm extremely hesitant to go to the doctor, because my philosophy with cancer symptoms is, unless it's a really early melanoma...

I woke up last week on Monday morning before a dental appointment (which I was anxious about) and noticed that my voice was vibrating in my left ear in a really noticeable, uncomfortable way. What's funny is it actually went away for several hours and I was fine during the dental appointment...

Well, I think what I have is defined as "hyperacusis," not tinnitus. The sensation is always brought about by noise. No noise and I don't get it. I don't see any good hyperacusis forums, so I figured people here might have some experience with it, since this stuff might overlap. I don't think...

With certain sounds such as the air conditioning running, it starts out as a windows-down-on-the-highway kind of sound, and eventually saturates to the point where it mostly just feels like pressure. With a lot of this, I "feel" it more than hear it...wind wobbling stuff in my ear. It can also...

I feel like I have dog hearing, only instead of hearing high-pitched sounds, I hear every low sound. Every machine in the supermarket was right up against my ear drum. FFS, I feel like I can hear every low-pitched sound in the universe now. If there's a low-pitched equivalent to a pin dropping...

Certain frequencies of sound are just killing me.

I don't hear my breath. It's only my voice and external sounds causing the problem. As I'm typing, the fan for my air conditioning just started running. Whenever it's running, the ear gets overwhelmed to where it feels clogged.

I'm not even sure this counts as "tinnitus", but I figured the term is just used for hearing distortions in general. I just woke up with this last Monday. I'm not remotely sick. I breathe easily through my nose. No sign of sinus anything. Anyway, it's as I described in the title. What's weird...