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Hello @slashdottir! I see your post is quite an old one but I am new to Tinnitus Talk. Just wanted to say what you described is exactly what I have been experiencing for about four years now. It took me a long time to figure out is was tinnitus and not some odd outdoor sound that only I could...

CykoJon, I don't hear it all the time... probably a couple of times a day for about half an hour or so. The sound, like a foghorn in distance, starts out quieter and then intensifies and then tapers off. But it is mostly the same every time, with no time really louder than any other. Each pulse...

Also left ear and yes, it is on/off and almost disappears when I cover my ear with my hand. It is faintly there but much less noticeable, which is why I guess I originally thought the sound was a genuine sound coming from somewhere far away. I probably won't bother going the diagnostic route as...

Hi CykoJon, see my post in Introduce Yourself. My tinnitus 'sounds' like yours - low intermittent hum, for me sounds a bit like a foghorn. It took me three years to figure out that it was tinnitus because it only seemed to happen at home, which made me think it was something in my house or...

Hi Brikap, just wanted to say that my tinnitus started about the time that I had chronic sinusitis following a very bad cold. It turned out the sinusitis was partially caused by an infected tooth. After a (failed) root canal and eventual pulled tooth, sinusitis much better but not entirely...

Four years ago I started noticing an odd sound in my house - sounded like a very low frequency hum, sort of like a foghorn, it was intermittent and no one else could hear it. I had heard of tinnitus of course, but associated that with ringing or buzzing not this very low humming noise. I scoured...