Faucet Test

Can you hear your tinnitus over a running faucet? (like a modern kitchen faucet)
(If yes, please explain in more detail how you hear it, on what strength of stream and if it's constant or periodic phenomenon), thanks.

 

I can't usually, but if I really concentrate and when my T is playing up, I can just distinguish it over the tap, just my left ear, which is the ear where the T goes up and down all over the show!
Then it depends how hard I have got the tap on.
This example is with the cold tap turned on with just one three quarter turn.

 

Moderate running water from the faucet usually blocks my tinnitus--unless it's being extremely central and dog-whistle like. Of note, real water usually blocks my tinnitus, but water sounds generally blend in with my tinnitus. It's probably because not all the sounds are captured when they put them in audio files.

 

Depends on my T level. Typically in the mornings I can't, but later in the evening sometimes I can. However, I certainly don't try to listen to it!

 

In the mornings, mostly not. In the evenings i can hear it above the faucet

 

Now, a faucet drowns mine out. Shower, kitchen faucet or bathroom faucet... At onset, only the tub faucet would and I had to put my ear right next to it.

 

Nope i can hear mine over a tap, shower, drill, washing machine, motorbike, everything. No matter what time of the day. It's constant, loud, high pitch and mostly in my left ear.

 

Ok thanks, so how do you manage or cope with something like this?

 

It masks mine quite well. I would say a faucet a few feet away is 70db. On the other hand i can easily hear my T in a jet plane around 80db. Mine is reactive and i got this high pitched overtone to a lot of everyday sounds.

 

Natural water, shower and things are pretty much all that mask mine. As Jazz said above a recording of them doesn't seem to work quite as well. I can be out and sit by a river and be masked but an audio recording I make of it doesn't do the job so well back at home, though I'm not a good sound recordist so probably down to my equipment.

 

Dan
For the first year the only thing that could mask my T were my hearing aids with white noise generators (set at full blast); I could hear my T over everything all the time. However, the shower came closest to some kind of relief.

Mark

 

At first i thought i wouldn't. But after being at the lowest point in my life for around a month, i picked myself and decided it wouldn't beat me.
That was about six months ago. Since then i get longer and longer periods of time where i don't think about it. Which is habituation. Positive thinking, pillow speaker, time and ups and downs is how i've coped. I am having periods of 5/6 hours at a time where i'm not thinking about tinnitus. Which is great.

 

Ouch that even hurts from here

 

A faucet masks fairly well unless it's half on or less. Very comforting to turn one on in a bathroom or kitchen during days after T spiked upward a year ago.

Speaking of masking, I'm now recalling sitting by an open window last summer evenings as crickets provided the perfect sound for many hours. The perfect sound for my high-pitched 10 kHz hisssssss.

 

faucets and the shower will usually block mine but not all the time. If it's a screamer day, nothing in the natural world will block it short of an explosion! At night, I use a sound machine located on my bed, set to a rain setting, which works for me. I sleep OK.

 

Thought I would pop this in here , helps a bit ..sometimes.
http://rain.simplynoise.com/