If You Could Trade Your Tinnitus for Musical Ear Syndrome, Would You?

If you're not familiar with musical ear sydrome, look here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome

The song in your head would be as loud as your current tinnitus and it would be a holiday song.

Would you do it?

 

I had it!I got it after my club incident back in 2012 and it's very distressing at times believe me it is.I remember the very second it started too,I was going to collect my friend when all I could hear in the car was(try not to laugh)Gangnam Style lol.

I looked at the radio but it was off and then I looked at my phone and still nothing,all I could hear was this song playing away and I had no idea where it was coming from!I stopped my car and jumped out to see if I could find out what the heck was going on!To my displeasure after exiting my car I could still hear it,almost like there was a radio on your shoulder playing music.I blocked my ears and that's when I realised where it was coming from,my head!Needless to say the next few weeks were rough,I had loud tone T and now this constant music playing in my head day in and day out.What made it worse was the song was always changing,sometimes all by itself and other times it would take a trigger like hearing a song on the radio and it would change.This wasn't like an ear worm,it was like you were hearing the song coming from somewhere inside the room only it was actually inside your head!

Anyway this lasted a few months and then just stopped randomly one evening,what made it distressing was it made thinking extremely hard to do,Tinnitus is one thing but this song occupying your thoughts was a whole other monster!I haven't experienced it in over 3 years now but occasionally and very occasionally at that it creeps up again but only when I'm extremely stressed.If I had to choose it would be the T,I know a song playing sounds so much better but believe me it's not,it's like anything,nice in moderation but too much quickly becomes unbearable not to mention it makes you feel like your going crazy at times.

I never spoke about it before because nobody brought it up so yeah,that's my experience with MES for you.

 

I laughed so hard when you said Gangnam Style. I'm sorry! I can only imagine how distressing that was and I'm happy to hear it faded away. It's just amazing what our brains are capable of doing to us...

Thank you for posting your story.

 

I think I got that several times a few weeks ago. I heard police sirens...

 

You get that from more severe hearing loss. I would take tinnitus that isn't accompanied by hearing loss any day.

 

I have been hearing "sirens in the distance" for 1,5 week now. I'm so scared.

 

Try not to be scared and you will be just fine believe me.....
Michael

 

I had that siren thing for 3 or 4 months. Felt like I was just outside an emergency zone. Weird. It has been replaced by a hum and a constant tone that I'm getting used to. I think gangnam style would have put me over the edge!

 

@volsung37 Glad you no longer hear it. I hope it will fade away for me too... How did you cope?

 

@Capricornus
It just disappeared without me really noticing when. It was difficult to cope. When I finally was able to sleep better everything seemed to get more under control. I suppose the onset of the hum made me forget to be concerned about the sirens. Our brains work in mysterious ways. I hope you are able to recover soon.

 

@volsung37 My sirens are triggered by noise which is very strange... I'm having mild H and a reactiveness in my T (which I think is because of the H). Hopefully the sirens will go away if I the H is improved. These things are weird...

 

Music is more distracting than the ringing. I don't mind if the music comes to visit, but don't stay. The ringing is easier to tune out and forget.