Is the "Tumble Dryer" I Hear Tinnitus or Really My Neighbour?

Hi - I would just like to give a hello to you all and a brief overview as to why I arrived here - it may seem a little confusing too.

I have been driven to find out just what on earth is happening to me and whether or not I can actually hear what I sincerely believe I can hear --- is it really a washer/dryer machine that booms through the walls, or is it tinnitus?

I must firstly say that I recently had COVID-19 and the first time I heard any "washing machine/tumble dryer" noise was then... I was then hospitalised for several weeks and was on heavy oxygen for 2 weeks - I have read COVID-19 and oxygen use could be a cause of tinnitus.

What made me seriously consider whether I may have tinnitus is that recently I have been hearing a drone type noise of a night that stops me sleeping and I have been so convinced it was a neighbour running their machine at night that I started a complaint with my local council and tonight,two council noise enforcement officers, came out to my house to hear my "inconsiderate" neighbour using his machines... and BOTH officers could not hear a sound... they did ask me to put on a pair of headphones and asked whether I could still hear the sound but of course I could not... but this has led me to question whether I have some kind of tinnitus and I am very confused to say the least... to add to the confusion I can absolutely tell when the machine STOPS as I hear an absolute silence and NO machine noise at all.

I have just read that it is thought that COVID-19 may be a cause of tinnitus and as I have just recently begun to recover from this I wonder if this may be that cause... but how do I tell or find out?

If I walk out down the street I do not hear any type of machine and as mentioned I can absolutely tell when the "machine" I hear is NOT in use! So I am of the belief that what I hear is real but not many others can hear it.

I feel I am going mad and currently have been hearing the "noisy neighbours machine" for 2 weeks and even kept a diary of their inconsiderate behaviour - this has all been part of the noise complaint made to my local council... but now I am unsure IF it is even real.

Sorry for rambling and perhaps confusing post but I really am struggling... I haven't slept properly for around 2 weeks (due to the noise I hear) so perhaps not best able to judge.

Is there any help available please?

Sincerely,
Stefanovich.

 

Just picking up on when you can be sure the washer was on/off next door, I can relate to that - when my hyperacusis was shall I say through the roof, and ears plugged up, before I started my self healing, and being kind to Ed work - I could have heard a pin drop in that next house you are talking about, or even 7 miles away...

A lot of trauma going on there in that head of yours, learn to be kind to it.

 

Thanks for the reply one-light --------- since my initial posting I have made some progress in understanding just what is likely to be going on - the day after the above I asked two of my adult children if they could hear what I can hear and neither of them could hear anything at all... Another daughter and her boyfriend also stated the same when they visited and later on I was directed to a website that deals with a particular type of tinnitus. Pulsatile tinnitus is a less common type of tinnitus and sufferers experience a "rhythmic thumping, whooshing and throbbing sound" and this is much more like the issues I seem to be having... On Monday I visited my doctor who is arranging for an ear specialist to see me although this will be for some as yet undetermined time... Also, since then I was advised to try putting a little olive oil into the ears and this has helped to quieten the "machine noise" I could hear through the walls, or as I now understand, thought I could.

This is obviously a very serious and complicated issue and if it is related to damage caused by COVID-19 it is as yet little understood and so any treatment is even less so... But for myself I am, currently awaiting another visit to a doctor and then at some stage a specialist in ear damages etc but with the olive oil drops I have at least managed to sleep a little.

I am also a little more relaxed as I now have an understanding as to what the actual cause of the noise is... And at least it isn`t my neighbour... Who isn't such a bad type after all.

Thanks again... I will update in due course.

Stefanovich

 

I can feel the positive vibes coming from your reply there, you are already self healing - don't forget to get back to us with positive feedback in the near future... Every one else here, remember to swap some internet time for time in nature, and stop many times daily to appreciate something, and a smile - to be 'in the moment' as the saying goes.

Learn to talk to your body 'with positive thoughts' of the future, all will be well, and you Ed, be stronger each day, as we think of positive thoughts - bringing in positive vibes to the body 'vibrational energy' as we are 100%...

Less screen time and brightness if possible, and avoid putting phone to ear when on charge... And remove the two low vibes words from your vocabulary 'fear/hate' - 'love and light' are high ones - and some house plants near where you work, they are high vibrational transferable energy.

Have a good day everyone, and if not today, a better one tomorrow, and be kind to others, that brings in positive vibes to you and also others watching, helping others when you get time.