Poll: Noise-Induced Tinnitus: What Is the Sound of Your Tinnitus?

I am interested in the question of whether noise-induced tinnitus differs from tinnitus, which is not noise-induced.

 

My tinnitus is a high pitch tinnitus like a gas oven on full and a low drone on top

 

Better reframe the poll as you can't choose two sound and then select wich ears.

 

Electric/laser sound, my dvd player makes a sound that is very similar to my T when it reads a dvd

 

My tinnitus is a high pitched hissing sound which is quite common amongst people with tinnitus. It is bilateral and in the centre of my head. It is also variable in intensity. Complete silence, mild, moderate or severe.

 

ok, not representative, but 9:4 for hissing..., - interesting...

 

Maybe the "sound" of tinnitus is so unspecific that a differentiation between beeps and hissing makes no sense...??...

 

Honestly mine is impossible to describe.

 

With no attention paid to it, it tends to be a background hiss. Any amount of conscious interaction tends to turn it into more of a high pitched whine. So, in my case, it interacts very directly with cognitive skills and consciousness at a fundamental level which makes it pretty hard to answer this question. In general I'd say "sssss eeeeee chirp", a hiss and a CRT monitor whine and crickets all at once -- it is all of these things, yet none of them.

 

I have both, right ear pure tone with hiss and my left ear hissing but it seems it is developing pure tone also

 

My repertoire:
1)A set of tones. One of them is my main tinnitus sound and it fluctuates. Can't count them cause it's a weird mix when I focus on it. I suppose 4 tones. The are not always present altogether.
2) a high pitch hissing which fluctuates a lot.
3) a Morse code part that is reactive.
4) a low frequency spaceship sound which is the worst. It literally "fills" my head.
5) my latest fax machine sound.

+ when I listen to music, white noise and certain sounds, I get those whistles. This is worse then the regular tinnitus and I wish I can get rid of it.

This forum is the only place where people actually could relate. I know nobody in person with these symptoms.

 

22:4 for hissing. Maybe it is not true, that noise-induced tinnitus makes a tonal sound of xxxx kHz ??

 

It is my understanding that as the body heals, it is often able to change tonal sound to hissing. My T began as a tonal sound, then changed to hissing, and then was back to a high pitched tone after a second acoustic trauma.

 

I have multiple sounds, some tonal, some hissing/electrical, some clicks and pops, some constant and some intermittent, in varying degrees of loudness, in both ears. Always was an overachiever...

 

OK, that outdoes me. At least mine's not reactive. On the other hand, I used to get a low-pitched humming sound in both ears when I shook my head vigorously. That's disappeared since I started taking NR.

 

NR?
Wow you're just another person with many many sounds. Nice to meet you

 

NR is nicotinamide riboside, related to vitamin B3 and a precursor to NAD+ which is essential for cellular metabolism and which lessens as we age. There is a discussion about it in the Alternative Treatments section. It is apparently starting to reverse some of my hearing loss, as well as reducing the frequency of my migraines. I'm even giving it to a pet bird that has fatty liver disease. I hope that long term it will do something to improve my tinnitus as well - I guess maybe it is already is doing something since one of my sounds is gone.

Aren't all those sounds amazing? The only good thing is that I can count on it changing soon if it's being particularly obnoxious...

 

Thank you. I'll take a look on that thread.

Sometimes i can't believe that i have so much noise in my head. Apparently i lost the count. And if you imagine that it only begun as a slight ringing in my right ear. Is this ever gonna stop evolving?

 

That's exactly how mine started. I developed other, minor neurological complaints around the same time, so I suspect the real problem is in my brain and not in my ears. NR is supposed to be neuro-protective and it seems to be helping in that department, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

man why do i gotta have a tone....i would think a hiss is better

 

My tinnitus is a high pressure hiss with a additional drone on top.
Drives me insaign till I get my hearing aids in and show my ears who's the boss then I don't think about my tinnitus all day
Im my happy bubbly self again...
Love glynis

 

What happened?

 

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32:9 for hissing!! Still surprising. Maybe it is not true, that noise-induced tinnitus makes a tonal sound of xxxx kHz ??

 

The cause likely does not matter as much as where the damage lies. Is it high or low frequency hair cell damage? How much auditory nerve damage was sustained?

 

Noise-induced tinnitus is always high frequency hair cell damage. Low frequency tinnitus is typical at M. Meniere...