Tinnitus Copying External Sounds?

I heard of someone listening to crickets for masking, then later on his tinnitus copied the sound. This makes me afraid to use masking. Is it just an isolated case?

 

Mine has copied drills and certain machines when it was still new. It all went away, fortunately.

 

I voted yes because my tinnitus would mimic the hearing test(s) sounds for a few days.

That was annoying.

 

I tried a hearing aid with Zen tones for a couple weeks, but realized I was soon hearing the chimes even when I turned off the hearing aid. It’s like the sound got stuck in my head. This happened temporarily during my hearing aid trials, and it went away.

 

Reviving an old thread - got a new tone: it's my GPU's coil whine sound. Great. My original tinnitus was and still is my HDD's sound, apparently (morse code-ish).

 

This also happened to me and still does. It seems to go away even though I freak when it sticks around. I currently have train crossing bells that I hear every night faintly now in white noise. Identical sound but random in pattern.

I had an Acoustic Reflex Test. That epic loud 255 Hz tone is still around a week later but I can now hear it only when induced by playing the tone even at whisper volumes.

My vision in the right eye went totally berserk with visual snow during that test too.

 

Does this copying of sounds go away in general? I guess it has to do with hearing loss and the nerves getting lost. Maybe after habituation it becomes monotonal and less reactive.

 

Yes basically. Mine has decreased a ton.

Ironically it has a much higher chance of copying very faint repetitive sounds in quiet. So I guess enough noise overrides it.

 

Yes sir, it did go away for me. In the beginning during my severe onset, if I was exposed to any nearby siren, leaf blower or even a hovering helicopter (while in my home), my tinnitus would mimic that source of sound straight up. It would last anywhere from 15-30 minutes. It slowly dissipated over time. Now if I get exposed to these same things again, there’s no more mimicry anymore. Time played a valuable role in my case.

It’s called palinacusis.

 

Is it possible for this to become permanent if you’re exposed to the sound for long periods of time every day?

My tinnitus has recently started mimicking crickets and also the noise my PC makes, which aren’t noises I can isolate myself from without straight up using earplugs or earmuffs to block them out. I’ve been trying to avoid doing that in my own room, but I’d really rather just have the one tone, thank you...

If it makes any difference, I also have hyperacusis.