Just curious. Does tinnitus "sound" the same to everyone?
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L.D.
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Yep. True, except for Fastway part. More like the beginning of the "Thrak" album
gearJunkie
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I've been dealing with it in one form or another for so many years, that I have developed an internal filter where I don't even notice it anymore.
The only time I noticed it is when someone asks a question about it. So thanks for that.
The only time I noticed it is when someone asks a question about it. So thanks for that.
Dave Lewis
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Sounds like after a live indoor small venue Motörhead concert without earplugs for a week.
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The after-effect of a gunshot around unprotected ears is fairly accurate for how it sounds for me, just a high pitched ringing. The volume changes but I’m pretty certain the pitch stays the same.
It gets loud enough that if there’s a low talker in the room I’ll have a hard time hearing them, which just happened this weekend when a friend was over and for reasons unbeknownst to me, started speaking in this tiny/helpless voice and after an hour of not being able to understand a word she was saying and asking her to speak normally, I just gave up.
It gets loud enough that if there’s a low talker in the room I’ll have a hard time hearing them, which just happened this weekend when a friend was over and for reasons unbeknownst to me, started speaking in this tiny/helpless voice and after an hour of not being able to understand a word she was saying and asking her to speak normally, I just gave up.
L.D.
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You are most welcome. May your 38 fire only 1/4 loads.I've been dealing with it in one form or another for so many years, that I have developed an internal filter where I don't even notice it anymore.
The only time I noticed it is when someone asks a question about it. So thanks for that.
JasonE
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This is a good explanation of what I experience. I have a constant ring that I don't notice most of the time until I think about it. It is actually pretty loud but I somehow have learned to block it out unless it is brought up. Some nights when I go to bed it is screaming loud and I have to concentrate on other things to ignore it and get to sleep. I am not sure what causes it but mine varies in volume. I have read that stress can make it louder. I would also describe it as shooting a gun without ear protection.
Another thing mine does is what you described. I hear what sounds exactly like cicadas with crickets. I don't hear this part all the time. It comes and goes like the volume that varies.
I was in a thread on another forum where we were discussing this and I spent a little time concentrating on what I hear and analyzing it. I discovered that I actually hear two, sometimes three notes. I figured out what the note is at one point but can't remember. That was part of the discussion we were having on the other forum. If I remember correctly the notes that I hear are octaves of the same note. An interesting thing is that as we shared this information with the group that was discussing it we all started to discover that we were hearing the same note/s. If I remember correctly not everyone heard the same note/s but most of us were hearing the same one/s.
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I swear the ex used to talk even more quiet when I would ask her to speak up.
I have noticed over time that some women's voices effect me differently.. some are fine and some just hard to understand with what they claim is "speaking" volume, lol.
Must be a frequency thing... stupid 20 year old me and loud stacks.
vard
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Same here... high pitch, ballpark I would say like a sinewave in the 8kHz to 16kkHz range , very strong during nights and evenings, but also during the day at times.
In my case, it started a couple of years ago, and it's just int the left ear. I'm still learning to cope with it, but sometimes, oh man, I would give a lot for just one minute of silence...