[dp0622]

Pulsatile Tinnitus here from Brain Injury.

Will hear every heartbeat until I die :)

I was told even if hearing nerve was cut you would still have tinnitus.

When I get tired it get’s louder. Anyone else notice that?

Perhaps there’s a way to keep everyone updated on anything new that has worked, including the treatment on this thread.

And YES, MANY snake oil treatments out there.

I DID notice that when I stopped using my hearing aid (severe hearing loss right ear) that it got worse and then musical note popped up.

I read that’s because the part of the brain involved in hearing tries to grab any noise and interprets it terribly wrong. In case anyone wanted to know.

Tinnitus..the gift you dont want that keeps on giving :)

[Red Badger]

I hear Gregorian chants from time to time.....................

[Yo-Yo]

Mine isn’t so severe that I’d want to lose all hearing in that ear by cutting the nerve, and it would be double horrible if I did and the tinnitus was still there.

I’ll be 60 in April, so I’ll just suffer for the next 15-20 years, if’n I’m lucky and the Good Lord is willing. It won’t matter after that.

[oh8eleven]

When I get tired it get’s louder. Anyone else notice that?
No, mine only changes volume at night when I''m sleeping. On a scale of 1-10 (10 = really loud), mine fluctuates between 3 and 7. Wake up each morning never knowing WTF is going to greet me.
I do have one odd behavior. If my T volume is at 3 or 4, and I turn on the bathtub water, the T volume drops to zero for about 7-10 minutes after the water is shut off. Man, I wish it was permanent.

[rlmorel]

I have never figured it out...it seems logical to me that when you are in a quiet bed, it seems very loud, but other times like right now, it is (for me background noise)

But occasionally, it seems to just “turn on” and I don’t know if it was there all along and I wasn’t paying attention or was distracted, or if it did just “turn on”.

My tinnitus cannot be that bad compared to what I read here (thank goodness) but I will say, what really bothers me is that if I am in a noisy environment with a babble of noise, I can no longer pull out sound I want to hear, and the entire environment is an assault of sound.

My wife and I went out to dinner a few weeks ago, and the restaurant was so loud with music and people talking that it drove me to distraction. I so badly wanted to hear what people were saying, but I found myself grimacing, turning away from them and cupping my ear...it was making me angry. I don’t see them that often, and I was looking forward to some good conversation but...no dice.

Then we walked outside and I wanted to talk before they left, and they were playing music outside and I couldn’t hear anyone. I yelled aloud “WTF? Why do they have to have music blaring out here too???” and everyone turned to look in alarm at me.

I probably yelled it louder because I just couldn’t hear.

Sigh. THAT is not growing old gracefully!

[GailA]

Yep, mine is so loud it drowns out the TV. It gets painful. Personally I think it’s a pinched nerve out of the C disc. I have ear/head pain that comes from that. C3-7 are badly damaged.

[RipSawyer]

I have had tinnitus for thirty years or more, it sometimes becomes very soft and other times much louder and sometimes I become unaware of it for a while. The only time in recent years that it has gone away for a week or so is back in 2009 when my wife and I went with a family group to spend a full week at the beach and I went for a long swim every day in the ocean and even went swimming in the morning and again in the afternoon one day. By the end of the week my tinnitus was gone and only reappeared about ten days after returning home.

So far I have coped with it without becoming depressed but some people actually do commit suicide because of this.