By the way, my tinnitus isn’t a result of hearing loss. Just the opposite.. I can hear a flea fart. I think it’s BECAUSE my hearing is so good that I can hear my nerve traffic.
*nod* -- Same here; I can be sitting at a stop-sign in my old `62 pick-up [running], spit out the window, and hear it hit the pavement below.
I just heard about this problem yesterday, guy at the office has it, it kinda comes and goes, he said his was caused by a muscle in his face that got hit and that muscle controls how much the ear hears, and that his was too good of hearing and he needs to get sound blocking plugs to quiet the noise.
A flea fart! - wtf does it sound like? (Btw I have serious hearing loss and tinnitus)
You are certainly not in the majority of tinnitus victims.
My hearing sucks, and my tinnitus increases every year. I was a heavy equipment operator, worked around F-4s, and drove all sorts of armored vehicles. Even with doubled hearing protection, that constant sound (especially subsonic) destroys hearing. I am constantly warning my children to turn down music especially when wearing headphones.
I tell my children that tinnitus is the sound of your ear dying.
Same here. I can hear all the real sounds I want, AND the tinnitus ringing—it simply becomes the background noise.