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I’ve had tinnitus since my childhood. I’m used to it and it’s mild enough that it’s only a faint electrical sound that I hear when everything is quiet, but it would be nice to experience true quiet for once
I have tinnitus and I think it was induced by firearms and heavy machinery and equipment from when I was a young boy and teen. I’m indigenous so we did a lot of hunting and my family ran a construction business that I started working in when really young. We never knew anything about hearing protection back then.
But I can remember absolutely loving it as a kid to be able to hear complete absolute silence. Especially on a quiet, windless winter day at freezing minus 20 or minus 30 degree weather. The frozen dry air and snow everywhere completely removes all ambient sound. It’s even better at night time because the sky is so clear and the sight of so many stars and the absolute quiet makes it feel like you are floating in space.
I haven’t been able to enjoy that since I was about 12 or 13.
I have a question. Is the sound of the tinnitus the same as an old TV turning on for you too? That’s exactly how it sounds for me. A strange purely electrical sound that only is made by old TVs turning on.
I don’t know because I’ve had this comparison with other sufferers in the past and its hard to describe between strangers. What I do know is that there is one sound that is the same across many people … its the sound you hear after something hitting your head. Ever get hit in the head with a basketball, rubber ball or a flat object and you hear that loud pitched electronic noise? I hear that at a low level all the time forever. Most of the time my brain tunes it out and I live with it but when I get tired, upset or just not well … that noise is unbearable.
I hope yours gets better or at the very least, you get moments of peace in your own way.
That’s a good way to describe it
Mine is similar, a constant high pitched airy whine that never stops. Every once in a while I get the classic “ringing in the ears” that’s more of a pure tone that fades after a few seconds. Every doctor has been all, "your hearing is fine bro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "