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It’s been more than 25 years now. I‘ve become good at living with it, learned to ignore it for most of the time.

Tinnitus sucks however it was caused!

I have intermittent tinnitus with my LC.

Why?

Cool pic. I have tinnitus, since Aug 2, 2019. I hate it.

Got my tinnitus from too much Vancomycin and Gentamicin while in the hospital being treated for Endocarditis. Had it for almost 20 years now, 24/7...sucks.

It really hits when it stops for a moment. 😂

I got tinnitus at 23 :( thankfully it’s gotten better over the past few years but it is never truly gone.

What? I couldn’t hear you, I’ve got this constant ringing in my ears

Posts like this kill my de-tuning.

Wow!!! Thx!!!

My tinnitus is the worst when there's silence. Can't abide by silence.

God damn it "Betsy"! 🤣It wasn't bothering me at all until I read this thread... ugghh... now it is loud!😝🤪

I ignored my for years and forgot about it. Until I freaked out about it and it came back. Now I'm working to forget again.

Bah, it's the sound of silence.

First rule of tinnitus, we don't talk about tinnitus. Dude, chill.

I devoured aspergum as a kid in the 70s. And have had tinnitus since I was a kid. 🤔

I keep a fan sound going.

I can't remember a time when I didn't have tinnitus.

My ears are buzzing away.

I've had it for almost 30 years. Sounds like those old television tunes powered on. But both my kids have it too. No explanation why.

And we can pronounce it properly both ways! Fun Stuff!

Yo its spiritual Im talking to you

My Tinnitus #art

I do. The image evokes a deep, isolated despair. The horrors of an insidious condition as it slowly consumes you, like a fuzzy warm noise in the form of an ant swarm. Anywho, beautiful art. It's... Existing in my head. Haunting, beautifully.

The higher pitch one has become more prevalent lately, hardest one to zone out of. Do you use any hearing aid, or use anything specific to remedy it?

You can manage it over time, just don't react to the noise, but it is hard. Especially falling asleep or concentrating on something if you are already agitated. No easy fix either, surgically replacing the cochlea is challenging, and the effects of it could be much worse.

It's constant in one ear. High pitched noise and a quieter shushing noise. Fortunately I can largely ignore it.

Thank you everyone for replying! Sounds scarily unpleasant :/ Tbh this type of conditions scare me more than stuff that you can just fix or get rid of with medication. Wish you all lots of strength and patience to deal with this!

😂😂 it’s why I have wine. Lots of wine…

Hearing aids have helped my tinnitus a lot.

Ugh, nonstop noise in my ear

Why?

My ear-ringing sounds like the hiss of a cassette tape, or the buzz of bugs heard on a nighttime drive in the country with the windows down. Either way, I’ve learned to embrace it as background noise when trying to sleep or focus.

Yup, lots of company in my head. Sounds like a million spring peepers in there.

Not me currently listening to brown noise all loud to combat the even louder tinnitus that is keeping me awake right now...

I can relate.

Mine started while taking cipro. Sucks.

Constant. High pitched " eeeeeoooohhhheeee" Imagine if you could " hear" microwaves or radio waves. Never stops . You can hear through the static but makes having a conversation in a crowded room impossible.

Me too. 2 days after the mRNA vaccine. Doctor refuses to acknowledge it

Sorry, I can't hear you for the ringing in my ear... LOL

It just don’t stop 🛑😪

Eeeeeeeee, T the last 3 yrs.

I have intermittent tinnitus with my long covid.

I guess I'm lucky... I have musical tinnitus or musical ear syndrome. I have a radio playing in my head all the time. Generally, it's music. Some days it's a baseball announcer lol

I spent eight days camping in a Florida state forest a few weeks ago. During that entire time, I didn't notice my tinnitus, except to marvel at how the nightly noises seemed to be obscuring it. Now that I'm back home, trapped indoors by winter, it's back in force!

Just sitting here ringing

Are there actual people without tinnitus?

Yes,since I was 19. I hate it so much.

I am used to it... it's like an old friend talking to me ... day and night 🎶🥺

And now I suddenly developed low frequency hearing loss.

Static…voices in my head.

This speaks to me on a spiritual level

No

No, sorry. I find this image sad and disturbing. It just makes me feel sad for the cartoon bunny, who didn't ask for any of it.

Going on 5 years. Sucks!

It’s Constant and annoying, there’s no silence.

I feel that.

Me

24/7

Got mine after brain cancer surgery. Now an ambulance on full siren follows me around. Sometimes a chain saw interrupts that. 27 years of a very noisy world here.

I used to think I was special because I could actually hear the atoms move in the air! As it got louder I realized it was tinnitus. ☹️

WHAT??

Pulsatile tinnitus here 🙋🏼‍♀️ it’s like a washing machine in the back of head 😑

High School tech theater, and the unfettered access it gave me to all sorts of cool toys, had many impacts on the person I am today. Unfortunately, one of those impacts was 'person who cannot remember a time they didn't have tinnitus'

I dream of hearing silence.

I have it, it’s only annoying if you think about it. I long for silence, pure silence.

I'll be back with a proper reply after I figure out where that phone is ringing from...

Not diagnosed, but it is there...

Side benefit: NO need to buy one of those “white noise”contraptions. Mine came preinstalled.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Since I was 5 years old I have suffered with tinnitis. I had measles & mumps at the same time. Fever was often up to 105°. Interestingly, I am musical and play by ear. The MMR vaccine hadn't been developed yet.

12 years Military service. Yes. 😄

11 years on a gas powered forklift

This thread is like a support group to me. I’ve had tinnitus off and on for as long as I can remember. But as of a few months ago it has become basically 24/7.

MALP

26 years.

Mine doesn't seem as bad as how others describe, so i feel for yall. I was tripping alone on mushrooms once and after an album finished the silence turned the volume up to a deafening level for about 0.1 seconds. It scared the shit outta me. Ive since accepted my fate

What? I can't hear you because of my ever present, super duper loud tinnitus.