Quote from: Jayne on March 15, 2013, 02:12:32 AM
I've been getting it for a couple of weeks now since I started anti-depressants (Sertraline) & it's doing my head in, I don't know how you've all dealt with it for years without going insane?

Honestly, the tinnitus made me seriously consider suicide those first few weeks. Kind of ironic, considering that the cause was antidepressants. One night at around three or four a.m., I found myself in the living room, blasting Beethoven through the headphones in a vain attempt to drown out the ringing. I realized that I needed music with no lulls, so I put on some Led Zeppelin. It didn't help. I thought about walking up to G**** Drive and walking out in front of a truck. At that hour, my quiet little suburb would have been completely devoid of traffic, of course.

Wellbutrin was the only antidepressant that really worked for me, so I put up with the ringing. Now I look back and wonder how I managed.

I know what you mean about the ringing driving you crazy, I tried playing Enigma & then Mike Oldfield to silence it so I could sleep the other day but i'm also getting pounding headaches so the last thing I want is any noise.

Unlike other anti-depressants these have improved my mood really quickly, within a couple of days things didn't seem so hopeless so I suppose it's worth a list of side effects longer than my arm 

Thread revival! Props to you tinnitus suffers for managing to live with such annoyingness, that really has to suck :c

Now, I'm supposedly fine with excellent hearing- but does anyone know that high-pitched noise that comes from a TV? You can hear it best when the set is muted, kind of sounds like a bus braking (or a car with bad brakes). Anyway, I get that noise a lot, usually in waves as a background sound and sometimes it comes very strongly. If I shift my jaw back it makes a similar noise that is only audible to me (it'd be worrisome if it weren't) and that helps to speed up getting rid of the sound when it's prominent. It's not really annoying, more of a curiosity. Anyone get that?

Quote from: Liminal Stranger on March 30, 2013, 05:52:28 PM
Thread revival! Props to you tinnitus suffers for managing to live with such annoyingness, that really has to suck :c

Now, I'm supposedly fine with excellent hearing- but does anyone know that high-pitched noise that comes from a TV? You can hear it best when the set is muted, kind of sounds like a bus braking (or a car with bad brakes). Anyway, I get that noise a lot, usually in waves as a background sound and sometimes it comes very strongly. If I shift my jaw back it makes a similar noise that is only audible to me (it'd be worrisome if it weren't) and that helps to speed up getting rid of the sound when it's prominent. It's not really annoying, more of a curiosity. Anyone get that?

You're young, right?  What you're hearing is probably the "teen buzz" tone:  http://www.noisehelp.com/ultrasonic-ringtones.html

It sounds somewhat like that, but appears to be something intrinsic as far as I can tell, also had it as long as I can remember which places it before the mosquito ringtone fad as far as I know. That's not nearly as bad as 23 kilohertz, which is like having someone stick a hot darning needle in both your ears at the same time.

I dunno what it is, but it doesn't affect daily life so that's good.

There is another explanation, no less out there. But some people do find they get what seem to be unusual tones when they flex some muscles, especially on the skull. These generally are more noticable when tired and only while the muscles are actually flexed.

Another is a transient tone, quite high pitched, which seems to be mainly in one ear and tends to last only for a short period. It's a bit like when you've been in a pool and your ears are filled with water.

Both are due to some sinus congestion. But unless you have pain, it's generally best to leave it alone.

I have to say, I do like the ultrasonic idea though. The possibilities are huge.

When I was little, I always thought it was aliens 
Sinus congestion would have worked as an explanation, but after waging war with mine, we found a nose spray that keeps all of it in check and actually got rid of the chronic inflammatory disease in there, something my ENT is still baffled by. I get an unusual tone when I flex certain muscle groups between the lower mandible and the ear, but there's the constant one and then ones that sound like it, like a TV turned on or an improperly plugged in charging device. It's kind of weird but not in a bad way.

Now if you'll excuse me, the mothership has arrived to take me home :3

So....

I just accepted a new position on Friday at a company that makes all kinds of hearing devices, including a device for masking Tinnitus.

Convenient eh?

Quote from: Liminal Stranger on March 31, 2013, 01:13:52 PM
When I was little, I always thought it was aliens 
Sinus congestion would have worked as an explanation, but after waging war with mine, we found a nose spray that keeps all of it in check and actually got rid of the chronic inflammatory disease in there, something my ENT is still baffled by. I get an unusual tone when I flex certain muscle groups between the lower mandible and the ear, but there's the constant one and then ones that sound like it, like a TV turned on or an improperly plugged in charging device. It's kind of weird but not in a bad way.

Now if you'll excuse me, the mothership has arrived to take me home :3

I thought that as well when I was very young.

I had this whole senerio worked out that I was the secret child of a race of super people on another planet and been placed with this family to teach me humility. The sounds were them getting things ready to contact me.

Ah. Child hood fantasies. Eh?

A small tip though Max, unless you have pain, may I suggest you let any congestion sort itself out. Human bodies are really quite amazing, but work best when we let them. If we give it too much help at an early stage it doesn't tend to develop the means of dealing with these problems for itself.

If it's painful of interfering with your life then do treat it though.

I was going through sinus issues from the age of three, which had been preceded by edema that would leave me in the hospital on a nebulizer way too often. The ENT was telling me not too long ago that if I had one more sinus infection that he'd have to do surgery, then this nose spray came out. Before it the CT scan came back with a multiple-page report describing a disaster area, and after a couple months on the spray everything except the minor structural abnormalities were gone. It was giving me plenty of pain and making me miss school because I'd wake up unable to breathe or get up because everything was blocked and my head suddenly weighed 5 million pounds.

And yeah, in my younger years I thought my job here was to help people understand how to be human, because it takes an alien to do that. Life is ironic.
I'll admit, I still entertain that childhood fantasy at times because people think I look like a Time Lord or something 

Quote from: Misato33 on March 31, 2013, 03:06:07 PM
So....

I just accepted a new position on Friday at a company that makes all kinds of hearing devices, including a device for masking Tinnitus.

Convenient eh?

I would certainly say so.