Tinnitus... Hissing jingly noise

[Caszekey]

So I have a new noise. It's like a high pitched noise, a bit like O2 hissing through a nasal cannula and it sounds like it's behind me / the back of my head.

What new fresh hell is this?

Aibu to think Tinnitus can't just add a sound to it's reportoire without consultation? I already have all the usual tonal notes at varying octaves.

It sounds like unstable tinnitus. My dad suffered from it horribly. Constantly changing sounds, of various pitches and intensities. It really messed with his head, and caused him a lot of problems in terms of mental health.

But the good news for him was that after about 18 months, it just stopped.

Nothing to add, just you have my sympathy. I suffer with menieres, but unlike the other symptoms I get, the tinnitus never goes away. Have you ever had any help with it?

You have my total sympathy, I have this all the time, never get a break.It's horrible.
I can't remember a time when I didn't have it.Its so much part of me but a hated part.
I have just had a bad ear infection and it ramped up so much I could hardly hear anything else above the screaming.
Now I have a new noise too, like a bell chiming every few seconds ,!

Sorry to be so negative.

Like Clairch I had it in one form or another for as long as I know so didn't even realise it was not normal until adulthood. So largely in a noisy environment I can ignore it but I'm quiet I realise it's virtually there all the time.

I'd never heard of unstable but that sounds right. Usually quiet enough to get on with it but I can have several notes going or the pulsatile one on top of a pitched note etc.

I just object to this new noise. I don't like it.

I have had tinnitus is various forms since I had Covid in 2022. There is the fabulous noise that sounds like an aeroplane overhead, I check Flightradar and realise it is the tinnitus. A high pitched whine sometimes and various other noises. The aeroplane one is the worst I think.

I tend to not notice it unless it is really quiet or they wanted me to use earphones at work to take calls but I can't deal with it the tinnitus as it gets so loud.

I’ve had bilateral tinnitus since 1993. It burst in my head during a period of prolonged stress and has never gone away. I can understand why some sufferers get suicidal.

On a good day it’s just a whooshing noise like a river running over a weir or a loud cistern refilling. Maddening and constant.

I’ve got used to the other (unstable) hell which is clicking, ringing, clanging, rumbling like a refrigerated lorry, alongside the whooshing.

I’ve learned to stay calm and philosophically treat it as “just another noise” but I’d love to know what normal silence sounds like.

You have my empathy OP.

I have tinnitus. It used to be pulsatile like a Doppler effect & horrible, possibly etd as ear popping reduced it. Now that's gone and it's the odd clicks like flicking fingernails together & intermittent hissing like gas is escaping. I believe it's in the brain not ears & something wrong with the nerves or the hearing mechanism in the brain. I try to distract and drown it out. I used an online tip to flick and strum your fingers against the base of the skull below the body protrusion around 20 times & that reduces it for me to a quiet whoosh. Hope you're goes op.

I try to ignore mine, to teach my brain this is a noise that it doesn't need to tell me about. It works on the whole. During the day I notice it only if someone is talking about tinnitus. And night time I can ignore it.

*dang, below the bony protrusion where the head gets soft. Also cover your ears with your palms when you do this.

I've had Tinnitus every minute of every day, since 2007 when I had a car crash. It's a continuous hissing, sometimes humming as well, but every so often a whoshing sound as though it's going from one ear through my head, to the other ear.

Yes! This has been really effective for my DH's tinnitus; he does it a few times a day.
https://trudenta.com/this-simple-trick-may-help-with-tinnitus/#:~:text=Your%20middle%20fingers%20should%20point,immediate%20relief%20with%20this%20method.
I think my DH drums his fingers a bit differently actually - more like fingers giving a tinkly wave.

@TheEponymousGrub Glad it worked for your DH! I tried my partners hearing aids & I think these might help, I will get ears tested & my own set.

I have heard that hypnotherapy sessions can help train your brain to "dial out" the various frequencies. It apparently takes a few sessions to completely eradicate it but that relief can be immediate.

I have tinnitus since chemotherapy with a drug known to increase the risk of developing it. It varies; often it is much less intrusive and I can ignore it for days at a time but sometimes, like today, it’s very bad. A high pitched whine and hissing. I find increasing my fluid intake can help.