General Chat

How do you cope with night time when everything is quiet and you just hear this buzz or humm in your ear.I wake up and think I hear the pump still running in the airing cupboard or the tumble drier is still going.I know they aren't but still have to get up and check.Is it just a matter of getting used to it .
At least now I know why I am always saying "Pardon" in a group of people all talking.I just learned that tinnitus makes it more difficult to listen to one persons conversation when others are talking.

It's called "white noise" you have something in your room that makes a constant low noise, for some people a fan will do it, you may have to experiment to see which works best for you...
It's a king sized pain in the butt when it's quiet and all you can hear is the singing/buzzing/hissing in your head..

Helen when you find a cure let me know please

I have had it for years and it drives me mad
mine is like a high pitched whine if you know what I mean lol

Jenxx

I have it just one ear,and I find if I sleep on the ear that doesn't buzz it's bad ,but if I have the bad ear on the pillow it is better.Trouble is I can't stay sleeping on one side all night lol.

Jenxx I don't think there is a cure or at least not a cureall, I think it's learning coping strategies.
Because I'm under the weather at the moment I can hear mine really badly I'm lucky I've learnt to ignore it but for some people they can't.

I think if you haven't already been to your Doctor that would be a good idea..xx

Jenxx Yep thats it .The pitch can change though .I find I always have a finger in my ear to try and waggle it away!!!!!!!!!.It doesn't work.

Finger in your ear doesn't work. i have had it for over 20 years now. I guess you do learn not to 'listen' to it.

Ann
Glos

Ann ,does it stay the same or does it get louder?

It's just a constant high pitched whistle which I find I simply ignore.

seen Doctor a few years go did give me some tablets but did no good

Finger waggles no good , hold nose and blow no good .

just have to live with it wish I had volume control on ears lol

Jenxx

Ive had it for years to ,
one night woke up and could hear this pounding music
OH was sound asleep and i thought how can he
sleep through that ,so got up went out side to see who had lights on
no lights .... came back in doors woke OH up and said can you hear that music ...no he said ,and yet it was pounding away in my ears then relised what it was so i put my hearing aids back in and hey bingo
no music ......that was quiet a few years ago , now i dont hear anything
if i take my hearing aids out . lol .what did you say ........cant hear a blooming thing LOLOL.
Hazelx

Lol,Hazel .I'm always nudging OH to say "can you hear that".The reply is go to sleep it's your B****y ears!!!!!!

Sometimes it is louder than others, it always seems louder at night because there is no other noise to hear. I too wear hearing aid and have quite a significant loss of hearing, i am sure the two are connected. The tinnitus does seem worse if i am under the weather with a cold or whatever.

ann
Glos

I have had my hearing checked and it is normal.Even though OH says I'm flipping deaf!But now I have a reason .That sounds and conversations can be difficult to hear properly sometimes,as they are distorted.I rest my case OH.!!!

read somewhere, that the noise is the result of the brain "MISSING" the sounds that SHOULD be there if the ears were working normally,

although I have heard it said that the noise CAN be heard by a very astute listener......

cant really see LOL (Hear) that being right......
Bob

bob do you mean that my tinnitus could be heard by somebody else according to what you have read? My OH has extremely acute hearing, drives me mad he would hear a pin drop in the road outside (well maybe not but you know what I mean?), he can't hear my tinnitus.

ann
Glos

Tinitus can be sorted but not cured you can get an aid to wear in your ear that counteracts the high pitched sound thats constantly heard by the suferer.
Go to your doctor and ask him to explain in more detail and if he will refer you to get these fitted they look like digital hearing aids but work

its worth finding out I know people that have the same problems and they work for them

Paul

I wish someone could hear our tinnitus then they would know what we are talking about.It is just there in your head all the time.I will have to do something to distract me from it as I have become a bit obsessed about it.I keep listening for it if you know what I mean even though I know it's there.
Sounds Bonkers doesn't it!!!!!!!

Hi Helen

if you look at the British Tinnitus Association web site,you can hear the sounds of tinnitus,I made my oh listen,so he has a slight idea of what its like.

http://www.tinnitus.org.uk/

Thanks for that Blue Moon.I will try that.Not tomorrow though cos it's his birthday.I may wait 'till he makes some sarky comment about it and then let him hear.
What did your OH say to it?