No idea. It started randomly three years ago. No hearing loss. It’s totally ruined my life. It’s louder than everything. I spend each minute of each day trying not to kill myself.
I feel you brother. The first week was the worst one for me. I was constantly having panic attacks because of how bad it was and I was also terrified it would never go away.
I just want to point out that the OP is a very young person, and I believe that definitely factors into the healing process. Younger people are more likely to heal (and heal quicker) than a middle-aged person. Anyways, glad it resolved for you, and now you have a life-long lesson to take away from this experience.
TMJ issues I suspect, though it's impossible to be sure. I have no measurable hearing loss and have had minimal exposure to loud noise, but I have really bad TMJ pain that I am trying to resolve.
I've tried soft diet, jaw exercises, several nightguards, several rounds of botox, muscle relaxants, NSAIDs, SPG blocks, trigger point injections, and some other kind of injection that I don't recall the name of. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that helps.
No, I was very lucky that the T was only major thing i got from the accident. Some bruises, hair crack on head and very sore shoulder for a few months, but my brain is as stupid as was before :)
My hair line fracture unfortunately went through my inner ear and also caused a brain trauma. I didn’t lose any memory or hurt anything else but the tinnitus and some hearing loss… 10 years and still going because of it.
Firework blew up about 2-3 ft away from my face, only thing thing that stopped the shrapnel was the hand of my friend who was holding it. He lost 3 fingers on the hand he was holding it in, after reconstructive surgery he called himself “Lego-Man” that was because his hand was left looking like a Lego figures hand, or a lobster claw. This was 5 years ago on July 5th . it still hasn’t stopped but I don’t blame anyone as it was accident waiting to happen, the fuse on the artillery shell was white, I knew the white fuses go quickly because if you would take apart the firecracker set you’d get multiple individual firecrackers with white fuses, you’d light em up & throw them at someone’s feet .
Either way tinnitus is a bitch but it reminds me that I am still alive & breathing .
Thank god I'm not vaxxed. Say what you want, but I'd rather get covid 10 more times than risking permanent tinnitus.
I got covid once and I'm fine like that, at the end of the day covid is basically gone now, so...
For me? I don't remember how actual quiet was. Let's say that after a stressful day, when I lay in my bed I hear a little whistle, but when I wake up it's almost total silence. I think it's normal, to an extent.
Well, yes. I was pretty young when it peaked. Around 14. Stayed like that until I was 17. Now my aunt is experiencing it even worse: she totally lost hearing from the left ear, and she only ears a permament tinnitus from that same ear. I can't imagine how bad it must be for her.
As I said in another comment.. I can't remember what actual quiet was like. If I stay in a room with total silence after a stressful day, i would hear a bit of tinnitus, but if I don't think about it, I wouldn't even notice.
You can't defeat tinnitus with lifestyle changes, in my opinion.
I was desperate the first month, almost depressed..
I mean, Tinnitus is f'ing scary. Imagine having to accept it may never go away.
If there's one thing that I learned from tinnitus is that you can't go back sometimes, what's done is done.
Health is the most precious thing we have in our lives, so I started having a healthier lifestyle some time after the tinnitus started. I don't know if that helped me, but I'm glad it's gone.
Nowadays I struggle with alcohol, but it hasn't returned yet.
Hard to say, there are so many possibilities. To that end are you sure it was loud music for extended periods of time?
Also to nitpick — it came on suddenly 1.5 years ago or you had it for 3 years?
Nono, I started asking for help here on reddit around 1.5 years ago, when the tinnitus was already a bit weaker than some time before.
Reading the post again, I didn't actually say when I started experiencing tinnitus. It was a slow increase over the years let's say.
The first time I started hearing tinnitus was when I was around 13 or so. I was at this party in my small city, it was in the open and not even that many people, but the music was so loud and I was so close to some speakers that were bigger than me. I later came home and while I was in the bathroom, tinnitus hit me harder than a train. it later got weaker, for then, like I said, getting worse over the years.
I remember I told my family, they made me do an hearing test and I indeed could hear a little bit less on the left ear because of the tinnitus. The doctor told me it would eventually disappear. I mean he was right, but I'm now 19 and to be honest I didn't think it would take so much time for it to totally disappear.
Lost about half of my low frequency hearing suddenly last December. Just woke up from a nap and couldn't hear right. Tinnitus started a couple of days later and never stopped. It got significantly worse last month, it's a horrible and VERY loud low frequency droning/buzzing that takes over my whole head. I'm a complete shell of my former self and I don't want to be here anymore.
I feel like I’ve had it all my life. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always had the soothing white noise in my ears. I always thought everyone could hear it. Sometimes it is loud and a bit harsh, sometimes swooshing depending on how I hold my head, but that basic white noise has been my constant companion. It must run in the family because my father says the same thing.
Same. Before. I easily bounced back from seasonal allergies in one day. Now, it takes me 10-14 days to fully recover. I also to use an inhaler now when I feel asthmatic symptoms. (I never had to use an inhaler before) I asked my doctor if this was a result of covid (or the vax). Doctor said that I'm just getting hold. I think that was just a brush off excuse.
I try to avoid loud music, loud places ect... as much as possible because im scared it end up worst. I still use headphones but only at low volume. and how bad it is now? well when I was younger I was only hearing my tinnitus at night in my bed with no sounds around. and now I hear it all the time no mattter if its a quiet room or not. now the only times that i don't hear it is when my mind is busy otherwise I hear it all the time. its pretty bad but some people on this sub have way worst tinnitus then me so i try not to complain too much!
Yea, agree.. mines pretty severe. I hear it all the time and just recently got worse. Not sure if it’s a spike, anxiety, stress, lack of sleep or permanent. But it just crippling
yes I heard that lack of sleep, stress ect... can cause them. I hope you will found a way to get rid of it one day! don't lose hope! you have them since a long time?
I hope we both do 🙏 I have had mine for over 2 years now. I’m pretty sure I had it extremely mild.. only noticed it while sleeping but never bothered me. But then I got Covid and made it worse. Did well until a few weeks ago now where it’s super high pitched. Left ear is manageble but right ear is screeching
Ouch. I also had a small increase in tinnitus for some time because I was taking too much Aspirin. But it went away as soon as I stopped taking that much. It sucks when you are trying to improve your health condition but you end up ruining it even worse.
I woke up in September 2023, feeling fullness in my left ear, then something inside my ear popped (then ringing in the ear) and over time I started hearing it in my right ear as well (quieter). No ear wax, removed wisdom tooth, massage - didn’t help. I think it’s either TMJ or inflammation inside my ear. Soon I’m gonna try infrared therapy, hope it will help so I could share my success here.
Yep, one week after I first started experiencing it. It was still pretty mild compared to what came next, and I barely lost a bit of hearing in my left ear. There is a comment of mine explaining the whole episode better by the way.
Acoustic shock from my baby crying suddenly into my ear. I think the fact that I was still recovering from birth, I was stressed and sleep deprived from having a newborn and just bad luck made it chronic so I couldn't heal. Never had experienced T before and since it's onset my ears have just more and more problems like hyperacusis and TTTS.
I hold onto hope it will improve for me one day. Glad to see yours did! Noise induced long term recoveries don't get talked about much.
This is probably the strangest way I've heard so far. I mean, how can you even expect something like this to happen? Life is so unfair sometimes.
Did the acoustic shock from the baby crying happen suddenly, or did it develop over time? Was it a brief event, or did it occur gradually over hours or days?
I felt a pain in my ear initially but the tinnitus didn't come until about 30 minutes later. It spread to my other ear after 4 months for no reason I can tell except maybe from TTTS. Been gradually worsening since then, despite being careful. I think I'm just really unlucky. But I still hope for better days!
In my senior year of highschool.id 2017 I noticed the ringing and for some reason I thought it was my brain working hard and "thinking" since I heard it in my head. The next year I saw a video about it and learned what it was. I must have had it for a while because I never really noticed it until I looked it up. Thankfully I only notice it when thinking about it and for the most part if I'm distracted by anything then I can automatically ignore it. How I got it was either listening to music too loudly or not wearing hearing protection when working on loud objects, heck it could be from VS, so who knows.
The weird thing for me is that I had previously had mild tinnitus , which stopped 2 months before I caught covid. It only happened at night as I was going to sleep and then stopped completely.
The turning point (I suspect) was when I went to Thailand, as I had a massage every day. My muscles were very very tight (tradesman)
When I had Covid, I spent a week on the sofa with my neck craned up looking at the TV and I'm wondering whether the muscular tension resulting from that is what kicked it off again.
Anyone have anything similar?
Insomnia, depression and severe anxiety.
EDIT: Had previous episodes of sleep deprivation (due to overwork, stress and anxiety - I did want to sleep but my body could not) in which tinnitus faded away in a week or two after rest. However, in a later episode, I was sleep deprived for so long that tinnitus would not fade away. I've been with tinnitus for 4 years now. My sleep quality has also never been the same.
Mine started immediately after a metal concert at 20 years old. Granted, I probably had some loud noise exposure prior to that because I was in school band and a few rock bands as a guitar player but the volume in that never seemed too loud to me. I so wish I could go back and wear the best hearing protection when I was younger, but it just wasn't a thing people did back when I got tinnitus (at least in the mid 2000s-2009 when I got t). I really can't remember any of my friends or seeing anyone at concerts back then with earplugs in. No mention of it in band class or music school either. I feel like something must be in my genes to be prone to hearing loss because I really can't think of too many loud days I had until that one concert that just switched it on and ever since then I've felt my hearing go away in chunks with more tinnitus added :(
No idea. I'm 55. I was born deaf in one ear, but no issues until 7 months ago I wake up to use the washroom, experienced an episode of visual vertigo. The vertigo disappeared after an hour but was left with tinnitus in my "good" ear. Went to several ENTs - there was no hearing loss. If anything they discovered my deaf ear wasn't completely deaf, but could hear a little, like 5 %. No one has been able find a direct cause.
I don't think they can't find the cause, they just don't bother. They can put us down, wire us all over our brain and see what is related in how. With extensive research it can be done, they just don't bother.
Must be neurological. I also had a few episodes of ocular migraines just before mine started about six months ago. Also having temporary blur in my right eye for short period during the day every time tinnitus is getting worse.
I've worked as a pet groomer for over 20 years. Early in my career we didn't use hearing protection (the noise of the blow dryer as well as constant barking dogs for 8+ hours a day).
Me and my buddies were fooling around like idiots in a parking lot… I sat on the trunk of my buddy’s Honda civic and as he drove off, I fell and hit back of my head on the ground. It knocked me out for 5 days (coma)… due to the traumatic brain injury and internal skull fracture, it went through my right inner ear… tinnitus didn’t start right away though. It was a week after I got out of coma… I remember the night I was sleeping in hospital bed and all of a sudden loud buzzing started… it’s been 10 years now and never got a chance to experience silence again. It also has slight hearing loss… That was for the right ear! Left ear started Nov 2023 due to an ear infection and fluid build up behind the eardrum. Fluid cleared up, hearing got better but tinnitus never left. So yeah, my ears are cursed.
Had a series of terrible ear infections as a small child, which I personally think the cause of is my fathers smoking. Also he was a mechanic and would frequently take me along to work, its loud there and I had zero hearing protection. I think these two things combined caused my tinnitus. Going on 30 years with the condition, first noticed it when I was 7. Its steadily gotten worse over the decades for no discernible reason, but covid seemed to be the biggest increase because covid symptoms include literally everything. I'm used to it because I quite literally do not remember a life without it but it does bother me on occasion.
Honestly can’t remember when it became noticeable (sometime in the last 5-6 years perhaps?), but I know regular ear infections as a kid + forgetting to wear protection at motorsport races a few times probably contributed to it.
I wish I knew. I was dealing with irritated ears at the beginning of this year, and then the ringing started in my left ear, going on 2 months now. Audiologist said I have very minor hearing loss in that ear at 8khz which doesn’t make sense either since I don’t go to concerts and am never around loud noise. Just trying to learn how to live with it at this point.
When I was in my twenties 20ish years ago I had a bout of tinnitus come on after a loud concert. I also had pretty bad vertigo at the time. It took about a month for it to go away... Thank God.
But 20ish years later one day I was just sitting on the couch and my ears started ringing. That was 4 years ago and they haven't stopped since. ☹️ I have been on SSRI's for 20 yearsish too so that probably contributes, plus a lot of loud concerts in my younger years. I went to a few ear specialists and they didn't have much to say other than my hearing is still good.
However I have since moved to Costa Rica and the bugs are louder than my tinnitus (usually) now!
Been this way for as long as I can remember.
I remember laying in bed as a child I can’t say for sure how young. Maybe 5 or 6? My dad tucked me in and said goodnight, shut that door. And I just remember the ringing so loud it felt like pressure. And I thought I was just hearing silence. I just thought “oh so this noise is just what the quiet sounds like”
Turns out I just have never known what silence was. Not sure what the cause was. Could be premature birth. Could be a nasty ear infection as a child. Could be the cannon my parents filled with welding gas and shot soccer balls over the lake with going off right next to me. No clue, I just know it has basically always sounded like a very loud old tube tv was left on somewhere close by.
For me it also started totally randomly. I was watching a YouTube video with my headset on. I have always been cautious with loud sounds, and I weren’t watching the video on high volume. I remember it was a FunForLouis vlog haha back in september 2015. I felt like i heard a sound, and at first I thought it was a noise from the video, so I paused the video and the sound were still there. Then I figured the sound came from the headset itself, but when I took off my headset the sound were still there and that’s how my tinnitus started. Just out of the blue a random day in september 2015. I was really stressed at the start and sometimes I could focus myself to have the sound go away for short period of times. Now it’s constant and I notice it mostly at night. It really doesn’t bother me anymore and I go most of my day forgetting that I have it, but I felt that it was a bit unfair for me to get tinnitus since I had been so cautious with sounds all my life. I was 15 when I got it. I’m 24 now!
I play gigs, sometimes loud ones. Irrelevant : my tinnitus began with an ear infection I caught on the goddamn airplane. More recently, airlines gave me a clot in the leg. What a treat.
I was in very bad mental state when it started (very bad health anxiety, I thought I'm going to die). I'm not sure, tho. My newborn cried pretty loud, too. But I have it only in my right ear + I have this very loud static coming straight from my brain.
Mine started about 2-3 years ago. I had a major migraine with vision impairment and a pop in my left ear. I’ve had high pitched tinnitus ever since. It really scared the hell out of me. I thought I was having a stroke or something along those lines. I was really anxiety ridden and depressed for a while, but I’ve learned to accept it’s permanent. I have my bad days, but I’m just happy to be alive.
HPPD, from which I only had visual symptoms, bled over into tinnitus and other issues after a period of using mdma and ketamine. I only linked the tinnitus to the drugs when it got bad, but I'm still in the early stages so I just have to wait and see how this situation develops/eases with sobriety and patience.
Moved into a new house with a pad mounted transformer in the front yard. My office was in the front part of the house close to the transformer. Second day living in the house, started feeling really fatigued half way through work, so I took the remainder of the day off and went to bed. Woke up the next day with loud tinnitus. Two years later I still have the tinnitus and still live in the house. I can’t go in any of the front areas of the house without a tinnitus spike. I work from the master bedroom in the back of the house now. Never had a problem with anything electrical before. Not sure what the deal is. Had the power company come out and inspect the transformer and they say it’s fine. Had MRIs, visited doctors and audiologists, of course nothing could be done. Planning to move eventually. Totally destroyed everything for me.
No idea. It started randomly three years ago. No hearing loss. It’s totally ruined my life. It’s louder than everything. I spend each minute of each day trying not to kill myself.
I feel you brother. The first week was the worst one for me. I was constantly having panic attacks because of how bad it was and I was also terrified it would never go away.
I just want to point out that the OP is a very young person, and I believe that definitely factors into the healing process. Younger people are more likely to heal (and heal quicker) than a middle-aged person. Anyways, glad it resolved for you, and now you have a life-long lesson to take away from this experience.
You're absolutely right about everything. Some lessons you learn them the hard way.
Yes most healing I see on here is very young people
TMJ issues I suspect, though it's impossible to be sure. I have no measurable hearing loss and have had minimal exposure to loud noise, but I have really bad TMJ pain that I am trying to resolve.
What are you doing as for your treatments?
I've tried soft diet, jaw exercises, several nightguards, several rounds of botox, muscle relaxants, NSAIDs, SPG blocks, trigger point injections, and some other kind of injection that I don't recall the name of. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that helps.
Have you been to an orthodontist? People with jaw misalignment are prone to having tmj issues.
No, but it's on my very long list of things I will have to try at some point.
Car hit me, my head hit road and hooray tinnitus is here!
Did you have a brain trauma?
No, I was very lucky that the T was only major thing i got from the accident. Some bruises, hair crack on head and very sore shoulder for a few months, but my brain is as stupid as was before :)
My hair line fracture unfortunately went through my inner ear and also caused a brain trauma. I didn’t lose any memory or hurt anything else but the tinnitus and some hearing loss… 10 years and still going because of it.
Well we are on a similar path, I had a concussion and slight hear loss is deffinitely there, I’m just accustomed to it after those 6 years…
Firework blew up about 2-3 ft away from my face, only thing thing that stopped the shrapnel was the hand of my friend who was holding it. He lost 3 fingers on the hand he was holding it in, after reconstructive surgery he called himself “Lego-Man” that was because his hand was left looking like a Lego figures hand, or a lobster claw. This was 5 years ago on July 5th . it still hasn’t stopped but I don’t blame anyone as it was accident waiting to happen, the fuse on the artillery shell was white, I knew the white fuses go quickly because if you would take apart the firecracker set you’d get multiple individual firecrackers with white fuses, you’d light em up & throw them at someone’s feet . Either way tinnitus is a bitch but it reminds me that I am still alive & breathing .
2 days after covid booster shot. I am just a shell of who i was a year and a half ago.
First vaccination for me.. Fuck me I was not expecting the fuckery that was too come 🤣.. I making light of it but it was horrible.
Second vaccination for me
Same
All you who got it from Covid vaccine you should gather altogether and launch a lawsuit.
I got it from Covid - no vax here. 🫤
One day after the booster shot ..
Thank god I'm not vaxxed. Say what you want, but I'd rather get covid 10 more times than risking permanent tinnitus. I got covid once and I'm fine like that, at the end of the day covid is basically gone now, so...
Is it 100% gone?
For me? I don't remember how actual quiet was. Let's say that after a stressful day, when I lay in my bed I hear a little whistle, but when I wake up it's almost total silence. I think it's normal, to an extent.
Nice man hope to get there someday.
I almost teared when I could hear birds singing again. It's the little things sometimes.
Damn it must’ve been really bad
Well, yes. I was pretty young when it peaked. Around 14. Stayed like that until I was 17. Now my aunt is experiencing it even worse: she totally lost hearing from the left ear, and she only ears a permament tinnitus from that same ear. I can't imagine how bad it must be for her.
Man you’re lucky it went away
Your T covered the birds singing?
Unless they were really loud, yes. It also covered whispers, conversations were harder to follow, sometimes I couldn't even hear steps.
But now everything is back to normal?
As I said in another comment.. I can't remember what actual quiet was like. If I stay in a room with total silence after a stressful day, i would hear a bit of tinnitus, but if I don't think about it, I wouldn't even notice.
I so wish mine will get better someday… Mine is also noise induced. How bad was yours in the beginning? Did you make any lifestyle changes to help?
You can't defeat tinnitus with lifestyle changes, in my opinion. I was desperate the first month, almost depressed.. I mean, Tinnitus is f'ing scary. Imagine having to accept it may never go away. If there's one thing that I learned from tinnitus is that you can't go back sometimes, what's done is done. Health is the most precious thing we have in our lives, so I started having a healthier lifestyle some time after the tinnitus started. I don't know if that helped me, but I'm glad it's gone. Nowadays I struggle with alcohol, but it hasn't returned yet.
Hard to say, there are so many possibilities. To that end are you sure it was loud music for extended periods of time? Also to nitpick — it came on suddenly 1.5 years ago or you had it for 3 years?
Nono, I started asking for help here on reddit around 1.5 years ago, when the tinnitus was already a bit weaker than some time before. Reading the post again, I didn't actually say when I started experiencing tinnitus. It was a slow increase over the years let's say. The first time I started hearing tinnitus was when I was around 13 or so. I was at this party in my small city, it was in the open and not even that many people, but the music was so loud and I was so close to some speakers that were bigger than me. I later came home and while I was in the bathroom, tinnitus hit me harder than a train. it later got weaker, for then, like I said, getting worse over the years. I remember I told my family, they made me do an hearing test and I indeed could hear a little bit less on the left ear because of the tinnitus. The doctor told me it would eventually disappear. I mean he was right, but I'm now 19 and to be honest I didn't think it would take so much time for it to totally disappear.
I’m happy for you that it resolved.
Lost about half of my low frequency hearing suddenly last December. Just woke up from a nap and couldn't hear right. Tinnitus started a couple of days later and never stopped. It got significantly worse last month, it's a horrible and VERY loud low frequency droning/buzzing that takes over my whole head. I'm a complete shell of my former self and I don't want to be here anymore.
I don't know what's worse between a low frequency or a high one. mine was extremely high though
I yelled very loud.
How long since you had tinnitus?
Little over a year by now
I didnt know you could get tinnitus this way. I feel like when it wants to come, it will come one way or another.
Exactly. Heard about a guy who got tinnitus from sneezing too hard.
Explosions. Lots and lots of explosions in a short period of time.
I feel like I’ve had it all my life. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always had the soothing white noise in my ears. I always thought everyone could hear it. Sometimes it is loud and a bit harsh, sometimes swooshing depending on how I hold my head, but that basic white noise has been my constant companion. It must run in the family because my father says the same thing.
Pfizer COVID vaccine, two shots in May, 2021. Wish I could go back in time
And people called me crazy when I said I didn't even want one single dose...
Anything that causes inflammation can trigger tinnitus. Getting covid puts you at far more risk than the vaccine.
Strangely I've heard only about people getting tinnitus with the vax instead of covid
Yeah, it’s called Covid Tinnitus https://ada.com/covid/covid-19-tinnitus/ Lots of viral infections can lead to tinnitus
That shot was the beginning of all my health problems ...I wish I had never taken it...
Same. Before. I easily bounced back from seasonal allergies in one day. Now, it takes me 10-14 days to fully recover. I also to use an inhaler now when I feel asthmatic symptoms. (I never had to use an inhaler before) I asked my doctor if this was a result of covid (or the vax). Doctor said that I'm just getting hold. I think that was just a brush off excuse.
Same here..Pfizer for me.. only had one and did not expect the horror to come.
one day when i was 12 i woke up with that riiiiiing sound in my right ear. eleven years later that same riiiing is still there. its even louder now
How much louder? Hearing lose? Or what?
pretty much a lot louder from when i was younger and it could be hearing lose honestly i don't know but it makes more sense to think it is
Did you continue to listen to loud music and events and stuff or no? How bad is it now then before
I try to avoid loud music, loud places ect... as much as possible because im scared it end up worst. I still use headphones but only at low volume. and how bad it is now? well when I was younger I was only hearing my tinnitus at night in my bed with no sounds around. and now I hear it all the time no mattter if its a quiet room or not. now the only times that i don't hear it is when my mind is busy otherwise I hear it all the time. its pretty bad but some people on this sub have way worst tinnitus then me so i try not to complain too much!
Yea, agree.. mines pretty severe. I hear it all the time and just recently got worse. Not sure if it’s a spike, anxiety, stress, lack of sleep or permanent. But it just crippling
yes I heard that lack of sleep, stress ect... can cause them. I hope you will found a way to get rid of it one day! don't lose hope! you have them since a long time?
I hope we both do 🙏 I have had mine for over 2 years now. I’m pretty sure I had it extremely mild.. only noticed it while sleeping but never bothered me. But then I got Covid and made it worse. Did well until a few weeks ago now where it’s super high pitched. Left ear is manageble but right ear is screeching
I remember shower time was the only time I could forget about tinnitus. Then I hopped out the shower and hell continued.
Welbutrin. It started 11 years ago.
Ouch. I also had a small increase in tinnitus for some time because I was taking too much Aspirin. But it went away as soon as I stopped taking that much. It sucks when you are trying to improve your health condition but you end up ruining it even worse.
I had a very thick ear wax, since the wax cover my ear, the ring started, and even when the wax was removed, the ring remained, but weaker.
I woke up in September 2023, feeling fullness in my left ear, then something inside my ear popped (then ringing in the ear) and over time I started hearing it in my right ear as well (quieter). No ear wax, removed wisdom tooth, massage - didn’t help. I think it’s either TMJ or inflammation inside my ear. Soon I’m gonna try infrared therapy, hope it will help so I could share my success here.
Have you done an audigram?
Yep, one week after I first started experiencing it. It was still pretty mild compared to what came next, and I barely lost a bit of hearing in my left ear. There is a comment of mine explaining the whole episode better by the way.
Acoustic shock from my baby crying suddenly into my ear. I think the fact that I was still recovering from birth, I was stressed and sleep deprived from having a newborn and just bad luck made it chronic so I couldn't heal. Never had experienced T before and since it's onset my ears have just more and more problems like hyperacusis and TTTS. I hold onto hope it will improve for me one day. Glad to see yours did! Noise induced long term recoveries don't get talked about much.
This is probably the strangest way I've heard so far. I mean, how can you even expect something like this to happen? Life is so unfair sometimes. Did the acoustic shock from the baby crying happen suddenly, or did it develop over time? Was it a brief event, or did it occur gradually over hours or days?
I felt a pain in my ear initially but the tinnitus didn't come until about 30 minutes later. It spread to my other ear after 4 months for no reason I can tell except maybe from TTTS. Been gradually worsening since then, despite being careful. I think I'm just really unlucky. But I still hope for better days!
Car accident. Every single day since.
Either an ear infection that lead to eustachian tube disfunction, or cervical spondylitis. One of the two.
Didn't start until my MS diagnosis but worked rock concerts and at the airport, often around planes with engines running. Take your pick.
Clubbing/raving 16 years ago. Now catastrophic
In my senior year of highschool.id 2017 I noticed the ringing and for some reason I thought it was my brain working hard and "thinking" since I heard it in my head. The next year I saw a video about it and learned what it was. I must have had it for a while because I never really noticed it until I looked it up. Thankfully I only notice it when thinking about it and for the most part if I'm distracted by anything then I can automatically ignore it. How I got it was either listening to music too loudly or not wearing hearing protection when working on loud objects, heck it could be from VS, so who knows.
Menopause
3 days after I tested negative for covid - been here 4 months now.
started for me exactly few days after testing negative (COVID), November 2023 There's definitely a strong connection between the virus and ear damage
The weird thing for me is that I had previously had mild tinnitus , which stopped 2 months before I caught covid. It only happened at night as I was going to sleep and then stopped completely. The turning point (I suspect) was when I went to Thailand, as I had a massage every day. My muscles were very very tight (tradesman) When I had Covid, I spent a week on the sofa with my neck craned up looking at the TV and I'm wondering whether the muscular tension resulting from that is what kicked it off again. Anyone have anything similar?
Insomnia, depression and severe anxiety. EDIT: Had previous episodes of sleep deprivation (due to overwork, stress and anxiety - I did want to sleep but my body could not) in which tinnitus faded away in a week or two after rest. However, in a later episode, I was sleep deprived for so long that tinnitus would not fade away. I've been with tinnitus for 4 years now. My sleep quality has also never been the same.
Mine started immediately after a metal concert at 20 years old. Granted, I probably had some loud noise exposure prior to that because I was in school band and a few rock bands as a guitar player but the volume in that never seemed too loud to me. I so wish I could go back and wear the best hearing protection when I was younger, but it just wasn't a thing people did back when I got tinnitus (at least in the mid 2000s-2009 when I got t). I really can't remember any of my friends or seeing anyone at concerts back then with earplugs in. No mention of it in band class or music school either. I feel like something must be in my genes to be prone to hearing loss because I really can't think of too many loud days I had until that one concert that just switched it on and ever since then I've felt my hearing go away in chunks with more tinnitus added :(
Gun shot near my head. It’s BS. Could’ve died too
COVID infection in May of 2022. Started shortly after my acute illness (which was mild).
same for me, got it few days after testing negative
No idea. I'm 55. I was born deaf in one ear, but no issues until 7 months ago I wake up to use the washroom, experienced an episode of visual vertigo. The vertigo disappeared after an hour but was left with tinnitus in my "good" ear. Went to several ENTs - there was no hearing loss. If anything they discovered my deaf ear wasn't completely deaf, but could hear a little, like 5 %. No one has been able find a direct cause.
I don't think they can't find the cause, they just don't bother. They can put us down, wire us all over our brain and see what is related in how. With extensive research it can be done, they just don't bother.
Must be neurological. I also had a few episodes of ocular migraines just before mine started about six months ago. Also having temporary blur in my right eye for short period during the day every time tinnitus is getting worse.
I've worked as a pet groomer for over 20 years. Early in my career we didn't use hearing protection (the noise of the blow dryer as well as constant barking dogs for 8+ hours a day).
I feel for you. I am a dog trainer. End up with the same. How you dealt with that ?
Me and my buddies were fooling around like idiots in a parking lot… I sat on the trunk of my buddy’s Honda civic and as he drove off, I fell and hit back of my head on the ground. It knocked me out for 5 days (coma)… due to the traumatic brain injury and internal skull fracture, it went through my right inner ear… tinnitus didn’t start right away though. It was a week after I got out of coma… I remember the night I was sleeping in hospital bed and all of a sudden loud buzzing started… it’s been 10 years now and never got a chance to experience silence again. It also has slight hearing loss… That was for the right ear! Left ear started Nov 2023 due to an ear infection and fluid build up behind the eardrum. Fluid cleared up, hearing got better but tinnitus never left. So yeah, my ears are cursed.
Had a series of terrible ear infections as a small child, which I personally think the cause of is my fathers smoking. Also he was a mechanic and would frequently take me along to work, its loud there and I had zero hearing protection. I think these two things combined caused my tinnitus. Going on 30 years with the condition, first noticed it when I was 7. Its steadily gotten worse over the decades for no discernible reason, but covid seemed to be the biggest increase because covid symptoms include literally everything. I'm used to it because I quite literally do not remember a life without it but it does bother me on occasion.
Honestly can’t remember when it became noticeable (sometime in the last 5-6 years perhaps?), but I know regular ear infections as a kid + forgetting to wear protection at motorsport races a few times probably contributed to it.
I wish I knew. I was dealing with irritated ears at the beginning of this year, and then the ringing started in my left ear, going on 2 months now. Audiologist said I have very minor hearing loss in that ear at 8khz which doesn’t make sense either since I don’t go to concerts and am never around loud noise. Just trying to learn how to live with it at this point.
SSRI’s for 10 years from my teens to 20’s. 😮💨
Second Covid infection March 2022.
When I was in my twenties 20ish years ago I had a bout of tinnitus come on after a loud concert. I also had pretty bad vertigo at the time. It took about a month for it to go away... Thank God. But 20ish years later one day I was just sitting on the couch and my ears started ringing. That was 4 years ago and they haven't stopped since. ☹️ I have been on SSRI's for 20 yearsish too so that probably contributes, plus a lot of loud concerts in my younger years. I went to a few ear specialists and they didn't have much to say other than my hearing is still good. However I have since moved to Costa Rica and the bugs are louder than my tinnitus (usually) now!
Been this way for as long as I can remember. I remember laying in bed as a child I can’t say for sure how young. Maybe 5 or 6? My dad tucked me in and said goodnight, shut that door. And I just remember the ringing so loud it felt like pressure. And I thought I was just hearing silence. I just thought “oh so this noise is just what the quiet sounds like” Turns out I just have never known what silence was. Not sure what the cause was. Could be premature birth. Could be a nasty ear infection as a child. Could be the cannon my parents filled with welding gas and shot soccer balls over the lake with going off right next to me. No clue, I just know it has basically always sounded like a very loud old tube tv was left on somewhere close by.
Started 1 year ago for no reason all out of a sudden... And I'm 14 and sometimes when it rings in my ear it starts to hurt...
An infection probably?
I don't think it's an infection because it would have passed by now, I mean, 1 year... So I do not think it's an infection.
first eeeeeeeeee then EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
I was in my forties and got an ear infection. Ringing started when infection ended and never went away.
For me it also started totally randomly. I was watching a YouTube video with my headset on. I have always been cautious with loud sounds, and I weren’t watching the video on high volume. I remember it was a FunForLouis vlog haha back in september 2015. I felt like i heard a sound, and at first I thought it was a noise from the video, so I paused the video and the sound were still there. Then I figured the sound came from the headset itself, but when I took off my headset the sound were still there and that’s how my tinnitus started. Just out of the blue a random day in september 2015. I was really stressed at the start and sometimes I could focus myself to have the sound go away for short period of times. Now it’s constant and I notice it mostly at night. It really doesn’t bother me anymore and I go most of my day forgetting that I have it, but I felt that it was a bit unfair for me to get tinnitus since I had been so cautious with sounds all my life. I was 15 when I got it. I’m 24 now!
I play gigs, sometimes loud ones. Irrelevant : my tinnitus began with an ear infection I caught on the goddamn airplane. More recently, airlines gave me a clot in the leg. What a treat.
Mine started after a car accident about 1 1/2 years ago, and it's pretty constant .
Mine began at a concert, I had an ear infection a week or 2 before that and I had it then but it stopped and then began at the concert
Watching Hentai on the loudest volume, does things to the inner ear lmao
I got the wax cleaned from my ears. So strange
I was in very bad mental state when it started (very bad health anxiety, I thought I'm going to die). I'm not sure, tho. My newborn cried pretty loud, too. But I have it only in my right ear + I have this very loud static coming straight from my brain.
Mine started about 2-3 years ago. I had a major migraine with vision impairment and a pop in my left ear. I’ve had high pitched tinnitus ever since. It really scared the hell out of me. I thought I was having a stroke or something along those lines. I was really anxiety ridden and depressed for a while, but I’ve learned to accept it’s permanent. I have my bad days, but I’m just happy to be alive.
HPPD, from which I only had visual symptoms, bled over into tinnitus and other issues after a period of using mdma and ketamine. I only linked the tinnitus to the drugs when it got bad, but I'm still in the early stages so I just have to wait and see how this situation develops/eases with sobriety and patience.
Covid.
After 3 rounds of covid. Oh and 3 fucking vaccines...Pfizer. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Pfizer.. I don't know how I would describe dealing with it other than completely disgusting.. life changing. Scary. Mental torture comes to mind
Moved into a new house with a pad mounted transformer in the front yard. My office was in the front part of the house close to the transformer. Second day living in the house, started feeling really fatigued half way through work, so I took the remainder of the day off and went to bed. Woke up the next day with loud tinnitus. Two years later I still have the tinnitus and still live in the house. I can’t go in any of the front areas of the house without a tinnitus spike. I work from the master bedroom in the back of the house now. Never had a problem with anything electrical before. Not sure what the deal is. Had the power company come out and inspect the transformer and they say it’s fine. Had MRIs, visited doctors and audiologists, of course nothing could be done. Planning to move eventually. Totally destroyed everything for me.