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I can hear #2 now; it's slow clicking against a high pitch. Mine sounds more like a cricket, and there is no roar or steady pitch behind it. I guess I'm lucky.
When I was a little girl my ears would "pop" and "click". All the time. Had all sorts of testing and no cause was ever found. No hearing loss. No I can make my ears make the popping sound and I have pretty consistent whooshing sounds. Every once in a while I hear #2 for a few seconds, but not often. I think I've been dealing with it so long that it doesn't bother me as much. Every once in a while I start researching again for a cause and cure.
Mine is somewhere between #1 and #3, a fairly high-pitched hissing or ringing sound. It gets louder when I eat white food, rice being the worst. It is also exacerbated by certain medications, notably elavil (amitriptyline) and ibuprofen. It started, according to my ear doctor in 1998, because I took neurontin (gabapentin) for a few months. But the hissing/ringing didn't go away when I stopped taking neurontin.
I find it helpful to run fans, air conditioners, air cleaning machines, etc. Also, I no longer try to listen to music from across the room, as it sounds as if the hiss takes up the entire space between me and the speakers. I'm better off with speakers at my desk and next to my bed. Wireless music came along at just the right time. I find it helps when I watch TV to have the sound at a just audible level and I use the closed captioning function. Turning the volume of anything up loud does not help.
Yup. A noisy room or amped up music can really set my ears off. 5 hours later, my tinnitus will still be much louder than usual. Because of the combination of deafness and tinnitus, I seldom go out to concerts or movies. For movies, I need those captions. Some theaters do offer special headphones for the hearing challenged, but IME, their sound quality is so crappy that I'd rather not. It isn't amplification I need so much as clarity and a quiet background. So I borrow DVDs from the library.
However I will go see true spectacles, because you don't need to catch all the dialog to enjoy those. This year it was Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, and the last Star Wars. Going to see the current Star Wars next week, in 3-D IMax. You sure can't do that on your TV. Then I'll come straight home and keep quiet until the ears calm down.
A good pair of wireless headphones are great for music.
Yup. A noisy room or amped up music can really set my ears off. 5 hours later, my tinnitus will still be much louder than usual. Because of the combination of deafness and tinnitus, I seldom go out to concerts or movies. For movies, I need those captions. Some theaters do offer special headphones for the hearing challenged, but IME, their sound quality is so crappy that I'd rather not. It isn't amplification I need so much as clarity and a quiet background. So I borrow DVDs from the library.
However I will go see true spectacles, because you don't need to catch all the dialog to enjoy those. This year it was Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, and the last Star Wars. Going to see the current Star Wars next week, in 3-D IMax. You sure can't do that on your TV. Then I'll come straight home and keep quiet until the ears calm down.
A good pair of wireless headphones are great for music.
To me the worst sound is a .357 magnum revolver going off. With many shooters we develop tinnitus first in ear opposite which hand we shoot with - right handers get tinnitus in their left ear first or the opposite for left handers. It has to do with the way the shock wave hits the body. The .357 you feel in your bones, it hurts; I feel more so than some of the larger weapons like the .44 magnum. Ear protectors are very, very, important if you are exposed to loud noise. I now always use both the ear plugs and the earmuffs when shooting or exposed to loud noise.
I always smile when one of the little sports cars pulls up along side and my windows are rattling form their speakers. While I am smiling; I am thinking to myself: You damn dummy! Just a little more time and they will be listening to the same tunes I have listen to all of these years! I hope they like crickets!
I'm going to make a doctor's appointment soon about a faint clicking noise I've started hearing over the last week, especially at night. I'm guessing it's tinnitus. I've had cataract surgery recently and hate to start another series of doctor appointments, but obviously I have to.
It really scares me as I had Stage 1A ovarian cancer about six years ago. I hope it's not a tumor. Scary. I'll fight for my life, for sure, but it's such a distraction.
Mostly it's not occurring during the day, and it's not loud, but I just hate having something else like this to deal with.
Is the sound (possible tinnitus) bilateral or unilateral? If it is bilateral (in both ears), you can be close to certain it is not a tumor. Unilateral hearing loss plus tinnitus should increase suspicion for acoustic neuroma.
A clicking sound could possibly be an insect in your ear, TMJ, or a variety of other things.
NSAID's like ibuprofen, aspirin, etc. as well opiate painkillers can cause tinnitus and can make it worse, too.
In addition to seeing your primary care physician, you ought to get in to see an audiologist soon. You won't need a referral to one, since they hope you will also need to buy a hearing aid, thus they are happy to see you, often the same day. Some audiologists don't even charge for the visit.
Yup. A noisy room or amped up music can really set my ears off. 5 hours later, my tinnitus will still be much louder than usual. Because of the combination of deafness and tinnitus, I seldom go out to concerts or movies. For movies, I need those captions. Some theaters do offer special headphones for the hearing challenged, but IME, their sound quality is so crappy that I'd rather not. It isn't amplification I need so much as clarity and a quiet background. So I borrow DVDs from the library.
However I will go see true spectacles, because you don't need to catch all the dialog to enjoy those. This year it was Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, and the last Star Wars. Going to see the current Star Wars next week, in 3-D IMax. You sure can't do that on your TV. Then I'll come straight home and keep quiet until the ears calm down.
A good pair of wireless headphones are great for music.
The theater I use has what they call a "gooseneck". It's a small closed caption screen at the end of a flexible gooseneck with a base that fits in the cupholder. If you don't mind being seen with it I find it's perfect.
Is the sound (possible tinnitus) bilateral or unilateral? If it is bilateral (in both ears), you can be close to certain it is not a tumor. Unilateral hearing loss plus tinnitus should increase suspicion for acoustic neuroma.
A clicking sound could possibly be an insect in your ear, TMJ, or a variety of other things.
NSAID's like ibuprofen, aspirin, etc. as well opiate painkillers can cause tinnitus and can make it worse, too.
In addition to seeing your primary care physician, you ought to get in to see an audiologist soon. You won't need a referral to one, since they hope you will also need to buy a hearing aid, thus they are happy to see you, often the same day. Some audiologists don't even charge for the visit.
Unilateral, just in the right ear. Tried to make an appointment today and they were closed. Will try this afternoon.
....Mostly it's not occurring during the day, and it's not loud, but I just hate having something else like this to deal with.
How it affects people varies a great deal from what I have read and been told.
Mine started four years ago and the nature of the sounds were various. It would last for three weeks and then stop for awhile, soon that pattern changed and I had it all the time, though sometimes it was softer. Then it changed to become VERY loud and and "soft" was loud.
And then it disappeared after maybe four years.
No changes in diet, prescription medications or herbal medications. I am a boring consistent human being and medical patient. So, who knows.
I would just say, "Take heart." From my experience, at least, it can go all over the lot....and vanish.
What a great comfort in reading this thread, as at 67, I think I've finally developed it, in just one ear. It's not that loud, but I just hope it doesn't get louder. So I shall not suffer alone!
Last week, one morning, after showering, I cleaned my right ear with a q-tip and there was some blood on it, which has never happened before, but this is coming from my left ear. Strange!!! Perhaps that was the build up to it!
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