TINNITUS

[PamJ]

I have tinnitus 24/7 but when I read about other people with tinnitus they talk about the tinnitus in their head, my tinnitus sounds as if it's inside my deaf ear, does anybody else have this.

[Nuttyneddy]

The screeching is nearer the outside of my deaf ear, but the blank noise part of it reverberates around more of my head, probably fills it up as far as the left side of my nose (deaf ear is the right one).  When it started it was just in my right ear (in fact, at the beginning it was almost outside that ear, like someone had their hand over it).  It is also 24/7 although a couple of times I have dreamt that I've woken up and it's gone, only to find when I really do wake up it's still there!

[PamJ]

That sounds like mine, also in my good ear when it's really quiet usually during the
night it sounds like a dull electric sound

[arizonajack]

I have tinnitus 24/7 but when I read about other people with tinnitus they talk about the tinnitus in their head, my tinnitus sounds as if it's inside my deaf ear, does anybody else have this.

Yes, I have the sounds as if they were inside my deaf ear, too. Right now I'm hearing very faint Morse Code, just barely perceptible. Sometimes I don't hear it at all. Sometimes the sound changes. Ironically, the tinnitus in my good ear (which long predates the AN ear) is a slightly more noticeable hissing like a tire continually deflating and that sound never changes.

[PamJ]

Thank you for your reply it was really worrying me as most people said it was in their head and not their ear.

[arizonajack]

Thank you for your reply it was really worrying me as most people said it was in their head and not their ear.

Well, it IS in our heads in that the brain is imagining signals that aren't there.

Even with normal hearing it's the brain that's receiving and interpreting the signals from the ear so, technically, anything you hear is all in your head anyway, as is anything you experience with any of your senses.

Sensory organs (skin, tongue, eyes, nose, ears) are receptors for stimuli. The stimuli are received and interpreted by the brain so quickly that you believe you have experienced the stimuli at the receptors when they've actually been experienced by the brain.

Sorta like the people submerged in nutrient tanks in the Matrix who thought that they were experiencing their artificial lives.

Are YOU sure that what you're experiencing is real? You might be lying in a nutrient tank right now.

 

[PamJ]

I'm in the tank how did you guess lol