What does your tinnitus sound like?

[Jwh]

Does anyone have a zapping or buzzing tinnitus?  I always have a high pitched roar in the background but now have acquired an occasional zapping or buzzing sound.  Anyone else??

Thanks,
Jen

[Palace]

 

Quick note:

I still have the whole band in my ear!     Yep, got all that.



Palace

[Chris]

I mainly have the high pitch sound but occassionally the other band members join in

[Jwh]

It almost sounds like a bee or fly near my ear.

[Obita]

Hi Jen:

Before surgery, my tinnitus was many, many different sounds.  Tons of electrical sounding sounds, crickets, whine etc...
After a post op period of six months or so, it has mellowed to one continuous eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee which only changes pitch when I move my eyes to the side.  If I am in a very loud setting, the eeeeeeeeeeeeee goes up to EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.   

Kathy

[Boppie]

Mine is outrageous, when I listen to it.  I try not to describe it or listen to it.  My plan is to ignore "it" and "it" might get discouraged and be quiet!   Really, most of the time I am able to block it out.  When things get very hectic and too many tasks are due at once, then the T kicks in.  To fix T I take a short eye nap.  "Rest my eyes", as Grandma used to say.

[matti]

I switch back and forth between having a bee hive in my head to the holiday bell ringers. Currently it's bee hive season   I also experienced what sounds like a hovering helicopter.   At least I'm not hearing voices LOL

Cheryl

[Sue]

The bee hive sounds like mine, too...Except when I'm in the car, or in the bathroom with the fan on...then I get a plink, plunk, plink off key guitar kind of noise. I suppose it's caused by vibrations.  It varies in intensity.  I hate it.


Sue in Vancouver

[Lorenzo]

I prefer to think of mine as a gentle stream barbling away, with the occasional rustling leaves in the wind. Then again, at tiems it jsut sound like an electrical short, but without the blue smoke! 

It changes, sometimes I also get the rythmic sound of wosh wosh wosh... But mostly, I jsut ignored it, learned to do that over the years! Now, I'm not aware of it unless I lsiten.

Ciao, Lorenzo

[kat]

Hi Everyone

On top of the basic and constant white noise there are many variations joining in at random . There is the burglar alarm ,
the bees ,the running tap as well as a heavy whooshing sound every now and then. Luckily they do all not perform  at once since
if they did I would have been carted off in a straightjacket long ago . As it is I somehow manage to ingnore it all and only notice it at night when it is very quiet .

Regards Kat   

[Lorenzo]

I think we should produce a recording and perform live in concert! Sounds a bit like John Cage at work in our brains!



Lorenzo

[Jwh]

Lorenzo,

I agree, it's almost like an electrical short!!!  How annoying.....   

Jen

[Carol]

Whenever I get a new sound, I amuse myself by trying to think up the most flamboyant description for it...
Recent examples are:

Flamenco dancing on a carpet  (dull but rhythmic)
Astor Piazzolla on sedatives (pops and squeaks)
flocks of hummingbirds
a skittery mouse on waxed bare boards 
the slither of a snake on wet grass (strictly from imagination)

Caryl

[Lorenzo]

HI Caryl!

  Those descriptions are all worth reording for a Tinnitus Manual! I frogot the cicadas. Now I KNOW why Van Gogh cut his ear off! Only thing is, he didn't know it wouldn't help!

Ciao, Lorenzo

[Sefra22]

I usually hear what sounds like a seashell held to your ear. Sometimes I hear a faint tuning fork, but only recently heard the buzzing sound I could have a fly flew right into my ear