I too have the high pitched constant ringing in my ears. Sometimes I think I hear something and I physicaly move around the room trying to pinpoint the sound but mostly I can not find the origin. I have tried shutting off the power to the house even unplugging the phone from the wall still I can hear the ringing, sometimes I think it is the neighborhood lighting but I have hiked up the hills where there are no lights or powerlines and I still have the ringing. I do not know but I thought maybe it could be some sort of sound the body makes, you know when your ears 'pop' when there is elevation change or in deep water the ringing gets muffled until you yawn or get out of the water. Interesting how it is linked to high blood pressure next time it is real loud I will check my pressure and see what it is. It deffenately gets loud when you hear planes or been to a rock concert or listen to big fireworks but I think for the most part that is temporary hearing loss, who knows maybe the hairs in our inner ears are humming to the tunes of our heartbeats and electrical brainwaves.

megaslayer

Your gonna have to go a long way if you want to cut out electro white noise man. I sorrta remember someone posting something bout feeling 'lighter' during big power outages, not on this thread tho.

All that stuff is so purvasive now a days I don't think you could get away from it any where on earth. And man made intefearance aside the universe has always been 'singing'.

New theroy - The Dolphins are messin with your head!

Originally posted by TheRanchMan
Then, at some points, for no reason at all, it will get loud and everything else will sound muffled?

This is precisely what I experience at random. Out of the blue, I'll get a definite high-pitch steady tone in only one ear. The tone is "loud" enough that all other sounds in that ear are muffled and that is the only thing I can hear. The tone last anywhere from 4 to 7 seconds and has happened in both of my ears. I've tried to pinpoint a pattern to the time of the day, world events, atronomical occurences, etc.. but can find no correlation. Someone once suggested that these periodic tones can be attribitued to the cilia (tiny hairs in the ears) coming in contact with each other.

Well, I've had about a dozen concussions (and a family history of mental illness...but I'm feeling much better now lol ).

But...yeah, I get that ringing too.
It just comes out of nowhere and lasts for a minute or so, then stops.
So, okay, now many of us are all in the same boat, so what does that mean?

Anyone?

I also suffer from the occasional high pitched ringing, however it is very rare, as in once a month or so.

Also whenever I'm alone (and the room I'm in is almost completely silent) I'll occasionally hear a strange ticking noise, like a watch, in one of my ears for a few minutes.

Does anyone know why either of those are occuring?

Originally posted by Freenrgy2
This is precisely what I experience at random. Out of the blue, I'll get a definite high-pitch steady tone in only one ear. The tone is "loud" enough that all other sounds in that ear are muffled and that is the only thing I can hear. The tone last anywhere from 4 to 7 seconds and has happened in both of my ears. I've tried to pinpoint a pattern to the time of the day, world events, atronomical occurences, etc.. but can find no correlation. Someone once suggested that these periodic tones can be attribitued to the cilia (tiny hairs in the ears) coming in contact with each other.

I get this too all the time. And I used to believe it was always my right ear.

Strange thing is, I pretty much blew apart most of the cilia in my right ear in one drunken night jamming in a tight basement (my right ear was next to a 4x12 stack for a good 5-6 hours). Ever since then I can only hear about half in my right ear that I can hear in my left ear.

But yet, I still get that tone thing happening to me too. It just now seems to be concentrated in my left ear.

One thing I always wanted to look into, but never really made an effort, was something to do with my blood sugar levels. It always seems to happen when I am stationary for awhile and there's not alot of noise going on ... and when I haven't eaten in awhile.

At any rate it seems I don't have it nearly as bad as some people here. One thing I can definitively say is that we DO NOT fully understand our bodies or their interaction with the world around us (particularly where electrical fields are concerned IMO).

EDIT: one thing I didn't mention is that I've had numerous concussions due to high school football and other activities in college ... has anyone that is experiencing this NOT had a concussion before at some point in their lives?


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Now then

I get ringing often, notice it mostly at night when everythings quite. I have always had it but not as severly as you.

My hearing is also extremely good, i often hear things msot people don't and a lot of normal sounds are very painful to my ears. So much so i just can't go in night clubs as it's so extremely painful.

I thinik some people just have more sensitive hearing plain and simple. Dont' stress over it.

EDIT

This may seem like an odd suggestion but is it possible that the occasional massive ringing in one ear some people have is simply a sort of reset? Is it possible your ears having a bit of trouble and so a large electrical charge is sent through to fis them?

Just a thought.

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I have it bad also(tinnitus). Somehow I forget about it... UNTIL SOMEONE REMINDS ME One thing I know is that asprin makes it worse. I get past it by staying busy, then I forget about it. Now you are sensitized to it and ignoring it is tough. Keep searching.

I get that evey now and again, but its pretty intense when I do. Maybe theres something we all do that causes this? Gotta be somethin, its really annoying to have that ringing when I'm watching tv or something. Can someone whos been with this thread since page 1 fill me in, I'm honestly feeling too lazy to go through this thread right now.

I get this, although (fortunately for me) it isn't a constant sound. I get it occasionally, maybe once or twice a day, but it comes with such severity I actually stop what I'm doing for twenty seconds and grab my ear.

This may be related to, but when a television is on within a a few metres of me (whether above, below or to the side) and regardless of walls or how loud it is, I just know. There's a sort of sensation in my head which feels like I'm hearing something, but there's no actual sound.

And the PC monitor does produce a sound I can hear, although it also does not cause too much pain.

Okay, head and ears...ringing...where from?

Yep, you're all caught up now.

So, let's just say, that inner ear injury aside, we all get this from something in our environment, would you tend to agree that it is a natural occurrence, or a byproduct of our imperfect technologies?

We all agree that it is real, no doubt there.
So the next step would be to ask "from where?"

i get that too...

maybe its because of those stupid ipod headphones

I know mine definitely wasn't CAUSED by headphones. I can remember having it as long ago as third grade, and I had never used a pair of headphones before then (we were fairly poor growing up, I didnt have my first walkman cassette player until I was in probably 8th grade).

I thought about it some more and the whole "blowing my ear out in the basement and yet still hearing the noise" made me think of something else. What if it's not something PHYSICAL in our ears, but something like false signals to/from our brain that makes us THINK we are hearing these noises? Maybe synapses misfiring? It would explain my situation and most others on this board at any rate.

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So just to clear things up, if only for my own sake...

What's being discussed so far is...
1. Tinnitus
- a medical condition defined as damage to the inner ear resulting in the brain "defaulting" the damaged cochlear hairs which can be experienced as a constant ringing.

2. An occasional and intermittent ringing sound accompanied by a sudden onset of partial deafness in the offending ear, with all symptoms diminishing rapidly with no residual effect.
- This I too experience with notable frequency. I always assumed it to be a sort of "periodic pressure equalization" as the experience can be compared to forcibly creating a pressure imbalance (pinch your nose and blow), but know no accepted medical explanation.

3. High frequency oscillation from the flyback transformer and various high voltage capacitors in CRTs and other electronics.
- Anyone who can hear up to around 18khz can hear these.

4. Shoving a Q-tip in your ear.
- Did anyone else get to see the cool picture of the ear while some guy used a giant Q-tip to show you what happened when you shoved a Q-tip in an ear full of wax? That was like the 3rd grade I think... must have been effective because I still remember it!

Ok... now that that's out of the way... uhm... well...

Glad that's out of the way.

I heard a myth that when your tight ear rings it means someone is talking about you and saying good things..and when its the left ear it means someone is talking smack about you...my right ear rings the most hehehe...but yeah it happens to me every now and then..i learned if u touch the earlobe and kinda mmove it back and forth the ringing will stop anyone else do that?

I heard a myth that when your tight ear rings it means someone is talking about you and saying good things..and when its the left ear it means someone is talking smack about you...my right ear rings the most hehehe...but yeah it happens to me every now and then..i learned if u touch the earlobe and kinda mmove it back and forth the ringing will stop anyone else do that?

Originally posted by Chaoticar
I also suffer from the occasional high pitched ringing, however it is very rare, as in once a month or so.

Also whenever I'm alone (and the room I'm in is almost completely silent) I'll occasionally hear a strange ticking noise, like a watch, in one of my ears for a few minutes.

Does anyone know why either of those are occuring?

The ticking noise could simply be wax moving / settling. I'm able to seperate that from other noise in my case, even tho its an internal noise (in the ear) it's not the in my head sort of noise.

Originally posted by Fiverz

Originally posted by Freenrgy2
EDIT: one thing I didn't mention is that I've had numerous concussions due to high school football and other activities in college ... has anyone that is experiencing this NOT had a concussion before at some point in their lives?
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I've had several bad knocks to the head - not unconscious but knocked silly. One time, think I was bout 7, 8, 9?, a hefty piece of wood struck the back of me noggin after a train hit the log my cousin left on the train bridge! (note to self, bring that up one Sunday!) Other times things like falling of m/bikes or other general sillyness. So yeah any one NOT hit their head??

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I dont have ringing in my ears, but I do have a recent problem, when I hear loud noises my eyes shake, there's like a vibrating thing happening in my head and I find it hard to stay on my feet and lose balance.

I first noticed this when I accidentally set off our house alarm. The shrieking sound of the siren and I found it hard see and my head felt like it was shaking.

Its almost like a certain sound causes a certain frequency which causes my eyes to start shaking and my head to start shaking and if I dont block my ears I'll lose balance.

Anyone have this or know what it is?

Originally posted by Burginthorn
I dont have ringing in my ears, but I do have a recent problem, when I hear loud noises my eyes shake, there's like a vibrating thing happening in my head and I find it hard to stay on my feet and lose balance.

I first noticed this when I accidentally set off our house alarm. The shrieking sound of the siren and I found it hard see and my head felt like it was shaking.

Its almost like a certain sound causes a certain frequency which causes my eyes to start shaking and my head to start shaking and if I dont block my ears I'll lose balance.

Anyone have this or know what it is?

Mate, that one sounds like it could be some form of epilepsy. If your worried see a doc.

Also my head shakes sometimes, i usually put it down to hangovers or not eating very well. Shaking comes from the back /top of my neck. Usually goes if I roll my head round, it sometimes makes me look nervous when i'm not.

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Originally posted by TheBadge
I heard a myth that when your tight ear rings it means someone is talking about you and saying good things..and when its the left ear it means someone is talking smack about you...my right ear rings the most hehehe...but yeah it happens to me every now and then..i learned if u touch the earlobe and kinda mmove it back and forth the ringing will stop anyone else do that?

My ringing is in my head, not ears - ringing dosent really cover it, more like half noise half feeling. I even associate temperatures / colours and smells in a private over active imagination way. Thats why 'tinnitus' don't really cover it for me, tinnitus is the Symptoms. It's bout as general as saying my head hurts - did you knock it? Or have you got a brain tumer? - "No I told you exactly - My head hurts!" But it'll be a funny old world if we had all the awnswers.

p.s that avatar ur photo? ding dong