::How many people here get ringing in their ears/head?::

Not ridiculous at all LOL, a lot of hours awake when you want to be asleep allows for some imaginative ideas! Ever since I was a kid i've slept in strange ways and places. Also slept outside a lot up on the moors round here. Used to work out doors for bout 4 years day and night so i'm quite partial to getting kip when I shoud be working (vans / park benches / patch of grass!)

Electrical things drive me mad when sleeping! Some of the shared houses i've lived in i've even hunted down mobile phones on silent (still on vibrate) on other sides of the building cos they had a message and ****ing repeat alert every min or so - glad I didn't get caught snooping - wish I could sleep through that, the things bimbling across the blooming bedside table!

Must say camping down on the moors is very different to city bench as far as 'intefearance' goes, but we used to hike, so that leads to very sound sleep - I don't think there has been any time where the ringing wasn't there, but as soon as you think of it its there any way - catch 22?

Hi Now-Then,
In response to your question i too have experienced the ringing in my ears. For many years i put up with it, occasionally i would find spots of blood on my pillow in the morning. I went to see the Doctor when i was a teenager too be told i had one eardrum smaller than the other. I left it at that as he said there really was'nt anything that could be done. A couple of years later at a checkup at the hospital they said there was nothing wrong and that my ears were perfectly normal.
This went on for ages on and off. Sometimes it would feel as though something was stuck deep in my ear. ( cannot remember which one! )
Out would come the cotton bud's, but i never found the offending object, everything was normal. Sometime's the ringing would drive me mad, especially at night when it was quiet. Believe me i did suffer. Then all of a sudden it just stopped abruptly, but again i can't tell you when that was.

Hi Now-Then,
In response to your question i too have experienced the ringing in my ears. For many years i put up with it, occasionally i would find spots of blood on my pillow in the morning. I went to see the Doctor when i was a teenager too be told i had one eardrum smaller than the other. I left it at that as he said there really was'nt anything that could be done. A couple of years later at a checkup at the hospital they said there was nothing wrong and that my ears were perfectly normal.
This went on for ages on and off. Sometimes it would feel as though something was stuck deep in my ear. ( cannot remember which one! )
Out would come the cotton bud's, but i never found the offending object, everything was normal. Sometime's the ringing would drive me mad, especially at night when it was quiet. Believe me i did suffer. Then all of a sudden it just stopped abruptly, but again i can't tell you when that was.

I have been getting occasional ringing in my ears since i was a child...now 42.
I have been told at times" oh your just hearing the rf frequencies of alrm systems in buildings or fluid in your ears". Some of this may be true to a point however that does not explain it when you get it out side in the open air. I have always wondered if it has something to do with the HAARP project.

[edit on 20-3-2007 by CaptGizmo]

I am experiencing ringing in my ears from about 2-3 years (I'm 23). I just woke up one day with it.
Before, I would occasionaly hear ringing or hissing in my ears, but it was very short, like a few seconds and it was gone.

To this day, I hear constant ringing in my ears. I've seen a doctor about it and he said I had too much wax in my left ear. I can't recall if he prescribed anything, though.
The problem is, I don't hear the ringing in my left ear - I hear it in both, more like inside my head (inner ear?).

The other interesting thing is that the ringing sometimes "moves" - sometimes it's more audible in the right ear, sometimes in the other.

Occasionaly, I hear a louder noise (also high-pitch) in my ear (left or right), loud enough to be frustrating, thankfuly it lasts only for a few seconds and is rather rare.

I haven't had my hearing tested, but I can hear everything perfectly fine, even people talking in another room (while others don't hear a thing or only hear mumbling). Additionaly, I am a moderate audiophile I don't need extremely expensive audio hardware, special wires and stuff like that, but I can hear a lot more on music albums than my friends do and I suffer greatly from "loudness wars" (search on google to find out what's it about).

One more thing - although I hear the ringing 24/7, I don't notice it most of the time, only when I think about it or when in an extremely silent place and when going to sleep. It's not annoying, but still I'd very happy if it was gone

ps - first post
ps2 - I can also hear CRT monitors and tv sets
ps3 - I rarely go to concerts (and I regret that, but I'm unemployed and live in a butt-town ), never used iPod-like headphones

I thought when i had a wisdom tooth out when i was about 22 that that might solve it. I t had'nt occurred to me before and i remember being quite excited at the prospect. It never made any difference though. I'm 43 now

I have wondered the same thing myself. Well I know that it has been increasing for sure.

Now_Then,

I too hear a ringing all the time. My theory is that my hearing is slightly more sensative to higher pitched noise. I think that I may be able to hear past the 20,000 hertz norm that most people top out at. I'm thinking maybe 22,000 hertz.

I figured this after I never had a thing wrong with my hearing according to tests, and was walkingmy dog by a neighborhood house that had all these antennas jutting out of it. I heard an occillating super high pitched frequency that was so high you almost couldn't hear it but knew you were precieving it. At first I though it was just my ears, but my dog noticed it too and seemed to find it uncomfortable, looking over at the house and wanting to walk quicker. It was a really annoying sound, almost painful. It happens to this day everytime I walk or drive by that house. i think that I was/am hearing Em waves or radiowaves, or maybe some sound they make when they interact with the atmosphere or each other.

I am sensative to 60 cycle hum from unshielded electrical wireing. I hear it when the Flourecents are on, around high discharge lights(although it could be the ballasts i here with those) computers and TV's will do this to me too.

So maybe you are just sensative to the uper spectrum of human hearing. Maybe even a slight extention past the norm even. Imagin what living in the human world is like for cats and dogs. Wonder how much of our technology is annoying to them audialy.

Any one have experiance from before the 50's? I'm in my 20's so if this is the case that was the world I was born into!
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How many can hear a cell phone before it rings?

I find myself reaching for the phone....then it rings. I was riding with my friend, I started looking in the console. He said what are you looking for, just then his phone rang. He gave me a puzzled look.

It has to do with hearing frequencies that are not usually audible to the human ear. I have heard that around Earth there is a lot of noise clutter, kind of like a rock concert in the distance.

that's premonition, not tinnitus or some other issue that causes a buzzing in the ear.

Once may be a premonition, but multiple times is not coincidence. It deals with hearing frequencies that people can't hear regularly. Much like a dog whistle that is silent to most peoples ears.

Tinnitis is the term used, but there is no explaination as to what people are hearing. At least not one that researchers will pin it on. They say that they just don't know.

I have had the ringing, off and on for years now. If there is no help, what is to be done? Try to figure things out on your own? Get probed???

I refuse to accept the phrase,"sorry, there is nothing we can do about that". Being told that by a Dr is one of the harder facts of life that a person will ever hear.

The last couple of years, I have been able to turn it down when it gets too noisy.

My ears have been ringing loudly for about 15 years.

It is annoying and I do wish it would stop, but I can live with it.

I've heard of people who claim to have considered suicide because of it, but their experience must be different than mine, even though I can hardly imagine that anyone's ears ring more loudly than mine.

Most of the time I am unaware of it because I am preoccupied, but as soon as things calm down enough or someone mentions the condition, it's there, like now.

Thanks.



The best explanation for the condition that I have heard is that the nerve endings that produce those frequencies have been severely damaged or killed and the brain "hears" those frequencies in the same way that phantom sensations are felt from a missing limb.

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[edit on 2007/3/20 by GradyPhilpott]

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I recall reading a cpl years ago that the human brain can develop a sensitivity to cellular frequencies if exposed at close range over a long enough period of time. Naturally this would require using the same band phone (CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, AMPS, etc) for that time. But this sensitivity, while also noted as causing a warming of the cerebellum, can generate an auditory signal.

Hmmm.
I have thyroid problems, so that may explain some of my high pitched soundes. HOWEVER, the thyroid hormones (whatever they are), were normal in my last blood test, and that dosn't explain why me and other people get high pitched noises at the same time.

I don't think I've got hearing damage, though, I have heard quiet a lot of loud things. The latest being near a F-16 doing engine runups.

I am also aware of people considering suicide.

My (macabre) take on this is; will the ringing still be there after death?

I guess my point is - What the hell is this noise?

No I get that. Even if I’m asleep.

I know the way the phone interferes with electrical, and that may be the clue, but i defiantly have told people the phone is ringing before it rings.

IF ANY ONE WANTS TO U2U ME Ref THIS THREAD - DO IT!!!!
I AM SERIOUSLY FACINATED!

p.s. at some point I am going to try to compile all info to date, any and all input more than appreciated.

The most interesting thing I have found about the ringing in the *head* is that it gets much louder when I am researching things that I find interesting.

It is most common when I am on the computer.

Alot of times after I become aware and acknowlege it it will go away.

It isn't in the ears, it is much like the effect of a tuning fork, like something is being recieved, rather than heard.

I posted earlier about hearing high pitch sounds.

well, here's a new one ....We were just now at our bank withdrawing money from the ATM.

I sat in the car while my husband went to the machine,
We were parked at least 40 feet from the machine and the car windows were all closed and the motor was still running.

I HEARD THE BEEPING NOISED THAT THE ATM MACHINE MADE WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS PUNCHING IN THE THE CODE AND AMOUNT OF MONEY HE WANTED!

When I told my husband he said "you must have super hearing"!

I seriously hope -for all our sakes!!- this isn't the reason!
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