Hi Yummy,

I have a form of deafness (wear two hearing aids that I just got this year) that causes me to have weird sounds in my head. I hear the ringing like from tinnitis or when you have a bad sinus infection, but also have other high-pitched sounds. The hearing aids correct it for the most part. The ears can make the sounds seem as if they are coming from inside your head because, well, they are.

Might want to get those ears checked out. You can also have nerve damage to the ears that can cause sounds in your head.

Hope this helps and good luck!!

I_R

could be tintinus (ringing of the ears)?

Is there any pressure in your ears? Are they ringing? Could be a number of things...however most of them are explainable and treatable. Could be anything from an infection in your ears to a jaw problem. I would certainly get it checked out...a Dr. visit shouldn't cost you that much compared to the cost of a surgery.

I've had tinnitus (ringing in the ears) almost my entire adult life. Both ears, two different frequencies. It's perpetual, 24-7-365, and I haven't heard actual silence since I was 12 years old — which is about 37 years.

As a child I had exceptional hearing, high-frequency hearing, even hypersonic hearing... I could hear hypersonic motion detectors and other sounds that only dogs could hear. Proved it on several occasions, much to the consternation of the adults.

Then, at the age of 12, I had this dreadful experience down at a gun range — a big rifle with an oversized cartridge discharged right next to me, and the concussion was just right, I suppose. Burst both my eardrums. Took weeks to regain my hearing, and I only really regained partial hearing.

I totally lost my high-frequency hearing, needless to say, and acquired this perpetual tinnitus.

Couple of months later, to my astonishment, I discovered that I had gained a new hearing ability, the ability to hear really really low frequency sounds. I could hear the engine of an automobile, for example, a couple of miles away, and tell you whether it was a car or a truck and how many cylinders were in the engine. Bizarre.

Anyway, as this pertains to the OP, on occasion my tinnitus will act up, become more intense than usual. The two frequencies of my hearing will kind of crossover (for you sound engineers out there), and I'll get these bad ass harmonic distortions. Almost sounds like a modulated voice heard from off-frequency, like hearing a voice bleedover from another channel.

Yeah, it sounds like a vocoder voice, a synthetic voice, but there are no recognizable words or phrases, just muffled and distorted modulation. I attribute it to the injuries I received 37 years ago.

Have you ever had a hearing-related injury? Loud concert? Gunshot? Warehouse or industrial noises? A lot of people suffer hearing damage and don't even realize it until years later when they suddenly discover they can't hear a certain frequency anymore.

For example, I can no longer hear the timer alarm on my oven at home. My wife will say, "You can't hear that?" And I'll put my head right next to the oven and not hear anything. Apparently, the alarm is ringing at the exact same frequency as my tinnitus. So I don't hear dick.

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