My tinnitus sounds like a pond full of spring peepers. My grandfather said that his sounded like his head was in a barrel along with an old-fashioned radio playing the static in between channels. I prefer mine,
I’ve had tinnitus for 30 years. It is common but a serious malady. I use a free app on the internet called myNoise to generate the sound that masks my tinnitus when I sleep. You can set it for any frequency.
Most sound engineers, particularly those who mixed sound for metal bands, have a form of tinnitus. Mine’s from hours upon hours of editing tape for either radio or theater with headphones on at 80-90 dB.
I had no idea there were so many of us with a constant symphony. That makes me feel a little better. I tried all of the “remedies”, none worked. I’ve had it so many years now that my mind just tunes it out.
My tinnitus sounds like feedback from a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. Got it from an ACDC concert, and my time as crew chief on a dragster. I can’t put the slash in ACDC, the censors think it’s a URL.
It’s worse when it triggers that part of your brain that smells bacon. After a few minutes of that, you have to get up to see if there just might be a leftover piece of bacon in the refrigerator (for the first time in history).
Shortly after that, your wife wakes up to the sound of clattering pans and bacon frying in the kitchen.
Kiba65 28 days ago
Called the tinnitus help line, and it just kept ringing!!!
Farside99 28 days ago
Mine’s much too high to soound like bacon sizzling. Besides, my nose knows better!
fuzzbucket Premium Member 28 days ago
Mine sounds more like the bugs on a summer night.
PraiseofFolly 27 days ago
Mine sounds like muffled machinery in a Foundry.
Gent 27 days ago
Still hibearnating eh.
Ichabod Ferguson 27 days ago
Mine sounds like water running through pipes when a faucet’s open in another room.
retiredgezzer 27 days ago
Mine sounds like high power lines buzzing.
Paul D Premium Member 27 days ago
Mine’s a constant 18 kilocycle note. Started by listening to 10,000 rounds being fired from the 5" guns on our Destroyer in ’Nam.
chris_o42 27 days ago
Mine sometimes sounds like a harmonica note. Never had annoying tinnitus until I had Covid a few years back. Had it ever since.
ctolson 27 days ago
Something else additionally wrong if one’s tinnitus sounds like sizzling bacon. Mine is the same frequency as the last one on a hearing test.
ladykat 27 days ago
Either that, or it’s the alarm clock.
William Robbins Premium Member 27 days ago
That, and foot stuff, scares me almost as much as dementia. So far so good, knock wood.
tcayer 27 days ago
I’ve had ringing so loud it woke me from a sound sleep! I’ve been tempted to put my ear next to my wife’s to see if she can hear it!
Robert Wilson Premium Member 27 days ago
My tinnitus sounds like a pond full of spring peepers. My grandfather said that his sounded like his head was in a barrel along with an old-fashioned radio playing the static in between channels. I prefer mine,
g04922 27 days ago
What is really amazing is dreaming in color with sound, aroma’s, and tastes….
Larry S 27 days ago
I’ve had tinnitus for 30 years. It is common but a serious malady. I use a free app on the internet called myNoise to generate the sound that masks my tinnitus when I sleep. You can set it for any frequency.
BearHamilton1 27 days ago
Most sound engineers, particularly those who mixed sound for metal bands, have a form of tinnitus. Mine’s from hours upon hours of editing tape for either radio or theater with headphones on at 80-90 dB.
sincavage05 27 days ago
I had no idea there were so many of us with a constant symphony. That makes me feel a little better. I tried all of the “remedies”, none worked. I’ve had it so many years now that my mind just tunes it out.
puddleglum1066 27 days ago
If you’re half-awake and hear bacon sizzling, but realize it’s the sound you programmed into your phone’s alarm clock, you’re a real Plugger.
PoodleGroomer 27 days ago
Mine is from IBM 1403 line printer trains and sonar.
SofaKing 27 days ago
My tinnitus sounds like feedback from a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. Got it from an ACDC concert, and my time as crew chief on a dragster. I can’t put the slash in ACDC, the censors think it’s a URL.
mistercatworks 24 days ago
It’s worse when it triggers that part of your brain that smells bacon. After a few minutes of that, you have to get up to see if there just might be a leftover piece of bacon in the refrigerator (for the first time in history).
Shortly after that, your wife wakes up to the sound of clattering pans and bacon frying in the kitchen.