I have a tinnitus that seems to stay 99,9% of the day, it’s away for some minutes sometimes and it’s very high frequency. Imagine a power supply coil whine.
Now the mentally ill part: the tinnitus can change position (left/right ear) and change volume. I didn’t hear the tinnitus on the right ear for some days, now it’s back on it (and still audible on the left ear) after sitting on the couch again.
The couch, you ask? Two weeks ago, when the tinnitus started, we changed the layout of our living room. The couch was now located next to our WiFi router. The tinnitus started shortly after that. I never had tinnitus before. Guess what, the router makes the same noise (even my partner can hear it). After some days of realizing it might be from the router, I changed the position of it to the other side of the room, but now somehow I can still hear the high frequency from the router from 3 meters apart. And as soon as I start sitting on the couch, the tinnitus gets much worse. Even disabling electricity in the full house I still hear that WiFi router noise in my ear.
Am I insane? Is this a thing? Can some frequency cause a tinnitus which can be re-triggered by the same frequency? Can it have a memory effect? Could it be it doesn’t go away even if I don’t sit on the couch for days because all these power supplies have high frequency coil whine in each and every facility these days, which trigger it again?
I feel like Neo from The Matrix who got enlightened and now can hear electricity, but without the rest of the super powers :(
PS: I visited a doctor and am doing the usual medical procedures to deal with tinnitus (Prednisolone 60mg/day), but it doesn’t help in any way.
It's different for everyone, mine is actually damage to the small hearing hairs so no cure hope at all. It takes a while for the brain to adjust and slowly ignore the noise but only to a point. Different things work and you've probably been told about white noise could could help out.
For a start my tinnitus was like standing on the tarmac beside a jet screaming its engines ... making any conversation a great deal of effort trying to ignore the loud whine. It eased over the years where I could almost mistake it for a loud chorus of crickets or cicadas at night, which strangely was more easy to think that's just what it was. Mostly though lately I can ignore it or simply forget it's going on.
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There's an oldies station nearby, and's it's very effective and uplifting.
Music at bedtime to mask odd country noises of unknown origin.
I'm really sorry to tell you this, but you've got two choices:
- accept it, you can't fix it
- try and fix it, fail, accept it, you can't fix it
There is no cure for tinnitus. The quicker you get to accepting it, the better your life will be.
Therapy and CBT can help.
Carry on trying to fix it for a few months by.all means, but I'd advise you give yourself a deadline to switch from 'fix it' mode to 'learn to live with it' mode.
By complete coincidence, yesterday my tinnitus went so quiet I thought it had gone. I have a new type of glasses that don't hook behind your ears. "Oh my god, was it my glasses all along?", I thought immediately.
My tinnitus is loud today.
Even after 20 years there's part of me looking for a fix. But it's about how you deal with it, this morning I had a little chuckle at myself, put all thoughts about my tinnitus aside, picked up a book to read and moved on with my life.
2) The only solution to tinnitus is to stop fixating on it and eventually stop thinking about it completely. The only way to do that is to make sure you can never hear it. Learn how to mask yours with music or white noise. Especially while sleeping. It will eventually calm and might even go away. 3) Do not seek tinnitus support groups/subreddits online. They are fully fixated by definition and just reading their posts will make your symptoms worse.
That's a long shot, though.