Quoting: Liberty Gardener Thanks! I've played with that before.
I have multiple tones simultanously and constantly in both ears that range between 6,000 to about 12,000 Hz. I can identify 3 or 4, and they're there all the time. Only the volume seems to change.
I started out with a single tone many years ago, but more tones got added over time, and its become layered if that makes sense.
I don't know if that's how others experience it or not, but that's what its like for me.
Yep...it started out one constat high tone.
I still get high pitched one tone...
It dissipates then the layers are more noticeable.
Sometimes high pitch hurts.
Icepick pain.
The layers has been really loud.
It reminds me of Cicadas.
They all are making sounds
so I'm hearing multiple layered sounds.
I really got tired from it last week.
I took naps to avoid the sounds.
omg - I could cry, it's such a relief to see someone whose tinnitus sounds so similar to mine! Most of the accounts I've read online at tinnitus forums are single tones, not as high, and are of a different character. Haven't seen reports of multi-tonal tinnitus, at least couldn't find any last time I looked.
It IS like cicadas all the time, except more high pitched and harder to tune out. Despite having the continual tones bilaterally, I still occasionally get an additional single tone, very piercing high pitched, loud and painful, in one ear or the other on top of the other tones. Thankfully, that's not too often.
Sometimes when the single tone happens, the normal tones fade out for a bit and I only hear the single tone in one ear. Sometimes I get almost a reverse of that - where it's like someone is turning the volume of the combined tones off all of a sudden (in one ear usually) for 5-10 seconds.
I know there's not much that can be done medically. And besides, I'm not voluntarily going to a doctor in this post covid era unless I break a limb. So, there's nothing to be done but live with it.
Sure was nice to hear there's someone else with a similar experience. At the same time, I'm really sorry you suffer with this too. Sleep is sometimes the only way to cope for me as well.
