I've been reading about a condition called myoclonus of the middle ear muscles, specifically the tensor tympani. I've always been confused as to why my tinnitus sounds so strange. In my bad ear, it's a high-pitched sound, but it's in a series with a little clicky sound at the end. (Think of the instrument a triangle that someone rang and then just stopped it suddenly with their finger.) Sometimes the clicks/pings are in a quick pattern, and sometimes the pattern is slower. The sounds used to go away entirely after I drugged myself to sleep (muscle relaxer, benzo, whatever) or had light sedation for a procedure, but I'm no longer getting that effect. I definitely get a very distinctive series of four clicks (not pings) in my other ear a couple times per day. Someone named Alex (I think) had his tensor tympani severed since an Austrian study stated this procedure decreased vertigo in Meniere's patients. The procedure didn't work for him, sadly. I would want to be extra certain that my tensor tympani really is in spasm before I go to the extreme of surgery, but I'm not sure who can help me determine that with absolute certainty. It seems that most ENTs I've seen just guess about a lot of things dealing with the ear, and I wouldn't want to risk adding more troubles without any benefit. The mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve controls the tensor tympani, and I have definitely had weird sensations and pains in that pathway since all my issues started. I can't help but think everything is related. Does anyone else experience short pingy, clicking sounds in their ears?
I do get the short pings and a clicking now and again but I have a low hum all the time and my heart beat half the time. What is really annoying is when it decides to be a loud static like a bad speaker when I talk...
Mine sounds like this: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuswishswishswishuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuswishswishswisheeeeeeee.......
Mine has gotten worse over the last month or two as my attacks have increased. It sounds a lot like when you put a seashell up to your ear, but a lot louder. It usually doesn't bother me, but now that it's gotten louder it is bothering me more. It bothers me the most if I am trying to read a book and the house is quiet. Then it's very distracting. So I try to play quite music and that helps.
Well, when it first started last year it wasn't too bad but it drove me crazy because it was new and I just wanted it to go away. It was a high pitched ring. When I would have fullness attacks it would get really loud like a jet engine. While I was pregnant I felt much better and it was a very, very faint high pitched ringing. I had to go to a quiet room and really listen for it to hear it. Now that I am postpartum I have been in a nonstop fullness attack for the past 4 months. And every single day it is back to the jet engine sound. I honestly don't know how I haven't lost my mind yet.
mine is high pitched and the seashell to ear noise, but most of the time I don't hear it, background noise drowns it out.
The 'seashell sound' is a good description of mine except louder. I used to have what i called far away explosion, heavy equipment moving and also wrenches clanging on pipes, the last one at night only.
Wrenches Clanging on pipes! That's a good one! I can relate. Sometimes I describe it as a hammer hitting an anvil. This is usually when my ear is also clogged, full pressure that is so loud I think I am almost deaf. Right at this moment if I put a glass of water next to my ear and tap it with a butter knife it sounds like I'm standing next to Tiger Woods and he just whacked the ball with a big driver which makes a very loud ping!! And it rings- almost echoes. Seems like this batch of acyclovir isn't working like the last batch. The last batch gave me clear hearing with just a high pitch EEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Or again as some of you have said the symptoms are like a roller coaster. Some ups ( good days ) some downs ( clogged full pressure days ). Hopefully tomorrow will be a clearer day. When it is the loud roaring, wrenches clanging on pipes, hammer hitting anvils days I have to wear an ear plug. Wow!! What an adventure.....
Wrenches Clanging on pipes! That's a good one! I can relate. Sometimes I describe it as a hammer hitting an anvil. This is usually when my ear is also clogged, full pressure that is so loud I think I am almost deaf. Same for me, but this happens only when my ear is full, and my ear feels like it is deaf and the sound of my own voice along with other voices and sounds make that clanging metal noise, oh I hate it its awful, but definitely not as bad as vertigo. and this doesn't happen too often thank Goodness. On a daily basis its the high pitched tinnitus as I posted previously
For me it is HIGHLY variable and varies by the hour typically. It cycles between the following: (1) A low pitched hum, (2) A medium pitched hum + higher pitched hum, (3) Higher pitched hum with the ear feeling almost deaf. It becomes CRAZY loud often when (1) and (2) are on. Almost as if you are standing below a large bell when it is hit. Been lurking for a long time without posting here. For an update from my side (I have cochlear hydrops by the way): I've had 3 intratympanic steroid shots and a tube put in my ear. Tried Meniett's device for a week. Tried the methylprednisolone pack. NOTHING has worked. My lowest two frequencies have seen a 70 db hearing loss lately, the worst hearing I've had to date. Meanwhile my allergy shots and Famciclovir continue. I am considering stopping the Fam. For now, I am used to the above cycles and made my peace with it. Life goes on as usual. I can't believe I haven't gone crazy yet (like Redbird said).
One ear is high pitched & sounds like crickets. The other ear is a little lower pitch but just as annoying. Both are louder when I'm having an attack or migraine. When I turn my head, my right ear fluctuates from loud to louder. Very weird.
lol Well in one ear its a high pitched squeal that pulsates. In the other its a low roar with 2-3 other high pitched and somewhat pulsating sounds. I sat one day and picked out 4 different sounds in one ear. Lately in one ear the low roar is almost gone for a few days.
I have been getting a high pitch squeal in my left ear not my hydrops ear about once every day thankfully it doesn't last long enough to bring me to tears.