Mine isn’t actually a ringing – its more of a high pitched EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE set on a low volume in my left ear. It’s like when you strike a crystal glass once with a silver fork and and it makes that pleasant ting? Okay – mine is that pitch just before it fades away completely… six years straight.
I’m also of the “learn to live with it” school. My case is of long duration but I guess is relatively mild. In my case it seems to me that the alleviation by masking, etc. is more bother than the condition.
Frankly I don’t want to learn to live with it and I refuse to believe that’s the only option. It is a physical condition, which I suspect is caused by either an infection or muscular/neural problems in the head and neck, and I want it fixed, dammit!
Did you even check out the link I provided?
Six years? My ears have been ringing like Quasimodo’s for over 17 years. I can hear it on the freeway above the traffic noise.
I did, and was disappointed to learnit is only available in Australia at this time. I have an appointement in June with one of the premier tinnitus research physicians in the world at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. I will ask him about the Australian device and report back.
I’ve had tinnitus all my life, It dosn’t bother me. Any time I stop to listen it’s there. There are several (3 at least) notes all very high, and maby three different sounds, like a sine wave and a squar wave (lower then the others) which I think sounds like a very high cricket chirp.
One of my earlist memories is talking about it to my sister and I thouht she was pretending not to hear it.
I always thought it was the “sound of the horizon” (it was just all arround).
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