I've had it my whole life, i always thought it was very normal but then in 2017 it went from white noise to a beep, i learned to live with it though, heck i don't even hear it as long as i don't think about it.
I find that to be true that why it help to have a background sound like soothing sound. this is what I'm listening on low now th-cam.com/video/jSW8eXr5NWQ/w-d-xo.html
@@rafaylifts I don't hear any ringing at all as long as I don't think about it. And it gets really loud if I don't stop thinking about it. So after watching a video about this, 30 seconds in I start hearing it. Its weird, its like I don't have tinnitus at all as long as I am not stressed ;D
A lot of people have it but it's very minor I think. When there's a sudden shift in volume most of my family members hear this sound but I hear it a lot especially while trying to sleep on the side with ear covered by a pillow
5:14 The moment when the sound of the video disappeared was relieving, I wish I could make my tinnitus disappear like that, listen to the sound of silence again, I would cry with joy
@@drafonso88 Yes, I understand you, throughout the day tinnitus is not too annoying because there are many ambient noises that overshadow it, but at night..
Ok, I know this might sound silly, but... Try this: cover your ear with the palm of your hand, and tap your fingers repetitively on your skull behind your ear. Do it for at least 10-20 seconds. It works to relieve it at least for some time for me. I don't have tinnitus all the time, but when I'm laying down and it starts beeping, this trick helps.
Try to avoid your cellphone and your tv router by turning it off completely for 12 hours and the ringing should be gone thank me later ✌🏻 (It’s only an advise from my personal experience and it’s not for people who are diagnosed with tinnitus)
@@rorschach3920 If you're suggesting switching off likely sources of high EMF fields, it's not quite so simple. Besides, my tinnitus dates back far enough that EM exposure isn't a likely cause.
Mark Hashman I’m really trying my best to help people out because its working for me but if you have a real tinnitus diagnose than you have to consider a doctors appointment sorry and all the best
@@rorschach3920 Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your trying to help -- and if it works for you, or anybody else, that's fantastic. I've just learned to live with it, since there's nothing much I can do about it.
I've had it for a good 15 years now. I've gotten so used to it that I can only really hear it if I think about it. Kinda like how you can breathe automatically until you think about it and then you take a few manual breaths until you become occupied with something else.
As a kid I'd assumed that this humming\hissing ringing sound was literally the sound of absolute silence as I only could hear it at bed when trynna sleep. But then I learned it was actually tinnitus... :(
As a kid I came to the conclusion that everybody has it to some degree. Like, even if it's not really hissing, there's always SOME minute level of noise we can hear, which is connected to blood pressure in the head, for instance.
Yeah, sometimes it definitely causes anxiety and stress. It's like a noise you can never turn off and it gets on your last nerve. I just always thought ringing was normal for everyone.
I have had it since I was 15 y old. Seeing so many of you dealing with the same medical condition that I endure, it gives me a sense of not being alone. This silence is deafening. Thank you TED-ED for bringing us under one roof.
as someone who has recently started having this ringing, I really enjoyed all the positive and reassuring comments and how they explained how they got used to it and what background noises they use to mask it. thank you all.
This started when I was 18 for some reason I can’t remember if it was earlier in my life but recently I’ve been having it. Sooo 5 years now I thought I was alone 😂
This clip is very misleading and doesn't paint the full picture. I think they should refrain from talking about a topic that causes a lot of stress for people, without drawing the full picture. After speaking with several ENT specialists here are some interesting facts 1. We all hear tinnitus, it's just a matter of some people tuning into it more. If you put 90% of people in a completely silent room, they will hear the rining 2. In a large number of cases if there isn't an underlying health condition, tinnitus does clear up. Could take up to a year 3. Some people get tinnitus as a response to a flu / cold / vaccine and can last 6month to a year to clear up This notion of "you'll have it forever" make people anxious and depressed, which in turn prolongs the condition. And if someone gets sucked into a vortex of anxiety and depression, can make it chronic. So be positive. Go live your life.
@@MrFallout86 thank you a lot for this info! i went to an ENT doctor because I was afraid the condition underlined some hearing loss, and he actually told me that it could be based on a problem in the cervical muscles/bones based on poor posture or extreme tightness, or more likely caused by a vascular problem in the ear canals/region. i honestly believe that my tinnitus was caused by extreme chronic stress, as i had a lot of this in the last months. this, and also your comment, help me believe that with the right attitude and lifestyle i can repair it. I initially panicked even more thinking i will never recover, which definitely didn't help my already present stress. so you are totally right about the vortex of anxiety!
As a kid of about 8 I remember covering my ears and I would hear the high pitched whine and went "oh, that's just what quiet sounds like". I didn't realize for years that the sound of silence isn't 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'. And the amount of people who are trying to convince me "I saw a medicine on TV for tinnitus" is astounding. There is no pill that cure-alls tinnitus.
I never even thought about this in this way. I suspected that other people didn’t have this though. I remember as a child having to go get my ears tested, and the ear doctor would put on high pitched sounds like this one through some headphones to test my hearing. I never knew it was a common problem/phenomenon.
@@MadeUpNoun and white color doesn't exist, and there are many things travel faster than light, and electrical shock is actually your own electrons killing you, and the list go on.
My right ear sometimes gets a crazy flange effect, and pitch sounds way different to the left. Then after a few hours it'll ring, then clear up. Had an example of it just yesterday.. now there's this video. Wut.
As an ENT doctor, I must say I really liked this video. Understanding what tinnitus is and what it means is the most important part of a patient’s therapeutic process. They need to understand that in most cases, it is not a sign of a severe or malignant disease, but a normal reaction of their brain, so they can come to terms with their own tinnitus in a peaceful way.
I have a ruptured ear drum from 6 months, but only from past week I've started to hear static sound. Will this go away after surgery or it's permanent for me?
Okay so I have a question in 2012 I had a accident to where I busted my eardrum an fractured my right temple anyway after that I constantly hear ringing in my ear
Literally one of my earliest memories in life was me wondering why quiet was such a loud high pitched sound, it was always normal to me and I have always thought that was just what quiet was lol honestly I just forget about the ringing entirely usually
- Cup your ears with your hands, and press against them as though you were trying to prevent water form going into them. Basically, air tight. - Use your pointer and index finger strongly tap the back of your head for 30 seconds (not 30 taps). You'll know that it's working if the sound of drumming in your ears is getting louder and more obnoxious the more you do it. - Let go, and enjoy your temporary silence. Note: This doesn't work for everyone, and for others it may last only a few seconds.
Switch to white noise like rain or something, fans end up causing breathing issues cus it's blowing all the dust that should settle on the ground into the air and you breath it in.
There are plenty of videos (1-10 hours) here on TH-cam with rainfall. Some sound too white noisish for my liking but find one that suits you. It helps. I find the rainfall in Tokyo video quite helpful when I am sleeping. Convert it to MP3 if you like and play it when you sleep.
I do occasionally hear that odd ringing sound in my ear at random times, but I usually just ignore it. Another odd thing that happens in silence is that I can hear the capillaries in my brain pumping blood or the sound of electricity circulating in my head, too, if I attempt to go to sleep, but it's also uncommon.
I used to hear that too!!! But my tinnitus got worse so now I can't even hear my own heart pumping, or maybe it's the pillow I use now... Either way, pink noise helps me to sleep
I have tinnitus in my right ear: a constant, high-pitched sound playing at various volume which depends on my status. The more stressful and tired I am, the louder the sound is. A good night of sleep usually reduces the volume to the minimum, but it still is there all the time. I learnt how to live with that...actually I now use my tinnitus as an health indicator. If the sound is too loud that means I really need some rest.
That's actually a really neat way to turn this around. I have the same type of tinnitus, but I never thought of using it as a barometer for anything. Thank you for you for this
Hey, Im an audiology student an I just wanted to let you know, we're taught that ringing in only one ear can be a red flag. You might want to see an audiologist or ent physician
Only in one ear? That's interesting... I get mine in both, and can even alternate which ear it sources from during an episode if I concentrate hard enough.
put some sounds like rain or just music to mask it when it gets louder, helps ALOT, also never focus on the ringing or be scared of it or else it will get louder temporally
I "hear" a high-pitched kind of static all the time, as well. Thankfully, it has never bothered me before. It is just like a built-in white noise machine. When the house is really quiet, I relax and listen to it. Weird to think that is it my brain and not my ears making the noise.
Had tinnitus for years in single ear really low, not much to care, but one time it started to go so high that I couldn't focus on my daily life. I was able to hear it even when listening to music on earphones. I saw 2 ear-nose-throat doctors and 2 neurologist. Nothing wrong with scans and hearing tests. Even had vertigo test done- clear. They said I need to get used to it and nothing to worry- but it was real bad. No medicine given also. Then I recoursed to traditional medicine and went on a diet with no cow produce but also other food that affect the kidney meridian. Kept myself warm, specially kidneys, and not eating drinking col- which was not my style anyways. Then had leeches for only one session. Tinnitus reduced like 70%. Still, some days if I use screens too much or have cold outside, it amplifies at night but nothing that would prevent me from operating normally. Thank God!!!
@@g77_33 Basically not cow produce like cheese or anything. Or if you really need to go for them, you can change type like instead of cheese from cow milk, try the one with goat milk etc.
I've had tinnitus for most of my life so I just thought that's what silence was supposed to sound like. I've always found it kind of comforting despite not knowing what it was. like built in background noise for when I was alone so I wouldn't be afraid
Actually, that's probably the sound of silence. So far you only here that when it's silent. If you still hear this sounds in a busy environment, then it's tinnitus
Has the opposite effect for me. I feel more uneasy the louder it is because I feel like the ringing is blocking other sounds. I counter this by closing all the doors when it's silent as I'll definitely hear those even if I miss other quieter sounds. Also lets me drown out the ringing with my fan while still feeling safe.
@@darkespeon64 I mean wherever you are it's never completely silent ? When you are in a really quite environment you just hear your own body functions. I had some very short episodes of tinnitus (5-10 sec) and it certainly doesn't happen in quiet environment.
I thought it was because of the 5G towers because I never heard any noise until one was installed by my house but wow I really hope I don't have tinnitus. My ringing is really high pitched so I used to think I had supersonic hearing and I could hear other electronics in my range. I can hear the quietest of people anyway when others cannot. Maybe I do maybe I don't. All I know is that I'm not diagnosed yet.
Henry Davis For a moment I thought you were a Karen cos you were talking about the 5G towers but thank God you are not one of the Karens who go on and be like “oh 5G causes coronavirus”
I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. I genuinely never knew it was even a condition, or that this isn't just what silence is supposed to sound like, until a friend of mine when I was in high school told me "Uh, that's not normal." I have it in both ears (I think) and I actually hear two different types of ringing sounds when I really focus in on it but luckily for me it's not bad enough that it affects my day to day life. I'm just so used to it. Sometimes at night I'll listen to white or brown noise videos on youtube just to relax me but I can fall asleep fine without any assistance at all. It just depends on my mood. I feel really bad for people that have it to such a degree that it affects their mental health and makes them suicidal.
It's been about 6 years or so for me. To hear silence would be amazing. Chinese medicine dictates that the issue develops and can be maintained via the Kidney. I've tried acupuncture. It seemed to work for a small while, but then didn't. Have you attempted this possible option ? Maybe it could work for you ? Best of luck.
@@cattameme I have heard that it has worked for some. What conditions might be necessary or unnecessary for success are unknown. I wonder, does belief have anything to do with success ? I certainly wouldn't have an answer for that either ?
do you need to hear it all the time for it to be tinnitus? i hear it occasionally, but most of the time I can't. for example, i'm sitting in silence right now, and no matter how hard i try i can't hear it. sorry, i'm just really curious. i wish you the best on your journey.
I can voluntarily enhance the “ringing” sound even when there’s active unrelated sounds. It gives me the ability (if I focus hard enough) to “turn everything around me down” and increase this “ringing noise”. Kinda cool that it means I may have voluntary control over these neurons
I've had tinnitus since I was probably 8 years old with no idea why, it used to stress me out and affect my sleep, but I've found that background sounds and asmr really help me manage! I now know that I've basically being doing some masking therapy for myself. I wish there was a way for me to experience true silence but I've come to accept it for the most part
I've gotten used to it, but sometimes in a completely quiet room it becomes an absolutely terrible noise. I deal with it of course but I really miss complete silence... Take care of your ears people. I only understood this when it was already too late.
@@usewater6886 I've spent long times in continuous loud environments and listening to loud music for many many years and I think that's the reason. I don't think I got it from a sudden spike of a loud sound. I'm not 100% sure because I kind of noticed and reacted to the constant ringing a good while after it had actually started, probably because for a while I thought it was normal to hear ringing in silent places. One day I remembered that it was in fact not normal and I hadn't always heard the ringing, so that's when I realized what I had.
I forgot this thing existed. I used to hear this very often when I went to bed and it was pitch quiet. Now I just keep a fan running 24/7 non stop to block the silence. I do miss silence though.
In late 2019 I started hearing a hissing sound in my right ear. By early 2020 it was in both ears and it's nonstop. All day and all night long, once in awhile a ring will join in. I'm thankful it's a constant hissing and not a constant ringing. I've gone to a few doctors and none offer help, telling me I will need to "live with it", which I have because what choice is there? I would love for it to stop. As a child I did get slapped hard on the righthand side of my face - often. I wondered if that could be it? Did something trigger it? I was one that never exposed myself to earphones or loud music or noises. Somedays the hissing is so loud I swear it can be heard by others even tho I know it can't. Also it makes falling asleep difficult. It legit sucks.
In every religious scriptures of this world it's mentioned that in the beginning there was a word and the word was God. So can it be what scriptures telling us.....
That sucks man :(, The only thing i could reccomend to help is listening to something to distract from it (playing TV/TH-cam in the background while doing other things, listening to music, white noise, etc) I hope you're doing alright
Whoever did this animation is a genius, I mean that touch of noise in the animation is just next level, watching it even muted and still have the perception of noise is just amazing!
Imagine living in 1810's and 20's, being deaf, having terrible tinnitus, having bad bowels, being unmarried and literally all alone all the time, being never understood by the people and the society, and, STILL WRITING MUSIC THAT TRANSFORMED THE WORLD.
@Ahmed M If we focus our attention on that sound for a longer period of time we can feel various changes in the frequency of the sound, we can hear upto 10 different sounds and in the last stage we will be hearing the sound of AUM. this message was written in a Tamil poem called Thirumandiram nearly 2000 years ago this was on of the few practice of meditation mentioned in that Tamil literature so if you really want understand many things about the universe and you... try to learn Tamil language but i'm sure you wouldn't heard about it because India is portrayed as a country which speaks only Hindi but the truth is Hindi has no existence till the starting of 16th century.
@@DzBeanz have you hared about pluto's cave story if not just go and read it because people like you cannot able to find the difference between madness and higher consciousness the truth is if we focus our attention on that sound for a longer period of time we can feel various changes in the frequency of the sound, we can hear upto 10 different sounds and in the last stage we will be hearing the sound of AUM. this message was written in a Tamil poem called Thirumandiram nearly 2000 years ago this was on of the few practice of meditation mentioned in that Tamil literature so if you really want understand many things about the universe and you... try to learn Tamil language but i'm sure you wouldn't heard about it because India is portrayed as a country which speaks only Hindi but the truth is Hindi has no existence till the starting of 16th century.
I used to go to bed and just hear ringing, I said "it's my brain trying to detect noise that isn't there" but the ringing drove me crazy. I started listening to music and it works very well, I still do it today.
Thanks TED-Ed for a calm, plain-speaking video on what can be a very traumatic experience for a lot of sufferers. I’m 51 and have had tinnitus all my life, along with other symptoms of Meniere’s Disease. When I was younger, it was terrible to deal with: I was constantly depressed, anxious, angry, a whole host of negative symptoms, so to speak. Now though, my tinnitus is just there doing it’s thing in the background and doesn’t really bother me. It hasn’t changed; over the years, I have. I have grown to see it is non-life threatening, as something that just hisses away in the background. What’s more, I have come to recognise it as a health barometer. When it increases in volume, I realise that I am unwell and probably fighting off an infection or disease. In a way, it has become my constant companion, something which will never leave me and can always provide tunes for me to listen to should I, or the conversation around me, be boring. I’m fascinated by this idea that it can conjure up images from the past. I’ve always had a poor grip on what happened when because memories from years ago seem to have happened just the other day and vice versa. I would be interested, at some point, to chat to someone about this and see if it is an effect of the tinnitus. To all of you out there who feel that the sneaky noise in your head is dominating your life, I send you my best wishes and say, “Keep at it.” Given time, things do get better. Don’t jump at the snake oil recipes you’ll see online. None of them work. Living with tinnitus comes down to one thing: You. Take time to accept it is there and gradually learn to live with it.
What a lovely comment! I've also had tinnitus my whole life and agree with your comments completely. You can absolutely live with tinnitus but it's really down to You. For all people suffering please do not give up tinnitus is ever changing, you will have good and bad days but you will be ok. 💖💖💖💖
I've had it for ten years now and it's starting to go away, but not without challenges. Some days are better than others. Stress and anxiety make it worse. Meditation helped me tremendously.
@@BlueManRedManYellow stress and anxiety are the definitely the worst. They’re that vicious cycle. Meditation is a superb tool bring one’s body and mind back under control. ❤️
im 18 and experiencing it all, the ringing, my right ear is deaf mostly apart from high and also supranatural high frequencies which coupled with my tinnitus does not bode well, my ears are perfectly healthy otherwise but any noise that give you goosebumps with regular ears drills between my eyes. life is fun for the most part, i suffered from atypical migranes for about 3 years before i managed to get a medication, also have a cheeky little benign osteoma in my head which was a surprise. ive learnt quickly to take it as a blessing rather than a curse, i can't change it but i can find the optimism in the whole ordeal. i'm not gonna die so we live on.
i had them.. it not fun.. it start off one side and then both and 10 years later i used to it... it change your mind about what your body do... and yeah i don't know what is slience anymore since i don't hear them for 10 years now.. it take years to get used to it... most people would had it happen to them in short amount of time..
@@campkira i feel bad for you, because i have it and for me it doesn't bother me, is actually calmly, and btw my ringing gets louder when put my ear close to a outlet, but something must be connected.
I can usually ignore it to. Then the other crickets join in and it's a whole chorus of them. Sorry we hear them but it's better than hearing nothing. I guess.....
Tinnitus and eye floaters made me think I was special as a child. I thought I was seeing molecules, and had super hearing letting me hear tones no one else could. Now I know it's just physiological imperfections lol. So much for my super powers...
Please see an ENT doctor! I feel for you! I’ve had this 45 years plus! There is relief! The only thing I found that would work are special hearing aids! They are noise canceling & they have 2 noise canceling functions to retrain the brain! One mask gentle ocean wave sounds, which I prefer, I listen to them for hours at times when the ringing gets really loud & it sounds so much better than the ringing & the more I use that feature the more it trains my brain & then when I take them off to go to bed, I can finally sleep! I too have eye filters! My mother had them & she had Tinnitus her entire life! She had no idea what it was! But it really interfered with her hearing & the sad thing was how my father made fun of her because she said her ears rang all the time & he would get angry when she couldn’t hear things he said! I wish you good luck!
I've suffered this since childhood and now at 60 it's absolutely awful. A constant tone with whoop whoop noises and tic tic tic. 24/7 constant! The only relief is music via earphones and even then I can still hear it. And what do the doctors say? Live with it.
Fun fact: If you clench your teeth, the noise gets louder. Note: If this comment ever gets to top, the next video should be "What is all those images we see when we close our eyes?"
Yeah I read that it’s because some people can flex ear muscles to make the ear rumbling www.google.com/amp/s/www.good.is/amp/ear-rumbling-is-a-special-super-power-that-not-everyone-can-do-2645385849
@@yigityigitoglu7451 i had them.. it not fun.. it start off one side and then both and 10 years later i used to it... it change your mind about what your body do... and yeah i don't know what is slience anymore since i don't hear them for 10 years now.. it take years to get used to it... most people would had it happen to them in short amount of time..
@@neth7826 I’ve literally ALWAYS wondered this. Because either way, you’d label them the same. You’ve always been told that it’s a certain color, so your brain automatically says that when seeing it. Even if “green” is “blue” to someone else. It’s also been seen in some languages in communities that have lost the ability to register certain colors because they don’t have a word for it. I remember them talking about having a word for “green,” but not blue, so they just... straight up didn’t know blues existed or was a thing.
In some of Mexico’s superstitious culture, whenever you have this ear ringing, it means someone is talking behind your back. I grew up with this belief and I, personally, find it amazing and funny how we have superstitious ideas for so many other things. But i am also glad to know now what actually happens behind this high pitched ringing.
My friends said that when we hear this, a spirit is trying to communicate with us. I’m not very superstitious but that kinda freaked me out before 😅 and now I’m really glad there IS a scientific explanation about it
It's the same in my culture. I am Yoruba from South West, Nigeria. I believed for a long time that ringing of the ears means someone is talking behind my back. We were even taught to gently slap the ears with the back of our palms. What that does according to the elders is to somehow cushion the effect of the ringing. How funny.
I had this my whole life , never knew it was a sickness or a abnormality. I could hear it when i went to sleep and thought it was just the normal sound of silence. After a while i fall asleep without much trouble.
I’ve also had it since I was a child, now I have it regardless of noise or silence, as a matter of fact, I’m watching the video right now and hearing the sound. Isn’t it interesting that someone in Tx killed himself because he developed tinnitus after having Covid.
It said, it is created by neural networks then I don't think it is any kind of problem. It feels more like sound of electricity as neurones passes information every second as we breathe. It is more like sound created by our own body.
@@fabiolaflores8919 i was literally hearing it when I saw the video on my recommended, clicked and watched it all still hearing it as a fact, i'm writing this while I hear it and yeah, just like you guys, I have it since I was a child kinda crazy tbh always thought everyone had it
You can decrease it ez. It helps me to fall asleep. Just imagine the volume bar and your hand that decreases the sound. Nowadays i cannot sleeo if dont hear that lovely beep. And btw im totally serious. its not a joke
I have had tinnitus for as long as I can remember and I tried a trick to trick my brain into silence, and wow that was shocking how silence sounds, but also frightening. On another note, I can usually ignore the high pitched whine in my ears or I just drown it out with other sounds, made internally (my internal record player😂) or via playing music. Weird thing is, sometimes I get episodes that sting and sometimes my tinnitus is almost negligible.
I identified several potential factors that caused tinnitus in my case: - sleep deprivation (sleeping too little or not sleeping regularly) - drinking too much coffee - too much intellectual effort - staying too much at a PC with a loud fan Several more potential factors that I am not so sure about, include: - drinking too much carbonated water - drinking too much tea - dehydration - eating too much processed food To test this, I stopped drinking coffee for two weeks now and I started to sleep regularly every night (7 to 8 hours of sleep) and I no longer have a loud PC fan. I also no longer drink carbonated water and tea and hydrate correspondingly with non-carbonated water. I also changed my diet, eating healthier foods (fish, veggies, eggs). As a result, I'm no longer experiencing tinnitus. Hopefully, this may apply to more people. Feel free to try it yourself.
For some people, it depends on so many conditions and it varies along time. I'm also struggling with Tinnitus (acoustic trauma and sleep apnea) for almost 10 years, and I've been trying a lot of things, including what you said. You have to find out what's best for you. My recommendation is: be as healthy as you can and avoid loud noises. When necessary, you must use earplugs.
For me it's some sort of imbalance in my life. I had a long break between school and the next step (half a year) and I developed a loud tinnitus in that time. Before that I'd had it once or twice too, but for a shorter time. I went to see a doctor and his assessment was that it most likely was that my brain was underworked from doing barely anything/having no real task. And he was right. As soon as I got a task again, my tinnitus nearly went away immediately. Since then (that was one and a half years ago), I just had a few days, in which I experienced tinnitus, mostly when I didn't feel so good (overworked, underworked, another imbalance). I now know that I need to balance mental stimulation with physical exercise and leisure activities to be happy and tinnitus-free. Tinnitus indicates that something is not quite right for me.
@øranuto husband For me, yes. I've been nearly tinnitus free ever since, and after I had something to do again, I noticed how dull my life had been in those months before. Since then I've had tinnitus a couple of times again, but it only lasted for maximum 3 days or so at a time. The last time I had it was maybe two months ago when I was super stressed for a while, which messed with my life balance, since I didn't have enough time for leisure activities. I even had my first nightmare in a long while (I rarely have bad dreams) and my nerves were nearly non existent. This shows independently that I wasn't really well and that's when the tinnitus paid me a visit again. I think a tinnitus is a very individual thing, and what works for me probably won't work for most others.
Sometimes i’ll hear ringing and if I focus in on it and imagine it getting louder, I can actually cause myself great pain with how loud it will get. Crazy to think you can actually feel pain from something that isn’t actually there.
Yep me too! It was only occasional back then, it's been constant since 2008. It is a nuisance and sometimes I would love to hear silence, but I am fortunate to have none of the PTSD or depressive issues. I don't need to shell out for noise-cancelling headphones either when there is no input what I hear is tinnitus amplified!!
@@mencobamencoba2552 The ringing never lasts more than a few seconds for me. Even if I don't do anything, it goes away by itself... Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
I have been hearing the ringing for as long as I can remember. I had it at such a young age that I thought it was normal for everyone to hear it. I didn’t actually learn until I was 18 that it wasn’t normal.
I once asked my mom why my ears were ringing and she freaked out by saying it’s because my lungs are weak and I need to heal them right away. I got really scared but after finding out what it really is makes me thankful
Like all your senses...they are your own unique interpretation of the world...and not always 'real'. Like people think they see things that aren't real...or feel things that aren't real. One example is, after leg amputation, the person can get sensation of itchy foot!.
Mine started 12 years ago. I still miss not having this God awful noise going on all the time. If you put in ear plugs for a few days (3 is the longest I've made it) it gets slightly better. I feel like if I could keep them in for a few weeks or even a couple of months it would really change something but I can't do it that long.
I could hear that ring even while listening to this video, but for the most part it goes unnoticed. But a friend of mine was listening to music with headphones on too loud, and all of a sudden he got hit with a loud ringing in one ear, but his is so bad it causes headaches, cant sleep, cant concentrate, makes him moody, basically making him slowly go crazy, and he knows it was his own fault for listening to music too loud and that theres no cure. Be kind to your ears people.
I've had this all my life. It doesn't bother me much. It sounds like the humming of a box TV from the 2000's. The less you pay attention to it, the less strength you give to the neural pathways.
@@calvinripley9093 I have this since I was a kid. Never bothered me. Thought it was just that. Whenever I'd hear it, I never thought it was something serious until I learned what it's called. Now, it's bothering me. Actually, I feel like having it is what bothering me. So maybe it was better that I didn't learn what it is.
@@jazon4953 one day I put a pin into my ear to remove wax but I guess the wax went more inside and I lost like 25% of my hearing in that ear when I showed it to a doctor he didn't properly look inside that ear and just gave me an ear drops it has been 5 days since then now I'm getting the ringing sound wtf should I do yo my parents think it's not a big deal
@@calvinripley9093 I can't exactly remember when since I had mine. But I had an ear procedure that went bad when I was young, so it's prolly that. As for your question, I am not a doctor and I can't give a medical advice. However, if that ringing is bothering you because it sounds so loud, you gotta persuade your parents to get you back to the doctor. Show this video as it might help as well. I hope you'd start feeling better soon.
I've had it forever since I was a kid. My hearing is really sensitive and clear. I can hear someone whisper when they're across the room no problem. But there's a constant ringing that never goes away. It's gotten worse in the last few years.
Finally, it is a definition and reasoning for the sounds. On top of the Tinnitus is the feeling that I'm quite possibly losing my hearing. Because my siblings and I were all abused mentally, emotionally, and physically by our parents, we all have Tinnitus. We all struggle to hear the bumps in the night straining to hear our parents coming to get us or beat us or whatever. Now it's quiet as they are both gone, but the nervous system is still straining, searching for the bumps in the night and so forth. I wear headphones for watching TV and my streaming. I just can't hear, and then when the Tinnitus gets REALLY LOUD, OMG, it's horrible. 😢 I just go to sleep. Job be dammed. It stops my day. 😢
Years ago, I had tinnitus in my right ear. Suddenly, one day, it gradually disappeared and I am now totally free from it. What a blessing it is to experience total silence again!
Actually I was hoping they would tell me what kind of doctor to go to so I could have peace and quiet. I've had this buzzz/ring/ hum for oh.... 30 yrs?
For me, I just get that eeeeeee every now and then when it's quite. I honestly thought that was a normal thing until I came across this 😅. Eh its not that bad
Thank you, good to know it's not fatal. I got this since one traumatic experience of a complete nervous breakdown. I remember the very second it started and had a mild PTSD for a long time afterwards. Unfortunately the ringing (on the edge of the highest frequency i can hear) has only increased since, at nights becoming deafening. Hope there is a cure found eventually. I'm also a musician at heart and will go back to music teraphy. As for many here, i find it more strange that yt recommended this without ever mentioning it.
wait only 1/7 people get this? I thought literally everyone gets this edit: oh ok tinnitus is for when it doesn’t ever go away this happens like once a month for a minute
Well for me I only (but consistently) get the ringing whenever I'm in a small closed space with very still air like a small bedroom with all windows n doors closed, even when there is a bit of sound. Opening the window typically solves my ringing, but on nights with no wind, even on an openfield with no airflow I will get the RING. So now I kinda use this ring for detecting if there is enough air circulation. lol
@@cs_bagsofficial2601 me too, this is so normal for me that i dont even realize if ever goes away or not, i live with this constant whistle like noise in my head, dont know if is good or bad, im pushing forty this year and nothing bad happens to me so far
I'm one of the 7 :/ I was told it was the sound of electricity :/ but thanks to you guys, I finally know what it is, so thank you so much for this lesson!!
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I've had it my whole life, i always thought it was very normal but then in 2017 it went from white noise to a beep, i learned to live with it though, heck i don't even hear it as long as i don't think about it.
Me too
Me too.
same
Me too. It's annoying sometimes.
Wait, y’all here it constantly?
It only gets worse when you think about the sound itself
Now that you mentioned it I accidentally focused on it and it did make it worse. UGH...
😂 happened all the time.
I find that to be true that why it help to have a background sound like soothing sound. this is what I'm listening on low now th-cam.com/video/jSW8eXr5NWQ/w-d-xo.html
Yeah it gets louder and louder. In fact I have mastered the art of decreasing and increasing its volume at will lol
@@rafaylifts I don't hear any ringing at all as long as I don't think about it. And it gets really loud if I don't stop thinking about it. So after watching a video about this, 30 seconds in I start hearing it. Its weird, its like I don't have tinnitus at all as long as I am not stressed ;D
One in seven people?! I thought that everyone has that.
It's still about a smidge over a billion people
I got it recently and I don't know anyone who has it
A lot of people have it but it's very minor I think. When there's a sudden shift in volume most of my family members hear this sound but I hear it a lot especially while trying to sleep on the side with ear covered by a pillow
@@nopenoway1519 yeah me too I use parents and Friend as a calibration for my Eeeeeeee sounds..
I have this
5:14 The moment when the sound of the video disappeared was relieving, I wish I could make my tinnitus disappear like that, listen to the sound of silence again, I would cry with joy
i hate when i get to bed to try to sleep .. it´s the worst period of my day ..
@@drafonso88 Yes, I understand you, throughout the day tinnitus is not too annoying because there are many ambient noises that overshadow it, but at night..
Same…
Ok, I know this might sound silly, but... Try this: cover your ear with the palm of your hand, and tap your fingers repetitively on your skull behind your ear. Do it for at least 10-20 seconds.
It works to relieve it at least for some time for me. I don't have tinnitus all the time, but when I'm laying down and it starts beeping, this trick helps.
@@cawareyoudoin7379 I'll definitely try that thank you very much 😊
This was probably most peoples childhood questions
What’s that?
It was mine
The video said it is 1 out of 7 people so not all...
@@daklit is still one Billion people.
Yep
Someone finally answered that question
exactly lol
lmao yeah
Exactly, I want to talk this with someone for years but I am afraid I am the only one and then this came.
Ikr? When I asked someone about it they didn't know what I was talking about.
Yeah, now i understand why i always heard those ringing sound
Growing up, I legitimately assumed everybody had a high-pitched ringing in their ear.
Same
Try to avoid your cellphone and your tv router by turning it off completely for 12 hours and the ringing should be gone thank me later ✌🏻
(It’s only an advise from my personal experience and it’s not for people who are diagnosed with tinnitus)
@@rorschach3920 If you're suggesting switching off likely sources of high EMF fields, it's not quite so simple. Besides, my tinnitus dates back far enough that EM exposure isn't a likely cause.
Mark Hashman I’m really trying my best to help people out because its working for me but if you have a real tinnitus diagnose than you have to consider a doctors appointment sorry and all the best
@@rorschach3920 Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your trying to help -- and if it works for you, or anybody else, that's fantastic. I've just learned to live with it, since there's nothing much I can do about it.
I've had it for a good 15 years now. I've gotten so used to it that I can only really hear it if I think about it. Kinda like how you can breathe automatically until you think about it and then you take a few manual breaths until you become occupied with something else.
that ringing in your ears is the fire alarm dude get out and run for your life you must live
@@raven4k998 15 years of fire alarm
Your joke smells
Luck you, I can hardly hear anything past mine
Same age, same thing but yk it’s like faint
Same here!
As a kid I'd assumed that this humming\hissing ringing sound was literally the sound of absolute silence as I only could hear it at bed when trynna sleep. But then I learned it was actually tinnitus... :(
Mine 24 hrs a day
Sameee
Same here
As a kid I came to the conclusion that everybody has it to some degree. Like, even if it's not really hissing, there's always SOME minute level of noise we can hear, which is connected to blood pressure in the head, for instance.
dude i thought exactly the same
Horror movies:
"It's quiet, too quiet"
Hears the ringing
"There we go"
More than 500 likes and no comment so here you go😀😀😀
Ugh, I really hate this ahhhh
Lmao
LoL
@@thequeenofboba6583 so we will live like this the rest of our lives? No I refuse in Jesus name this situation must change
Brain: You going to a quiet room?
Me: Yea
Brain: Wanna hear some sounds that I created?
🧠 🎵
anxiety:let me join the band
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@usarmy500 try to beat this ♾ * EEE
Me: Am I going deaf?
Me: PANICS
Yeah, sometimes it definitely causes anxiety and stress. It's like a noise you can never turn off and it gets on your last nerve. I just always thought ringing was normal for everyone.
It’s weird how we can actually recreate the sound.
I've never experienced it. So, is that what it actually sounds like?
@@AbhishekBM a smaller sound that is similar to the sound you heard after getting flash banged in a shooter game.
Mine's usually has a higher tone, but yeah that was pretty accurate!
Abhishek pretty much yeah
@@AbhishekBM The ringing in the video is pretty accurate.
"Is like eavesdropping on your brains conversation with itself"
I like this a lot better than knowing my hearing is messed up
Here I thought I was crazy. This explains can lot. Also like the eavesdropping explanation!
Whenever I get hearing tests done, it always results in me scoring very highly
I thought its the electricity and stuff all around us.
I agree
i dont know about that, im not sure i like the idea of my brain talking about me behind my back
Brain: It's awfully quiet right now. Let me play you some background noise..
Its the different frequencies from cell towers wifi ekectronic appliances
@@naomivillalobos8108 L
FOR ME IF I SLEEP IN NIGHT I LITERALLY HEAR TICKING
Lmao!! 🤣🤣 Oh lawd! 🤦🏻♀️
imagine in the future you can replace your tinnitus sound with something like a lofi playlist lmao
I have had it since I was 15 y old. Seeing so many of you dealing with the same medical condition that I endure, it gives me a sense of not being alone. This silence is deafening. Thank you TED-ED for bringing us under one roof.
as someone who has recently started having this ringing, I really enjoyed all the positive and reassuring comments and how they explained how they got used to it and what background noises they use to mask it. thank you all.
This started when I was 18 for some reason I can’t remember if it was earlier in my life but recently I’ve been having it. Sooo 5 years now I thought I was alone 😂
@@nuttbushcitylimits5868 vaccines don't cause tinnitus
Edit: oops I'm wrong vaccines do cause tinnitus
This clip is very misleading and doesn't paint the full picture. I think they should refrain from talking about a topic that causes a lot of stress for people, without drawing the full picture. After speaking with several ENT specialists here are some interesting facts
1. We all hear tinnitus, it's just a matter of some people tuning into it more. If you put 90% of people in a completely silent room, they will hear the rining
2. In a large number of cases if there isn't an underlying health condition, tinnitus does clear up. Could take up to a year
3. Some people get tinnitus as a response to a flu / cold / vaccine and can last 6month to a year to clear up
This notion of "you'll have it forever" make people anxious and depressed, which in turn prolongs the condition. And if someone gets sucked into a vortex of anxiety and depression, can make it chronic.
So be positive. Go live your life.
@@nuttbushcitylimits5868 oops I'm wrong @Ali Rezaei said vaccines cause tinnitus I don't know if it's true or not
@@MrFallout86 thank you a lot for this info! i went to an ENT doctor because I was afraid the condition underlined some hearing loss, and he actually told me that it could be based on a problem in the cervical muscles/bones based on poor posture or extreme tightness, or more likely caused by a vascular problem in the ear canals/region. i honestly believe that my tinnitus was caused by extreme chronic stress, as i had a lot of this in the last months. this, and also your comment, help me believe that with the right attitude and lifestyle i can repair it. I initially panicked even more thinking i will never recover, which definitely didn't help my already present stress. so you are totally right about the vortex of anxiety!
I thought everyone heard a constant ringing in their ears :(
same wtf
Me too
Yea when I heard 1 out of 7 I was not happy
@@ergotrench definitely this. imagine not hearing the sound of complete silence. instead complete nothingness. that would be weird.
I have it because I am hard if hearing.
As a kid of about 8 I remember covering my ears and I would hear the high pitched whine and went "oh, that's just what quiet sounds like". I didn't realize for years that the sound of silence isn't 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'. And the amount of people who are trying to convince me "I saw a medicine on TV for tinnitus" is astounding. There is no pill that cure-alls tinnitus.
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And I thought I was the only one lol
No there's nothing
Mine
Sounds like i am sitting
Behind a old pitcure tube tv
I had it for over 20 yrs
I still cant get use to it
@Lakumba King I dont think that was the case. I was 8 long before cell phones, and we lived in a super rural area.
I never even thought about this in this way. I suspected that other people didn’t have this though. I remember as a child having to go get my ears tested, and the ear doctor would put on high pitched sounds like this one through some headphones to test my hearing. I never knew it was a common problem/phenomenon.
What about you now ar you okey😢 Say yes for make me relaxing
@@zoratizora1578Brother, tennis is not a disease, it is a symptom, I also had tinnnitus for 2 days, then it gone!!!
“Nearly 1/7 people worldwide experience this auditory sensation” your telling me it’s not normal? How many other lies have I been told by the council?
Blazing Fire there are more then 5 senses
@@MadeUpNoun and white color doesn't exist, and there are many things travel faster than light, and electrical shock is actually your own electrons killing you, and the list go on.
@@misakamikoto8785 wait white isnt real? things are faster then light? electro shock? i never learned these things
Those floating bug shadows you see when you look at the sky is blood casting a shadow on your vision receptors.
You lied to yourself lol
It's creepy how youtube knows that my ears are currently ringing rights now
No it doesn’t know anything
Our *bugs Bunny meme*
It's because of 5g.
@@WillToWinvlog lol
My right ear sometimes gets a crazy flange effect, and pitch sounds way different to the left. Then after a few hours it'll ring, then clear up. Had an example of it just yesterday.. now there's this video. Wut.
As an ENT doctor, I must say I really liked this video. Understanding what tinnitus is and what it means is the most important part of a patient’s therapeutic process. They need to understand that in most cases, it is not a sign of a severe or malignant disease, but a normal reaction of their brain, so they can come to terms with their own tinnitus in a peaceful way.
What does ENT stand for?
@@alienandroid2012 ears nose throat
I have a ruptured ear drum from 6 months, but only from past week I've started to hear static sound. Will this go away after surgery or it's permanent for me?
Yo siento que el zumbido a empeorado en un pequeño lapso de tiempo, eso es normal?
Okay so I have a question in 2012 I had a accident to where I busted my eardrum an fractured my right temple anyway after that I constantly hear ringing in my ear
Literally one of my earliest memories in life was me wondering why quiet was such a loud high pitched sound, it was always normal to me and I have always thought that was just what quiet was lol honestly I just forget about the ringing entirely usually
I don’t remember a time without the ringing. I just want to know what true silence is really like.
I absolutely and totally relate, I could relax in silence more if I didn’t have this consistent ringing to tense me up.
Same... Sadly we can only imagine what it is like..
go for a swim
It can drive u crazy :) but i understand
- Cup your ears with your hands, and press against them as though you were trying to prevent water form going into them. Basically, air tight.
- Use your pointer and index finger strongly tap the back of your head for 30 seconds (not 30 taps). You'll know that it's working if the sound of drumming in your ears is getting louder and more obnoxious the more you do it.
- Let go, and enjoy your temporary silence.
Note: This doesn't work for everyone, and for others it may last only a few seconds.
So you’re telling me that most people on earth are able to hear absolute silence
When is absolutely quiet I hear something like white noise on a tv in my ears very very low sounding . I wonder if that's silence? :))
Yep
Michael Towler it’s not
I can't imagine how nice it must be to not hear what sounds like a constant silent mosquito when it's silent
Lucky ducks
As someone who has chronic tinnitus, fans have fast become my best friend at night for the masking yet unobtrusive sound they generate.
Switch to white noise like rain or something, fans end up causing breathing issues cus it's blowing all the dust that should settle on the ground into the air and you breath it in.
Yeah same Its become like I can't even sleep without fans sometimes, they really help masking the ringing noise I hear.
I have to constantly have a video playing while I'm sleeping
Otherwise it gets too irritating, but not too loud
nothing masks mine, being outside, it is harder to notice
There are plenty of videos (1-10 hours) here on TH-cam with rainfall. Some sound too white noisish for my liking but find one that suits you. It helps. I find the rainfall in Tokyo video quite helpful when I am sleeping. Convert it to MP3 if you like and play it when you sleep.
I do occasionally hear that odd ringing sound in my ear at random times, but I usually just ignore it. Another odd thing that happens in silence is that I can hear the capillaries in my brain pumping blood or the sound of electricity circulating in my head, too, if I attempt to go to sleep, but it's also uncommon.
I used to hear that too!!! But my tinnitus got worse so now I can't even hear my own heart pumping, or maybe it's the pillow I use now... Either way, pink noise helps me to sleep
That's usually caused by high blood pressure
I will never be able to hear how silence sounds like.....
I feel you
Actually. There is one known trick that can let you hear silence. th-cam.com/video/2yDCox-qKbk/w-d-xo.html
I know how you feel...
@@stipevuk9682 i know it is a rickroll but im clicking it anyways
Oh it.. Wasnt actually a rickroll
same, i thought it is quite common, apparently its not
I have tinnitus in my right ear: a constant, high-pitched sound playing at various volume which depends on my status. The more stressful and tired I am, the louder the sound is. A good night of sleep usually reduces the volume to the minimum, but it still is there all the time. I learnt how to live with that...actually I now use my tinnitus as an health indicator. If the sound is too loud that means I really need some rest.
That's actually a really neat way to turn this around. I have the same type of tinnitus, but I never thought of using it as a barometer for anything. Thank you for you for this
When I'm ill the ringing changes in frequencies (there are dozens of them, so new may add) and volume
Hey, Im an audiology student an I just wanted to let you know, we're taught that ringing in only one ear can be a red flag. You might want to see an audiologist or ent physician
@@celestewatson8351 ellaborate please. my ent physician said it wasnt anything to worry about
Only in one ear? That's interesting... I get mine in both, and can even alternate which ear it sources from during an episode if I concentrate hard enough.
Me: laying down on my bed
Left ear: sorry, all I can do is *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
I wonder too.. It had to me left ear as well
Why is this me
@@twentyonehanias same
@@kookiesangeldemon0.290 I got this since last week.. 😭😭
@@putraerul5674 well, I had this for 5 years now
I've always had severe anxiety with panic disorder and tinnitus, when you start having a breakdown that ringing can become deafening.
tinnitus so that's what I have hmm🤣
@@raven4k998 bruh its not funny
put some sounds like rain or just music to mask it when it gets louder, helps ALOT, also never focus on the ringing or be scared of it or else it will get louder temporally
if you are scared of the noise your brain interprets ir as a threat and turns it up so you hear it better, you have to try to be neutral about it
@@DeepDarkier you mean hear it not rear it🤣
I was high with a friend talking about meditation and told her "focus on that beeep sound you hear when its quiet" and she was like wtf
😂
don't swear please. (Jesus Christ saves!)
smoking is a sin.
😂😂😂
@@denissaliaj9459 that’s good to hear. No pun intended
Thats good to hear , its sound of God
And I thought that ringing in my ears was what silence sounded like.
It is. To us
I have to leave a fan or tv on to drown out the rining.
@@kasugaifox8571 same
Same!
Same and is annoying
I "hear" a high-pitched kind of static all the time, as well. Thankfully, it has never bothered me before. It is just like a built-in white noise machine. When the house is really quiet, I relax and listen to it. Weird to think that is it my brain and not my ears making the noise.
Ive always felt like it was from something else, it never felt like a soundwave, more like built in noise lmao idk how to explain it
Yeah, its kind of when we switch on a tv. There's some very low sound... almost like some radio wave
I have the same thing, ive heard its the sound of your circulatory system or something
I hear a ringing that drives me crazy. I’m jealous yours is comforting lmao
oh i always hear noise, i never knew not everyone hears it wtf
Had tinnitus for years in single ear really low, not much to care, but one time it started to go so high that I couldn't focus on my daily life. I was able to hear it even when listening to music on earphones. I saw 2 ear-nose-throat doctors and 2 neurologist. Nothing wrong with scans and hearing tests. Even had vertigo test done- clear. They said I need to get used to it and nothing to worry- but it was real bad. No medicine given also. Then I recoursed to traditional medicine and went on a diet with no cow produce but also other food that affect the kidney meridian. Kept myself warm, specially kidneys, and not eating drinking col- which was not my style anyways. Then had leeches for only one session. Tinnitus reduced like 70%. Still, some days if I use screens too much or have cold outside, it amplifies at night but nothing that would prevent me from operating normally. Thank God!!!
What kind of diet did you follow?
@@g77_33 Basically not cow produce like cheese or anything. Or if you really need to go for them, you can change type like instead of cheese from cow milk, try the one with goat milk etc.
I've had tinnitus for most of my life so I just thought that's what silence was supposed to sound like. I've always found it kind of comforting despite not knowing what it was. like built in background noise for when I was alone so I wouldn't be afraid
Actually, that's probably the sound of silence. So far you only here that when it's silent. If you still hear this sounds in a busy environment, then it's tinnitus
ngl i struggle to believe everyone doesnt have constant ringing in their ears
@@darkespeon64 same
Has the opposite effect for me. I feel more uneasy the louder it is because I feel like the ringing is blocking other sounds. I counter this by closing all the doors when it's silent as I'll definitely hear those even if I miss other quieter sounds. Also lets me drown out the ringing with my fan while still feeling safe.
@@darkespeon64 I mean wherever you are it's never completely silent ? When you are in a really quite environment you just hear your own body functions. I had some very short episodes of tinnitus (5-10 sec) and it certainly doesn't happen in quiet environment.
Don't tell anyone, but that's just our way of communication.
It makes sense.
Illuminati say: Satan, atheism, but also my feta cheese mmmm
Plot twist: he isn't joking.
@@blueeye2281 Of course we aren't. Am I a joke to you?
@@bingbonghafu ?
I low key thought everyone had this and it’s why I hate awkward situations when no one talks cause I hear the ringing
I thought it was because of the 5G towers because I never heard any noise until one was installed by my house but wow I really hope I don't have tinnitus. My ringing is really high pitched so I used to think I had supersonic hearing and I could hear other electronics in my range. I can hear the quietest of people anyway when others cannot. Maybe I do maybe I don't. All I know is that I'm not diagnosed yet.
Henry Davis For a moment I thought you were a Karen cos you were talking about the 5G towers but thank God you are not one of the Karens who go on and be like “oh 5G causes coronavirus”
@@henrydavis4328 "They had us in the first half not gonna lie"
it only happens very occasionally though
Lmao whenever it would happen even in the middle of a conversation I would say "oh my tinnitus is kicking in" haha
My whole life, I thought the faint ringing was normal for all people. Now I’m a bit sad knowing I’ll never know what true silence sounds like lol.
I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. I genuinely never knew it was even a condition, or that this isn't just what silence is supposed to sound like, until a friend of mine when I was in high school told me "Uh, that's not normal." I have it in both ears (I think) and I actually hear two different types of ringing sounds when I really focus in on it but luckily for me it's not bad enough that it affects my day to day life. I'm just so used to it. Sometimes at night I'll listen to white or brown noise videos on youtube just to relax me but I can fall asleep fine without any assistance at all. It just depends on my mood. I feel really bad for people that have it to such a degree that it affects their mental health and makes them suicidal.
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Right? Mines constant too
Right? Mines constant too
Amen sister trying to cope.
I haven't heard silence in 20 years. Try wondering that feels like.
It's been about 6 years or so for me. To hear silence would be amazing. Chinese medicine dictates that the issue develops and can be maintained via the Kidney. I've tried acupuncture. It seemed to work for a small while, but then didn't. Have you attempted this possible option ? Maybe it could work for you ? Best of luck.
@@vicariousgamer2871 I haven't and It's most likely the only one we haven't tried yet. Acupuncture. I don't believe it'll work though.
@@cattameme I have heard that it has worked for some. What conditions might be necessary or unnecessary for success are unknown. I wonder, does belief have anything to do with success ? I certainly wouldn't have an answer for that either ?
33 years here. Hang in there, friend. Hopefully, your brain has learned to ignore it most of the time, like mine.
do you need to hear it all the time for it to be tinnitus? i hear it occasionally, but most of the time I can't. for example, i'm sitting in silence right now, and no matter how hard i try i can't hear it. sorry, i'm just really curious. i wish you the best on your journey.
I can voluntarily enhance the “ringing” sound even when there’s active unrelated sounds. It gives me the ability (if I focus hard enough) to “turn everything around me down” and increase this “ringing noise”. Kinda cool that it means I may have voluntary control over these neurons
I can shut it down when i want or activate it
Same here
@@DragonProtector I can only turn it on, shutting it down willingly sounds way more useful.
@@cule1151 well turn it on difficult but ya shut it down i can do
Interesting
I've had tinnitus since I was probably 8 years old with no idea why, it used to stress me out and affect my sleep, but I've found that background sounds and asmr really help me manage! I now know that I've basically being doing some masking therapy for myself. I wish there was a way for me to experience true silence but I've come to accept it for the most part
"Subjective tinnitus has no inherently negative consequences" other than eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@tuesdaywithanh I felt that ;-;
@@pedroaf7223 do you have tinnitus?
@@tuesdaywithanh unfortunatly, yes. Do you?
@@pedroaf7223 luckily I don't have tinnitus, but it sounds awful. I hope you can get treatment if you aren't already :)
I've gotten used to it, but sometimes in a completely quiet room it becomes an absolutely terrible noise. I deal with it of course but I really miss complete silence... Take care of your ears people. I only understood this when it was already too late.
Do you know what triggered it for you? I have a few theories for myself
@@usewater6886 commonly can be caused by listening to something too loud for too long.
@@usewater6886 I've spent long times in continuous loud environments and listening to loud music for many many years and I think that's the reason. I don't think I got it from a sudden spike of a loud sound. I'm not 100% sure because I kind of noticed and reacted to the constant ringing a good while after it had actually started, probably because for a while I thought it was normal to hear ringing in silent places. One day I remembered that it was in fact not normal and I hadn't always heard the ringing, so that's when I realized what I had.
I forgot this thing existed. I used to hear this very often when I went to bed and it was pitch quiet. Now I just keep a fan running 24/7 non stop to block the silence. I do miss silence though.
Get a fan near your bed, if you have trouble sleeping because tinnitus, it drowns it out
Some dude: * tryna chill in silence *
Brain: "yo you wanna hear my fresh Mixtape?"
"it's got some really crisp highs"
@@obamagaming9456
"I mean, no not r-"
"TOO BAD" *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Yasss🤣
@@obamagaming9456 sup
LMAO 💀
In late 2019 I started hearing a hissing sound in my right ear. By early 2020 it was in both ears and it's nonstop. All day and all night long, once in awhile a ring will join in. I'm thankful it's a constant hissing and not a constant ringing. I've gone to a few doctors and none offer help, telling me I will need to "live with it", which I have because what choice is there? I would love for it to stop. As a child I did get slapped hard on the righthand side of my face - often. I wondered if that could be it? Did something trigger it? I was one that never exposed myself to earphones or loud music or noises. Somedays the hissing is so loud I swear it can be heard by others even tho I know it can't. Also it makes falling asleep difficult. It legit sucks.
In every religious scriptures of this world it's mentioned that in the beginning there was a word and the word was God. So can it be what scriptures telling us.....
That sucks man :(, The only thing i could reccomend to help is listening to something to distract from it (playing TV/TH-cam in the background while doing other things, listening to music, white noise, etc) I hope you're doing alright
@@whoami2363stop trying to slip in religious propaganda into a medical problem
Tbh I have constant ringing which sucks but I live with it and it annoying
Me: *starts resting*
Brain: So anyways, I started ringing
Pretty much, damn thing thinks it can hum me to sleep
who’s brian 😏?
@@nithilasamuel3287 his brains name is Brian, duh 😂
The Ginger ohhhhhh tysm for that explanation 🙄
@@nithilasamuel3287 no problem 👍
Darn, I'm one of the people who has this!
its just luke Revive, same.
I just smack my ear until it goes
Same haha
Same
I do too...I was never able to explain it to anyone and they said there is no noise. My life feels complete today knowing it's an actual thing..😄
Whoever did this animation is a genius, I mean that touch of noise in the animation is just next level, watching it even muted and still have the perception of noise is just amazing!
That noise was the worst part of tge video, i cant stand that sound already i.agine amplifying it🤦♂️
I secretly can't wait to pass from this life as my tinnitus is so terrible.
You've tried sleeping with nature sounds or white noise? It took me a while to find some recordings on TH-cam.
How are you doing now? Any updates???
Imagine living in 1810's and 20's, being deaf, having terrible tinnitus, having bad bowels, being unmarried and literally all alone all the time, being never understood by the people and the society, and, STILL WRITING MUSIC THAT TRANSFORMED THE WORLD.
Beethoven?
@@angelicplace5615 yea
I also like Mozart
Beet oven momen
I think that pain of being alone and not understood could help write deep, emotional music
"Sound of Silence."
I like that.
Hello darkness my old friend...🎶🎵
"The sound of silence is a beautiful song, but like many others, if you leave it on repeat, you will fall into madness"
@ No in India We call it as Mouna Raagam
@Ahmed M If we focus our attention on that sound for a longer period of time we can feel various changes in the frequency of the sound, we can hear upto 10 different sounds and in the last stage we will be hearing the sound of AUM. this message was written in a Tamil poem called Thirumandiram nearly 2000 years ago this was on of the few practice of meditation mentioned in that Tamil literature so if you really want understand many things about the universe and you... try to learn Tamil language but i'm sure you wouldn't heard about it because India is portrayed as a country which speaks only Hindi but the truth is Hindi has no existence till the starting of 16th century.
@@DzBeanz have you hared about pluto's cave story if not just go and read it because people like you cannot able to find the difference between madness and higher consciousness the truth is if we focus our attention on that sound for a longer period of time we can feel various changes in the frequency of the sound, we can hear upto 10 different sounds and in the last stage we will be hearing the sound of AUM. this message was written in a Tamil poem called Thirumandiram nearly 2000 years ago this was on of the few practice of meditation mentioned in that Tamil literature so if you really want understand many things about the universe and you... try to learn Tamil language but i'm sure you wouldn't heard about it because India is portrayed as a country which speaks only Hindi but the truth is Hindi has no existence till the starting of 16th century.
Body: *has regeneration*
Cells: *get serioisly damaged*
Body: "I see nothing wrong"
...
Body: 🙈
LoL
Try to avoid your cellphone and your tv router by turning it off completely for 12 hours and the ringing is gone
U can thank me later ✌🏻
@@rorschach3920 Maybe allowed to speak, but not to spam.
I used to go to bed and just hear ringing, I said "it's my brain trying to detect noise that isn't there" but the ringing drove me crazy. I started listening to music and it works very well, I still do it today.
I can't be the only one who thought that they were becoming deaf
Thanks ted Ed :D
Yeah, thank ya very much :D
I thought I had something like this but I just have very sensitive ears.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that hisoka's bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum XD
I was thinking i was going nuts
@@kiratpreetsingh4107 (⭐ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°💧)
Thanks TED-Ed for a calm, plain-speaking video on what can be a very traumatic experience for a lot of sufferers.
I’m 51 and have had tinnitus all my life, along with other symptoms of Meniere’s Disease. When I was younger, it was terrible to deal with: I was constantly depressed, anxious, angry, a whole host of negative symptoms, so to speak. Now though, my tinnitus is just there doing it’s thing in the background and doesn’t really bother me. It hasn’t changed; over the years, I have. I have grown to see it is non-life threatening, as something that just hisses away in the background. What’s more, I have come to recognise it as a health barometer. When it increases in volume, I realise that I am unwell and probably fighting off an infection or disease. In a way, it has become my constant companion, something which will never leave me and can always provide tunes for me to listen to should I, or the conversation around me, be boring.
I’m fascinated by this idea that it can conjure up images from the past. I’ve always had a poor grip on what happened when because memories from years ago seem to have happened just the other day and vice versa. I would be interested, at some point, to chat to someone about this and see if it is an effect of the tinnitus.
To all of you out there who feel that the sneaky noise in your head is dominating your life, I send you my best wishes and say, “Keep at it.” Given time, things do get better. Don’t jump at the snake oil recipes you’ll see online. None of them work. Living with tinnitus comes down to one thing: You. Take time to accept it is there and gradually learn to live with it.
What a lovely comment! I've also had tinnitus my whole life and agree with your comments completely. You can absolutely live with tinnitus but it's really down to You. For all people suffering please do not give up tinnitus is ever changing, you will have good and bad days but you will be ok. 💖💖💖💖
I've had it for ten years now and it's starting to go away, but not without challenges. Some days are better than others. Stress and anxiety make it worse. Meditation helped me tremendously.
@@BlueManRedManYellow stress and anxiety are the definitely the worst. They’re that vicious cycle. Meditation is a superb tool bring one’s body and mind back under control. ❤️
Hey, tinnitus gets worse the more stressful you are which could explain why it was bad when your were younger.
im 18 and experiencing it all, the ringing, my right ear is deaf mostly apart from high and also supranatural high frequencies which coupled with my tinnitus does not bode well, my ears are perfectly healthy otherwise but any noise that give you goosebumps with regular ears drills between my eyes. life is fun for the most part, i suffered from atypical migranes for about 3 years before i managed to get a medication, also have a cheeky little benign osteoma in my head which was a surprise. ive learnt quickly to take it as a blessing rather than a curse, i can't change it but i can find the optimism in the whole ordeal. i'm not gonna die so we live on.
“ Instead, they’re generated internally, by your own central nervous system. “
Me: TRAITOR!
TREASON TO THE LAND
i had them.. it not fun.. it start off one side and then both and 10 years later i used to it... it change your mind about what your body do... and yeah i don't know what is slience anymore since i don't hear them for 10 years now.. it take years to get used to it... most people would had it happen to them in short amount of time..
@@campkira i feel bad for you, because i have it and for me it doesn't bother me, is actually calmly, and btw my ringing gets louder when put my ear close to a outlet, but something must be connected.
Kudos to the animator/illustrator using animated visual noise to illustrate this video. Very appropriate.
Something that bothered me for years. I never even knew how to ask someone this properly. Thank you 😊
I'm so habituated to this sound that I am now capable of ignoring it.
I can usually ignore it to. Then the other crickets join in and it's a whole chorus of them. Sorry we hear them but it's better than hearing nothing. I guess.....
i got it since last summer but i can ignore it now too
Same
i got it 3 weeks ago and got it again 1 week ago
Lucky
Tinnitus and eye floaters made me think I was special as a child. I thought I was seeing molecules, and had super hearing letting me hear tones no one else could. Now I know it's just physiological imperfections lol. So much for my super powers...
I have a lot of eye floaters :(
I choose to continue to believe this
Please see an ENT doctor! I feel for you! I’ve had this 45 years plus! There is relief! The only thing I found that would work are special hearing aids! They are noise canceling & they have 2 noise canceling functions to retrain the brain! One mask gentle ocean wave sounds, which I prefer, I listen to them for hours at times when the ringing gets really loud & it sounds so much better than the ringing & the more I use that feature the more it trains my brain & then when I take them off to go to bed, I can finally sleep!
I too have eye filters! My mother had them & she had Tinnitus her entire life! She had no idea what it was! But it really interfered with her hearing & the sad thing was how my father made fun of her because she said her ears rang all the time & he would get angry when she couldn’t hear things he said! I wish you good luck!
I had both too. Age 41.
@Cats&Company What about eye floaters? I see these squiggly lines and dots floating in the air in bright light
I've suffered this since childhood and now at 60 it's absolutely awful. A constant tone with whoop whoop noises and tic tic tic. 24/7 constant! The only relief is music via earphones and even then I can still hear it. And what do the doctors say?
Live with it.
Fun fact: If you clench your teeth, the noise gets louder.
Note: If this comment ever gets to top, the next video should be "What is all those images we see when we close our eyes?"
I don’t even have to clench my teeth together, just flexing my jaw is enough to make it like 5 times louder.
@@isaacfullerton also that. If you flex it it gets louder
Yeah I read that it’s because some people can flex ear muscles to make the ear rumbling www.google.com/amp/s/www.good.is/amp/ear-rumbling-is-a-special-super-power-that-not-everyone-can-do-2645385849
@@Mewcaloid I thought everyone can do that
@@muhammadammarrasyid5780 you can do that too?
"What was noise?"
"The sound of progress, my friend."
Ey 👉͡° ͜ʖ ͡°👉
Ha!
@@ibelieveyourlies1984 is nice :)
@@yigityigitoglu7451 i had them.. it not fun.. it start off one side and then both and 10 years later i used to it... it change your mind about what your body do... and yeah i don't know what is slience anymore since i don't hear them for 10 years now.. it take years to get used to it... most people would had it happen to them in short amount of time..
Ribs grow back!
*No ze don’t*
Who else had their tinnitus flare up while watching this.
Wait, was the ringing audio not put in the video on purpose? Lol or did only the people with tinnitus hear it??
Max Rod it was put there but i had to pause and check multiple times while watching to see if it was my ears doing it or not :’(
@@furiouskitties4079 same it can be trippy af
😂
@I Need The Memes ew 🤢🤮
I'm amazed with this animation, its design is incredibly beautiful. Tinnitus sucks. But the video is lovely.
What the heck, till now I used to think this is normal to everyone.
Man, now I am confused whether everyone see same things as I do.
I think it’s best to not delve too far into these things. It’s a waste of time and leads to nothing positive imo.
just ignore it until we die. i had it my whole life
Do you think your red is like my red? Or is your red blue for you?
For me it seems like it picks up in the evening and I never hear it in the day. So it has me wondering that is for sure.
@@neth7826 I’ve literally ALWAYS wondered this. Because either way, you’d label them the same. You’ve always been told that it’s a certain color, so your brain automatically says that when seeing it. Even if “green” is “blue” to someone else. It’s also been seen in some languages in communities that have lost the ability to register certain colors because they don’t have a word for it. I remember them talking about having a word for “green,” but not blue, so they just... straight up didn’t know blues existed or was a thing.
Neural condition: Can make PTSD worse.
American Scientist: What should we call it?
British Scientist: Bit bothersome in’it?
We were expecting some latin name huh
😂😂😂
In'it is not how many brits speak at all
Try to avoid your cellphone and your tv router by turning it off completely for 12 hours and the ringing is completely gone thank me later ✌🏻
You mean Bri'ish?
In some of Mexico’s superstitious culture, whenever you have this ear ringing, it means someone is talking behind your back. I grew up with this belief and I, personally, find it amazing and funny how we have superstitious ideas for so many other things. But i am also glad to know now what actually happens behind this high pitched ringing.
Right
My friends said that when we hear this, a spirit is trying to communicate with us. I’m not very superstitious but that kinda freaked me out before 😅 and now I’m really glad there IS a scientific explanation about it
in navajo culture i think, my grandma says when that happens, someone is thinking of you
It's the same in my culture. I am Yoruba from South West, Nigeria.
I believed for a long time that ringing of the ears means someone is talking behind my back. We were even taught to gently slap the ears with the back of our palms. What that does according to the elders is to somehow cushion the effect of the ringing.
How funny.
I'm Pacific islander and im lil bit sad bc.....damn!!...the only time i hear ringing noise is right after church.
Now I'm listening to both, ringing in my brain and your explanation.
I've had it my entire life also. I'm at the point where I'm scared to experience what true silence is, knowing I may not find it again.
I had this my whole life , never knew it was a sickness or a abnormality. I could hear it when i went to sleep and thought it was just the normal sound of silence. After a while i fall asleep without much trouble.
I’ve also had it since I was a child, now I have it regardless of noise or silence, as a matter of fact, I’m watching the video right now and hearing the sound. Isn’t it interesting that someone in Tx killed himself because he developed tinnitus after having Covid.
It said, it is created by neural networks then I don't think it is any kind of problem. It feels more like sound of electricity as neurones passes information every second as we breathe. It is more like sound created by our own body.
@@fabiolaflores8919 i was literally hearing it when I saw the video on my recommended, clicked and watched it all still hearing it
as a fact, i'm writing this while I hear it
and yeah, just like you guys, I have it since I was a child
kinda crazy tbh always thought everyone had it
@@maisumjesus Same
Same
i can't remember when was the last time i've experienced total silence. for all my life, it's always just *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
I KNOWWWWWW RIGHTTTTT
fr I wish it went away😩😩
You can decrease it ez. It helps me to fall asleep.
Just imagine the volume bar and your hand that decreases the sound.
Nowadays i cannot sleeo if dont hear that lovely beep.
And btw im totally serious. its not a joke
Part of the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE life, as well. Silence would be nice.
thats why i be listenin to music like 24/7
I have had tinnitus for as long as I can remember and I tried a trick to trick my brain into silence, and wow that was shocking how silence sounds, but also frightening.
On another note, I can usually ignore the high pitched whine in my ears or I just drown it out with other sounds, made internally (my internal record player😂) or via playing music. Weird thing is, sometimes I get episodes that sting and sometimes my tinnitus is almost negligible.
What was the trick you used? I’ve never experienced silence my entire life.
I identified several potential factors that caused tinnitus in my case:
- sleep deprivation (sleeping too little or not sleeping regularly)
- drinking too much coffee
- too much intellectual effort
- staying too much at a PC with a loud fan
Several more potential factors that I am not so sure about, include:
- drinking too much carbonated water
- drinking too much tea
- dehydration
- eating too much processed food
To test this, I stopped drinking coffee for two weeks now and I started to sleep regularly every night (7 to 8 hours of sleep) and I no longer have a loud PC fan. I also no longer drink carbonated water and tea and hydrate correspondingly with non-carbonated water. I also changed my diet, eating healthier foods (fish, veggies, eggs). As a result, I'm no longer experiencing tinnitus.
Hopefully, this may apply to more people. Feel free to try it yourself.
thanks :)
Uhh only if the damage was not caused by inoculations or explosions...
For some people, it depends on so many conditions and it varies along time. I'm also struggling with Tinnitus (acoustic trauma and sleep apnea) for almost 10 years, and I've been trying a lot of things, including what you said. You have to find out what's best for you. My recommendation is: be as healthy as you can and avoid loud noises. When necessary, you must use earplugs.
For me it's some sort of imbalance in my life. I had a long break between school and the next step (half a year) and I developed a loud tinnitus in that time. Before that I'd had it once or twice too, but for a shorter time. I went to see a doctor and his assessment was that it most likely was that my brain was underworked from doing barely anything/having no real task. And he was right. As soon as I got a task again, my tinnitus nearly went away immediately. Since then (that was one and a half years ago), I just had a few days, in which I experienced tinnitus, mostly when I didn't feel so good (overworked, underworked, another imbalance). I now know that I need to balance mental stimulation with physical exercise and leisure activities to be happy and tinnitus-free. Tinnitus indicates that something is not quite right for me.
@øranuto husband For me, yes. I've been nearly tinnitus free ever since, and after I had something to do again, I noticed how dull my life had been in those months before. Since then I've had tinnitus a couple of times again, but it only lasted for maximum 3 days or so at a time. The last time I had it was maybe two months ago when I was super stressed for a while, which messed with my life balance, since I didn't have enough time for leisure activities. I even had my first nightmare in a long while (I rarely have bad dreams) and my nerves were nearly non existent. This shows independently that I wasn't really well and that's when the tinnitus paid me a visit again.
I think a tinnitus is a very individual thing, and what works for me probably won't work for most others.
Tinnitus: you can’t defeat me.
Doctors: I know, but he can.
Fan: *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
FED: Brrrrrrr
bro for real
Hahaha so true
BRRRRR
Fan go brrr
Sometimes i’ll hear ringing and if I focus in on it and imagine it getting louder, I can actually cause myself great pain with how loud it will get. Crazy to think you can actually feel pain from something that isn’t actually there.
Yes demons do that every day
@@rahimwillson6566 the only demon is you
Your In control
yeah it sucks ive had tinnitus for 3-4 years and it sucks sometimes i cant hear that like at all and sometimes its so loud that it hurts
am i the only person who gets tinnitus when they think about it
Psychological stress can increase tinnitus.
At the end when the sound stopped for a sec... for me... it basicly just went fainter xD it was very informal, thank you!
Me: Trying to sleep after a hard working day*
My Stress hormones: Prepare for trouble
Tinnitus: and make it double
😂😂😂😂😂😂
double trouble 2: the electric boogaloo
Insomnia: Thats right!
Hungry: *I'm hungry*
To protect your ears from devastation. 😂
When I was a kid I used to think that the sound was my ears picking up on a bad radio station
same i thought i have superpowers for a reason 😅
Yep me too! It was only occasional back then, it's been constant since 2008. It is a nuisance and sometimes I would love to hear silence, but I am fortunate to have none of the PTSD or depressive issues. I don't need to shell out for noise-cancelling headphones either when there is no input what I hear is tinnitus amplified!!
I heard my heart/pulse when going to sleep and thought it was a sensor for monsters aproaching (I had 2 or 3 years at the time)
I knew it was coming from inside my head. I used to just cover my ears until the ringing went away.
@@mencobamencoba2552 The ringing never lasts more than a few seconds for me. Even if I don't do anything, it goes away by itself... Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
I have been hearing the ringing for as long as I can remember. I had it at such a young age that I thought it was normal for everyone to hear it. I didn’t actually learn until I was 18 that it wasn’t normal.
Same
Same. Unfortunately it has gotten worse in the last few years as my hearing has faded.
Same but I just learn it right now xd
Same. I thought it was just the “sound of silence” for years.
wait why is that ringing noise bad?
As a musician I was thought that when u hear a ringing in ur ears is the last time you hear the high of a frequency
I once asked my mom why my ears were ringing and she freaked out by saying it’s because my lungs are weak and I need to heal them right away. I got really scared but after finding out what it really is makes me thankful
Where did ur mom get that from😭😭
Bro, where did she read that from 😶
"It's because of that damn phone"
wtf did i just read lmaoo idk where she got that from but am guessing maybe from facebook or maybe she might have been trolling you really hard 😂😂
Thats why i dont say something like these to my parents
I refuse to believe that this isn't something everybody hears.
NPCs are different.
if everybody doesnt hear it, i really dont feel special.i wish it would stop for a day!
Like all your senses...they are your own unique interpretation of the world...and not always 'real'. Like people think they see things that aren't real...or feel things that aren't real. One example is, after leg amputation, the person can get sensation of itchy foot!.
@@PG-sg2oo Me too. I wish it would stop, just for a day, or an hour.
Mine started 12 years ago. I still miss not having this God awful noise going on all the time.
If you put in ear plugs for a few days (3 is the longest I've made it) it gets slightly better. I feel like if I could keep them in for a few weeks or even a couple of months it would really change something but I can't do it that long.
Me:
Brain: *WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Me: What the heck are you doing?!
Someone hacked your brain 🧠
May be some Chinese
Sanjay Rohra I mean if your brain has a motherboard I guess so
I could hear that ring even while listening to this video, but for the most part it goes unnoticed. But a friend of mine was listening to music with headphones on too loud, and all of a sudden he got hit with a loud ringing in one ear, but his is so bad it causes headaches, cant sleep, cant concentrate, makes him moody, basically making him slowly go crazy, and he knows it was his own fault for listening to music too loud and that theres no cure. Be kind to your ears people.
I've had this all my life. It doesn't bother me much. It sounds like the humming of a box TV from the 2000's. The less you pay attention to it, the less strength you give to the neural pathways.
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I cant imagine your pain did you see a doctor?
@@calvinripley9093 I have this since I was a kid. Never bothered me. Thought it was just that. Whenever I'd hear it, I never thought it was something serious until I learned what it's called. Now, it's bothering me. Actually, I feel like having it is what bothering me. So maybe it was better that I didn't learn what it is.
@@jazon4953 one day I put a pin into my ear to remove wax but I guess the wax went more inside and I lost like 25% of my hearing in that ear when I showed it to a doctor he didn't properly look inside that ear and just gave me an ear drops it has been 5 days since then now I'm getting the ringing sound wtf should I do yo my parents think it's not a big deal
@@calvinripley9093 I can't exactly remember when since I had mine. But I had an ear procedure that went bad when I was young, so it's prolly that. As for your question, I am not a doctor and I can't give a medical advice. However, if that ringing is bothering you because it sounds so loud, you gotta persuade your parents to get you back to the doctor. Show this video as it might help as well. I hope you'd start feeling better soon.
I've had it forever since I was a kid. My hearing is really sensitive and clear. I can hear someone whisper when they're across the room no problem. But there's a constant ringing that never goes away. It's gotten worse in the last few years.
Same here at 24... kinda worried really.
@@AK-Kessler0907 same 21 years old, am just worried it's not common in person in his 20's
I can't thank Simona Tabasco on youtube enough for helping me to get rid of my tinnitus, thanks.
The worst is that you have the loud ringing and have to go to a wedding with loud music playing
@@shukricali122 I am 19 and it started like 4 months ago
Elsa: "whats that ringing in my ear?"
Ted Ed:
KyutiePie 773 In to the te-e-e-e ed. Ahahahah~
@@동물농장동물농장동물 Oh god that's cursed
_you’re just a ringing in my ear_
Finally, it is a definition and reasoning for the sounds. On top of the Tinnitus is the feeling that I'm quite possibly losing my hearing. Because my siblings and I were all abused mentally, emotionally, and physically by our parents, we all have Tinnitus. We all struggle to hear the bumps in the night straining to hear our parents coming to get us or beat us or whatever. Now it's quiet as they are both gone, but the nervous system is still straining, searching for the bumps in the night and so forth. I wear headphones for watching TV and my streaming. I just can't hear, and then when the Tinnitus gets REALLY LOUD, OMG, it's horrible. 😢 I just go to sleep. Job be dammed. It stops my day. 😢
Years ago, I had tinnitus in my right ear. Suddenly, one day, it gradually disappeared and I am now totally free from it. What a blessing it is to experience total silence again!
I got it in my right ear 3ish years ago, I'm pretty used to it now but I'm still hoping it goes away on its own
What did you do ? Or do you know why it disappeared?
@@maiwaiipixie I had the same question lol
I thought it doesn't go away because it has no cure lol
@@rugencervantes8315 you body heal unless it's caused by ear infection
When you realize most of everyone in the comment section has the ear ringing
And watched this video to see why they hear ringing 😂
CATel shut up damn
@CATel r/madlads
Actually I was hoping they would tell me what kind of doctor to go to so I could have peace and quiet. I've had this buzzz/ring/ hum for oh.... 30 yrs?
Surprisingly YT recommended this even not inquiring about it in the net. 🤔🙄😬 and I have it for a few days now.
i genuinely dont know what silence sounds like anymore. there's just a permanent static in my ears
Cure th-cam.com/video/L9JQ_jBsPf8/w-d-xo.html
@@5ebifry Cure th-cam.com/video/L9JQ_jBsPf8/w-d-xo.html
@@5ebifry I love you thanks for the 3 seconds of silence
For me, I just get that eeeeeee every now and then when it's quite. I honestly thought that was a normal thing until I came across this 😅. Eh its not that bad
If I am hydrated enough and blood pressure is normal, the buzzing is gone.
Thank you, good to know it's not fatal. I got this since one traumatic experience of a complete nervous breakdown. I remember the very second it started and had a mild PTSD for a long time afterwards. Unfortunately the ringing (on the edge of the highest frequency i can hear) has only increased since, at nights becoming deafening. Hope there is a cure found eventually. I'm also a musician at heart and will go back to music teraphy. As for many here, i find it more strange that yt recommended this without ever mentioning it.
This channel is the is the only channel that answers my long mysterious questions. Thank you Ted-Ed😊.
me: *"relaxing"*
the demon beside me: *"demonic screeching"*
I would Prefer My Best Mistress.... Rings Again.... Just For Joke Bro......LOL
wait only 1/7 people get this? I thought literally everyone gets this
edit: oh ok tinnitus is for when it doesn’t ever go away
this happens like once a month for a minute
Same! But like once a year or even longer, but i do wonder if that means we have it or is it nothing but a small phase
I was hoping for a video explaining the temporary version :(
Is it just the same but our brains re-adjust for the new noise floor or something?
I m everyday!!
Well for me I only (but consistently) get the ringing whenever I'm in a small closed space with very still air like a small bedroom with all windows n doors closed, even when there is a bit of sound. Opening the window typically solves my ringing, but on nights with no wind, even on an openfield with no airflow I will get the RING. So now I kinda use this ring for detecting if there is enough air circulation. lol
@@cs_bagsofficial2601 me too, this is so normal for me that i dont even realize if ever goes away or not, i live with this constant whistle like noise in my head, dont know if is good or bad, im pushing forty this year and nothing bad happens to me so far
I'm one of the 7 :/ I was told it was the sound of electricity :/ but thanks to you guys, I finally know what it is, so thank you so much for this lesson!!