Loud ringing in my ears

[daniegirl6224]

I have a loud ringing in my ears. I am currently overstimulated/ in a meltdown. Do others experience this? Does anything help? It is driving me crazy, this is the first time this has happened to me.

 

[Judge]

I recall in my earlier years in times of intense stress, and indeed my ears would ring. However as I calmed down, the ringing would stop. If only your first time, I wouldn't spend much time worrying about it.

However...

I have tinnitus in my right ear and have for the last nine years. You learn to live with it, but you can never really get away from it. My doctor insists there are no "cures".

 

[Jumpinbare]

I was born with it. I thought everyone heard it until my late 20s when I mentioned "the normal background ringing" to an audiologist, and he told me there was no "normal" background ringing.
I have literally never heard silence.

 

[Outdated]

My only experience with that was only ever very short periods of a few minutes, and it would only be around a dozen instances spanned over 60 years. It was annoying though.

When I was living in the bush I discovered that when you experience true silence your brain will start to invent sounds as a sort of background noise. In the tropics there's usually very little wind and at night everything goes completely still, no sound at all. When going to sleep at night I often heard what sounded like radio stations but all of them at once so you couldn't distinguish anything coherent, and so quiet as to be right on the edge of hearing and I was never sure if I was hearing it or not.