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I am Deaf and I have tinnitus from wearing hearing aids (they never helped me understanding people, for that I am too deaf). I always "hear" the audio feedback
by _nalply 3y ago
I am Deaf and I have tinnitus from wearing hearing aids (they never helped me understanding people, for that I am too deaf). I always "hear" the audio feedback tone when putting them on even when my hearing aids were turned off. Because of that I never realized when the fitting was bad and in school I was ridiculed for always having that feedback noise with me.
Twenty years ago I gave up hearing aids.
But the tinnitus stayed with me.
I accepted the tinnitus.
It can be triggered easily, for example from very loud noises (120 dB and more), or just thinking about tinnitus. While writing this post I got tinnitus.
Usually I hear moaning swelling up and down.
Sometimes I hear high-pitched explosions.
Rarely I hear what I call cat music, a surprising and arrythmic melange of different noises.
When I hear tinnitus, I try to listen to it. Especially the cat music is interesting.
The explosions are not so nice. They sometimes work like audio jump scares.
The moaning is sometimes soothing.