..maybe repeating myself but audiologist not that interested, where I live, as if mainly want to sell haring aids? the ents (2 with a 1 to 2 year wait) dont deal with tinnitu and when I say hyperacusis its like no one has heard that word before...
I have moderate hearing loss but dont yet wear hearing aids as living at home with husband, retired, turn up volume but dont hear beginning and end of a lot of words he says..anyway, the hyperacusis followed increase in tinnitus and other ear issues .. pain, fullness, echo, pressure which no one seems to care about/have a solution: and lately just the noise of the toilet flushing or the washing machine spinning "hurts" ears.... or toilet seat falling down....so odd to not hear yet hear too well.
My tinnitus wake me up during night, or does it? After months/maybe years I started to write down what time of night i was being woken up .. by my tinnitus .. and although not always right on the dot it seems around 1am, 3am, 4.30 to 5am and 6. Arguing with husband, yes, I do have tinnitus mostly 24/7 but surely tinnitus doesnt occur according to the clock!
Must be some things on timers like neighbours (cant see for trees and fences) that have pools, hot tubs; could be trains going by echoing off the lake; exhaust from neighbours gas water heaters on their roof... we are block from trans canada pipeline which apparently makes noise underground and city pumphouse pumping water to the water treatment plant and then to water pipes to thousands of homes??
Honestly, its been a challenge to figure out what is me and what it=s them making sort of machinery noise....but now realize I am like a jigsaw puzzle with: hearing loss, over-hearing, tinnitus, hearing City noises, cant hear some things, can hear some things...and I just try and be grateful I "can hear."!!!!!
What gets me down more now I realize its a combination of things, is the pain and pressure which last for hours to the point of crying, and now ent hinting at recurring tmj from years ago or neck issues??
Talk about wandering through an aural maze! it gets quite painful esp. right side of face etc but as I read some of the things writers are telling us about their operations, deafness, and other ear issues I am trying to be a bit more positive about the things I am coping with.Could be a lot worse and am thinking of those coping with more serious issues than mine...I hope the drs can help you and wish you all the very best outcomes J.

...simmilar with me although this is year later i never end up in current chat box, duh to me I cant hear half of what husband says, can hear tv ifvolume up but then the vibrations or tone is too much for my hyperacusis...which i now think got from many ct scans with NO HEARING PROTECTION over the years; lastone 2021 I had to ask for it and itdid help. Also pain of eustachian tube disfunction after flu one year... so my main problem, well, sort of, is that i go to sleep early and about 4 times thru night wake to noise similar to a washing machine spinning...also have tinnitus, so is it me or something outside... been for couple of years. my spouse canh hear plane flying over high and the clock in bathroom run by battery buti cant; it makes me look like i am mentally ill or something.; how can i have so many different ear issues at same time. i used to get up thru night go downstairs and one of 2 fridges running but another night not running; also heating system under my bedroom and cannot change rooms, runs for ages winter for heat and summer a/c.... but even if those are making noise, i hear that grinding sound now most of day and night. ok so some neihbours have pool heaters, hot tubs; we are between trans canad pipe line 2 blocks away and city water pumphouse runs 24 hours a day but no one else complains. I started scribbling down notes of times woken up and theyare not exact but similar times, eg 1am, 3am 5am plus or minus... also we have long long freight trains in the distance but not in view... again, know its my brain, my ears, my sound sensitivities and moderate hearing loss; only thing is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which i am trying with hour zoom meetings with social worker but after listening to her voice after an hour on zoom, or phone call, then i get the background music or singing or male voices ... apparently called musical ear. I am as you can read on here not coping very well and have a list of other illnesses and every few months just feel like giving up... honestly. I wish i was stronger like many others here. Now with lack of sleep and every day something hurting, aching, plus ibsd its affecting my 40 yr old marriage...i cant seem to overcome it and crying as i type this and amazed at reading how others are coping i feel like such a failure.... sorry changed name to my middle one Valerie, was Lacy before... but still am who i am; hugs