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I'm pretty sure that is what I have, I've had it for 2 months just before Christmas and it's driving me crazy. It's annoying and it's obviously scary. And how do I explain this to a doctor next week? It's worse at night when I'm laying down it's like a turbulent sound of a rush that comes down to my ears or around my ears or in the back of my ears. It takes a while for everything to calm down. It is so strange I just can't take it anymore
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Hi, @kicker113640 Welcome to Connect.
Do you wear hearing aids? I have tinnitus and during the day, when I am wearing my hearing aids, I don't notice the tinnitus but at night when I take them off and go to bed I really do unless I am active with something like reading before settling down to sleep.
I believe that my situation is pretty common, that people with hearing aids do not notice their tinnitus when they are wearing their hearing aids because they are hearing other external sounds whereas after removing the HAs things are very quiet.
The sound I hear is like a motor running so when it first started it would alarm me that something in the house was running and I would tell my husband. He would get out of bed and go around the house to find the noise but there was never anything. Eventually, I realized it was tinnitus. I guess I thought tinnitus was a ringing sound and mine is definitely not.
It is a nuisance but if yours is similar to mine you will eventually learn to just live with it. I will be curious to hear what your doctor says about it.
JK