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"The HUM", a persistent Low Frequency Noise

Hearing Loss | Last Active: Feb 5 5:42am | Replies (146)

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I'm interested that so many of you hear a low hum. I have reverse slope hearing -- (I can hear women's voices better than men's - bird song but not thunder etc) and I thought that was why I hear low frequency tinnitus -- a hum, sometimes more like a roar. It seems most people with regular hearing loss in the high frequencies, hear a ringing sound. A theory supporting this tinnitus is the brain is trying to make up for the hearing loss creating a phantom sound.

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If you can take time to go back over the comments in this discussion, you'll find several comments on this type of tinnitus sound. I have sensorineural hearing loss in both ears and use a hearing aid and a cochear implant. Often I feel as if there's a motor of some kind on in the basement. It's easy to ignore, but it's there. Tinnitus affects people in many different ways, this being one of them.

Are you able to ignore it?