I've had tinnitus so loud for decades that I need ear plugs to keep from hearing the ringing in my own ears. Seriously, I wish that would help. I have had LOUD ringing in both ears for over 30 years now. I have a substantial hearing loss, as well. It's kinda hard to hear anything but the ringing. Just gotta deal with it. It's not going away.

 

Had it half my life, and I also wear hearing aids, but that's for hearing loss not the ringing. some days are worse than others, I've noticed that when my stress level is high, the ringing is worse. (mine sounds more like a train whistle than buzzing). the caffeine intake has an effect too, I love coffee but had to quit drinking it and noticed a big decrease in the ringing.

 

I also have it, this year got it in both ears plus a condition called Meniere's Disease. So now I have ringing and what you can only call a reverberation, like the old 50's AM stations use to put out.

Stay away from Asprins if you can or anything that will raise your bloodpressure.

Get a white noise machine, one that makes those nice ocean, woodsy noises. It helps to drown out the hum when your trying to sleep.

Wear ear plugs around any loud noises. Especuially guns,motorcycles and live music. If you have loud pipes change them out for softer ones.

Headphones of any kind will drown out the humming but woun't help the situation and may make it worse. Keep the volume low, the last thing you need is to concentrate more noise into your ears.

You get to a point in 6-9 months were you'll only hear it when you actually pay attention, it gets like breathing.

But, go see a Doctor and get at least a baseline set on your hearing so they can determine if its getting worse. You more than likely have also sustained a marginal hearing loss. When my ears went bad this year I went in and they actually put me on steriods for a while to clear up the reverb condition the Menieres makes and it made it much better.

 

I'm sorry if this was already covered, but I just don't feel like reading through all the posts. Obviously, this is a pretty popular subject. But it really hits close to home for me.

A few years ago, I had only had my bike a few months when I went over a hill, and heard the loudest pop ever in my ears. From that day on, for the next few days, I had a terrible hissing noise along with vertigo. The vertigo was absolutely horrible, and I don't know what I would've done if that hadn't gone away. You become absolutely disabled.
Anyway, I went to the doctor, and they said they saw a lot of wax in my ears, so they flushed it. That actually kinda hurt. From that moment on, I had a very loud buzzing in my right ear. I didn't hear it if there was other background noise, but in silence, I thought I was going crazy. I went to ENTs...they put tubes through my ear drums, ran all kinds of tests, etc. Nothing seemed to cure this. I, finally, just got a little mp3 player, downloaded some white noise wave files, and had that in my right ear all the time.

As time went on, the level of the noise would go up and down...strangely enough, a lot of the time it depended on the weather. On warm, humid days, louder....cooler drier days, not as loud. It was almost like I became a human barometer.

Well..it's 3 years since that happened, and there were a few things that I did between then and now. Most importantly, I stopped riding without ear plugs. You can easily go to any pharmacy (CVS, Walgreens, etc) and buy a big jug of disposable ear plugs. I also started riding with a 3/4 helmet. I might get blasted for that, but it helped me.
Fortunately, the vertigo never came back. But by doing the things I suggested, over time, the loud buzzing went away...slowly.

I don't think you ever really completely get rid of tinitus. That hissing may be with you forever. But the buzzing you're talking about is a whole other issue....and I feel for you.
Do what I said, and be patient, and hopefully, things will quiet down a bit.

Hope this helps

Todd

 

For me, the ringing started when I was about 10 yrs old playing with firecrackers. I put one inside a plastic race car and lit the fuse. The fuse burned too fast and I only had time to turn away, to my left, so my right ear took the entire blast, up close.

To this day I still get ringing in my right ear. It comes and goes. Sometimes I don't notice anything, other times it's there. Right now, this minute, as I'm typing, my right ear is ringing.

I don't know if it's what you have, but I've lived with it for the past 40 years.

 

Only thing is to try to eliminate as much noise as possibly, to keep from having more damage done, once the damage is done there is no repairing.

As stated before, my habbits in my younger yrs plus working in a noisy factory all my life has left my ears Ringing 24-7.

 

Machineguns, Harleys and rock & roll...a sure-fire recipe for tinnitus!

My 24 YO son gets annoyed when I tell him to wear earplugs. Seems like I remember feeling the same way about my father's comments. Now I always wear plugs on longer rides. Probably should on shorter ones too. Maybe I'll start tomorrow.

You do get used to the constant ringing, but I'm not sure that's a good thing!

 

If you ever been to a concert or shoot guns and your ears ring for the next couple of hours or the next day. You experenced hearing damage to the little hairs in your inner ear. I played music and was at lots of concerts. 1 day I went to a audiologist to be fitted with custom ear plugs. They filled both ears with a liquid rubbery stuff, as soon as it started hardening my ears stareted ringing and have never stopped. I use ear plugs on every ride and around all loud noises. I slept with a fan on outside my door for years. Not much to do to get rid of it. Sorry to hear so many others have the same problem. If someone doesn't already have it, protect your ears from all loud noises, b4 you get it.

 

Yep I have tinnitus also thanks to jet aircraft in the military. Mine is about the same high pitch frequency of ringing( horizontal rate) that some of the old color tv's generated from the flyback transformers, except a lot louder. There are times the ringing is pretty soft but at other times its really loud. Mine is aggravated by loud noises especially wind noise. I always wear ear protection nowadays and that does help.

 

crushed 2 disks in neck...now my hearing on left side going away! hate it!