A little background about me before i start this post off. I've been suffering from health anxiety for the last 4 or so years(basically started a year after my dad passed away). Had it for numerous health related issues that i somehow convince myself is worse than it is and i'm gonna die etc etc ..typical health anxiety.
My current issue is this ever so slight hissing/whistling/eeeee noise in my left ear i experience when i'm in a very quiet room or when i put my fingers in my ears to block any other sound.
It started around 2 or so months ago on a flight. Got a very bad pain in my left ear caused by air pressure. Anyway lasted a few hours and i was fine afterwards. Fast forward a couple of days(the morning after clubbing) and i was sure i could hear a ever so slight ringing. This continued for a couple of weeks where i would continuously go to different rooms to test if i heard it, block my ears to see if i could still hear the sound, google stuff about Tinitus, assume the worst etc etc). Anyway 1 day around 2 months ago i got my girlfriend to basically go in various different rooms with me with any external sound off and explain what she could hear. Basically she could hear exactly the same thing as me and described it exactly how i was hearing it. This reassured me and for the next 2 months i literally did not hink about it at all...it didnt bother me...i didnt test to hear it....i literally just forgot about it.
Fast forward to last friday and went to a club where the music was loud. As soon as i left the club my ears were ringing in both ears. Anyway around 2 days later the ringing in my right ear has stopped completley but the hissing/eeee in my left ear was still there(although i can only hear it in very quiet environments).
Now what i'm thinking is that i have always had this sound but never paid attention to it (and i only paid attention to it now due to the actual tinitus ringing i had a couple of days before). I found it very strange that my previous episode of this ended the same day when i got confirmation/reassurance that my girlfriend could hear it as well. Could it really just go away after 2 weeks of constant worrying straight when i receive this confirmation or is the likely outcome that i simply stopped thinking about it and it stopped being an issue. I think my health anxiety is the underlying cause of all this...does that sound stupid??
When we get anxiety we tend to focus more on the reason for it, anxiety can make us become pre occupied and ruminate that's in its nature until something happens to give us reassurance abd that then that quells the anxiety and we "let it go", I think you simply stopped thinking about it and it stopped being an issue. It's like having a headache you know it's there so you pop a few pills and it goes after 20 minutes and you don't think anymore about it as normal life has resumed so to speak.
You haven't got tinnitus, your exoeriencing something I think most people have which is a "background" noise in our ears, clubbing or loud noises or environments can make our ears ring but unless we get hung up and anxious about it then we forget about it.
Im a musician and often have hissing sounds in my ears, my right ear is worse with a constant high pitched sound but I very rarely hear it as my brain has tuned it out. Neil
If your gf heard it too does this mean something that was on was making that noise? I was hearing a noise too and I started turning everything off. Fan, AC, Tv, radio, etc. Have you checked your blood pressure when this happens? I get this and think it's related to my blood pressure. You need to tell your GP and ask them to check you ear just in case it's not a infection, ear wax, etc. I don't think you should worry if you both heard it. It means something is causing that sound. Something that's on.You said going clubbing caused this.. Its the loud music that caused your ringing ears. Exposing yourself to loud sounds can damage ears I had researched this topic because I love blasting my music loud turns out this can cause hearing damage. (Hearing loss) When exposed alot you can tear your ear drums. Headphones, earphones, club, blasting loud music, DJ etc. See the safety minimal sound you can listen too. Stay safe✌
Thanks for the response guys.
Nothing was on and everything was switched off. Maybe my girlfriend has very slight ringing when she focuses in on it too?
I mean do we ever hear complete silence anyway? When i was telling my mates they responded with "oh that eeee" sound as if it was totally normal. I was confused to be totally honest and started thinking maybe this has always been there but due to the ear issue i recently suffered from loud noise i just focused in on it.
Oh and i very much doubt its a blood pressure issue as i've only really noticed and focused in on this after a night of loud music. I'm pretty sure its health anxiety related.
No problem👍
I get that eeeeee sound too sometimes. I never knew what it was, I do hear complete silence at times. Especially at night.
Okay, good thing it's nothing bad then. 👍Good Luck
Just a quick update on this..
So late December i mysteriously stopped hearing this sound i thought i could hear for months and months. My health anxiety has now focused in on hypnic jerks and random twitches i sometimes get. Health anxiety sucks.