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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BaliRob" data-source="post: 280556" data-attributes="member: 36236"><p>Ju got it right for many - sounds like white noise. Mine was caused by a flat lift loader dropping to the road surface suddenly with a deafening crack which caused a sharp pain in my left ear. This was 17 years ago and all the research I have done indicates that it will never go but can be louder at times. Sufferers (like me) get used to it and the brain tends to ignore it. The doctor said to me - "Does it come on when you are sitting upright and suddenly doze of?" He hit the nail on the head and I thought how strange but he could offer no palliative solutions. Those with SEVERE Tinnitus use various methods to 'noise cancel'- this is trying to find what wave length the prolonged sound uses and employ an equal wave length to combat and thus cancel out the offending first sound. A good example of this is used by those who cannot get to sleep and use a radio or some other acoustic device under the pillow. Tinnitus does not always cancel out low or high noises but rather runs parallel with all sounds heard by the ear drum. During the day I could listen to the Tinnitus if I wanted but of course other distractions take over and it is not a problem. Sitting here quietly writing this it is rather noisy and could drive one daft if one let it. For new sufferers - do not despair you will (or your brain will) be able to control it</p></blockquote><p></p>

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