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Does anyone else get Tinitus (ringing in the ear) when near the computer?

I have always had it slightly, but it wasn't much, mostly I heard it when there wasn't much sound around, when I was sitting quietly sort of thing. However, during the last week, it gets quite loud when I am near a computer.

Anyone else have this? I am wondering whether to wear a lead apron and stick a shield in front of the screen LOL

Hey LF, you may be like me and hear the high tones really well. I was having trouble with my ears and had them checked because I was hearing things others could not. Come to find out my low tomes, such as bass tones are bad, can't hear them well at all but I can hear the high tones too good. Example, I had a tv that was making this really weird sound. Everyone thought I was nuts. 2 weeks after I started hearing it, it went out. The tech siad that whatever was wrong with it ( I can't remember what now) would have made a really high pitched noise. Last year I was using my son's laptop and it started making a noise that no one could hear but me, the hard drive went out the next day. I can hear dog whistles too,lol

Have your hearing checked before you grab the lead apron. They are so uncomfortable and not at all fashionable!

lol

Funny you should say all that, because at night, sometimes I can hear weird noises, they are very faint, but they are there, it is always electrical stuff too.

I'll have to have a route about and see what I can find out

i have a constant ringing in my ears...all the time no matter where i am....if you spend a lot of time in one place and have machines in the same location you will become immune to the sounds around you untill one of the sounds change....then you hear the change...might this be the case?...you computer may be starting to have a problem...

randomhit10

Ringing in the ears. That must me someone is talking about you.
Yeah, I get it sometimes as well. It is quite common.

JJO

Blimey, that wouldn't be the first time

I've had tinitus as long as I can remember, I was diagnosed with it at the age of 4.

I never learned to controll it until I was 12 years old. It made my childhood a living hell. But once you can control it, things are a lot better. I do notice sometimes, if I'm around an old computer monitor, I get a high pitched buzzing that aggravates me a bit. One of the things I've done was...

I was at my buddies a few years ago. He used to have this oldschool compaq monitor. It would always activate my tinitus and I would have to go outside. So one day, I was mad I guess I don't know, I turned the brightness down on his monitor all the way - leaving the contrast up so he could still see. The tinitus didn't dissapear, but the effect was far less.

Perhaps something you should try.

And if you have tinitus, a lead suit wont help, but if something is causing it to activate, then earplugs (sometimes) will.

yes I get that alot to try turning on a radio

The monitor suggestion was a good idea, even just turning it off should let you know if that's causing the problem. If there's a degauss option in the menu that may be a temporary fix (if there's no electrical items closeby causing interference). Sometimes dust buildup on the tubes causes issues, if you have an air compressor or leaf blower, unplugging them and blowing them clean often helps. Another common source is the speakers, sometimes when they start to go out only the kids will notice because it's so high pitched. At 30 I can still hear those cellular ring tones that you're supposed to stop hearing at 20, they drive me nuts!

I have to unplug my monitor and the power supply on my computer because of the noise I hear. When all my stuff is off I can still hear so many different high pitch noises, and when it gets silent in my room the noises get reeaaaally loud, I usually end up turning my TV on for background noise.

I remember more than once on a sleeping strike my computer would feel strange. I would have to get away from it because I could see and feel EMF passing through me and giving me a headache. The monitor was emitting a large amount of it, surprisingly so was the printer.

Well it's not the computer I'm hearing, but I do sometimes get a very high pitched sound in my ear. Usually when I'm in bed waiting to fall asleep. It sounds like a tiny pitching fork has been hit inside my ear - it gets slowly louder and then fades away. It only lasts for about 10-15 seconds. Anyone else get this?

Many CRT monitors and TVs give off a high-pitched whine at 15khz or greater. Many adults can't hear it. Some can.

Tinnitus is different. It results from damage to the same structures that allow a person to hear the whine given off by a CRT (fine hairs in the inner ear). That's why the ringing of tinnitus sounds similar to the CRT whine. But if you have tinnitus, the chances are good that you can't hear actual sounds at frequencies above 15khz, at least not very well. Instead, you go around hearing that whine all the time, or at least a lot of the time.

I'm oversimplifying, but that's basically it.

Well put. i was hit by a firework and have a very loud ringing in my ear, the first few months were very bad, but now im getting used to it some time it irritates me when i think about it. such as now. so i think i will go and read something else

Yes, I always get it around computers, and other electronics! I also hear when ever a TV is left on. By that I mean, when the cable box is turned off, and the television set is left on leaving a blank screen. I hear it from a few rooms away, and usually nobody in my family can hear it from even a few feet away!

I get thata lot too my wife thought i was nuts because she couldn't hear anything.

Its probably the fan. My fan is broken and it goes WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE so loud people think I'm running the vacuum when they call me on the phone.

But since I'm deaf I just pop out my hearing aids and I'm good.

Modern hard drives often spin at 10k rpm or 15k. Cpu fans are usually good for 5k rpm. Also, if your hearing was magneto-sensitive, the emf's along the hard drive cable to the motherboard can sound like a faint screaming. One of my computers had the hard drive cable running too close to the sound card, so I could hear exactly what that sounds like.

I'm pretty hard of hearing, and I have tinnitus too. But strangely enough, during a power outage that covered everything in a 50 mile radius, I lost the tinnitus and my permanent headache within the first half hour.

i hav had tintus all my life and nearing high pitch things is not were it ends at night i can here things like gates banging fr my granmothers estate that is about 300 m away.have u ever been around someone that used a dg wistle????