Poll: Do you have tinnitus (constant ear ringing)?

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I've had tinnitus, I assume, since birth. I first realized not everyone had constant ringing in the ears when I was a child. I remarked how the ringing was so much more noticeable at night when all was quiet and the person said: "What ringing?"

I've never experienced silence. The intensity increases when I'm stressed or subjected to loud noise.

I get it occasionally but it doesn't last long. The only time it lasted a while was when I had something stuck in my ear & they had to flush my ear to get it out. I had ringing for weeks after.
Have you ever been to a doc or tried any treatment I read that certain meds can sometimes help.

They didn't discover the relationship between loud music and tinnitus until I was too far gone to save myself, so, yes I have tinnitus. Was it worth it? The bliss! It was heaven.

had it since about the age of between 4 and 5, when my dad, who was about 10 feet from me, shot a 30:06 rifle into the brush. that was the loudest sound I've heard before or since. that was painfully loud, like an icepick in the ear.

Yes it started 15.

Qtip cotton ball stuck in ear

Still 20/20.hearing

I didn’t know what “ringing ears” actually meant for a long time, “ringing” was not a term I would have used to describe the sound, so I didn’t know that that was what it was. I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. It’s constant now, but as a kid I only really noticed it in quiet settings, I remember associating it with being alone. No significant exposure to loud noise, overly sensitive hearing means I go out of my way to avoid loud noises because even what other people consider “normal” can be painful to me.