My tinnitus (with video so you can hear it)

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I hear an augmented chord in my right ear. It gets worse at times of stress or fatigue. I originally just had a db6 note in my ear (I know because I have almost perfect pitch, almost perfect because I can't tell you what octave it's in, though I haven't tried to learn them), then I was struck on the head with a heavy box behind the ear, and now it is an augmented chord starting on db 6 that wavers in and out.

http://youtu.be/0VeJ66OnRAY

Does listening to the video example worsen it or improve it in your case, or neither?

Strangely, I think it helps remove some of the ringing. I heard of a therapy that is exactly that, they find what frequency (frequencies in my case) and have you listen to it in a daily regimen. Luckily I can tell what pitch it was, I don't have to pay. This lends credence to the theory that tinnitus is at least partially neurological. Not everyone has pure tone tinnitus I've heard, though.

I'm curious. Is tinnitus commom in AS? I have chronic tinnitus, a very high-pitched tone in my left ear. I have neurological deficiencies on the left side of my face due to hemifacial microsomia (Goldenhars). I presumed that the tinnitus was due to that, but now I wonder if it's common with Aspies.

I played a guitar incredibly loud with feedback in a reflective garage, so I can tell where I got it from, but we may be more susceptible because of just having heightened sensory issues already (more likely to notice it). I have no doubt that it is partially physically based in the ear, but i think the psycho-acoustical perception part is significant, I believe.

my tinnitus sounds like a cross between analog tape hiss and the high end of a crashing cymbal. I occasionally get a transient 1050 cycle [approximate] whine in one ear or the other, usually the right ear, and to deal with that I yawn vigorously and get in some extra oxygen and that has so far gotten rid of that tone. when I bear down, the ringing gets worse. somehow I am able to listen "through" it and hear very quiet things beneath the apparent level of the ringing.