this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
100 points (97.2% liked)
science
25896 readers
1056 users here now
A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.
dart board;; science bs
rule #1: be kind
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My Tinnitus sprung up on one fateful night, when I was maybe 13 or so years old.
Lots of fighting amidst the family that day made it hard to sleep. I tossed and turned for hours in my bed, combatting this slowly intensifying dread and restless legs (the dread would be best described as similar to the hollowness I felt after my first breakup: the type that you feel).Intermittently begged my parents for comfort, consistently ignored.
Eventually, at ~2:30AM that school night, I was sitting in the floor of my bedroom, a mess of emotions, consumed in an ouroboros of anxiety, trying to calm myself with an I-Spy book.
That’s when the ringing started.
It’s been with me ever since.
Fuckin’ weird how that happened, but yeah I wasn’t sleeping when I should have been when I succumbed to the curse.
I had scarlet fever when I was six, and when I recovered I kept trying to turn the TV off even when it wasn't on. My parents eventually realized the illness gave me tinnitus. It's so weird to see someone else describe it that way because no one really remembers that sound anymore haha
I have a spectral analyzer installed on my phone JUST so I can pull it out to confirm if it's tinnitus or something in the room. You'd be surprised how often I'm the only person in a room that can hear a ringing sound that actually exists.
Mine, after a Van Halen concert. I'd had ringing in my ears after shows before, but this never quite went away.