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RE: 5-minute freewrite Day 654 prompt: key
@scribblingramma good story, If I followed the music I would go in circles, I have started hearing a flute playing, it took me days to figure out it was coming from my ear, I hear it all day over and over the same tune. Driving me crazy. it is only one ear that hears it.
lol. I've heard whole symphonies (discordant cacophonies is more like it) for almost 20 years now. I've gotten used to it, but I don't hear so good anymore
@owasco do you hear it in one ear or both? For a long time, I had been hearing a squishy sound between my hears, that has stopped and now it is music or could be a dial tone on a house phone with three different beats. It does not bother me until I try to go to sleep and the house is quiet.
That sounds very similar to my earliest sounds, a tone with some pulsating lower tones mixed in, but in both ears - I thought my house was making a weird sound and I was the only one who could hear it. It's gotten much worse, I hear all sorts of things now, and can't even tell if an appliance is making sounds or if it's in my head anymore. And yes, it becomes much more pronounced in quiet places.
An ear doctor diagnosed me with tinnitus. As I understand it, when you are losing your hearing your brain dislikes the silence so it fills silence in with sound. I'm used to the sounds, but not being able to hear well is getting annoying.
@owasco I went to Dr Google and tinnitus was the closest thing I could find to my symptoms. I guess I will save my money and learn to live with it. I have also been having my husband repeat things so I think my hearing is not up to par.
That's all it is. Your ears are aging. You do not have a brain tumor. Nothing can be done that I know of, other than eat right and get some sunshine, which I know you do plenty of.
On the bright side, I've written about it a few times, so there's that.
Oh dear, that doesn't sound pleasant at all! (oops....was that a pun?)