Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of humming, buzzing, ringing and whirring in both ears. Sometimes it gets really loud like auditory hallucinations do. It’s got me wondering. What is it? Why does it get louder like that? It’s to the point that I want to talk to the doctor about it, but I don’t know which doctor to tell, my pdoc or my regular nurse practitioner. I’m thinking there’s something wrong with my ears but what if it’s auditory hallucinations? Do you ever hallucinate sounds other than voices?
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my mom doesn’t have a mental heallth problem and she hears a gushing in her ear a lot of the time.
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There’s a thing called tinnitus that I’d sometimes get in the mornings where it sounds like an ocean or something in my ear, so you might want to read about that and see if that could be going on.
" It is commonly described as a hissing, roaring, ringing or whooshing sound in one or both ears, called tinnitus aurium, or in the head, called tinnitus cranii. The sound ranges from high to low pitch and can be a single tone, multi-tonal, or noise-like, having no tonal quality."
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I’m hearing pots and a pans banging around in the kitchen. I hear the cackle of the witch in the stairs. There’s a lot a listenin’ tonight.
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@Leaf benzos can help with tinnitus, if that’s the cause to your situation.
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This thread got me on a bit of a scavenger hunt, and is actually very interesting… I always wondered if the auditory hallucinations had to do with hearing problems, and here’s some science to back it up
( read Conclusions ) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29554989
So maybe a large part of it is less to do with the mind and more to do with hearing. It makes sense now that I think about it. The mind fills in the blanks for what it can’t hear and creates sounds that aren’t there. Our eyes and mind do the same thing.
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