[nonethewiser]

Hmm I didn’t think that was tinnitus. Maybe symptoms are broader than I thought. I wonder if that’s what I have.

I had a bad sinus infection that has mostly healed. Sometimes I can hear this very low rhythmic beating in my ear. It’s like someone banging on my furnace or doing some sort of distant construction (banging on sheet metal). I can even hear it with noise canceling headphones on (but no music, that drowns it out). The rhythm makes me wonder if it’s my heartbeat somehow.

For a long time I thought it was distant construction but I’m in a very rural area with no construction around, and I’ve noticed it over the span of months. It’s either something like tinnitus or maybe my neighbor is tunneling under my house.

[rocketbop]

It likely is your heartbeat. I had a similar thing for a long time. Advice would be to try and forget about it, and it will go away. The more attention. You give it the more prominent it will become.

I think the brain tends to filter the body sounds out of our consciousness in general and sometimes it sort of forgets to, or becomes rewired to notice or focus on something that is normally filtered.

[ksaj]

This is straight-up tinnitus. Ever since I had ear surgery, I have various types of tinnitus. When the low form started, it reminded me of an idling diesel engine. But of course I mainly get the kind that is easy to mistake for cicadas. Sometimes I've had static sounds, too.

When I was still healing, I would also get phantom choral voices! That was really disturbing. It usually was triggered and filtered by the bathroom fan, so I basically got to crap in a heavenly soundscape, lol.