I've had tinnitus in my left ear for 25 years and have lived with it fine. My ENT saw nothing unusual and the audiologist at the time said i had mild hearing loss etc etc. Nothing really to do about it. Everything was fine until like 4 months ago when the tinnitus in that ear changed for like 10 minutes or so to be very high pitched -- like thousands of crickets. Then the high pitch went away (leaving the regular tinnitus behind), until yesterday morning. I woke up with the high pitch and it has come and gone every 10 minutes or so -- high pitched. (The rest of the time the regular tinnitus is there.) The new sound goes away with some change in head position then it returns after 10 minutes or so. What's going on here? (I'm a healthy, very fit person.)

I don't know what's going on, but I'd sure like to discuss the tinnitis with you. Some days I think I'm going to lose my mind. I wonder if it gets worse if I eat salt, get stressed, or what?? Not sure. I don't go to a dr. because I went once and he said there's absolutely no help for it.

This is such a bummer!! But I keep telling myself - at least it's not terminal!

ADCulpepper, or Roxie,

Has any of your audiological tests ever shown "conductive" hearing loss.