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I've got multiple tones in both ears. Most of the time I don't notice it but sometimes... well it's hard not to panic when you realize you can't escape it. I would very much like to experience life without the ringing again before I kick the bucket. I'd honestly probably cry.

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I've had it for as long as I can remember, I suspect it's been there since birth. As a small child, I thought it was normal and that it was what the Simon & Garfunkel song "The Sound of Silence" was talking about. Anyway, I think I may be lucky in that I've never experienced not having it, so it doesn't bother me at all. It's just there.

Same here. The sound's always been there and it's the only thing I can control my attention towards perfectly. Kind of like how you can't not think about pink elephants but through a lifetime of practice I can do it with this one specific thing.

Same with me, can't remember when mine started. I knew pretty early it wasn't normal though as for me it's only in my left ear.

Unless I'm actively thinking about it (like now), most of the time it's nt an issue, and it's quiet enough to be easily drowned out.

Makes me realize I should not take even the most mundane things for granted

Facts. I used to take a lot for granted. Now I not only have tinnitus, but also muscularskeletal and digestion issues. I'd love to go back to being healthy again, but sometimes you're dealt a shit hand. And you never know what will happen tomorrow that will change the rest of your life.

Have you ever tried the back of the head tap thing? https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...

I wish all of these weird tricks worked. I’m sure all of us tried them during our initial panic

It's almost always been there for me if a room is too quiet, but somehow it just doesn't bother me no matter how much I notice or think about it. It's just there.

It's unbelievably depressing in the initial onset.

Couldn't sleep. Couldn't do my job. Forced to take extended time off. Terrorized by the possibility that I would never be able to work again.

Closet I've ever come to suicide.

Yep same. My mental health has been sigificantly worse across the board since it started.

I don't think I have tinnitus, but I made a bad choice of power supply for some of my audio equipment, and it emits an annoying whine from one of its fans. Which is bad because this is supposed to be audio equipment.

I may simply remove that fan in the future.

I’ll assume you know what you’re doing, but I still had a gut reaction. Careful not to burn your house down.

It's a MEAN WELL industrial power supply, brand new. I needed 12 volts DC to power a "car" amplifier, but it's not easy to get 50 amps of that from the wall. My guess is it's built for industrial automation, not audio equipment, but it's not like the other option of repurposed server PSUs would have been any quieter.

Removing the fan may or may not be relatively safe depending on how much airflow a 12 inch sub can push through a ported enclosure when it's running anywhere near full enough power to actually heat up the power supply.

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