"The Hum"

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No sump pump, no well pump, no basement. I hear it slightly through the day in my house, but louder at night.
I have Tinnitus and yes, it's been diagnosed by testing. Mine is the upper frequencies and I'm sure it's from years as a Tool & Diemaker in a busy machine shop, combined with years at the drag strip. When I was 14, that firecracker my buddy tossed in the back seat of the '62 Valiant (Some A-Body content) where I was sitting sure didn't help...

The way it was explained to me is pretty simple... You lose hearing at those frequencies and your brain decides it needs to fill in those frequencies.

There is some help... It was suggested I wear hearing aids and those hearing aids would fill in and mask the lost frequencies. My older brother wears them. It was more of a pain in the neck for me and I decided to just ignore the squeal instead. Many do it this way... and there are books devoted to training yourself to do this. My brother doesn't notice his tinnitus until someone or something reminds him... Then it bugs him for a day or two until his forgets about it. Which makes for occasional "Hey Carl, how's the tinnitus?" from me... (LOL... Gotta get my shots in) He's 81 now, so I don't do it anymore. (well, OK, once in a while)

There is a vitamin regiment that may help and there is also a medication that has helped some.

Loud noises make it worse... I have been known to carry soft ear plugs to family functions where there are a lot of little screaming kids. I also wear them when doing something loud in the garage too. Neck pain makes it worse too! My doctors disagree on this.. I have some bad issues with my neck and the guys in charge of my neck will say it shouldn't make a difference and my ENT says it does. Having participated in a couple brief studies about it, I'd say that I'm correct in saying that neck pain does make it worse.

So here's what I suggest. Go see an ENT doc and talk to him. You can get a free hearing test at any place that sells hearing aids, but expect the hard sell to buy, so I really suggest the ENT. There may be some other reason too. Some meds can cause it. Mine would get worse back in my Motrin days... (can't take it now) I would know when I've taken a little too much when the tinnitus got worse.
 
The way it was explained to me is pretty simple... You lose hearing at those frequencies and your brain decides it needs to fill in those frequencies. .

That might be YOUR cause but there is lots of others. Some of it is caused by the bones in your ear actually vibrating. Nothing to do with noise in your brain
 
I think the answer is located in the show ancient aliens
 
I knew a gal that could hum and suck at the same time once........
 
No sump pump, no well pump, no basement. I hear it slightly through the day in my house, but louder at night.

Wonder if you are at one of the main feeds for the water main that is out burried under the street at your house. Supplying water for lots of other people beyond you too.

That water flowing through the main could be resonating up from the street through your water feed and by conducting onto your sewer line up into your house to your cement slab, then on up through the walls of your house like the bell on a trumpet putting out the hum sound.

As people come home from work in the evening the more water they use, taking showers, washing clothes, flushing toilets, washing dishes, cooking could be increasing the resonating tone of that water main, then conducting it up to your house.

Have to do the three foot 3/8" extension test on your water pipes like a stethoscope to see if you can hear any trace of the hum coming through your pipes.

Louder hum at night that during the day.
Hmmm . . . .
 
Wonder if you are at one of the main feeds for the water main that is out burried under the street at your house. Supplying water for lots of other people beyond you too.

That water flowing through the main could be resonating up from the street through your water feed and by conducting onto your sewer line up into your house to your cement slab, then on up through the walls of your house like the bell on a trumpet putting out the hum sound.

As people come home from work in the evening the more water they use, taking showers, washing clothes, flushing toilets, washing dishes, cooking could be increasing the resonating tone of that water main, then conducting it up to your house.

Have to do the three foot 3/8" extension test on your water pipes like a stethoscope to see if you can hear any trace of the hum coming through your pipes.

Louder hum at night that during the day.
Hmmm . . . .
That sounds plausible, however the 4 days over last winter when we lost electricity this was the loudest. Nobody had any water either. 2 hours after the electric stopped, the water stopped.
 
I know I'm not crazy, but I hear a constant hum inside my house. First time I really became aware of this was when we lost power for days last february. I heard it then too. Never payed it much attention until then. With no power available there were no appliances operating in the home. So that rules any of that out as a source. It's at that time I also heard it outside. I just figured people were running generators to keep their heat on. However I still hear it. It's a low pitched thrumming kind of noise like a generator continuously running at a steady speed. Wife told me its tinnitus. I say bullshit. My 9 year old hears it too. He actually came to me this morning and mentioned hearing this. He says it sounds like a truck just sitting and running. I wouldent think a 9 year old would have tinnitus. I looked it up online and apparently I'm not the only one. Anybody else here this?
Havana Syndrome
 
Conspiracy theories, are more fun.
How about deep boring machines connecting all military bases.
You do have an AF base near Right?
Stethoscope to the ground. worth a try, right?
Just don`t let your neighbors see you:D
 
That might be YOUR cause but there is lots of others. Some of it is caused by the bones in your ear actually vibrating. Nothing to do with noise in your brain
I probably should have been more specific. It's my understanding that it is the USUAL cause.

If you really want to take it farther, it's also might be due to trauma, infection, Menieres disease or a lot of other factors. But that is why I suggested that he actually see a real doctor (EMT). I seem to be the ONLY one that's suggested seeing a pro. The rest seem to be talking about aliens and other nonsense.
 
I probably should have been more specific. It's my understanding that it is the USUAL cause.

If you really want to take it farther, it's also might be due to trauma, infection, Menieres disease or a lot of other factors. But that is why I suggested that he actually see a real doctor (EMT). I seem to be the ONLY one that's suggested seeing a pro. The rest seem to be talking about aliens and other nonsense.
Or how about driving 20 mi. away and see if you still hear it, if not. I just saved you PIA doctors visit$$.
Who knows you might spot a ufo, and the trip would really be cool.
 
Or how about driving 20 mi. away and see if you still hear it, if not. I just saved you PIA doctors visit$$.
Who knows you might spot a ufo, and the trip would really be cool.
I guess you could do that too.

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Is there any chance that the youngster is simply agreeing with dad?
Nope, because I never talked to him about it. Only my wife back last february. He came to me this morning about it. I asked him what it sounded like to him. He said it sounded like my truck was running in the driveway, but cant be because I'm in the house. I said yup, sounds like a truck running.
 
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