[HOMEPAGE] – My theory is that everyone has tinnitus
I hope I am not going to offend anyone here but I do think that a lot of people who say they have tinnitus are the same kind of people who are always ill, never have any energy and generally like to have a moan. Bear with me here, I am not trying to imply that there are not varying degrees of severity with tinnitus and I do think that some people think that its unbearable but a lot of people are just better a putting the distraction out of their heads. What I say is probably not something you wil find in any study out there.
As a child, and I have checked this with other children both at the time and now, if I was in a totally silent room with absolutely no noise at all and was asked to listen carefully I could hear a slight noise, it was constant and at the time I was aware that this noise was in my head. It is not something you are aware of most of the time as any noise at all in the background or your day to day life will mask it.
I think anyone who is put into the above situation and asked to listen will be able to hear something, a noise in their ears or head, I personally think that this is quite normal and I think that most people can quite easily shut the noise out and ignore it, the ones who don’t are moaners!
Don’t get me wrong, there are people out there with serious ringing in their ears and it does have a negative effect on their lives, I would say that my tinnitus is somewhere in the middle of the 2 extremes and comes and goes (by goes I mean reverts back to the level I detailed using the child in a room analogy earlier in this post).
If you have ringing in your ears that is unbearable then you should definitely consult a doctor, if you have what I call mild tinnitus as everyone has then you should really get over yourself!