Otherwise knows as Sudden Brief Unilateral Tapering Tinnitus (SBUTT) or just Transient Ear Noise, TTT is typically a daytime phenomenon where you suddenly hear a tone or piercing whistle in just one ear that quickly becomes extremely loud. It arises out of the bule, reaches a crescendo in around a second or so and then […]

Often, but wrongly referred to as tinnitus. Somatosounds are natural sounds your body makes that arise in vascular, muscular, skeletal, or respiratory structures, or in the temporomandibular joint. A very common somatosound is hearing your heartbeat–what is commonly called pulsatile tinnitus–but it is not technically tinnitus at all. Other somatosounds include hearing your blood pulsing […]

The inability to tolerate everyday sounds that most people easily tolerate due to experiencing one of the forms of hyperacusis, especially loudness hyperacusis.

Tinnitus that has you have experienced continuously or intermittently for more than 6 months.

A normal phenomenon that occurs in all people that generally refers to the imagination of sound. For example, repeating a phone number in your head or recalling a song or something you have read.

Your auditory system has its own internal “gain control” similar to a volume control on a radio or other auditory device. The level of gain determines the degree to which the environmental sounds you hear are amplified or enhanced. The level of gain changes automatically to adjust to the level of sound. Thus, as the […]