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Posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 7:25:06
This is kind of hard to explain, but usually whenever I am awake, there is a constant noise in my head. It's like a physical noise that is always there, like a roaring or a grinding. It's just always there. It's strange and I don't know if it is real or not.
Yesterday I was out walking my dog and all of a sudden, for several minutes, the noise just stopped. I could hear woodpeckers and birds and machinery, but above all else, it was quiet. Absolutely quiet. Is that what a real life is like?
I think that is the first peace in my head I have ever felt.
I talked to my therapist about it this morning, but he seemed to more interesting in the noise in my head.
Any thoughts?
Posted by Emily Elizabeth on February 7, 2006, at 9:46:25
In reply to Peace in my head., posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 7:25:06
It isn't something that I know much about, but some people can have "ringing in the ears" as a med side effect. I also think people can just have it as part of a medical condition or just have it. Could this be something like that? I bet it would be worth mentioning to a GP (and maybe a pdoc if you have one).
Best,
EE
Posted by fairywings on February 7, 2006, at 16:11:23
In reply to Peace in my head., posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 7:25:06
I have what I guess is tinnitus, could it be that? It's what EE called "ringing in the ears" but that's not what it actually sounds like. I think what it sounds like, and the level of sound are different for everyone. I can't stand it when it's quiet, bec. that's all I hear. If I have our toddler's sound soother going, it's not as abnoxious.
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Posted by Dinah on February 7, 2006, at 16:54:19
In reply to Peace in my head., posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 7:25:06
Is the noise like a roar? High or low pitched?
I hear what sounds like background noise at a busy restaurant as I try to fall asleep after a stressful or stimulus filled day, and my neurologist says it's a sign of narcolepsy. I always thought of it as an overstimulated brain trying to release all the input it got all day.
Posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 18:05:31
In reply to Peace in my head., posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 7:25:06
Thank you guys a lot for your posts.
This noise in my head. I know this may sound crazy, but I don't know if it is sound or not. And it's not exactly like a ringing, it's just like this ever present baseline grind. Sometimes it's most definately worse than other times, if I am stressed, pre-occupied or pre-panic attack it gets overwhelming. It's also very very tiring.
It seems like though, the more I progress in therapy, the quieter it gets (making me think it is more emotional than physiological), until finally, it just went away for a few moments and that silence was stark against the previous noise.
And it was like I told my T, it may have even just been about listening.
I mean I could be finally simply allowing myself to hear things other than the din in my head - nice things like birds and the wind. I don't know, but I can say that I have never really heard it (or felt it) before - Just how nice a bird can sound a winter's day.
Posted by muffled on February 8, 2006, at 16:23:44
In reply to Re: Peace in my head to all, posted by madeline on February 7, 2006, at 18:05:31
Hey Madeline, I not posting much. I'm muffled. Hello.
I get noise in my head cuz of controversy going on inside. Its got to do with emotions and my inside kid and stuff. When theres fighting I find it harder to think, and my head feels noisy inside. When it stops its weird and quiet.
So thats what my head noise comes from. Inside fighting.
Muffled
Posted by madeline on February 8, 2006, at 20:56:11
In reply to Re: Peace in my head to all » madeline, posted by muffled on February 8, 2006, at 16:23:44
that's how it feels sometimes to me too. It's very tiring. It's going full blast right now. Just in there grinding away.
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