How is tinnitus?

Tinnitus has many manifestations, which can be acute or chronic, persistent or irregular. Tinnitus patients will also hear various sounds, including cicadas, buzzes, clicks and so on. Tinnitus will mainly affect the psychological experience of patients, and even cause deafness, which will seriously affect the quality of life. Tinnitus can be unilateral or bilateral, which can be in the ear, intracranial, extracranial and air. The sound of tinnitus appears inside and outside the skull, which is called cranial ringing, and it rings in the air around the body. High-pitched persistent tinnitus is the most common one, which is usually caused by sensorineural hearing loss, suggesting cochlear injury. Low-key tinnitus is common in Meniere's disease or unexplained tinnitus. Vascular pulsating tinnitus is consistent with heartbeat, which is caused by intravascular diverticulum or arteriovenous fistula, and also caused by physical reasons.

Tinnitus is mainly manifested as conscious ringing sounds on one side or both ears of the patient or inside and outside the skull, such as cicada singing, blowing sound, running water sound, electric current sound, rustling sound, buzzing sound, chirp sound and so on. One or more of these sounds can appear, which can be continuous or intermittent, and the ringing part can even appear around the body. Patients often suffer from irritability, anxiety, depression, insomnia and so on. Tinnitus is a sound originating from the ear, such as bell, buzz, buzz, whistle, roar, hiss, knock, chirp or pulse-like sound. It is not the sound from the outside, but the main symptom of cochlear and auditory neuropathy. Tinnitus is very common in clinic, mainly including tonal and non-tonal.

Tonal tinnitus originated from the middle or inner ear, also known as subjective tinnitus, which can only be heard by patients themselves. Non-tonal tinnitus is sometimes called objective tinnitus, which can be heard by both patients and examiners. Head noise comes from machinery and can be introduced into the inner ear through various soft and hard structures of the body or liquid and gas media. The most common manifestation is that patients hear subjective tinnitus, and the sound comes from the vortex of the great vessels in the neck. The patient feels that the voice is pulsating, but the examiner can rarely detect the voice of the patient's complaint.