ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: mema on June 06, 2007, 08:11:03 am
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I am SSD. Aside from the tinnitus and some of the other popping sounds I get I always hear phones ringing. Guess what,they aren't. Doesn't matter if inside or out a few times a day I think a phone is ringing and its not. Just wondering if anyone else has this.
mema
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Yes, I experience the same thing and can't begin to tell you how many times I have "heard" a phone ring, only to pick it up and hear the dial tone. I will even ask my husband "who called earlier today" and he says "the phone never rang". Well it did in my head >:(
Cheryl
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yup... oh the number of times i turned off the shower because i thought i heard the phone ringing heheheheheheh......
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I hear the phone ringing when I'm blow drying my hair. Weird, huh???
Sue in Vancouver USA
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Yes I have that, the girls at work get a laugh every once in a while when I fly across the room to answer a phone that isn't ringing!
Kathleen
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Yes I also think I hear the phone ring all the time. What is really bad is when I put my cell phone in a place where I don't normally keep it, and it rings and I can't find it. That drives me nuts. When I use my hair dryer I hear crickets in my deaf ear. I use a ear plug when I dry my hair to keep the crickets away. BB
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funny and here I thought I was special LOL :-*
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one good thing about cell phones ... you can change the ring to something else.... thats NOT a ring.. but a song or just something different .. so when you hear ringing.. at least you know its not your phone...
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Joef
Can you believe I've never had a cell phone. Don't know if land phones or cordless phones allow you a diffferent ring?
mema
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Funny I just got some new house phones, I set one to play xmas songs LOL My neighbors phone makes animal sounds. Scares the heck out of me everytime I'm there and her phone rings.
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My problem with my cell phone is I hear it ring, I just can't find it!! I now have it set so it rings, lights up and vibrates!! I can even find it in the depths of my purse :D
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I don't hear phones ringing, but I do hear, on occasion, a door slamming shut. Soon after this sound happens the back of my head feels as though it swells? A head ache follows after the swelling. I feel silly writing this as to most it must sound strange.
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Arushi,
After 20 months one thing I learned is nothing sounds strange or silly. Forget my phones ringing, I now hear thunder. \
mema
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I know what you're talking about too.
Rich
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Oh. those poor folks out there that don't have AN's, they have to P
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Oh, those poor folks out there who don't have ANs--they have to PAY for entertainment!
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Well I had ringing in my ear before the surgery, and now that I have had surgery and lost hearing - I still have the ringing. I wouldn't say it is anything like a phone ringning. What I do notice is that if the phone rings right next to my deaf ear - it sounds like it is coming from another room. I'll usually get up to look for my phone and then realize once I turn my head that it is right next to me - no tbig deal though.
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phones ringing, , thunder, doors slamming, It's all theer, but only in my head. The worst is hearing my neighbors kids (who are much younger than mine) scream out from across the streeet when they have skinned their knee or something, and it sounds liek they are dying, I think I't's my kidss, so I shut off the shower and come racing down the stairs (not a good thing for an unbalanced ANer to do) to find they are sitting quietly reading a book. Drives me nuts. I hear things that are not there, and don;t hear what is right next to me. Ask Brucifier, he hears a choir singing in his deaf ear. Hope they are at least singing songs he likes. LOL
Patti ut
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So nobody hears the talk radio that's in the next room softly playing?
Maybe this is where "ghosts and things that go bump in the night" originated. Somebody back when had an AN!!
Sue in Vancouver USA
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Sue, you described it perfectly. Sometimes before I fall asleep, I hear a low male voice, as though it were emanating from the TV in the next room - can't make out any words, and yet there seem to be syllable breaks. It's a modulated, conversational rhythm, very lulling. I feel like I'm stuck in Huxley's "Brave New World".........("the..Nile..is..the..longest..river..in..Africa.....")
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Does tintinnitus count?
I haven't suffered from 'hearing' phantom phone rings, voices, thunder or anything else that I can recall. I seem to lead a dull life. However, I do miss some actual phone rings, especially if I'm in another room or have a radio or television on. That's why I have Caller I.D. and an answering machine.
Jim
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I just read about all this phone ringing business! It happens to me when I'm taking a bath or drying my hair, too. I just kind of lived like that, thinking it's just me. And looking for my cell phone around my oldest son makes him CRAZY. I have a smile on my face now thinking about him watching me dig in my purse (it's big).
I thought that I did not get the tentinitis with this tumor, but now I guess I did! OH GREAT!
Pattibobatti
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Jim...it's tinnitus...but there is also other things within the tinnitus that causes the phantom sounds. At least for me anyway. In the car the humming road noises cause me to hear an off key melody plunking away and I'm not sure what causes the "distant radio" business, which is usually at night. I have a fan in my bedroom to help even out the tinnitus at night (my eye doctor thought that was hilarious for some reason. I wanted to smack him!) and maybe that causes the tinnitus to do that. I've mentioned on here before that I read that this might be caused ( or IS caused, I don't remember) by the brain trying to made sense of the sounds it is trying to process. Hey, sounds possible to me!
Sue in Vancouver USA
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Sue,
My good ear has an upper range loss so phones ringing are real picnic for my family. I just let the answering machine take messages...makes life less complicated and rushed anyway. I have a perfect excuse to use the machine, even if my callers dislike it.
I get a stupid giggle out of my GP from time to time when I explain my quirks. I really think he feels embarrassed for not knowing what to reply. GPs just have little frame of reference beyond the bais neurologic signs. So, they just give a laugh.
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Hi everyone,
The phone ringing is separate from my tinnitus. My tinnitus is constantly in my AN ear. Alot of things make my tinnitus louder at times or different. The hearing phones ring is an actual sound of ring, ring, ring.......ring, ring ring. Its not in my AN tinnitus side. Sounds like both ears pick it up, but as I said intially no phones are ringing. My newest sound is when I'm lying in bed and my husband opens the door I get a piercing sound that seems to go through one earand out the other. Happens with certain sounds on a t.v. show. Or last night lying in bed next to my grandaughter she turned on her side and again this piercing sound.
mema
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So do you think the phone ringing sound is also tintinitis or not?
I know it all started after the AN surgery. I too hear the ringing sound like its in both of my ears.
Pattibobatti
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Pattibobatti,
No I dont' think the phone ringing I hear is tinnitus. My tinnitus is a more constant ring. The hearing phones is a sequence of ring, ring, ring, just like a phone sounds. There were others who noted the shower or hairdryer. I take baths and don't blow dry my hair. Not to say yours isn't tinnitus. Althought we all have alot of the same side effects we are also all different in how we react to our AN treatment.I think alot of the noises do have to do with our good hearing ear and how it compensates for the other side, the bad AN ear.
mema
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This too funny for me. My sons think I have lost it ;D I hear the phone ring all the time, especially when I blow dry my hair.
When it is windy outside and I move my head I hear a sound like wind is whipping around in a tunnel. Anyone know what I'm talking about? The dam cars with the boom boxes drive me insane. I feel vibrations before I see the car. I have to roll up the windows and hold both ears. The sensation in my AN ear borders on pain. I cannot have the car window open with the wind hitting my AN ear. PAINFUL ??? My husband loves to drive with his window down. He can't believe my ear is so sensitive.
Trials and tribulations of AN. I'll have to let my sons know I haven't lost it :o
Anne Marie
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Ann Marie,
I know exactly what your talking about. At work when I would walk back to the stock room It felt like a wind tunnel in my head going ear to ear. It seems my good ear is getting more sensitive. This earache I got over a month ago still pains me. I've been on two different ear drops, one which had steroids in it. I'm hoping it will kick in. No were not crazy, just special!
mema
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Memma,
Do you ever hear the door bell ring? Between the phone and the doorbell, no wonder I'm dizzy!!! I can relate to the good ear becoming more sensitive. I guess it has to compenstate for the other ear. I cannot take any type of loud noises. If the TV is too loud I loose it.
Anne Marie
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I feel bad for my next door neighbor who we are very close with. After a short while I had to ask him to turn down the tv so I could better hear him and turn off the fan for my eye that has problems. Geezzee, I wish I could just walk in......
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Anne Marie,
No door bells. What I realized last night while drawing my bath I thought I heard the phone ring as the water was running. I get clicking alot in my good ear. Good luck with your FSR. Where are you getting it done at? I had mine done at MD Anderson.
mema
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So funny...my neighbor shouted over this morning, "Is your phone working? Ours has been out since Friday!" Well I can only supply her with half the information she wants! ;D I don't even bother to run for the phone any more, I let the land line answerer take care of calls. I carry a cell around.
I always think the phone is ringing when I am in the shower. Before my AN was discovered I was constanly dashing around the house trying to get to the land phone. I actually thought people were pulling hangups because many times nobody was there, just a dial tone. ??? I didn't get my own cell until post op.
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Mema,
I bought a wireless plug in door bell that sends the sound from a small antenna box that sits atop the chime and transfers the sound to the back of my house. The door bell can be heard in any area that the wireless is plugged into. Works great.