Hi people,

I was hoping somebody could offer some advice about my tinnitus.
Obviously I already looked around Google but I found the only
easy-to-navigate stuff was very much sales-pitch sounding for my liking
and therefore I didn't trust any of it.

It does not seem as bad as some cases I have heard about but it is bad
enough to be negatively affecting my life now in the ways you will be
familiar with.

When it first started happening a few months ago I was convinced that
the noise must be coming from outside. It was only when I realised that
no matter my position in the house that the noise was always "coming
from the right" that I thought, sh.t, this noise is "in my head". So I
hoped it would go away - and although it has done now and again, it's
mostly here for days at a time.

Unlike what I hear about most symptoms, the noise I hear is a
particularly low-pitched sound. The pitch of the sound does not change.
Imagine being on a large ship or ferry, the noise of the engine - a
deep whirring noise that just droans on. Or like a large fan switched
on "downstairs" that you can hear "through the floor" when you're
upstairs. Of for computer users, you know the large capacity external
hard disc drives you get, they spin so fast that they create this deep
whirring sound, like that even.

Whenever there is any other sort of noise in the real world it is sort
of drowned out, or perhaps physically stopped somehow, but these
moments are literally split seconds, and generally this is an on-off
whirring. Out and about, normal town/city noise usually drown it out,
but I still have this, admittedly very mild, sort of headache feeling.

That is all in my right ear. Last night I noticed an extremely subtle
extremely high-pitched noise in my left ear as well - so hopefully that
will get worse as time goes on as well.

I have heard from these off-puttingly sales-orientated tinnitus sites
that there are various causes of tinnitus; I am not sure what mine
would be, it could very easily be argued that I have been quite
stressed for several months about several things, from mild issues to
relatively worrying issues but nothing quite as severe as family death
or anything. High cholesterol? Don't know about all that stuff. Erm...
I haven't heard any memorably loud stuff of late, no moreso than usual
in the last 20 years etc.

If there is any way that any of these clues make anything obvious in
terms of my particular situation then of course i would love to hear,
"ah, it's ok, you have a particularly common type of tinnitus that
young people get and it can be cured instantly by clicking your fingers
three times" that would be ideal, otherwise I am hoping to be able to
make a start in working out something else to do about this god-awful
problem, the likes of which I was hoping I could save for when I was
slightly older.

Please help! Thanks.