Yes, absolutely.

You may have fluid blockage in the eustachian tube, that can cause T noises.

It's not very common, but tinnitus associated with hormonal changes is
common, including those changes caused by treatments that lower adrenal
and/or thyroid function or sex hormones.  Many women develop T during
perimenopause, too.

Check your history for any new drugs/treatments, illnesses, worsening of
 sinusitis, tick bites or other infectious diseases, any past or
present endocrine abnormalities.

When my adrenal function was low last summer, my T cranked up through
the roof, for instance.  Sex hormones are also steroids, so andropause
cannot be ruled out, IMO.

Susan

Can you get a trusted therapist to look at your body and the state of
your muscles?

Tension in the muscles is a very common, though not generally
accepted, cause of tinnitus. Especially as you have just been flying.
Was it an unusually long flight? Were you in an unusual position? Or
with age our bodies no longer accept what they could when we were
younger.

Have a read of http://eebee.net
Lots of interesting advice there.

Elly

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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing
as everyone else and thinking something different.  
Roger von Oech

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else
has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
Jonathon Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels

http://eebee.net/

It is commonly called 'nerve-typed' tinnitus by the ENT doctors in
China where no known cause is found.  The standard treatment for this
type of tinnitus is intravenous injection of blood vessel dilating
medicine.  As a matter of fact, the ENT doctors here recommend
patients to go into this treatment as soon as tinnitus is discovered---
preferrably within 2 weeks after it is discovered.  This infusion
practice is commonly used in Europe and China but does not seem that
popular in the world of the Anglo-American medical establishment.

At this moment you are bombarded by suggestions or suggested
solutions, and it is inevitable that you may get confused by having
too many of them.

My advice is try out any of them as long as the consequences are
acceptable to you, either financially or physically.

My advice to you is to put on one tablet of gingko biloba daily.  The
purpose for this is to keep your tinnitus fresh, and hopefully treat
it--it does for some patients.  You should talk to an experienced
pharmacist before taking it.

(moo) [MZB] {Mel} wrote

I'm shocked that in two weeks no one has jumped on this.  What does
"flown" mean? This could be anything from an sitting in an open cockpit
biplane to a 14 hour intercontinental flight.  Airplanes can be LOUD.  I
think sitting in the loudest seat on a modern airplane for hour after
hour might push a fragile individual over the edge, into tinnitus.  Walk
around a plane ... you will see people with noise cancelling headphones.
After a while, you don't notice the sound on an airplane, but it's
there.

You may have 61 years of exposure to damaging levels of sound, and
finally your ears have gone past a threshold into permanent tinnitus.
Think hard: have you NEVER had tinnitus before?  Maybe after a rock
concert, or a night at a loud bar, or a noisy sporting event, or using a
screaming drill or vacuum, or a baby screamed in your ear, or a gun or a
firecracker went off near you, or went to a movie that was too loud?
I'll bet you had it before, but it went away after a few hours.
Maybe this time it won't.

That's easy with mild tinnitus.  If your tinnitus is trauma related, and
you don't start obsessively avoiding loud sounds, it may get harder and
harder to ignore.  

Welcome to the club.

.

(I'm not saying all of this applies to you, and I'm not saying any of
the other comments were wrong, but I challenge any reader here to tell
me I'm wrong on anything I said.)

Mel -

Sounds just like my situation, 3 years ago.  Steady mid or high tone.
Worsened when I thrust my jaw forward.  Still does.

Transitioned to different symptoms: tone stopped, had pressure sensation in
ears instead.  Sometimes brief pain.  Yawning or holding nostrils shut &
blowing cheeks full would "pop" my ears, relieve pressure.

Joined T newsgroup.  Helpful people there.  Found it best not to dwell there
too long, could get depressing.

Got rid of trendy new aerospace foam pillow, got really soft, minimum fill
pillow, seemed to help.

2 months after it began, went to a local ENT guy. His advice: live with it.

Gave up caffeine, chocolate, beer. No significant change.  Started back on
chocolate and limited beer.  No significant change.

4 months after it started, I went to the House Clinic in LA.  They tested
me, said there was nothing they could do, suggested I take niacin regularly,
doses large enough to flush (red skin).  Didn't help.  Gave up after two
weeks or so.

Noticed that neck stiffness had accompanied onset of  T.  Did neck muscle
stretching exercises, extended side-to-side rotation angles, maybe helped.

Put ThermaCare self-heating pads high on the back on my neck at bedtime.
Found T gone in the morning 2 tries out of four.  Always came back.

Tried vitamins, magnesium, manganese, etc., some pills advertised on
Jeopardy that promised to help, no success.

Saw an ad about lasers & T.  Passed it on to some biomed types in the
sci.optics newsgroup; impossible, they agreed.  Rip-offs abound.

Bought some noise cancellation headphones from Bose, the biggest kind.
Always wear them in the air now.  (Barn door firmly shut, horse still gone.)

Walked in the evening, found that helped.  T is a perceptive thing, so the
same nerve-to-brain signal may seem better or worse just due to mood.

Always carry foam earplugs, have spares everywhere.  When a loud motorcycle
appears out of nowhere, I have no qualms about sticking my fingers in my
ears.  Tricky to do with grocery bag and coffee cup in hands.

In summary, nobody seems to have a handle on this, which is strange, given
how widespread the problem is.  Seems like many of the folks I know have T
too.  You'd think the pharma companies would go after this HUGE market.  And
growing, judging from the really loud music I hear coming out of vehicles
with their windows up.

For me, the best course was (and is) to try things and, at the same time,
work on being reconciled to living with it.  Quitting caffeine, taking
vitamins, walking, and doing neck exercises didn't hurt.  Good luck.