Hey all... just found this board, its surprising to see how many people are
having the same problem as I am.  

Basically, I've had a high piched monotone ringing in my left ear only for
about a year now.  When it started out, I could only hear it when I was
lying on my left side on my bed while my computer was on... I guess the
vibrations were causing something to happen, but whenever I rolled over or
turned off my computer, I could no longer hear the noise.  Gradually, over
the course of several months I guess, it got to the point where my left
ear was ringing constantly.

For the past several months I've been struggling to determine the source
of my tinnitus... I have been to pretty loud concerts before, which I've
been told is most likely the cause of the ringing, and I've also been told
that there's basically nothing I can do about that.  But I also have TMJ,
my jaw began popping pretty badly maybe six months after the constant
ringing started.  I started wearing a clear plastic mouth brace at night
that evens out my jaw while I sleep.  I was really hoping that the brace
would magically cause the ringing to stop, but it didn't.

So I guess my question is, is it possible that the noise was caused by a
loud concert, or the TMJ, or what?  What is more likely?  My symptoms are
that it only rings in one ear, when I open my mouth really wide I can hear
a slight change in pitch in the ringing sound, and there seems to be an
unusual amount of earwax being generated out of the ear that rings...
whenever I hold my ear closed with my finger and then let go, the ear
makes a popping sound that the other ear doesn't do... that's possibly
also a result of the increased earwax.

Sorry if I'm not making much sense, I'm just trying to figure it all
out... I'd like to at least try something but I don't know where to start,
because I'm not even sure of the source or origin of the noise.  Any help
would be appreciated, thanks.

Steve