I am 30 years old and I’ve had chronic tinnitus for about 5 months. Before, it would come and go and now it is always in my right ear. I also have noticed significant hearing loss in that ear. I can’t imagine dealing with this the rest of my life…

I have researched causes for tinnitus in general; I do not have hearing loss, high blood pressure and am on no medications. But I am wondering if anyone has information or ideas on this issue specifically. A more in-depth description follows:

Most of the time I have at least a mild ringing in my ears, but nothing worrisome. This particular issue happens sporadically. It might happen several times a day, or it might be months and months in between instances. I had in fact forgotten about it completely until a few minutes ago when I decided to ask this question. It happened again, only briefly, as I have been typing.

It pops up out of the blue, with no forewarning or apparent cause. A loud ringing starts in my left ear and the hearing in my right ear is significantly muted, like the sound is coming down a long tunnel. The ringing will linger on the left for a variable period of time and then quickly or gradually pass through my head until it is balanced in both ears. That is the best way I can describe it. From my perspective, it seems like the noise is traveling through my head. Once this happens it generally fades quite quickly.

I have one last addendum. Occasionally the noise will linger significantly longer than usual. In these instances it seems like it is because I am focusing on the noise instead of trying to ignore it. If I try to ignore it or focus on something else it then seems to go away on its own. I say ’seems’ because this may be simple coincidence. It doesn’t happen often enough to play around with it, so to speak.

Well, I thank you for reading through all of that. I may have gone into unnecessary detail, but this is something that can at times be somewhat distressing and disorienting. Only not quite so disturbing as to seek medical attention, or I wouldn’t be making my first inquiry on Yahoo Answers… At any rate, thanks for reading, and for any input you may have.

http://health.learninginfo.org/tinnitus.htm

it suggests a way of beating the back of your head to stop ringing, (take a look what it says your self to understand), Ime not sure if it works though?