For people living with tinnitus, a range of sounds can be constantly ringing in their ears. Adelaide woman Victoria Didenko shares her experience with tinnitus and the difficulties it brings. Tinnitus is the perception of sound without an external source.
Buzzing. Screeching. Static. A tea kettle sound. Roaring. For people living with tinnitus, a range of sounds can be constantly ringing in their ears. For Adelaide woman Victoria Didenko, who has been living with tinnitus for the past 10 years, the sounds vary. "I have a feeling of heaviness in my ears so I want to keep popping my ears," she told SBS News. "And the vibration of the ringing gets a very high-pitched sonic ring, which has now been accompanied with a pulsatile beat like a heartbeat.
"I can hear bum, bum, bum, bum in the left ear now as well, so there's quite a cacophony of sounds going on in my head." Diagnosed at the age of 55, Didenko says although it is manageable, it has been difficult. "It's like a dripping tap in the middle of the night, it's just constantly there," she said. "You just want to be able to turn it off but you can't." Tinnitus, often described as a ringing in the ears or head, is the perception of sound without an external sound sourc
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