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I lived in California for 16 years. No Tinnitus. I moved to Indiana. A couple years later, I applied for a telemarketing job. Their training room was terrible. Very cold. They wouldn’t turn off the air conditioner so I had air conditioning blowing on my head 8 hours a day for a couple weeks. I left the job. After I left, the Tinnitus started. I don’t know if it was because I was in that cold air for too long or the stress of the training.
My Tinnitus is not constant (not 24 hours a day). For example, I can barely hear it right now.
Last week, I went on a cruise along the Eastern coast (to the Bahamas). A couple days into the cruise I noticed that I no longer had Tinnitus. It was gone the entire week. Maybe because I had no stress (work, kids, etc.)
During my plane ride back to Indiana I had a lot of pain/pressure on my right ear when we were descending into Indiana. My tinnitus came back. I had no pain in my ear when I was flying out of Indiana to New York. The ear pain only happens whenever I am flying back to Indiana.
I’m thinking that my tinnitus is the result of stress and barometric pressure.
I noticed the comment below (from Ask website) about barometric pressure. Do you agree with that?
I have Tinnitus and when I leave our geographic area of the mid-west where we live our ringing goes away? Why?
The ringing goes away probably due to a change in barometric pressure. This is because you a leaving an area that has high pressure.
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Hi rfcf2,
Welcome to the forum.
I don't think that that a slight difference of the barometric pressure in different states in the US (if there is any at all in this case) would be noticeable in the way you describe it. It is much more likely a psychological thing: for some reason you feel more stressed when going to or staying in Indiana, which would aggravate the tinnitus.
As for the flying, it could be that, due to the specifics of the airports, the plane descends faster when landing in Indiana, which could lead to the ear pain. There are special earplugs that you can use during the flight to prevent this (just google for 'Earplanes').
Thomas
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