I've had tinnitus (ringing in the ears) since I can remember. (oldest memory of it goes back to when I was about 3 or 4yrs old)

It normally doesnt bother me, but sometimes I can hear an electrical humming in my ears. I wonder if it's coincidental that there are some high tension powerlines that are just on the other side of the street that run the length of my neighborhood. If I stand below the power lines, I can hear almost the same exact humming noise coming from them.

Some noises do bother me. My parents seem to both be going deaf. (they constantly say "What?" when we're talking, and they have the tv so loud that I just want to curl up in a fetal ball and cover my ears.

They get mad at me when I ask them to constantly turn the freaking tv down.

Oh, and some frequencies bother me. My mom, for some reason known only to her, is constantly humming this off tune hum. My mom's sister hums the same tune, but thankfully she can actually sing, but it's the same tune my mom does. I think they learned it from their music teacher (same teacher that taught Faith Hill...wonder if she hums the same tuen)

That hum my mom does drives me insane. I wish she had singing talent like my aunt, because then maybe it wouldnt drive me nuts and make me want to scream. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Like getting feedback thru a phone or a microphone. It's not the hum itself that bugs me, because I've forced myself to sit and try to analyze why the hum bugs me. It's, I guess, the frequency that my mom hums at.

What sucks, is that it's apparently an unconcious habit she has, so just asking her to not hum doesnt work for long. She'll be back to humming within a minute or five after asking her to stop. She doesnt realize she's doing it.