Any sound engineers or just soundy-fied people HELP!

[Tunnah]

This isn't a tech question as such, but it's definitely due to technology

About a year about I started to get ear-ache in my left ear. I sit side on to my PC, so I assumed it was my PC doing low coil whine or some dodgy fan that was just outside of my hearing range but causing pain.

Anyway after a while it became REALLY bad, so much so that lying down afterwards would give intense pain and a high pitched tinnitus-like noise for about 6h.

I turned my PC, amp, and TV off one day and left it for 12h, kept coming back into the room but the noise was still there, so it's not the PC setup (turned off sockets too so it's not standby)

Is there anyone out there who has enough knowledge to know what the hell could be causing this, or knows of equipment I could hire to find it ? It is causing me MASSIVE distress, the pain is getting to ridiculous levels. It's getting to the point where I have to wear ear plugs and ear protectors when in the same room

I know this is an unusual question for Hexus but I wasn't sure where to ask

[Unique]

ears are important and can be damaged permanently so a trip to a doctor that's been trained over years and has years of experience, plus professional equipment on hand and the ability to send you to a specialist, is the best advice you can get

[peterb]

ears are important and can be damaged permanently so a trip to a doctor that's been trained over years and has years of experience, plus professional equipment on hand and the ability to send you to a specialist, is the best advice you can get

+1 to that. See a specialist to rule out any physiological or neurological problem before looking for external causes. A virus or other infection could cause those symptoms and could permanently damage your hearing

You don't say whether you use headphones or not, headphones at high volume can cause tinnitus and eventually permanent hearing damage.

If it is only an effect you get in that room only, then there may be an external cause, but then you would expect it affect other uses of the room.

You could rent or buy a pan audio spectrum analyser, covering say 10 Hz to 50KHz to see if there is something outside normal hearing range.

I found this https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/decibel-m...T5QaAm2v8P8HAQ to buy. The important bit is a broad spectrum transducer, calibrated to the instrument, so a downloaded phone app won't do as phone microphones are poor quality (in absolute terms) optimised for speech and have a narrow bandwidrpth.
But get your own hearing tested first!

[Tunnah]

ears are important and can be damaged permanently so a trip to a doctor that's been trained over years and has years of experience, plus professional equipment on hand and the ability to send you to a specialist, is the best advice you can get

It's not an ear issue, it's something happening in this exact situation so it's external, causing an issue, physically I'm sound.

I have been docs though a few months back before I realized it was localized to the room, nowt wrong with em

+1 to that. See a specialist to rule out any physiological or neurological problem before looking for external causes. A virus or other infection could cause those symptoms and could permanently damage your hearing

You don't say whether you use headphones or not, headphones at high volume can cause tinnitus and eventually permanent hearing damage.

If it is only an effect you get in that room only, then there may be an external cause, but then you would expect it affect other uses of the room.

You could rent or buy a pan audio spectrum analyser, covering say 10 Hz to 50KHz to see if there is something outside normal hearing range.

I found this https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/decibel-m...T5QaAm2v8P8HAQ to buy. The important bit is a broad spectrum transducer, calibrated to the instrument, so a downloaded phone app won't do as phone microphones are poor quality (in absolute terms) optimised for speech and have a narrow bandwidrpth.
But get your own hearing tested first!

Nope no headphones, hell I don't even listen to music, and any sound I have is at quite a low volume, I'm just not into loud.

Yep it's definitely something in this, or around this, room (it's a small room with an open window, I'm thinking it could be a device like an extractor fan. It's a terrace house there's 7 other houses within 20ft)

That device sounds like what I'm looking for, cheers buddy

[TheAnimus]

Have you been able to hear it when you have the power turned off? I find some light fittings make a humming sound.

[ik9000]

not someone with a cat repeller is it? sounds too powerful for a mouse repeller, but the cat ones are designed to go across a garden, and can be dialled up a bit too much.

where is your fuse board in relation to the room?

Do you have any problems with the lights in this room, and are they on a dimmer switch? HAve you checked the bulb is the right rating for the circuit and lamp fitting?

[Dashers]

If you sit the other way round, does your right ear hurt?

Post a wide angle photo of what's to your left, maybe somebody here will spot something obviously bad.