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05 Jan 2015, 6:20 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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Thanks for asking 8) . I am still feeling a little sick, but not nearly to the extent of last night. At one point, it felt like arctic winds were stabbing into my body, and I could barely warm up bundling beneath blankets. Later when I think my high fever broke, I couldn't sleep so I checked m emails. That's when I started getting that hum.

well hopefully it was a relatively benign bug that got you. being sick sucks. am curious, was the hum tactile?


Nope, just auditory.


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05 Jan 2015, 6:23 pm

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Nope, just auditory.

I wish I could ask you if you could guess what frequency it was. I sometimes [inner ear weirdness, from time to time] hear a hum that sounds like low-frequency "hiss" but in the bass range, centering an octave's width @ approx. 200 cycles per second. a hissy hum, if you will. was the hum "spiky" or smooth?



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05 Jan 2015, 11:35 pm

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Nope, just auditory.

I wish I could ask you if you could guess what frequency it was. I sometimes [inner ear weirdness, from time to time] hear a hum that sounds like low-frequency "hiss" but in the bass range, centering an octave's width @ approx. 200 cycles per second. a hissy hum, if you will. was the hum "spiky" or smooth?


Pretty well smooth.


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05 Jan 2015, 11:36 pm

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Nope, just auditory.

I wish I could ask you if you could guess what frequency it was. I sometimes [inner ear weirdness, from time to time] hear a hum that sounds like low-frequency "hiss" but in the bass range, centering an octave's width @ approx. 200 cycles per second. a hissy hum, if you will. was the hum "spiky" or smooth?


Pretty well smooth.

do you know what middle C sounds like?



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06 Jan 2015, 12:12 am

I can hear electrical hums like from any running electronic device...but turning them off gets rid of it, I am certainly more more sensitive to it than most people. As for the article if this particular individual only hears this hum in her house...I'd imagine something in or near her house would be the cause of it...and if in most other cases of this its only a specific location where someone is bothered by it then id think it has to be tied to something in or around that location. But what is the question, provided it most definitely is not a problem with the brain like perceiving a noise that is not there.


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06 Jan 2015, 1:09 am

auntblabby wrote:
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Nope, just auditory.

I wish I could ask you if you could guess what frequency it was. I sometimes [inner ear weirdness, from time to time] hear a hum that sounds like low-frequency "hiss" but in the bass range, centering an octave's width @ approx. 200 cycles per second. a hissy hum, if you will. was the hum "spiky" or smooth?


Pretty well smooth.

do you know what middle C sounds like?


Can't say that I do.


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06 Jan 2015, 1:10 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
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Nope, just auditory.

I wish I could ask you if you could guess what frequency it was. I sometimes [inner ear weirdness, from time to time] hear a hum that sounds like low-frequency "hiss" but in the bass range, centering an octave's width @ approx. 200 cycles per second. a hissy hum, if you will. was the hum "spiky" or smooth?


Pretty well smooth.

do you know what middle C sounds like?


Can't say that I do.

oh well. I was just trying to narrow down what you heard.