Noam Hassenfeld

Aha, yeah, okay.

So there are two ways to pronounce it.

Most people say tinnitus, but all the researchers I spoke to say tinnitus.

When I reported this episode, I said tinnitus.

That's the one I chose.

We can go whatever way you want.

It's your show.

She said that she got tinnitus something like four years ago when she was about 25.

He wasn't hearing anything, so that didn't make sense to her.

She went to her family.

They were kind of like, don't worry about it.

But then she started hearing a pitch in her other ear, and this one was just kind of like that straight high pitch, just like... And so she's hearing both of these things in each ear, and it's just kind of driving her crazy.

She said it got worse in louder environments.

So she had to leave her job.

She stopped seeing her friends.

She had trouble sleeping.

Yeah, yeah.

I spoke to this scientist, Stefan Maison, at Mass Eye and Ear Hospital in Boston.

He's the director of the tinnitus clinic there.

And he told me that, yeah, if you go to a concert and, you know, you listen to loud music and then you leave the concert and it gets really quiet and you just hear that ringing.