Noam Hassenfeld

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.

That is a form of tinnitus.

That's temporary tinnitus.

And it usually goes away.

When she went to get her hearing checked, her audiologist told her her hearing was fine, like she fully passed this hearing test.

And that made her feel so crazy, right?

She had this thing that was forcing her to pull away from everything in her life, and the doctor saying, your hearing is fine.

Yeah, so this is what I found so fascinating about this recent research that's been going on.

This is research that Stefan was doing at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston.