About three years ago, a high-pitched "eeeeeeeee" sound started ringing in Linda Gray's ears. Sometimes, the ring would suddenly turn into a roar, sending Gray into panic mode. Her heart would speed up. She'd try to find a quiet room. "You're trying to escape it. It's like, 'Turn this off!' " she says.
A lot of people experience ringing, roaring or buzzing, also known as tinnitus. It can be maddening.
"It consumed me, it really did," says Gray, a childbirth educator living in Ohio. "I avoided talking on the phone, I avoided any social situation because it was so bothersome," she says. She stopped working for months.
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