whistling in the ears

I've had a constant low level tinnitus since I had a headphone experience where I had married music I loved to some pot which I apparently loved even more. The following morning I found my volume on max and my ears on ringing.

Nothing has changed over the years except that I don't use pot. I don't consider it really serious. Just an irritation. I am fortunate enuf to be able to hear thru the ringing if I'm concentrating on something other than 'sound'. When listening to an audio system however I do need a smooth frequency - any upper frequency peakiness seems to aggrevate the ringing and drives me out of the room.

Coffee keeps me alive so I haven't tried to eliminate that habbit, besides the withdrawal pain is real. I'd hate to be seriously addicted to drugs and have to quit........

high freg hearing loss is a common cause of tinnitus--some people just have it without hearing loss --you should get it checked out by your M.D or ENT because there are some other causes that can be very serious--rich M.D.

tinnitus, 38 and I have it. Comes and goes. Me, stress brings it on. I drives me mad, especially when i'm trying to sleep. Do your research, lots of good info on this pain in the ass.

My wife suffers from this. She has found that caffeine has nothing to do with it. She says it is never a problem at home, and mainly occurs outside or in the mall and most often in summer. Her solution is a heavy over coat and a long skirt down to the ankles. ;-)

I agree, I am afraid it's tinnitus, I am a sufferer and a family doctor. I also agree with much of the above comments, in particular that tiredness and stress will aggravate it, not normally caffeine and aspirin, though tinnitus is a symptom of overdoing aspirin. It is usually a corollary of aged related hearing loss, presbycusis. That in turn is related to hair cell degeneration in the cochlea. It's getting older dude. Ironical, as we become old enough to afford High end systems, we lose the ability to appreciate them.
There is little treatment I am afraid, their are rarer causes and if one sided, perhaps with deafness, it needs invetigation. Seek confirmation from an ENT specialist, but there is little treatment and less that works.
It is often the result of earlier noise exposure and I tell my kids, if you leave a gig with tinnitus, you have permanently degraded your hearing, It all adds up. If you have tinnitus, you are very vulnerable to further acoustic damage, so don't go to noisy gigs yourself or play your system at 105db's