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House problem or health problem or both. I'm losing my marbles!
I'll get straight to it:
I hear this on again, off-again hum inside of the house when everything is very still (in other words, no cars driving past, airplanes flying overhead, birds singing, etc). Just "hummmmmmm," then it stops for a few seconds, then "hummmmmm," then it stops again, then starts back up, and so on. Why it is a crisis: because although it's very faint, it wakes me up again and again in the night and gives me headaches, and I can never sleep for very long. I feel tired all the time and if you saw me right now you'd say I look like I've been through a blender. I have a wedding to go to today, for example, and I both look and feel like sh%t. Possible causes: It seemed to start after new irrigation lines were installed in the backyard. There is a leak somewhere that hasn't been located and repaired as yet, but it's there. Parts of the yard are slowly flooding. I thought sure that's what the hum was, water going through the lines, except... ...as an experiment I turned off the main to the house so that NO water is coming through, anywhere. STILL THE HUM. Other possibilities: I take Claritin-D for allergies, sometimes alternating it with Singulair. However, I never hear this hum outside of the house or away from home. Since the water line runs over the ceiling instead of through the slab, I figured that has to be it: a leak outside, and/or air in the line making the hum. How then could it be the meds? If it were, wouldn't I hear the hum everywhere? Yet if I stick my head in the attic, no hum. If I put my ear to the wall, no hum. How can it be the water, then? Mainly I'll hear it when I am just sitting around (typing on the computer like now) or especially, when trying to sleep. THEN I hear it real well. Tinfoil hat time: I am on the receiving end of some sort of psy-op. I'm not sure if I should see a doctor or what to do. I'm at my wit's end with this, it's gone on for months now. I am desperate for a good night's rest, but night after night I can never, ever get it. :bear_cry: I would do just about anything to make this stop. What should I do? |
Re: House problem or health problem or both. I'm losing my marbles!
Brother Hive,
I doubt it is a psyop and I feel for you. I cannot sleep without meds and even then...... Order a home inspection and react accordingly. Whatever inspection you like. Invite a trusted contractor or plumber or standard inspector and hopefully rout the problem. If this does not work then it is time to sell your home and bug out as you have lost your mind bro:bear_thumb: |
Re: House problem or health problem or both. I'm losing my marbles!
Does anyone else hear the humming??
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Re: House problem or health problem or both. I'm losing my marbles!
Sucks. Maybe you have tinitus?
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We play (loudly) a recording of a rainstorm through the stereo at night. White noise like that helps both of us sleep and little sounds no longer bother us or wake us up.
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Have they recently installed a cell phone tower or wind turbine near your home? Or, has the power company recently replaced a transformer on a pole down the road?
Do you live in an area where there may be some underground coal mining going on, or maybe the gas company has been drilling a few miles away? Have you turned off the main breaker in your electrical panel and sit and listen for an hour or so? Maybe your freezer or refrigerator or fan in your furnace is creating a vibration that is creating an irritating resonance. Have you discussed this humming sound with your neighbors? Maybe they have noticed it also. If you cannot figure out the source, maybe it's time to sell your house and move a few miles away to get away from the source of the hum that is making you crazy. |
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Could be the hum of a seized compressor/motor trying to start then tripping on thermal overload. Have you killed all power to the house?
:smokin: One last thought .... many attics have attic fans controlled by a thermostat (out of sight and mind).... if it just started in warmer weather and you have an attic fan check to see if it is seized. |
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Is it low-frequency?
The lower the frequency, the farther it goes, and the more difficult it is to figure out the direction. That's why cranked-up bass on a stereo is so pernicious. My girlfriend's old apartment was a single storey, and featured an occasional low vibration that she could hear better than I. Once she pointed it out to me, I joined in the head scratching over what it was and where it was coming from. It was difficult to tell whether it was something attached to the structure - a vibrating water-main valve was my first guess - or something from next door. One warm evening I parked across the street. When I stepped out of my car I heard that frequency. I stood in the middle of the street for a few seconds, doing multiple 360-degree turns, until I caught the sweet spot - one point where it's much louder in one ear than the other. This pointed to a house across the street and two doors down. It was the air-conditioning unit on the side of the house. The compressor bearing was near death, and it was making all sorts of strange sounds, in several frequencies. None were loud, but the bass one was the one I recognized. It was travelling about 60 yards over to my girlfriend's apartment, and resonating against her front wall, which was picking it up like an eardrum. My only other guess is some sort of water valve. They can vibrate every which way, and loud. |
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I vote TINITUS as I SUFFER FROM THIS as well. Very possible hIVE.
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Berkscoin has some good points.
Electrical breakers on their way out with typically buzz or hum. Anything with a transformer in it - fluorescent lights are a classic. Transformers are notorious for humming. Computer ventilation fans. Just gut hunch, or at least one set of variables to get out of the way, Would be to focus on electricals first. By the way, an ordinary doctor's stethoscope, is an incredible tool For physically tracking down this type of noise. Friends of mine who have tintinnitus without exception describe It as a "high pitched ringing" in the ears. Nasty stuff, but Doesn't match your description. Good luck, and I don't think you are ready just for tinfoil hat. scyth |
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...........UH OH..........HIVE?..........are you there?...........well the men in black masks must have him now......case solved.......was a psyop after all:bear_tongue:
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Re: House problem or health problem or both. I'm losing my marbles!
I have Tinitus but that's like a ringing. I'm used to that. This is something new, a very low, dull huuummmm...
A lady friend who stayed overnight said she could hear it, too, although it was faint. There are two of those circular, dome-shaped rotating vents/fans/whatever they are on the roof. I noticed that one is turning slowly, off and on, while the other isn't turning at all. I wonder if this is it(?). If it is, wouldn't I hear it when I stick my head into the attic? I will check with the power company about new transformers and such, and investigate new cell towers in this area, too. I will also try the power to the house/circuit breaker thing. I've wondered about the power aspect but didn't know what to do or how to check it... |
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I have a few things in/around my house that create buzzing/humming noises, they were quite bothersome when I first moved in but I have learned to live with them.
One is in my furnace, it can be heard through the return air ducts. I tracked it down to the offending part but learned to live with it before I found the initiative to replace it. Another, I suspect, is the power boxes out at the street. There are 3 near my house, each about 300 - 400 feet away. When walking past them a buzzing sound can be heard, I think this might be transmitted through the ground to the house slab. Another is a train track that is about 20 miles away. When trains are running it causes a low frequency hum. J |
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Tin foil hat time? Might be right.
Has your tin foil hat become worn or mis-shaped so that it doesn't fit correctly anymore? Have you checked the insulators on it? Might be the antenna is picking up interefrence from other nearby tin foil hats. You are not the only one with this problem, google "kokomo hum" and read about the mysterious hum in Kokomo, Indiana. |
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Are you listening to the normal sound of your refrigerator?
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An electronics buff could help find out if it's in your head, or a real sound. A microphone/speaker and an oscilloscope can let you "see" the noise, and a function generator connected to the speaker would let you "dial in" the noise to what you hear....
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Gotta agrre with this suggestion. I don't use whitenoise machine but just a floor fan running while sleeping. With our kids being 5 and 9 I would never hear a low freq noise considering all the noise they make. But come 10pm and the house is quite, I hear every little noise. the drone of the fan allows me peaceful sleep although the wife hates it cause she says it makes her cold. |
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Or it could be a hidden video monitor ala- 1984 style keeping tabs on you. Your description a feeling worn and hagard fits the Winston character to a tee.
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I assume you've tried ear plugs? Could you still hear it?
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Maybe someone is messing with you. They could be using a device like this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/prod...oyatron_v2.jpg The Annoy-a-tron http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/ |
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Do you hear the hum away from the house? I assume not, so ... not tinnitus.
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I'm guessing that you just nailed it. Since one is turning occasionally that might be the culprit. I had that once where a neighbors dome-shaped rotating thingys were causing a noise that drove me nuts.... my buddy jumped on a ladder and went up on their house with a can of WD-40 and that was the end of it. It's worth a try, I know how that sound can drive you nuts. |
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If you have a cordless or a cell phone too close to a speaker it will do that stuff too. Even my shielded computer speakers do it if I lay the phone too close to them. If you can hear the sound from your fuse box, I would recommend tripping fuses when you hear it. When it stops, you'll know which circuit its coming from then just follow the wiring.
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You have a water leak in the yard.
Do you or any of your neighbors have a basement? Maybe a sump pump cyciling on or off? Maybe the freezer or fridge defroster is freaking out? |
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Its very low, and very constant, and it drives me crazy. I usually have to shut the bedroom door and put a pillow on my head to sleep. We have a small apartment though (like 750 sq feet) so there isn't much I can do to get away from the fridge. When I get a house I'm getting as far away from that sucker as possible! |
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Sounds like that, if they are low and hard to pinpoint, are often fans that are reaching the end of their life or have become loose from whatever they were attached to. I heard that sound once and it turned out to be a bathroom fan in the basement that I had forgot was on... every once in a while it would start humming for 5-10 seconds at at time, be quiet for 30 seconds, then hum again. Somehow it just resonated at that low frequency on occasion. I could shut it up by tightening it, but left it since the humming was all I could hear if I forgot it on.
Another time it was the furnace fan. It was hard to pinpoint because even when I was standing right next to the furnace, it sounded like the sound was coming from everywhere in the house (I suppose the vents were resonating too.) It hummed on and off for about 4 days, then I found what it was and resolved to fix it.. the next day the fan tore apart - luckily I had ordered the replacement already. |
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Got a freshwater well? Your leak may not be irrigation.
When our water cycles, I can hear the hum come on for a few seconds then quit. I can hear it across a good chunk of the property- esp along the line of the feeder to the house. |
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Could be your door bell or the low voltage transformer for your doorbell.
Some times they are hidden in the basement in the floor joists, mounted along side your breaker box or even in the attic. |
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Had simular hummmm in my house, with kids etc, was never noticed, wife went back to PuertoRico for a week, house got real quite, except for a real faint hummm, time to time. Bugged the crap out of me, finally traced it down to the frickin Fridge! Dont know exactly what it is, is older unit. But it was/is my source of my mysterious hummm.
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