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Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of David Goehring. If you have a constant or occasional sensation of noise in your ears, you may suffer from the hearing impairment condition known as tinnitus. It is a symptom of an underlying condition that affects nearly 36 million Americans.
Middle ear problems that cause hearing problems can also cause tinnitus. These include common entities such as middle ear infection and uncommon ones such as otosclerosis, which hardens the tiny ear bones or ossicles. Another, rare, cause of tinnitus from the middle ear that does not result in hearing loss is muscle spasms of one of the two tiny muscles in the ear. In this case, the tinnitus can be intermittent and at times, the examiner can also hear the sounds.