article_snippet: I was in my hotel room one night, and I’d turned the TV off, but could still hear a high-pitched whiney sound,’ Musician Paul Gray  says.
article_snippet: I wondered where it was coming from, looked all around my hotel room, opened the windows, and then figured that the windows might just be tinnitus.
article_snippet: At first Paul, now 56, experienced ‘a whine in my ears that was louder in my right ear, a bit like the sound of a jet turbine cranking up.
article_snippet: There was this deafening screech of feedback, so loud that it physically knocked me several feet back,’ Paul says.
article_snippet: Afterwards any sudden noise — doors banging, car breaks, shouting — would make Paul jump.
article_snippet: It was exacerbated by extraneous noises
article_snippet: By now, even the click of a light switch aggravated Paul condition.