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Over-using earplugs may be spiking your T actually.

Hi, Your spike is likely being sustained and intensified by your stress, anxiety and tiredness. It's best if you can try to relax and not think too much about the spike and whether (or when) it's going to calm down. I've been through a similar thing this year, and it only got better when I...

There is scientific evidence that some people's brains can switch off T? I wonder where can I find that evidence.

There is also no scientific explanation that T is generated by the brain because of deprivation of stimulus and hearing loss.

Tinnitus is not a result of hearing loss, otherwise almost everyone would have tinnitus.

Hi, I have a hissing kind of sound above the ear, in the left-center side of the head. Sometimes it can move and be heard in the right side, but its main location is behind and above the left ear. It doesn't sound like a wheel though, it's more like a high treble hiss and electrical buzzing...

This occurs once in a while, and I was wondering if anyone else experiences it. At once, the baseline tinnitus turns off completely - there's a brief moment of silence, followed by a fleeting beep sound that lasts just a few seconds. After the fleeting sound has faded, the baseline slowly...

There may be a correlation there, as my T is above the left ear. Though, I am not sure if it's about the wax muffling the sound, because plugging my ears make it louder, not lower.

I see.. thanks for replying. I was curious because my left ear always produced quite a lot of wax, and now there's no wax at all, which coincides with a slight spike I've been experiencing.

It does. Cheap headphones produce harsh sound with lots of distortions, which the auditory system perceives as unpleasant. In addition to that, their poor design also has negative effects.

I guess they don't feel blocked, I just find the lack of wax when I clean them very unusual. I can certainly have them examined, but just wanted to check if there are other ways of knowing this.

Is there a way of finding out if there's a wax buildup, without having the ears examined by the ENT? I am suspecting I may have a wax blockage, since my ears were always producing a lot of wax (especially the left one) but for months now there's almost nothing. My ears don't feel particularly...

I doubt it can get worse from 6-7 min, especially that your ears were plugged, so the decibels were significantly reduced. It's probably just a temporary spike.

In the first few years of having T, I was experiencing the same thing: it would also get quieter after a couple of hours in a noisy bar. I remember I'd go to bed and would barely hear my T.

Did the spike start fading when you got more relaxed about it or did it just subside on its own? Mine is just a little louder and more high pitched than the baseline (sometimes when I focus too much I can hear some faint new sounds). Lately I have nights when I wake up and it's louder than...

Thanks for the links, Bill Bauer!

Hi Everyone, My tinnitus has gotten slightly louder since early/mid January (and again since mid February), and I am wondering if it's a spike, because it's quite a long period. From what I've seen here, spikes usually last shorter. I've had spikes only twice before (I think), but they were...

Hi BobG, I used to compose music a while ago, though I am not a professionally trained musician, so it was more of a hobby for me. Tinnitus never bothered me while composing, cause I wouldn't notice it while playing the keyboard with headphones. I eventually stopped composing (not because of T...