Are These 1 Second Long Spontaneous Increases in Tinnitus Loudness Spikes or What?

[Anthony Scotland]

I have loud, hissing tinnitus in my left ear. Every day for the past month, I've been getting out of nowhere the level of the tinnitus spiking like crazy, it only lasts like 1 second but it scares me.

I want to emphasize this is NOT the "fleeting" tinnitus. This is my regular, baseline tinnitus just raising suddenly, randomly in volume. Again, unlike the fleeting tinnitus, these "spikes" I've been getting last only 1 second at most.

It's very scary I was wondering this these are tinnitus spikes that people are talking about.

 

[LukeYoung]

Spikes can be fleeting extra tones or increase in original tone. Pretty common for most of us it experience both.

 

[Bill Bauer]

Search this forum using the keyword "fleeting tinnitus"

 

[Michael B]

Yes, I get them exactly as you describe. They're not uncommon and they don't turn into anything major. Next time you get one, notice if you have a momentary lapse of hearing along with it.