Hot Bath — Tinnitus Reduction

[hartje5]

Hi all,

When I take a hot bath my tinnitus sometimes reduces enormously. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with lowering my blood pressure or increasing the blood flow. I don't think the effect could be completely due to relaxation.

Any ideas?

 

[ruben ruiz]

A hot bath relaxes me too. Its about the only thing.

 

[RaZaH]

same here , at least 50% reduction after the jacuzzi

 

[Paul Burdett]

Wake up every morning with T. get up...have a hot shower...80% of the time T reduced to almost nothing, so I have a good day! Still get bad days despite the hot shower but I'm glad of the good days. Pattern of good days bad is weird...seems to make no sense to me. How can I have no T one day and loud the next? Crazy! Sometimes 4 days straight with no T, other times 4 days in a row with T...crazy

 

[LukeYoung]

Hot showers sometimes lowers my T for an hour or so..

It's why I shower before bed mostly.

Sometimes it has no effect.
But I think blood pressure is a huge factor in change of T.

 

[Pleasure_Paulie]

T levels are linked to your central nervous system. If you can find stuff that relaxes you and brings you out of fight or flight, sometimes your t will back down.

 

[Megatron]

Hi all, It does it for me also - in the beginning I used it during the day to lower the noise... Still works.

 

[hartje5]

Great that it works for more people!

I'm going visit a spa where they have thermal water bathes. Really looking forward to that!

 

[undecided]

Great that it works for more people!

I'm going visit a spa where they have thermal water bathes. Really looking forward to that!

You mean a Hammam bath?
That like the tinnitus cure there.

 

[hartje5]

I don't know. Isn't a hammam a Turkish bath house? Where I'm going there is a spring of thermal water (the water is pumped up from a 600 meter deep well and contains 116 grams of minerals per liter ;-). You soak and float for a while and then rest.

 

[masterhoagie]

recently discovered hot tub diminishes the ringin. the shower diminishes it while I'm in there but soon as water off the T comes back with force . highly recommend a hot bath or hot tub if one is available . did wonders for me . glad to hear hot water helps others!!

 

[Xenia]

I have had the most horrible week of screeching tinnitus and still have it currently (going completely crazy) however last night I decided to have a bath instead of a shower and it certainly reduced the tinnitus. It was only short lived but I was wondering what it is about the bath, blood flow and relaxation of the muscles around the jaw/ear I guess, but I could be wrong! Wish I could live in the bath 24/7 to stop this nightmare shrieking and squealing that I have had this past week.

 

[BBK]

I've had tinnitus for about 6 weeks. No idea how it started. Woke up one day, and there it was. I too have found that I gat relief most of the time after a hot shower. Not always, but most of the time. I can be having a good day, but if I take a nap, when I wake up, the tinnitus is there. Really weird and not sure what it is about taking a nap that will start my tinnitus up again. Anyone else experience this too?

 

[Xenia]

@Sgguy46 Me to. I want to live in a hot spring too

 

[Raggs]

Yes, yes and yes! I noticed in a hot bath...it really lowers in volume/annoyance and the last bath I had almost thought it was gone! and yes..naps seem to ramp it up...hmmmm..guess I'm going to have a bath after my naps..lol
@Paul Burdett ~ I have the same thing...on my "bad" days, I can hardly believe I've had good days..On my good days, I'm starting to write a promise to myself, that I'm really experiencing "relief"...b/c it almost feels like a dream and that it never happened, or that I was tricking myself...but no,,really and truly, I have great wonderful days of almost not hearing it at all and forgetting I have it and thinking....ahhhh..it's over....only to have it sneak in again....why??? So I get through bad days, b/c I know good days are coming....sigh..

 

[devonlee]

I wish my bathtub wasn't disgusting. There is no way I'd be able to relax in it.

 

[Rose33]

My tinnitus goes higher with hot bath and hot weather !

 

[Vicki14]

Hi all,

When I take a hot bath my tinnitus sometimes reduces enormously. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with lowering my blood pressure or increasing the blood flow. I don't think the effect could be completely due to relaxation.

Any ideas?

I swear by my hot bath, it's what keeps me ploughing through my day. Try Epsom Salts too!!!

 

[Tinniger]

Hot baths are often a good recipe for relief for me too.

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Hi all,

When I take a hot bath my tinnitus sometimes reduces enormously. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with lowering my blood pressure or increasing the blood flow. I don't think the effect could be completely due to relaxation.

Any ideas?

Hot bath increases your Blood Pressure, but it also relaxes you.

 

[coffee_girl]

Yep same, lower t and allows me to focus on my favorite shows

Stay in on a cloudy day and take a long foamy bath

 

[another sean]

I wish my bathtub wasn't disgusting. There is no way I'd be able to relax in it.

same here. Ive been wanting to try epson salt baths but can't. how can we make our tubs not disgusting without having to drench it in acid and poisoning ourselves? I love my old apartment but man it needs a new tub.

 

[abbynormal]

Ok, if anyone is around, I'm headed for the bathtub right now. My T is spiking so bad it's scaring me. I don't know what I ate or drank to cause this, but probably either too, much magnesium in my system. Took 300 mg this a.m. and that's typical, but maybe after 2 months of taking it to help my essential tremor, it's making my T worse. I don't think I had another, single thing that is bad for tinnitus, and I don't even know if magnesium is.

So I'm trying the bath now, no epsom salt though, just hot water. If my tub was gross I'd take a bath in it anyway after maybe washing out the big chunks of whatever. Pretend your in a hotsprings where people..well, nevermind, LOL!

In all seriousness, I'm at least thinking of everyone else out there that suffers with this "monster" I so hope we can all find relief much sooner, than later, Denise

 

[foam]

All you hot bath responders.. We need to figure out exactly why this happens. It's not for every case of Tinnitus but it seems to be the answer for the overnight spikers. Is it purely the relaxation or is it the hydration.. There's not many possible factors here. It takes up to an hour and a half for a bath to stop my Tinnitus but it will work, everytime.. Eventually.

 

[foam]

Hot bath makes Oxytocin.. this seems like the trick.. Probably explain the Holiday trick also

 

[Astro]

All you hot bath responders.. We need to figure out exactly why this happens. It's not for every case of Tinnitus but it seems to be the answer for the overnight spikers. Is it purely the relaxation or is it the hydration.. There's not many possible factors here. It takes up to an hour and a half for a bath to stop my Tinnitus but it will work, everytime.. Eventually.

I feel like my t is from neuro or cardio vascular problems and anything soothing helps it. Be it a bath, massage, sauna etc.

 

[JohnAdams]

Hot bath increases your Blood Pressure, but it also relaxes you.

Sir I believe it is the exact opposite.

We need to figure out exactly why this happens.

Here is why.

When you're cold your capillaries constrict to keep the blood in your core. When capillaries constrict it causes hypertension, which causes elevated blood pressure because the volume of your circulatory system decreases. When you're warm, your capillaries relax and let more blood flow to get closer to the surface of your skin so they so you can transfer the heat out of your body and that increases the volume of your circulatory system. When capillaries relax it causes hypotension, which lowers your blood pressure.

Sauce
"Blood pressure generally is higher in the winter and lower in the summer. That's because low temperatures cause your blood vessels to narrow — which increases blood pressure because more pressure is needed to force blood through your narrowed veins and arteries."
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases...re/expert-answers/blood-pressure/faq-20058250

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Sir I believe it is the exact opposite.

Here is why.

When you're cold your capillaries constrict to keep the blood in your core. When capillaries constrict it causes hypertension, which causes elevated blood pressure because the volume of your circulatory system decreases. When you're warm, your capillaries relax and let more blood flow to get closer to the surface of your skin so they so you can transfer the heat out of your body and that increases the volume of your circulatory system. When capillaries relax it causes hypotension, which lowers your blood pressure.

Sauce
"Blood pressure generally is higher in the winter and lower in the summer. That's because low temperatures cause your blood vessels to narrow — which increases blood pressure because more pressure is needed to force blood through your narrowed veins and arteries."
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases...re/expert-answers/blood-pressure/faq-20058250

You must be correct my friend.A nd all this time I believed the opposite. Thank you.

 

[JohnAdams]

You must be correct my friend.A nd all this time I believed the opposite. Thank you.

It's cool. We are always learning new things and helping each other along the way. I certainly don't know everything and I'm just constantly waiting to find out about something else that I am wrong about.

 

[Tinniger]

I'll take my blood pressure at the next hot bath . What I already know - the pulse rises clearly at high temperatures, but maybe this is a counter-regulation in case of a drop in blood pressure...