How Does Stress Cause Tinnitus Spikes?

[Jemina]

relaxation excercises and maybe check your posture and massage neck and facial muscles

Agree.

I've had pulsatile tinnitus for 2 years, had a head and neck MRI 2 times, they showed nothing unusual. But I have bad posture, rounded shoulders and forward neck, and slight disc desiccation. Started exercising and correcting my posture by strenghtening my back muscles and deep neck flexors, etc. The postural and muscle imbalance caused some abnormal pressure in my neck arteries, and my ears picked that up...

 

[Greg Sacramento]

The postural and muscle imbalance caused some abnormal pressure in my neck arteries, and my ears picked that up...

Yes.

How is your self treatment going?

 

[Strife_84]

I feel it's blood pressure related.

"These hormones temporarily increase your blood pressure by causing your heart to beat faster and your blood vessels to narrow."

Vessels narrow = higher pitch

I still have a feeling this is blood we hear going through our head.

I've noticed that exercise increases my T. If I keep my head downwards my T gets louder etc. But my T is not pulsatile, it's constant. But still my movement etc. Affects it. It cannot be a sound my brain is making then.

Even slightest sounds increase my T. I believe it is body increasing blood flow into ear when we start to hear things = tinnitus increases.

Sound stops, not enough blood needed = tinnitus goes lower.

I don't know if it's possible.

But that is how it feels.