I Can Hear Tinnitus When I Press My Ear Closed — If I Press REALLY Hard, It Goes Away?

[asb9767]

Adding to the list of my Very Weird Symptoms:

1. My tinnitus stops while I exercise and 1-2 hours after exercising.

2. I can make it stop if I push VERY hard into my ear canal, and sometimes just below.

I'm still waiting on my night guard, but it's starting to look a lot like it's TMJ-related.

The exercise increases blood flow and diminishes muscle tension, and pushing into the ear canal is inadvertently releasing some muscles around that area.

 

[PenguinIsCute]

Can you hear your tinnitus without exercise and without pressing your ear closed in a quiet room? How did your tinnitus start?

 

[asb9767]

Can you hear your tinnitus without exercise and without pressing your ear closed in a quiet room? How did your tinnitus start?

I can hear my tinnitus as if it were a faint whistle in the background without pressing my ear shut, but that's around 50% of the time. The rest of the time, I have to block my ear to hear it. On my left, I usually have to block it to hear it.

When it started in January, I would wake up in the middle of the night to extremely loud spikes but it doesn't seem to wake me up anymore. I still hear it mostly in quieter rooms, but I'm able to sleep through the night now.