Intermittent Tinnitus Switched On/Off By Sleep

[Joe Cuber]

Hi Everyone:

My tinnitus comes and goes. Interestingly, it is sleep that both turns it on and turns it off. That is, if I have a long, deep sleep, I may wake up noise free (and stay that way all day). However, after a noise-free day, I will likely wake up to tinnitus the following morning and have to deal with hissing all day. This creates a kind of cyclical pattern.

Anyone else here with this type of tinnitus? If so, have you been successful in predicting the pattern?

-Golly

Hi @Golly - I just started becoming aware that mine is cyclical in nature. I've always had loud days and quiet days, but I didn't realize it had a cyclical pattern until very recently. I had figured until now that it was random.

Mine roughly has this pattern: LMQ, LMQ, etc., where L=loud, M=mild, Q=quiet.

The reason I didn't notice the pattern is because sometimes I get things like two M's in a row or two Q's in a row.

I was wondering if you still experience your cycle and whether there were any changes to it over time.

• A good day is a day in which most of the time I cannot hear the T. It's as if I don't have it.

• Good days invariably start good and end good, Bad days start bad and end bad. It seems like sleep is the thing that changes T from good to bad or bad to good.

@PeterPan - This describes my experience quite well.