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.

 

[dakukir1]

Hello,

I have the same type of Tinnitus; Sleep Intermittent Tinnitus for the past 4 months with 1 or 2 rarely 3 no tinnitus days a week. A no tinnitus day always gets followed by a loud tinnitus day that gets milder over the next 2 to 3 days down to a no tinnitus day. It gets triggered during sleep only. I have been a bad sleeper for years waking up 3 to 6 times a night.

During loud tinnitus day I cannot work or meet anyone. And during no tinnitus days I get increasingly anxious throughout the day as the night approaches as I always get a loud tinnitus day after a no tinnitus day. I believe it is related to cortisol levels, and our brains screaming for lifestyle changes. When I exercise regularly doing yoga and running I get more no tinnitus days.

I am planning to do Transcranial Magnetic Stimulations (TMS) soon over a period of two weeks.

Reading the few threads that exist about this type of tinnitus it seems to improve very slowly over time.

 

[sspencermo]

Hello,

I have the same type of Tinnitus; Sleep Intermittent Tinnitus for the past 4 months with 1 or 2 rarely 3 no tinnitus days a week. A no tinnitus day always gets followed by a loud tinnitus day that gets milder over the next 2 to 3 days down to a no tinnitus day. It gets triggered during sleep only. I have been a bad sleeper for years waking up 3 to 6 times a night.

During loud tinnitus day I cannot work or meet anyone. And during no tinnitus days I get increasingly anxious throughout the day as the night approaches as I always get a loud tinnitus day after a no tinnitus day. I believe it is related to cortisol levels, and our brains screaming for lifestyle changes. When I exercise regularly doing yoga and running I get more no tinnitus days.

I am planning to do Transcranial Magnetic Stimulations (TMS) soon over a period of two weeks.

Reading the few threads that exist about this type of tinnitus it seems to improve very slowly over time.

I experience the same thing. For the first seven months, my tinnitus followed a very strict three-day pattern: one loud day followed by two quiet days. Now, 14 months in, I sometimes get three or even four quiet days in a row, and the loud days are usually not as intense as they were at the beginning.

However, certain things seem to trigger spikes—perhaps when I'm too busy at work to exercise properly or when I'm under a lot of stress. In those cases, it reverts to a very loud day every third day.

I'm hoping for further improvements, but I still find the loud days hard to cope with, even after a year. Let us know how the TMS goes, and best of luck to you!