My Tinnitus Is Very Quiet in the Mornings — Then Gets Louder — Why?

[Zaccq]

I have the opposite situation. My tinnitus is loudest in the morning and quiets down in the evening, particularly after dinner.

 

[jasonbourne]

Mine is louder in the morning 70% of the time.

 

[T_Almost_Gone]

Hi all,

I am on day 29 following an acoustic trauma.

Strangely, over the last 4 days or so, each time I wake up my tinnitus starts the day very faintly. Whereas throughout the day it can be a noisy pure tone eeeeeee, in the mornings it starts as a faint background noise, a hissing with sort of distant bells like you might hear on a cat or dog collar. Overall the volume is dramatically reduced - maybe a 3-4/10 vs a 6-8/10 when the pure tone is present.

Has anyone else experienced this relative calm in the morning, and is this potentially part of a healing process?

Unfortunately last night my tinnitus spiked back up to a crazy volume but again this morning is much quieter.

Thanks!

A few weeks after the onset of my tinnitus, I experience exactly this every day.

 

[ASilverLight]

I'm in the same boat. Some mornings my tinnitus is so faint I do not hear it at all. It increases almost as soon as I really move around.

I try not to think about it. I'm just grateful for the moments it's extremely faint.

I should add though that sometimes throughout the day it also reaches really quiet levels.

 

[Zaccq]

I do wonder if this feature indicates possibility of improvement, I wonder that given the tinnitus quietens down, it should continually do so more often in future.

 

[DebInAustralia]

Multiple theories, though nobody knows for sure:

* Your brain starts to "look for it" while you are awake, and so it becomes more noticable once it successfully locks on to it.

* The sounds of the day activate the tinnitus, while the quiet of the night relaxes it.

* As @JohnAdams suggested, there could be a natural circadian rhythm to the tinnitus process.

* For some, sleep seems to "reset" the tinnitus back down to low levels.

Probably other theories are possible. Interestingly, it isn't like this for everyone (we ran a poll about a month ago on this, and found that only 2/3rds of people had improved morning tinnitus). If you figure it out, let us know!

Cortisol levels?

 

[Mr_Orange_3737]

I'm also in the same boat. Quieter in the mornings and escalates throughout the day. In particular, I've noticed this after my 5 day prednisone use. I'm 1.5 months in and hope these are signs of improvement.

 

[star-affinity]

For me today when I woke up at four in the morning it was really quiet when I went up to go to the bathroom. I slept a couple of hours more and when I woke up it was back to baseline again.

 

[buttercake]

For me today when I woke up at four in the morning it was really quiet when I went up to go to the bathroom. I slept a couple of hours more and when I woke up it was back to baseline again.

Same here. When my cat wakes me up at 4 am, I do not hear any ringing, just some kind of "echo" sensation - hard to describe with words, but to me that one is pretty much complete silence. It's that feeling I had pre-tinnitus when it was dead quiet and my ears were almost physically craving for a sound.

 

[Warrior959]

My tinnitus is loudest in the morning when I get up. And my tinnitus does not bother me when i am trying to sleep, I would say it fades in silence. Strange.

 

[GuitarMan]

I just experienced that sometimes in the wake up phase the tinnitus is very quiet. I'd like to think that by then my brain isn't on 100% yet. A few minutes later it's over.

Same. When I wake up I still hear it but it seems much more quiet. About 10 minutes later it's back at full blast and for a while seems even louder than it did the day before. After a couple of hours it settles back down to its current new baseline as of about 6 weeks ago.

 

[lusiol]

I was like this for 2 and a half years but since I took Viagra 7 months ago, it's been damn loud 24/7...

 

[Wrfortiscue]

I was like this for 2 and a half years but since I took Viagra 7 months ago, it's been damn loud 24/7...

Did you get the spike immediately after taking it? Did any loud noises happen around this time?

 

[lusiol]

Did you get the spike immediately after taking it? Did any loud noises happen around this time?

Yeah I got a spike while on it...

Some "loud" noise also, would be funny as hell if pleasure "scream" definitely buried me...

I'm the most stupid guy ever for not even having checked it before I wanted to "function" normal again and have a good time...

I pay the price.

 

[sakrt]

Does anyone know if there's a such thing as more capillaries, vascularity (than norm) of the inner ear? Does the medical field have the ability to observe health of capillaries inside the ear yet?

...or still going by speculations?

 

[Wrfortiscue]

Yeah I got a spike while on it...

Some "loud" noise also, would be funny as hell if pleasure "scream" definitely buried me...

I'm the most stupid guy ever for not even having checked it before I wanted to "function" normal again and have a good time...

I pay the price.

I know how it feels. I was taking it too before my new onset so, to be safe, I stopped. I was doing very small dosage though. It is nice to feel like King Kong down there lol.

 

[Matchbox]

I have the opposite situation. My tinnitus is loudest in the morning and quiets down in the evening, particularly after dinner.

God wish that was mine.

 

[GuitarMan]

My tinnitus is loudest in the morning when I get up. And my tinnitus does not bother me when i am trying to sleep, I would say it fades in silence. Strange.

Today mine has decided to really kick up in the morning. Although right when I woke up it was very subdued. This is what I described in my earlier post. But within 5 minutes it's at a piercing level. Much louder than it was last night and I could swear it's louder that it has been previous mornings. Let's see how it is in a couple of hours.

I think it might have something to do with how hearing sensitivity changes throughout the day and night. I'm sure we've all had the experience where during the day we're driving around with the car stereo at a comfortable level but the next morning when we turn on the car and the radio comes on the volume sounds insanely loud even though it's the exact same as it was when we got out of the car the day before.

Hearing is more sensitive in the morning so it makes sense that tinnitus would also seem to be louder.

 

[Flowergirl]

Same. When I wake up I still hear it but it seems much more quiet. About 10 minutes later it's back at full blast and for a while seems even louder than it did the day before. After a couple of hours it settles back down to its current new baseline as of about 6 weeks ago.

Me too exactly.well. Not always exactly but the minutes before it kicks in are like a normal person then, bam, it kicks in. Mine seems louder some days than others. Wonder why. We had bad storms here for a few days, then today it's been like a level 2 or 3 which feels miraculous. Thank you Lord!