Poll: If Your Tinnitus Fluctuates Daily, Does Sunlight Affect Your Tinnitus Loudness?

[JasonP]

I am asking this because I want to see if there is a possible hormonal thing going on that will affect tinnitus loudness.

Exposure to outside sunlight (not looking at the sun of course, which is dangerous and can blind you or burn your retina. I'm just talking about being outside on a sunny day) can stop production of melatonin which affects many neurotransmitters and hormones.

I am wondering if tinnitus is bad because when a person wakes up in the morning, some amount of melatonin is still there and if going outside for a few hours might halt the production and lower the tinnitus.

 

[Bill Bauer]

I have been sunbathing for 15 minutes a day, to increase my vitamin D production. I haven't noticed any impact on my T.

 

[Tinniger]

My tinnitus severeness fluctuates daily.
And I don't find any correlation.....

 

[Kathi]

The only things I find that affects my tinnitus are anxiety and lack of sleep. I always feel better when I get out in the sunshine but that's not a tinnitus thing...that just that it's healthy to get outdoors. When I first got tinnitus I quit coffee, sugar and just about everything. I added it all back as nothing affects my fluctuating tinnitus. It took me years to figure out that I'd never be able to figure it out.

 

[Dolgoruki]

I found this old post while searching for "sunlight". At this point I can definitely state that exposure to sunlight positively affect my tinnitus. I have a lot of pre/post exposure data point that I can even normalize by other dimensions (street level, physical activity, diet etc).

If I spend a few hours in the sun, my tinnitus gets really quiet (all other factors being constant).

 

[Joe Cuber]

I found this old post while searching for "sunlight". At this point I can definitely state that exposure to sunlight positively affect my tinnitus. I have a lot of pre/post exposure data point that I can even normalize by other dimensions (street level, physical activity, diet etc).

If I spend a few hours in the sun, my tinnitus gets really quiet (all other factors being constant).

That's really cool @Dolgoruki, how long does the quiet last? And do you have fluctuating tinnitus?