Poll: What Is the Extent of Your Daily Tinnitus Intensity Fluctuations?

[Tinniger]

My tinnitus is fluctuating considerably.

And mild days (2/10) alternate with horror days (8/10).

I would describe these fluctuations as strong (4).

What is the extent of your tinnitus fluctuations?

 

[MBH]

I call mine irregular tinnitus, due to it being loud in the morning, and when I go to work it goes down, and at night it can go up.

But in between I can get crickets and static.

And in my opinion when I get static my anxiety symptoms kick in. I usually stay calm.

So I find it annoying when I spike in the middle of the night. Weird?

 

[Tinniger]

Split decision till now: 10x (no, very low, low) and 10x (strong, very strong)

 

[Tinniger]

About half of all tinnitus sufferers report strong daily fluctuations in intensity.

What does science have to say about this? A different degree of hearing system damage cannot actually be present.

There must therefore be a difference in perception between good and bad tinnitus days.

What is the cause of fluctuating perception?

Couldn't increased knowledge about this also be used therapeutically?

 

[Sam Bridge]

Seems to be affected only by my sleep cycle. Noise doesn't seem to have any effect.

 

[Tinniger]

It would be interesting to know whether the noise-induced or non-noise-induced tinnitus tends to fluctuate.

 

[Tinniger]

Now 24:16 for considerable fluctuation!
And after a rather silent Monday my ear's hissing like crazy since awakening again today.

 

[ringinghours]

My tinnitus is always constant, and does not ever vary? What is the reason some people's tinnitus fluctuates while other's don't?

 

[LunarRXA]

Moderate. I have 2 types of tinnitus sounds in my left and right ears. They tend to drown each other out. I'm somewhat habituating to my left ear (coil-whine) but the clicking sort of cracking "EeEEeEeEee" has been coming back a little lately. I just came back from the movies (Shazam) but it was bothering me before that so I'm not going to read too much into it. Today is about a 2-3/10 left ear and 5-6/10 in the right ear. Right ear has been quiet for the past few weeks so I'm.. adjusting today.

 

[TheDanishGirl]

Very low. Mine rarely fluctuates and when it does, it is only a little change.

 

[Nikkilu]

Does anyone experience different sounds during the day... one minute I can barely hear the tinnitus and I'm feeling positive then next minute it's a loud ring in my ear. Actually makes me jump sometimes.

From a static soft noise to a loud ring quite frequently during the day. I'm thinking maybe it's a good sign it goes so quiet sometimes though?

 

[Jack Straw]

Does anyone experience different sounds during the day... one minute I can barely hear the tinnitus and I'm feeling positive then next minute it's a loud ring in my ear. Actually makes me jump sometimes.

From a static soft noise to a loud ring quite frequently during the day. I'm thinking maybe it's a good sign it goes so quiet sometimes though?

Does it randomly spike up for 10-30 seconds then go back down?

That is called fleeting tinnitus. It seems to be more common and prevalent when tinnitus first sets in.

 

[Nikkilu]

Pretty much yeah. Is it a good or bad sign? Or just normal. I feel quite positive when it goes quiet.

 

[winstona]

Mine is running on a somewhat predictable cycle. It roughly looks like this:

2 days loud (almost nothing can mask, it competes with other sounds and rides over them)
2 days medium loud (can be somewhat masked but still can hear it over tv)
1 day relatively quiet. (Watching tv can completely mask it)

My T is caused by acoustic trauma and ear irrigation.

 

[Tinniger]

Since I suspect a somatosensory explanation for my tinnitus flcutuations, I also think about the head and cervical spine position during the night. And one possible explanation for the beginning of a bad day was the nocturnal cervical spine posture.

 

[Tinniger]

Now 51:23 for considerable fluctuations!
Most tinnitus sufferer know "good days" and "bad days".
I wonder why this phenomenon is not studied in more detail by science.
If one only had the "good days" left, the tinnitus problem would be largely solved.