Poll: What Is Usually the Main Cause of Your Tinnitus Spikes?

[Artur]

I really like you @Bill Bauer you had quite a positive impact in my recovery and also I appreciate your darkish humor. In terms of spikes I never had them unless you are referring to fleeting tinnitus which i have quite often still, what i have noticed is that whenever I have fleeting T my regular T just disappears completely for the next day or so. I just hope these fleeting T episodes don't stick around.

PS: I love Russian and all the culture surrounding the former USSR, btw do you know Чебурашка? I learned quite a lot of Russian from watching these cartoons.


Thank you for everything Bill

 

[Robert18]

I agree you fishbone and I appreciate your comment every time you said about ignoring your loudness of t,
and I remember some of your post that you are not scared with t. your such a brave man.

Take care and god bless ,
Robert

 

[Bill Bauer]

I really like you @Bill Bauer you had quite a positive impact in my recovery

Thank you for letting me know!!

what i have noticed is that whenever I have fleeting T my regular T just disappears completely for the next day or so

Very interesting! This seems to be consistent with fleeting T being the body's attempt to recalibrate and to get better. It is amazing that your body seems to actually be successful. This is rare, and is hopefully a sign that eventually you will get to hear silence again.

I love Russian and all the culture surrounding the former USSR, btw do you know Чебурашка?

Of course! I still sometimes enjoy listening to Крокодил Гена's song.

Have you seen

It is also a classic Soviet cartoon, that is still fun to watch.

Is your family from the former Soviet Union?

 

[Tinniger]

I would like to know, whether voter of "noise" got their firsttime-tinnitus from noise

 

[Artur]

Thank you for letting me know!!


Very interesting! This seems to be consistent with fleeting T being the body's attempt to recalibrate and to get better. It is amazing that your body seems to actually be successful. This is rare, and is hopefully a sign that eventually you will get to hear silence again.


Of course! I still sometimes enjoy listening to Крокодил Гена's song.

Have you seen

It is also a classic Soviet cartoon, that is still fun to watch.

Is your family from the former Soviet Union?

Yeah I love that cartoon
Yes most of them are from Kiev

 

[Bill Bauer]

Yes most of them are from Kiev

I spent my childhood in Оболонь (a neighbourhood in Kiev). My family left Kiev in May 1987...

 

[Artur]

I spent my childhood in Оболонь (a neighbourhood in Kiev). My family left Kiev in May 1987...

My family is from Поділ and some still there, others are spread throughout Europe and the US, like Portugal, Switzerland, France and Florida.

 

[Holly1987]

Caffeine is a big one for me. If I have more than 1 cup of coffee my T will spike for a day or so.

 

[Contrast]

fun

 

[SugarMagnolia]

It's a bit of a flawed poll @Bill Bauer because often people will invoke a stress response when hearing a sound they believe is damaging. In which case, one may select noise, but how can they know? Or maybe one thinks it's stress but they actually have accumulated noise damage? It's anecdotal guess work of causality, and doesn't really prove anything, unfortunately. If only the scientific method was this easy.

I experienced my first spike recently from a noise (which is what I chose in the poll). But I am beginning to suspect that it is anxiety-related. In other words, the noise caused the anxiety which caused the spike.

 

[SugarMagnolia]

I would like to know, whether voter of "noise" got their firsttime-tinnitus from noise

I got my T from a sudden high-pitched noise and that is also the cause of my spike.

 

[David077]

Acoustic trauma only add me another sound for 1-2 days, noise make irritable and the tinnitus fills more disturbing. My big quiz is what affects good and bad days..

 

[David077]

whenever I have fleeting T my regular T just disappears completely for the next day or so.

In my case regular T not disappears completely, but becomes quiet.

I think it because the body tries to correct itself, but there is some permanent issue in the body that returning the T to it previous condition.

 

[Rajin]

My spikes come from stress . Thinking of , is this for real . Will it ever end .Then I could feel the restless.Do my meditation, breading to calm down. And can come from noise also . Both

 

[dpdx]

I got Severe T again from listening to music on my tv (music channel) volume was low like 11

 

[Bill Bauer]

I got Severe T again from listening to music on my tv (music channel) volume was low like 11

This is messed up...

I am so sorry that you have been struggling like that...

 

[dpdx]

This is messed up...

I am so sorry that you have been struggling like that...

It was loud enough, the music was loud, it sounded like it was 50, crazy right?
Music always makes my T worse, i listen to volume 8 on my laptop (10 max) if it goes beyond that I am in BIGGG TROUBLEEE. This is why I always get spikes when music is loud.

This tone sounds like a train stopping on tracks suddenly over and over, it makes my head and my left eye hurt. The hyperacusis on the R ear is bad, urinating in the morning makes that ear hurt...so yeah..

 

[hans799]

I do my absolute best to avoid loud noise, but I'm a very driven person so I get a lot of stress. In December and January all I did was get up, work out, work, go to sleep, including evenings and weekends. I was getting physical exhaustion symptoms by the end and the T was spiking, got this super high pitch noise, it was like the sound of my overheated brain.

After finishing the project and taking a few days off, the exhaustion and the noise both went away. I am sure the spike was caused by the stress/workload.