Poll: When You First Noticed Your Tinnitus Did You Wake Up from Sleep to It?

[JasonP]

Basically the first time it started, did you notice it when you woke up?

 

[Mario martz]

Yes!

 

[bill 112]

Nope,funny enough my grandmother was talking about my uncles T to my mother and I payed no attention to what she was saying.Literally 1 minute later I thought my fridge was broken because I could hear a hiss coming from it.I left the room but could still hear the hissing,I covered my ears and that was the start of the nightmare.Just a major coincidence that my T started as we were talking about T.

 

[Engineer]

Yes I did. I don't think it woke me up, but I was aware of it right after I awoke. It was a very unpleasant morning as I began my crash internet course on T.

 

[Fungus]

No....developed as a very faint and infrequent hiss in one ear by day, and developed into a couple of jet engines in both ears 24/7 over the course of about a month.

Fungus

 

[Beste]

Yes.

 

[volsung37]

My journey into the underworld started with waking up one night to Pulsatile Tinnitus. I had never really thought such a thing could exist. Lasted 8 months then went away gradually. I had intermittent ordinary T but it never bothered me much until Feb 16 this year when it appeared during the night. Give me the PT any day.

 

[Path Maker]

Yes. Woke me from a sound sleep.

 

[Enid]

Tinnitus wakes me up at night. Its worse mornings evenings and afternoons. There wasn't a definite start to it just a realisation of a buzz that was always there sometimes so quiet almost inaudible sometimes so loud blocks out all other sounds. Started after ear infection last October/november . getting ears syrnged in a few weeks Dr thinks earwax is partly responsible. MRI showed nothing to worry about.

 

[JasonP]

Interesting. It seems the majority of people's T started when they woke up at least as of today. I'm not sure why I never answered my own question with detail. I was taking a lot of medication and supplements one time after becoming severely depressed.

My mind became incredibly messed up due to what I was taking. When people talked to me I could not instantly understand what they were saying. I had to analyze every single word of their question to comprehend it.

Anyways, I went to sleep and woke up with high pitch ringing in both ears. I thought it would go away but it did not.

 

[TheDanishGirl]

No. I actually noticed it when I laid down to sleep.

 

[Jomo]

strange coincidence how many of us experienced it from waking up. Mine woke me up and i could have sworn that nite i went to sleep with no ringing. that dreaded day...

 

[Scared111]

yes I woke up with pulsatile tinnitus in one ear. then woke up with regular tinnitus in the other ear four months later.

 

[Shera]

For me I got T when I hit my head. The new horrible T woke me up in the middle of the night 3 months later.

 

[Tweedleman]

I was 10 years old, we had just got back from the video store. I was sitting on the couch in quiet waiting for my Mom to put the VHS in and I noticed the godawful ringing sound in both ears. Once the movie started it covered it up. From that day forward I hated being in silent rooms.

 

[CHLOE_EE]

I woke up 9/16/19 to a tiny whistle in the left ear. I didn't think ANYTHING of it. It's happened before when I was about to get a cold or sinus infection. The whistle kept up - all day. All night for days. Never got a cold. Never got a sinus infection.

At the one week mark of non stop tinnitus I started googling....started panicking. Which lead me to ENT, chiropractor, dentists, nothing detected but "high frequency loss" in the left ear via audio gram. I've never been exposed to noise, no headphones, no ototoxic meds, passed numerous online audio grams for frequency since when the tinnitus is quiet. I'm 49 - too young for hearing loss. I had no hearing loss. I do have disc degenerative disease btwn cervical spine 5 & 6 and forward head posture. I'm working towards correcting.

The only over exposure to noise my left ear has heard more than the right, is I have spoken on the telephone with my left ear only for 40 years. Early in my career I used the phone a lot and took calls on left side, crooked neck, left side car window open, 3 babies crying as I held them over my left shoulder - screaming into my left ear.

I no longer speak on the phone - unless on speaker. I'm 4 1/2 months into tinnitus and if I talk even on speaker too long I will spike for hours afterwards.... makes no sense ... so I'm now using an ear plug (tight one) if I'm on speaker.

Definitely Maddening ...

 

[GoatSheep]

No. Driving from my mother's house back to my house. 3 hour trip. About half way into the trip left ear starting buzzing out of the blue pretty loudly.

 

[Christopher805]

Woke up with ringing after taking Neomycin for 3 days.

 

[aot]

Woke up to a low rumble in my head the morning after a walkie talkie was turned up too loudly at work and blasted me in my ear. Eventually it became a slight ringing, and I barely noticed it. (The good old days.)

Late november of last year I woke up three days in a row after going to loud event with friends. (The event lasted about 30-45 minutes.) Eventually the ringing would go away, until one day it didn't.