Sleep Acts as Off/On Switch for Tinnitus

[Wojtek Kalka]

Mine turns complete off in dream space even on lucid dreams, and I can hear it noisy when the dream phase stops takes 1-3 secs to be realised and it comes back to 4-6/10, but a good sleep lowers my tinnitus always, bad sleep ups it

 

[Vera Lisa]

For the last 3 days my tinnitius is better. I'm getting out of the bed as soon as I wake up and I think this is calming my tinnitius. Very strange but for me is working so far. Thanks Tony Phylactou for the tip!

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Are there other sufferers out there whose tinnitus is literally switched on and ( mercifully) off after a nights sleep? Does anyone have any theories about why this should be? I can go to bed at night after a day almost completely free of tinnitus and wake to an angry raging torrent of hissing or vice versa. I initially thought it was tied in with diet so experimented with cutting out red meat,alcohol, dairy, etc, etc and found no link. However something occurs during sleep to dramatically alter the pattern of tinnitus and I feel that unlocking what this is may hold the key for to permanent relief.
Joss

Last night I went to bed with high T did not sleep at all, high T in the morning, had a 5 minute nap in the afternoon woke up T free .Can someone explain that to me?.Waking up for me is an on off switch for T.How long
I sleep seems to be irrelevant.

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Are there other sufferers out there whose tinnitus is literally switched on and ( mercifully) off after a nights sleep? Does anyone have any theories about why this should be? I can go to bed at night after a day almost completely free of tinnitus and wake to an angry raging torrent of hissing or vice versa. I initially thought it was tied in with diet so experimented with cutting out red meat,alcohol, dairy, etc, etc and found no link. However something occurs during sleep to dramatically alter the pattern of tinnitus and I feel that unlocking what this is may hold the key for to permanent relief.
Joss

Mine behaves in a similar way.I think a long but most importantly uninterrupted sleep should be the answer. I have a suspicion that luck of sleep results in High T.Does anybody have 8 hours of undisturbed sleep every night and also has high T I wonder.

 

[TheDanishGirl]

My T will reduce at about 50%-80% after a good sleep, no matter at night or a nap at noon. If I sleep less than 6 hours, the T will be obviously louder. I also think there should be some mechanism behind this

Same here.

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Are there other sufferers out there whose tinnitus is literally switched on and ( mercifully) off after a nights sleep? Does anyone have any theories about why this should be? I can go to bed at night after a day almost completely free of tinnitus and wake to an angry raging torrent of hissing or vice versa. I initially thought it was tied in with diet so experimented with cutting out red meat,alcohol, dairy, etc, etc and found no link. However something occurs during sleep to dramatically alter the pattern of tinnitus and I feel that unlocking what this is may hold the key for to permanent relief.
Joss

Napping acts as an on off switch with mine.T quiet after 5 min nap got louder. Nap for another 5 min went quiet again.All these happened on the same day

 

[Jomo]

wish they could actually do a study on what causes our T to get quieter after sleep...to me that may not be the cure but at least a way to treat the symptom...i dont understand why any of these researchers have ever studied this aspect. It seems the brain figures it out and then loses control as the day goes on

 

[threefirefour]

wish they could actually do a study on what causes our T to get quieter after sleep...to me that may not be the cure but at least a way to treat the symptom...i dont understand why any of these researchers have ever studied this aspect. It seems the brain figures it out and then loses control as the day goes on

Tinnitus goes away whenever you sleep. For some people sleep control heavily reduces tinnitus.

 

[Jomo]

Tinnitus goes away whenever you sleep. For some people sleep control heavily reduces tinnitus.

it doesnt go away because i have been half asleep and still heard it...maybe because i was half up it started again but i really think it never stops....i do recall when i first got T I would be in dead sleep and it would wake me up...is there actual scientific proof that it does? I agree it definitely reduces mine sometimes...its not always 100% true

 

[threefirefour]

it doesnt go away because i have been half asleep and still heard it...maybe because i was half up it started again but i really think it never stops....i do recall when i first got T I would be in dead sleep and it would wake me up...is there actual scientific proof that it does? I agree it definitely reduces mine sometimes...its not always 100% true

I don't remember where but according to some brain scan, tinnitus activity stops when you are dreaming. What you hear in your dream is the memory of tinnitus, which is why it's so variant in volume.

 

[Luman]

I guess that I am lucky in that I can get quiet periods, sometimes lasting three to eight hours, in the afternoon/evening. If I fall asleep, though, even for a few minutes, during the day or evening, my tinnitus is active when I wake up. If I wake up from sleep during the night, which I always do once or twice, tinnitus is there, and in the morning. Some days, perhaps most, I have tinnitus all day. It's bizarre, and difficult to habituate to, but at least I understand what is happening, although nobody knows why.

 

[just1morething]

Sleep always shuts off my noise. It may still be there, but I'm not aware of it in the sleep state or in dreams. It always comes back the loudest upon awakening, even if I have a good day. That's what makes it so depressing. Maybe a AD would help that, I don't know?