Stress/Cortisol and Tinnitus

[Marlene]

Thanks Larry ,we all seem to be in a bad place at sometime ,bottom line of it ,all walked in each other's shoes,
Just pulling away at the day were in ,I do frequently ,no matter how hard we work at it ,still over rides emotions to it .It well and truly Stinks .
It's 11.30 here in UK almost another day done with it ,wash my hands of today ,dealt with .Thats how I get through it Larry ,think One day at a time Sweet Jesus ,as the song goes . Then on a fair day when it's what I call middle ear T. I hum Karens song on her profile page Always look on the bright side of life .Go have a listen to it ,it will make you smile ,even when you are low .
We can survive this ,we have to ,deep down we all know this no matter how were feeling ,if you got young family ,just look at them and say I can and will cope for them .Wishing us all on TT and other sites out there with T some much needed respite ,even if it's the odd day here and there ,we need it .Go easy Larry xx

 

[I who love music]

@I who love music

I cannot protect my ears. The person I live with keeps screaming in my ears and have terrible beyond control rages where he smashes things and threatens me. I called the police for the third time over the weekend but they are really stupid and wont do anything. They say he can do what he wants in his house.
If I try to leave he goes berserk.
Yesterday evening he cut off the internet and condemned me to being upstairs in the silent bedroom totally afraid of going downstairs.
I had a house to go to see about to rent. this afternoon ..and got a phone call this morning that it has been rented.
The police have said that i have to go to make an official complain against him but if i do he will go berserk and probably kill me.
The police have told me that even if i do make a complaint it could take at leat 2 months before anything is done even IF something is done.
He has told me that if i get him evicted he will come back in the night and kill me.
Meanwhile my T is screaming out of control today. I dont know if there is a connection between all of this and my T.
I took half a xanax to try to get more sleep today - more than the 4 hours i normaally get.
He has told the police that i have mental problems which i dont - i just have the t.
So the police when they came and after listening to him who was really nice to the police, the police have said that i have to go the hospital...
can you believe it?

Yes, I can believe it. I've seen a lot of bruised women in our hospital. Our little town has a house where people can go and no one knows where they are and people are there to help them. Maybe the next time you see the police you could ask them where to go to be safe and have your tinnitus get better too.

@I who love music

Please tell me how you go about this. Some simple exercises please to begin with if possible
cos i am having a real bad time here and freaking out

You're already doing it. You said, "I am having a real bad time here and freaking out." You didn't mention your T or describe it. You described your feeling. Keep doing that - over and over.

 

[I who love music]

@I who love music I think I got it, I stumbled across something when reading a book on mindfulness, "being" rather than "doing", this seems to have potential to work, I have had two relatively decent days in a row, I have had nothing close to this point. I have had glimpses a couple of times, otherwise there has been only regression and not progression. I'll keep with this approach along with sound therapy and see where this goes. The experimentation continues.

Two good days are wonderful!! And how did you FEEL those days? Never miss an opportunity to tell yourself how you feel about T (or no T) because the more you tell yourself how you feel about T, the less you have to listen to it.

 

[amandine]

@I who love music

I dont understand how telling yourself how you feel helps with ridding the T?

 

[I who love music]

@I who love music

I dont understand how telling yourself how you feel helps with ridding the T?

I don't either. But it worked.
I'm not your run of the mill T sufferer. I'm a LONG time sufferer with probably 100 different types of cures behind me. My ears are damaged for life from loud music. But this worked and I don't know why.

 

[jazz]

@jazz
Hey jazz, does your t still fluctuate like before? Mine is not being nice and hasn't been giving me 2 days in the clear. Just one, followed by a real bad day.
When yours fluctuates down does it rebound loud?

Fluctuations have always been normal for me. Fortunately, my tinnitus has gone down since the beginning so my loud days are not as loud; and my low ones are lower. But there are always exceptions. This week I had two awful days for no apparent reason.

But, over time, our brains do adapt to the tinnitus and the stress becomes less. That said, if you need antidepressants or something else to help you, you should take them. Tinnitus is hard. Period. But it can and does get better. Believe it! It's just that the progress can often be slow and full of missteps.

take care!

 

[Blair14]

@I who love music The two descent days I felt better, I soaked it up because I figured it wouldn't last. Today is bad, helps me remember that hopefully there will be better days ahead. I hope my brain will adapt to the tinnitus, the stress is considerably less, but not much in the way of positive results so far.

 

[Telis]

Stress or not, my tinnitus doesn't change. I'm always thinking of my tinnitus but I can tell when my body has a stress reaction. I worked for most of my life at a very high demanding and stressful job, I have definitely learned to monitor my system for stress changes.

 

[gary]

Cortisol & Tinnitus (2012) Old But Interesting.

https://bmcearnosethroatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6815-12-4

 

[Peter Q]

Too much sensory input can be a factor. The brain can become overwhelmed, especially with all the media-TV, computer etc. The brain and nervous system needs to be allowed to slow down and rest. As they say in the Alexander Technique, the most difficult thing of all can be to just STOP. To paraphrase the Bob Dylan song, when we are ill at ease it is always tempting to fill ourselves with 'too much of nothing'.