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Spikes do happen, and as you say they tend to return to the baseline. However, there's still the possibility of your tinnitus worsening. I've experienced both. Besides that, I'd say your post matches my experience of the last 25+ years of having tinnitus.

WOW! Thanks for sharing. Did you also experience tinnitus spikes after certain sounds when you were afraid of them? I would love to see a second part where you talk a little more about your tinnitus and how it reacted. I can really relate to much of your progress. I also deal with a tense jaw...

Today I decided to start a thread with ChatGPT to track my tinnitus. I want to keep a record of spikes, what helps, and what may have triggered them. My plan is to continue this for the next year and see if any patterns emerge. Has anyone else tried doing this? Here is the prompt I asked...

Since having tinnitus I've experienced a lot of different spikes. First high pitch noise which I've got 24/7. Some times my ear goes deaf for a split second. Sometimes accompanied by a stupidly loud scream high pitch noise which fades out. And this humming vibrating feeling. I've had tinnitus...

...below 80 dBA and wearing hearing protection, I really don’t think any spike would be permanent. Some sounds just tend to irritate our tinnitus. For many people, spikes occur a day or two after the noise exposure. I would continue monitoring the environment in the jewelry class with a dosimeter.

...persisted. I feel really low and I just came here hoping for some positive thoughts and prayers. I don't feel I have any control over these spikes, the t in general. It has its own mind and I think this is the part that I find the most frustrating. I also have found this to be a very lonely...

Five months into my T and starting to believe the people who say "things really will get better." The best thing I've learned is that spikes really do go back down! In the beginning my T would spike and I would panic: "oh no if it keeps getting louder I cannot bear it!" Then in a few hours or...

Hey community, I'm trying to figure out if noise-/vibration-related spikes indicate that more damage is being done to your auditory systems, or if it's simply an indication that we've gotten our screwy neurons all riled up. For instance, I go for a 1 hour drive in my 78dB car with plugs in...

Maybe explore the migraine–tinnitus treatment approach. It is based on the idea that our spikes are actually a type of migraine, and that by avoiding triggers, you can also avoid the spikes. I do not know if it has real validity, but it is something I am trying to experiment with.

...it that it might have caused more damage to my hearing( had sufficient protection but still it was loud). It was negative. How long have your spikes lasted at the most? I hope it goes down to the baseline soon as it's making me really panicky and irritating with my family members . I feel...

...head is sounding like it’s going to explode. I’m just feeling really hopeless at the moment. I used to find dealing with my tinnitus really easy. These new sounds/spikes are scaring me. I just don’t know what to do. Anyone have advice or similar experiences? I really hope these are just spikes.

...needed changing. Was it overconfidence, foolishness, or just normal behavior? Now my tinnitus feels like it did years ago. It’s unstable, spikes when I boil the kettle, and my mental health has completely collapsed. Nobody seems to know what to do. Do you listen to everyday sounds or use...

A lot of the time, I do not hear it unless I have a spike. Most days, I do not really notice it throughout the day.

Hi, I'm Alan. I have had mild tinnitus for 17 years now, cause unknown? I am lucky it is not too loud and sometimes I forget about it for a short while. However I have Hyperacusis ( for 12 years), and any loud noises cause a spike which has always decreased over time, sometimes taking 3 months...

...I'm so scared this is permanent. I was supposed to go on vacation but 12 hours driving with this I don't know if I can handle. I've had spikes before... you know, a day here or there from a cold or super bad allergies or even from a car window being down. But why did it go away and now...

Everytime I eat and chew I notice an increase in my tinnitus that can last anywhere from half an hour to over an hour (sometimes longer), depending on how much I've had to chew my food. Obviously some foods require more chewing than others. Is a 'spike' gained through chewing as serious as a...

...No matter what kind of tinnitus day I'm having, mild, moderate or high, within a matter of a few minutes while driving my car my tinnitus spikes way up. I've tried everything. Masking CD's in car, windows down, windows up, heat on or off, AC on or off, even ear plugs... but nothing works...

Kinda regret going to a certain social gathering on christmas without earplugs, now my ears are killing me :( well I guess it's ok. I'll try to be more careful next time. Now I at least know that less noise also spikes me...

...ratng of 7 out of 10 for the level of sound, ability to cope, stress levels etc and told me "learn to live with it". Mine is 24/7 and spikes in time of stress, in times of happiness, anytime really. I have learned to accommodate this constant noise in my head (sounds like an ocean in good...

I have bilateral tinnitus but my spikes only happens when I am asleep (I wake up when the spike occurs). I had never noticed that it comes only from one ear, anybody has the same experience?

...May or June marked my 33rd “tinnitus birthday,” and the psychological impact has lessened a lot over time. Nonetheless, I still get frequent spikes, usually from loud noise such as motorbikes, heavy goods vehicles, or even ordinary cars with faulty silencers. I no longer go to bars. Some...

...so I decided to resume a social life and began going to parties again (with protection, of course). That was a bad idea. I have been having spikes every day for the past two years. I cannot sleep anymore, even with a combination of medicines. I now live completely isolated at home. I want to...

...possible. Only a couple of points where the music swelled a little bit. I measured 84 dB at one point, but I was fine as I had foam plugs in and covered my bad ear at those points with my hand. No tinnitus spikes or any problems afterwards. I still won't be going to the Star Wars movie however!

@Ralphie, same question, do you think earplugs and earmuffs would help reduce the chances of tinnitus spikes in those settings you frequent?

Hello everyone 👋 I'm back with an update. My T is still there and spikes have become less and less. I am living life more normally despite this noise..it's still annoying most days but I'm pushing through. Reactivity is wayyyyy down but still there....nothing like it was though. Hyperacusis is...

I've had tinnitus as long as I can remember and my biggest frustration is not even the physical ringing but the psychological battle of it being worsened by stress. Almost no concrete or actionable research is known beyond avoid loud sounds, which causes me to stress out a lot because there's...

2/2 I’ve never had spikes, mine have always been permanent increases. How do you know if it’s a spike? How long do yours last?

How do you handle spikes using your methods very bad day today.

Hey guys, I want to share a small success story. I've managed to: - eliminate short tinnitus spikes (usually with full ear feeling). - eliminate constant faint full ear feeling I've developed after sudden deafness (luckily cured). - slightly reduced the regular tinnitus. The cure...

I snowboard and sometimes when I fall hard (I fall all the time) my tinnitus spikes for about a minute. There isn’t a loud noise when it happens so I know I’m not damaging my ears but why does this happen? Is it because of the stress on my body when I impact the ground? I feel like anxiety also...

...better, and have mastered the art of sleeping which has been great. Obviously I’ve read a lot of posts on the forum, with many referring to spikes. I’m just wondering if it is abnormal to not experience tinnitus spikes? And if that means that my tinnitus is not noise induced? Don’t get me...

I’ve been having serious spikes. Discouraging. I’ve had an ear infection for 2 days. It’s making my T unbearable.

This has been my experience over the past few years. The first year I had spikes, but I could pretty much do what I wanted (staying away from clubs and bars obviously), and everything stayed relatively constant. Now anything slightly loud, even with earplugs, sets off spikes that last weeks. I...

I’m sorry this happened to you, man. Spikes suck, but they usually get better within a few weeks. Personally, I’m going through a spike right now because I was doing a brief, uncomfortably loud task without hearing protection. I even had hearing protection in my pocket. I do not want to...

...in all my pants pockets. I've got some super mild ringing that I don't even notice. Then around 5 years ago I started getting these massive spikes. I went to 2 different specialists and got brain scans. They couldn't find the cause. 'The ringing goes away, so that's good. Come back if the...

...entire habituation process all over again every time I get one. Which actually really sucks. It seems that I am the only one myself that experiences this problem. Because Almost everybody's tinnitus spikes go away shortly and the volume goes down. Or the new sound just vanishes without a trace.

I notice chewing bread spikes up my tinnitus. For every bite I take I notice tinnitus sound. When I am at work desk i don't hear tinnitus due to white noise but when I have my breakfast at desk (chewing bread I notice tinnitus is more). I was thinking my tinnitus was due to hearing loss from...

That is definitely possible.

...reactivity factor of my tinnitus and hyperacusis has significantly reduced for around two months now, but the intensity and frequency of the spikes has increased and continued to worsened. I don't really understand what this means and has been concerning me for where I may be heading. For...

Hi all. I just started a new job. I work from home and have many online meetings. As I am not using a headset but only the sound from the computer, I thought I would be safe but after a day with 3 long-ish meetings, my tinnitus is spiking like never before. I am in tears at the prospect of...

Bombarded with so much sound this week. Praying no worsening or spikes. So far so good. Fingers crossed.

...on a faucet. In some way, there is a part of me that "knows" it will go back down, I just don't know when. But there is also a scared part of me, that thinks it's here to stay. So to ask a question, could this be just a "spike" or rather spikes due to stress and grief? Thank you in advance :)

...hearing loss - because the system was put in shock. I've noticed people on here that protect their hearing a lot seem to suffer from a lot of spikes too. Could this be that our brain has a sort of tinnitus shock threshold? Like if a noise is over a certain decibel then it will cause a spike...

...be a temporary spike, but I’m unsure whether to use earplugs on future trips. I plan to reduce cabin noise by adding sound-deadening mats and changing the tires next month. I’ve had tinnitus spikes in the past when I started focusing on it too much and frequently checking if it had gotten worse.

...pathway, the brain interprets the lack of signal as tinnitus." (Quote from @FGG). What I don't understand is how we can insert temporary spikes or daily fluctuations in tinnitus volume into the picture? One of my tinnitus sounds is always elevated for hours after certain moderately loud...

A lot of people have experienced tinnitus spikes. They all worry if the spike will be permanent or not. How do you know if it's just a spike or not?

Are these spikes hurting me in the long run?

Yes, I experience tones after spikes. Slight tones act as a kind of warning sign for me. For the most part, it’s a high-frequency hiss, which I’ve gotten used to by now.

...one stuck in this cycle? Loud noise ---> anxiety and louder tinnitus for like a day to some weeks ---> i forget about the incident or calm myself ---> Tinnitus back to baseline (or gets better) ---> new loud sound etc etc.... Is my reaction my problem for my spikes? happens like 1-2 times a week.

It isn't the actual alcohol that spikes T , what spikes the T is the higher blood pressure that is caused by drinking . People who frequently drink will have higher blood pressure than people who seldomly drink or don't drink at all

I was always getting spikes in my T but it was never the loudest of the sounds. September 9 is the day when I ruined my life once again lmao

...for my T, either acoustic trauma or very strong psychosomatic effect… But if the T came from acoustic trauma, wouldn't I have a lot more spikes and changes since I would have some damages in my ears… ? The fact that it has been constant for over a year makes me think it might not be an...

Hello all, I have moderate hearing loss and bad tinnitus and my ears are a bit sensitive to noise. Is there anything I should know or do before purchasing a hearing aid? Do spikes affect your hearing test?

Spiking again. Probably my brain playing tricks. Matches all previous spikes and I'm coping better than before. Long ago since last time.