Acoustic Trauma-Induced Tinnitus in One Ear — Now Noticing Fleeting Tinnitus in Good Ear — Normal?

Is it normal to have fleeting tinnitus more often now in my good ear? It wakes me up in a panic that it's going to stay.

 

I get a lot of fleeting tinnitus now. Maybe even once or twice a day but it subsides after 10-15 seconds or so. It’s actually louder than the tinnitus I had when it was constant.
I like to think of fleeting tinnitus as my ears repairing themselves in some way.

 

It's weird because sometimes I have it with a louder tone and all of a sudden all the sounds are almost dead quiet for hours or days.

 

Yes. An attempt to re-calibrate...

 

Onset of my tinnitus started with a lot of fleeting episodes (a couple times a day). Then those fleeting episodes stopped for 10 months or so (I just had my regular tinnitus). Last month multiple daily fleeting episodes are back.

Any idea why they are back? Is there any study corroborating what is being said here: fleeting episodes are a way for the brain to recalibrate? Or is this something we like to believe.

 

Is the Deanxit treatment not working anymore for you?

 

I don't think Deanxit ever intended to suppress my fleeting tinnitus episodes that are being instigated by god knows what.

The Deanxit still is the best thing I've tried for ignoring/coping/dealing with my regular constant chronic tinnitus.

 

I'm also noticing fleeting sounds (SBUTT?) in my healthy ear. My bad ear seems to be little better though. It happens especially when I don't hear or observe my bad ear tinnitus!? Is it some kind of recalibration?

Online they say it might be muscle spasm or misfiring hair cells?

And ENTs ignore this?

Is it better to get an ENT's opinion? Steroids?

 

Even people without tinnitus get those fleeting tinnitus episodes. I get them occasionally in both ears. There isn’t a lot of good data on it but there seems to be a lot of consensus that it is muscle spasms or having something to do with the positioning of your neck and the muscles in your jaw. They did a small study where they did micro needling of one particular jaw muscle which I can’t remember and it eliminated all participant’s SBUTT.

Most importantly the consensus is that it has nothing to do with permanent tinnitus.