Anxiety Influencing Tinnitus Spikes

I was wondering, for everyone here with experience, how greatly anxiety affects spikes. It seems that every time I get anxious (even subconsciously) my tinnitus goes from semi-maskable to so high pitched it can't be makes. Usually once the weekend comes, and I get more relaxed, it becomes maskable. Also, when I'm very anxious, I get the fleeting tinnitus where it goes quiet for a second then rings loudly. I had very strong anxiety before my tinnitus, so I'm thinking it played a part in making it more intense.

So is it possible that reducing anxiety and stress can greatly reduce these spikes?

Thanks everyone.

 

for me not so much. not even a panic attack will do much.

 

I've noticed when I exercise and try to feel good, my tinnitus is lower. For example, yesterday I meditated for 10 minutes and it got low and I went back to my anxious state after that, now it's super loud. I feel like reducing anxiety will definitely help.

 

My anxiety definitely spikes my tinnitus. If I have a panic attack it takes my ears a long time to heal.

 

Yes, stress and anxiety definitely makes it considerably worse for me as well.

 

I agree with dr. Rauschecker that tinnitus is directly related to the lambic system. So I feel that even if neuromod works, we really need to work on anxiety. Thanks for the input, this makes me feel better knowing it’s par for the course

 

I was once in an immense state of anxiety many years ago... I'm talking off the charts symptoms... and my ear started tinkling. Went eventually when I calmed down months later.

 

@TimmyC Stress, anxiety, and lack of sleep definitely affect everything regarding my tinnitus.

 

@TimmyC some people say their tinnitus never changes, but for those of us who do get "spiked" when our anxiety rises, it's very real, and I actually think it's "good" because it means you can control your tinnitus to some limited degree through stress management.

You've become aware of a feedback link between your state of mind and your perceptual being. Harness that, study it, and leverage it to your advantage.

 

Strangely enough anxiety has no effect on my tinnitus. The only thing that makes it spike is sound.

 

For me, it can be a vicious cycle at times: A spike makes me anxious, which makes my perception of T much more anxiety provoking, which then affects my sleep, which makes the T worse the next day.

Overall, anxiety/stress management seems very important when handling T for sure.

 

Yes, stress and subsequent anxiety make my T and H a lot worse. I would also say that at this point, anything that really gets my adrenaline going in general (being angry, upset, overly excited etc). I have cut out all caffeine, chocolate. and alcohol as these are also triggers. My T and H are due to a head injury/concussion in December.

 

Anxiety also causes fleeting tinnitus for me. Its usually anxiety about whether a sound I just heard is damaging or when I'm stressing about something.

 

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Same here. I noticed one week I was constantly anxious and couldn't think and I got fleeting tinnitus twice a day.

Thanks for this! I take a small dose of SSRI, but I'm always looking for natural methods to help me.

 

Same here. I am under a lot of stress right now, and I noticed that I get fleeting tinnitus multiple times a day now (something that hasn't happened for about two years before the my recent spike in anxiety).

 

Yes anxiety worsens my tinnitus and must have something to do with its onset also.. The very first time I had it real bad last August was going off Klonopin and having a panic attack that I inhaled a Tylenol ( stupid I know .. I thought it went down the wrong way maybe)..... The T came on so bad it was painful... I reeled. It went away that time. It came back for good in October after Levaquin and possibly my stereo one day.