Blast of Cold Water May or May Not Temporarily Help Your Tinnitus

The past few days I've been finishing my showers with a blast of cold water. I put my head in the water and lower the temp until I can't stand it. For usually about 10 seconds or so after I shut it off, I hear nothing.

This evening I took a cool shower, and lowered it until it was a little uncomfortably cold, like jumping in a pool at first. I tried to stay in a couple minutes. I finished with my shock treatment of really really cold for a few seconds or so, and turned it off.

I heard nothing for about 25 seconds afterward. Silence.

Chalk it up however you see it, but it seems to be helping. Give it a go for a few days and report back.

 

I had a shower this morning with a cold finish and same thing.

This evening I started with a luke-warm shower, then every couple minutes I lowered the temp a notch, got used to that, lowered again, got used to it, etc etc. Got it down pretty cold, and then finished again with my head in as cold as I could stand it for a few seconds. I shut it off and counted silence for nearly a minute before my high pitched hiss set back in.

It's hard to describe because it's not completely silent, you can still tell something is there, but it's not a hiss, there's no tone. It's just like your ears "on".

 

I will be getting a patent for cold showers. After 10 years of testing and a 3 phase trial I will bottle the results and be rich.

 

Well the best part is it's not some ancient Chinese herb you need to go buy, it's basically free, on tap, at your local faucet!

 

Still holding onto this theory as its still working for me. I notice I get more silence if I take a longer cold shower.

If I take a hot one and just shock myself with cold for a few seconds then I might only get 10-15 seconds of silence. A 3-5 minute cool, graduating to cold shower will give me up to a minute.

I'm interested in others trying this to see if it works for you.

 

I recall a guy on some health show talking about this theory which is a bit like fasting. Said something that he lies in ice and cold water in tub on occasion to shock the body for health benefits and I think for weight-loss. Cold water does nothing for my type of T. Seems just a temporary shock response? that can feel good, so nothing wrong with that.

How about brain-freeze, does that stop T for some?

 

I once posted a story I found on another site about a guy claiming jumping in a cold lake stopped his longstanding tinnitus...

 

I read that. Interesting for certain

 

Could it be because he didn't come back up? Wish it was that simple.

 

Someone on here thought it may be vagus nerve related...

 

Dredging up an old thread, I apologise but others may find this interesting. My tinnitus was first *triggered by* waterskiing in mid winter in the UK with no wetsuit hood. A single drunk under the surface and my ears were ringing away. Over the years it dropped off until I had an engine part explode next to my head, but again that died off over 3 years or so. Recently I went scuba diving in 11C seawater without a hood, and now have full blown ringing again.