Burning My Hand Has Shut Down My Tinnitus?

Hy guys, yesterday I got a burn due to burning oil in my hand, hurts like hell. Checked with doc, but no medication taken till now.

Today I woke up with no tinnitus, not even when plugging ears. What is going on??? Tinnitus was mild/moderate for the last 1 month. Waited till this hour to report and still gone.

Did my brain just focused on the burning?

I have no further comments or insight, just wanted to share and ask if someone had this happen.

 

BRB lighting my hand on fire.

 

Please don't haha. Might be temporary, but it's odd at the least.

The only thing i've been using is a cream for burns, it has vitamin A. I don't think that was the problem all along....

 

Good for you! Hope it remains like that!
What caused your tinnitus and do you have hearing loss?

 

You remind me of this post: Bee Sting Eventually Stopped My Tinnitus. Your case may just be a coincidence, but I really hope it's gone for good.

 

Wow, that's great! Not sure if it's related, but hope it's permanent for you.

Reading stories like these of people saying their tinnitus disappeared after falling/burning their hand/getting stung by a bee makes me want to throw myself down a flight of stairs to see if it would work for me...

 

Well guys, reading stories about this events it's probably temporary, and not getting my hopes so high, but the mechanic of such events is interesting to see an debate.

My T isn't THAT bothersome TBH, i'm mostly recovering from a second random bout of H, but nice to hear silence for a change.

Regardin hearing loss, i hear a tad crisper on my left ear but this is not picked up by my average audiogram, and as my profile says it is noise induced T.

 

I’d quite happily burn a hand and a leg if it got rid of my T.

 

We found a cure!

 

If only it was that simple.

 

Ride the wave bro, I admire you

I'd give anything to not hear this junk, even for 1 second

I am happy for you, hope it lasts....

 

Well, that's certainly an unconventional treatment. I hope it sticks!

 

Interesting, maybe that event caused a brain rewiring? lul.
Keep us updated.

 

My theory is that endorphins were released for the burn pain, and you received some tinnitus relief as a bonus from this. Perhaps the brain was distracted from the tinnitus. In any case, it's all very interesting.

 

Pain and tinnitus have similarities neurologically. Maybe the pain took the place of the Tinnitus neural pathways in your brain. Cool. Hope it lasts for you. Not sure they would get many volunteers for a clinical trial though. Gotta go now and check on that oil I'm heating up.

 

When you get burned it sends very quick signals to the nervous system thats why u react so quickly. Maybe it "restored" something in ur system or maybe its temporary. Lets hope it stays that way!

 

Interesting. I pray it stays quiet for you.

 

Well it came back as the pain went down. Sorry to say... ahhh it was good while it lasted.

 

I read a secondhand account here of someone who lost his T after 20 years or so when he jumped into freezing cold water.

Extreme temperatures may have something to do with this somehow ... like the brain startles itself straight.

 

Good to know

 

Tinnitus is a creation of the brain to make larger something that it considers a danger.

If there is a bigger danger, it will focus on that.

We can help the process by reminding ourselves that there is nothing wrong, and making it like white noise that we don't pay attention to.

That's habituation. Don't put it in the category of important, and eventually the brain will turn its attention elsewhere.

 

Sort of implies to me a vascular/blood flow response.

 

I have an idea. How about getting burnt and then jumping into a frozen lake to cool down and cure tinnitus? Any volunteers?

 

According to Wikipedia, the "flight or fight" response:

"The fight-or-flight response (also called hyperarousal, or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.[1]"

"More specifically, the adrenal medulla produces a hormonal cascade that results in the secretion of catecholamines, especially norepinephrine and epinephrine.[4] The hormones estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol, as well as the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, also affect how organisms react to stress.[5]"

When you caught your hand on fire did that happen? Perhaps all these chemical changes did it? At this point, I don't have another explanation but the theories are interesting.

 

I’m in. You can go first!

 

Your tinnitus is low and this is the reason why it stopped as a response to burn.

Brain produces endorphins, cortisol, GABA to make the pain less so and the tinnitus became less.
If your tinnitus responds in in such a way it will be cured if you avoid noise exposure completely for a year.
When my tinnitus is low responds to many many treatments actually and in a lot of supplements.
When it is loud responds only to serious drugs like corticosteroids/benzos etc.