Chocolate Helps My Tinnitus

[Sarah200]

Hi all

Ok so everytime I eat large quantities of milk chocolate my tinnitu improves as in my tinnitus goes quieter for a few hours.

Larger quantities mean a lot of sugar which is supposed to be bad for tinnitus but also eating a lot of sugar is not great on my body either, but I can't escape the fact that when I eat around 200g of milk chocolate my tinnitus improves.

I want to ask do you think it's the antioxidant levels in chocolate that helps my tinnitus as dark chocolate has been proven to have antioxidants?

When I say dark chocolate I mean the pure 80% bars.

I know milk chocolate does not have the level of antioxidants as dark chocolate or the plant chocolate comes from but maybe because I eat 200g means I reach an antioxidant level?

As I was thinking of eating just now bars of pure dark chocolate to continue to help tinnitus but without all the sugar.

 

[SugarMagnolia]

I love dark chocolate. I don't believe it will heal the damage to my ear, but I'll take any excuse to eat it.

 

[Rajin]

As I was thinking of eating just now bars of pure dark chocolate to continue to help tinnitus but without all the sugar.

Maybe getting the cocoa that make the chocolate eat it like a fruit.

 

[Nanny chocolate]

Wish that happened for me. Tinnitus is such a weird condition and therefore what helps isn't uniform. Try the dark chocolate, it's supposed to be more healthy.
@Sarah200

 

[housemzk]

Good question - found this research on the benefits of cocoa related to vascular function.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16794461

I eat a small amount of 88% cocoa everyday along with lion's mane mushroom for nerve repair.

 

[Sarah200]

It's the one thing I did not stop eating when I got tinnitus but have recently stopped due to a little weight gain due to eating too much, I'm a chocoholic, I love it. But then my tinnitus spiked massively so I thought maybe it's just a withdrawal to the lower amounts of sugar I'm eating now, then when I ate a piece of milk chocolate my tinnitus went quieter so I went without again and it spiked and only went quiet when I ate chocolate. Since then I have realized that it goes real quiet if I eat loads of chocolate so I think it's to do with the plant that chocolate comes from so I'm going to eat some dark chocolate and see how I go.

Interesting article @housemzk, I'm going to try 80% and see if it helps like the milk chocolate and if it does then I will eat 100% as I can eat the 100% bars I enjoy them but only a small amount though.

 

[Ahat]

Hi all

Ok so everytime I eat large quantities of milk chocolate my tinnitu improves as in my tinnitus goes quieter for a few hours.

Larger quantities mean a lot of sugar which is supposed to be bad for tinnitus but also eating a lot of sugar is not great on my body either, but I can't escape the fact that when I eat around 200g of milk chocolate my tinnitus improves.

I want to ask do you think it's the antioxidant levels in chocolate that helps my tinnitus as dark chocolate has been proven to have antioxidants?

When I say dark chocolate I mean the pure 80% bars.

I know milk chocolate does not have the level of antioxidants as dark chocolate or the plant chocolate comes from but maybe because I eat 200g means I reach an antioxidant level?

As I was thinking of eating just now bars of pure dark chocolate to continue to help tinnitus but without all the sugar.

This is interesting. I see all of these posts saying to stay away from sugar and to keep sodium intake low. I had take out for dinner last night which had like a weeks worth of sodium in it and my tinnitus reduced to barely hearing it in a quiet room later on.

 

[Sarah200]

This is interesting. I see all of these posts saying to stay away from sugar and to keep sodium intake low. I had take out for dinner last night which had like a weeks worth of sodium in it and my tinnitus reduced to barely hearing it in a quiet room later on.

Me too I had KFC last night as we were celebrating and my tinnitus never changed and normally salt increases my tinnitus. I think it's if we eat large amounts of salt on a daily basis that it can affect our tinnitus, as I don't eat a lot of salt and takeouts like KFC, Chinese are rare occasions, maybe that's why we're ok.