Cold Shower Tinnitus Experiment

I have read on the support forum where some have their tinnitus affected by taking a shower.

However, I imagine most of the time, people are taking hot or warm showers. My question is, what will happen during a cold shower? I am pretty sure a cold shower affects different hormones and other functions in the body.

I tried it this morning and I started breathing much faster. The cold water was a shock to my system after I had the hot water on. I don't think it affected my tinnitus much but this morning it wasn't that bad.

I'm wondering if anyone else would be willing to try this and report back.

 

Hi, I was curious about this too. I have been having cold showers for the last week just to see what would happen. My tinnitus is really affected by it. It changes tone quite drastically but I wouldn't call it a spike. So something definitely happens in the auditory cortex part of the brain. People say tinnitus and depression are linked and cold showers are proven to be as affective as anti depressants so in my opinion there is something in it.

 

If the problem is at your neck and muscles exhibiting pressure on your cervical system, environmental changes of hot/cold shower can also have effect.

 

Never tested it for tinnitus but I use ice at the back of my neck and temples for migraines. So besides muscles, it might affect blood vessels too.

 

One thing which helps me from time to time is a hot shower.

 

Shower doesn't helped me at all, but a cherry pit pillow did on the early Days. Now it's useless.

 

Cold showers is something that I have heard Julian Cowan Hill and Liam Boehm talk about.

I am not sure if this should be a daily thing? If so how long under cold water?

Can you warm yourself up afterwards by turning up the hot water or do you need to keep it cold from go to woe. Thanks.

 

I finish with a cold shower daily. I can’t say for sure that it helps. Some days I swear it does and some days not so much. I don’t think this is much of a solution though.