Does Your Tinnitus Get Louder When Yawning?

My T gets 2-3 times louder when yawning and it takes few seconds to minutes to go back to normal. What's strange is that it will 100% gets back to normal faster if i listen to masking sound immediately after yawning...

 

Yeah! Mine too! It gets like twice as loud but the second i stop it goes back down to almost not audible without pluggin my ears... Something with our jaw movement makin that happen?

 

check that it's somatic tinnitus i have it too and also when i tighten my neck muscles
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/somatic-tinnitus.812/

 

almost everyone can change the sound of their tinnitus when they move the neck, jawn, chew etc. That is because hearing and neck and face movements are all felt in the same part of the brain. In fact, this was one of the first clues for scientists that tinnitus actually happens in the brain.

 

For me, only yawning will affect my T. Manually moving my jaw, neck, eyes or anything else has no effect at all.
I read that a yawn is a reflex of simultaneous inhalation of air and stretching of the eardrums. So i guess it's the stretching of the eardrums part that affect my T and am wondering if my T is actually caused by over stressed eardrums which does not return to it's normal state after certain condition.

 

My tinnitus gets very noticeable when I chew gum. Very odd.

 

mine gets louder if I clench my jaw. nothing else really affects it though. at least not that I've noticed so far.

 

Mine doubles in volume when I jut my jaw out like a monkey.

 

this is me too
yawning doesn't change it very much

 

Aww no, me too! Why? What does it mean?

 

For those of you where it gets louder when you yawn, what was the cause of your tinnitus? Do you have neck/jaw/temple pain?

BTW, I'm over in the Tinnitus, TMJ, Headaches, Neck, Facial Pain etc. Thread:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...etc-possible-treatment.500/page-26#post-84218

My low tone tinnitus on my left side that is low in pitch and volume gets louder while I yawn a certain way that uses certain muslces. It only lasts during the yawn. I don't know the cause of my tinnitus, but I have neck/templ/jaw pain. If I try to fake a yawn or don't do it right it won't do anything. But I definitely know it does it when I yawn. It is the same pitch I hear when it is quiet, but louder, so I think it is the same tinnitus.

The tinnitus on my right side is loud enough I can hear it during the daytime and it is a high pitch hissing. That noise seems to be coming from my lateral pterygoid. I have pain there. I suspect the pain from the lateral pterygoid is coming from my SCM, perhaps the clavicular division.

Only the left side is effected by yawning. The hissing, beeping or other noises are not.

 

@alibee

Jutting the jaw out is using the lateral pterygoid, this is one of the most common muscles to cause tinnitus. It may not be the cause of your tinnitus unless you have pain in this muscle. Otherwise you may simple be adding some temporary extra layer of tinnitus to your already existing tinnitus by flexing this muscle.

 

I know it's a pretty old thread, but I notice that you have a similar tinnitus trigger to me.

Have you ever had any testing to see if there is anything that can be done to help. My tinnitus is so odd. It comes and goes, gets quieter, then louder and then disappears altogether for a bit, but 9/10, if I yawn, it will be loud again. The difference for me is that placing my smallest finger into the ear canal and creating a tiny vacuum is what I do to shut it up instantly. If I then yawn straight after a first yawn, it will be louder again, this obviously doesn't keep getting louder and louder, but 3 consecutive yawns do stack up to make it louder, but again, if I create a tiny vacuum in my ear, instantly, it is back to normal.

 

It doesn't get louder - it moves to a high frequency

 

Hi there!

My T set in with some abcessed tooth on my left jaw....the teeth have now been taken out but my T remains.
My T gets into a high frequency if I sleep with my jaw on the pillow, thus suppressing the left side of my face.

I can feel that my jaw (temp joint specially) is inflammed from inside and feel that something has happened to my trigeminal nerve. I also have a burning feeling in my tongue and lips at times....if you have any ideas or thoughts let me know.

The dentist does not say its TMJ because I can open my mouth wide.

 

My tinnitus when I yawn gets 10 times more louder and does not stop after that.
Also from yawning I develop new tinnitus tones.

When I'm under corticosteroids yawning does not make tinnitus louder for more than 2-3 secs.

Corticosteroids reset for me yawn induced tinnitus.

 

I hate to revive old dead threads, but this is most certainly me.

When I was "improving" in tinnitus sounds, I noticed yawning did not do anything. I heard no loud TWANG and nothing got louder, just my normal eardrum flutter which always happened with yawning before (not concerning).

Now that I was exposed to loud noise and pressure changes, the yawn issue has come right back, and leaves behind new sounds. It is also EPICally louder than when it started months ago.

I also woke up one morning and my left ear had lost hearing, though it was only for 30 minutes. I thought it was a pressure thing, and it worked itself out.

This all began shortly after I started Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy that I noticed these new "fun" things when yawning (as well as that deafness in the morning).