How Many of You Have 'Somatic Tinnitus'?

how many of you have tinnitus that changes when you move in a certain way or do

a certain thing?
My tinnitus changes with:

walking (feels like tinnitus is 'something that goes up and down')
chewing; clenching jaw (tinnitus intensifies)
I get up from bed (tinnitus intensifies)
I press area behind ears (tinnitus intensifies)

in all cases it goes back to 'normal' when I release pressure.

sometimes the OPPOSITE happens, for examples, but more rarely, when I
clench jaw, the tinnitus WEAKENS.

 

Ditto the same what erik has written above with me.

Jaw clenching, chewing, forehead pressing, head turning.....you name it

 

Thirded. Pressing under the ears causes quite a spike.

 

Same here. pressing on my head T is louder
turning my head T is louder
pressing behind my earlobe T is louder
Walking, my t goes on the way how i walk up and down.

 

I have pretty strange T from what I've gathered....I can change my T by moving my jaw, lips, tongue, neck, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes.....basically anything it seems. Pretty weird stuff....

 

Someone else here recently noted something similar.

 

Jutting out lower jaw, pushing on chin, clenching teeth and turning head, exacerbates my T. Awakening from a deep dream also makes my T scream.

Seems the ganglia point, where nerves, muscles and bone from the jaw and ears are connected, cause this phenomenon. Some TMJ issues, can also exacerbate and intensify T sound.

 

It may very well have been me. I made a post asking if anyone else had T as somatic as my own. Only one other person said they did, but our T was very different in other regards. Either way, I feel this is at least SOME indication that this may be neuromuscularly based as opposed to cochlear based. I also have no measurable hearing loss, but I'm still waiting on the results of an HF audiogram in early October.....I feel this will go well though because I can still very clearly hear tones of 17khz plus.....

 

If I stretch neck muscles, or blink, or move a hand or so, I will notice slight or not so slight reactions, an increase in the tinnitus and/or a thump of the muscle that's involved in my hyperacusis pain. But bear in mind, that may only be the sound that's getting to me, I have an H so bad it thumps at a mouse click if there is no prepulse.

 

wow. I wonder how can the fingers or toes affect T ? Jesus

 

SteveSkis92, did you get your audiogram? Anything new? Cheers

 

I tend to agree, and still wonder just how much tinnitus (a symptom remember, not a disease in itself) is extra-cochlear (middle ear muscle or inflammatory activity or post inner-ear nerve disruption).