How Many of You Have 'Somatic Tinnitus'?

[wishingluck]

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.

 

[erik]

Most everyone who has T (not including pulsatile and other T types), has somatic T. This is pretty normal for T. Many of these systems- somatosensory, auditory and neural are all so closely integrated, they can affect one another. I can intensify my T, just by moving my jaw side to side or even by pressing on my forehead.

 

[Mark662]

Ditto the same what erik has written above with me.

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

 

[PaulBe]

Thirded. Pressing under the ears causes quite a spike.

 

[sandra72]

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.

 

[SteveSkis92]

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....

 

[PaulBe]

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.

 

[Sailboardman]

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.

 

[SteveSkis92]

Someone else here recently noted something similar.

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.....

 

[japongus]

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.

 

[wishingluck]

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....

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

 

[wishingluck]

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.....

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

 

[PaulBe]

Either way, I feel this is at least SOME indication that this may be neuromuscularly based as opposed to cochlear based.

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).