My Tinnitus Is Very Quiet in the Mornings — Then Gets Louder — Why?

I have the opposite situation. My tinnitus is loudest in the morning and quiets down in the evening, particularly after dinner.

 

Mine is louder in the morning 70% of the time.

 

A few weeks after the onset of my tinnitus, I experience exactly this every day.

 

I'm in the same boat. Some mornings my tinnitus is so faint I do not hear it at all. It increases almost as soon as I really move around.

I try not to think about it. I'm just grateful for the moments it's extremely faint.

I should add though that sometimes throughout the day it also reaches really quiet levels.

 

I do wonder if this feature indicates possibility of improvement, I wonder that given the tinnitus quietens down, it should continually do so more often in future.

 

Cortisol levels?

 

I'm also in the same boat. Quieter in the mornings and escalates throughout the day. In particular, I've noticed this after my 5 day prednisone use. I'm 1.5 months in and hope these are signs of improvement.

 

For me today when I woke up at four in the morning it was really quiet when I went up to go to the bathroom. I slept a couple of hours more and when I woke up it was back to baseline again.

 

Same here. When my cat wakes me up at 4 am, I do not hear any ringing, just some kind of "echo" sensation - hard to describe with words, but to me that one is pretty much complete silence. It's that feeling I had pre-tinnitus when it was dead quiet and my ears were almost physically craving for a sound.

 

My tinnitus is loudest in the morning when I get up. And my tinnitus does not bother me when i am trying to sleep, I would say it fades in silence. Strange.

 

Same. When I wake up I still hear it but it seems much more quiet. About 10 minutes later it's back at full blast and for a while seems even louder than it did the day before. After a couple of hours it settles back down to its current new baseline as of about 6 weeks ago.

 

I was like this for 2 and a half years but since I took Viagra 7 months ago, it's been damn loud 24/7...

 

Did you get the spike immediately after taking it? Did any loud noises happen around this time?

 

Yeah I got a spike while on it...

Some "loud" noise also, would be funny as hell if pleasure "scream" definitely buried me...

I'm the most stupid guy ever for not even having checked it before I wanted to "function" normal again and have a good time...

I pay the price.

 

Does anyone know if there's a such thing as more capillaries, vascularity (than norm) of the inner ear? Does the medical field have the ability to observe health of capillaries inside the ear yet?

...or still going by speculations?

 

I know how it feels. I was taking it too before my new onset so, to be safe, I stopped. I was doing very small dosage though. It is nice to feel like King Kong down there lol.

 

God wish that was mine.

 

Today mine has decided to really kick up in the morning. Although right when I woke up it was very subdued. This is what I described in my earlier post. But within 5 minutes it's at a piercing level. Much louder than it was last night and I could swear it's louder that it has been previous mornings. Let's see how it is in a couple of hours.

I think it might have something to do with how hearing sensitivity changes throughout the day and night. I'm sure we've all had the experience where during the day we're driving around with the car stereo at a comfortable level but the next morning when we turn on the car and the radio comes on the volume sounds insanely loud even though it's the exact same as it was when we got out of the car the day before.

Hearing is more sensitive in the morning so it makes sense that tinnitus would also seem to be louder.

 

Me too exactly.well. Not always exactly but the minutes before it kicks in are like a normal person then, bam, it kicks in. Mine seems louder some days than others. Wonder why. We had bad storms here for a few days, then today it's been like a level 2 or 3 which feels miraculous. Thank you Lord!