My Tinnitus Was Always Lower in the Morning

[Michael B]

I've always considered myself lucky in that my tinnitus was lower in the morning following a good night's sleep. This gave me a 50-50 chance that I'd have a quieter day. Now after 6 years of tinnitus, this is no longer the case. I wake up to louder tinnitus which pretty much maps out what my day is going to be like. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this and did it get better?

 

[Makrohn]

I am actually experiencing the same thing after 20 years of T. No clue on why this is happening now.. it has been going on for almost 3 weeks now.

 

[Greg Sacramento]

@Michael B @Makrohn I thought about this before too. All that I can find is that the tension signals from the sensory muscles, the sensory trigeminal nerve and masticatory muscle can cause hyperactivity while sleeping. It can continue into the day. Whatever, but something somewhere is causing hyperactivity.

Sometimes I will wake up during the night with lower tinnitus, but as soon as I change sides the T increases in seconds. It doesn't matter which side.

 

[Mathew Gould]

@Michael B @Makrohn I thought about this before too. All that I can find is that the tension signals from the sensory muscles, the sensory trigeminal nerve and masticatory muscle can cause hyperactivity while sleeping. It can continue into the day. Whatever, but something somewhere is causing hyperactivity.

Sometimes I will wake up during the night with lower tinnitus, but as soon as I change sides the T increases in seconds. It doesn't matter which side.

Would a night mouth guard help with the sensory trigeminal nerve and masticatory muscle? I have a TMJ night splint and sometimes biting down at that at night. I'm wondering if biting down on that is giving me days with louder tinnitus?

 

[Greg Sacramento]

I was biting down with a guard so today I went to my dentist for impressions for him to make a thinner softer guard. On a 1 to 10 scale with 10 being the hardest, I'm getting a 7. I would make sure that you have a small pillow for support under your neck with no air between your neck and the surface of the pillow. This may help in not biting down so hard.

 

[streeter1985]

Dont know if that fits your experiences:

My T is low until lunch. It gets louder at the afternoon. I dont know maybe its because the stress level is higher...like you get exhausted after work in the afternoon. In the morning lots of calls, work, meetings etc. I am a person thats always very very tired in the afternoon, after lunch I feel like braindead - post-meal coma. Thats why I try now to eat very light meals that dont make me fall asleep. Its so strange I have that since a child and my mother also had those symptoms she got a completly white face in the work thats why she went jogging after lunch in her break to avoid that coma feeling I dont know why but I bring that always in connection with my T - I dont feel ok and T spikes.

In the evening its also loud but at around 00:00 I can always go to bed and it doesnt bother me at all. I cant say if it is as loud as after lunch...will ty to check that today.

 

[85dB T]

I rarely notice my T getting louder or quieter. It mostly stays the same always. What seems to change is how it affects me. Maybe this is the same thing as being louder?

If my stomach or head hurts, my T bothers me the most. Also after tiring work or exercise, if I pushed too hard, my T bothers me more. Waking up in the morning my T welcomes me, in this quiteness it bothers me. When I am busy and preoccupied, I am distracted from T and it bothers me less.

 

[streeter1985]

I rarely notice my T getting louder or quieter. It mostly stays the same always. What seems to change is how it affects me. Maybe this is the same thing as it being louder?

If my stomach or head hurts, my T bothers me the most. Also after tiring work or exercise, if I pushed too hard, my T bothers me more. Waking up in the morning my T welcomes me, in this quiteness it bothers me. When I am busy and preoccupied, I am distracted from T and it bothers me less.

I think you are right. I dont think it gets louder its just the concentration on it. Its the overall condition you have and at some level its like self-pity (I hope I translated that right) so you listen to your body and your body says...Im exhausted, I cant anymore and maybe you start listen to your body more and more and the T spikes. I think thats also like stress related hearing loss the reason T came up I think thats the completely the same condition. Your are already exhausted and you add more and more things to your body/mind and something hits your like a train.

I yesterday thought about trying to find any concentration exercises I can use to distract me from the T. You know scientists say with white noise you can distract yourself from the environment. I already have that white noise in form of a Tinnitus 24/7 and I want now to distract myself away from that noise back to environment. If one direction works...why not the other too? Maybe I should create a thread in the support forum if someone has experience with such trainings.

 

[85dB T]

You know scientists say with white noise you can distract yourself from the environment. I already have that white noise in form of a Tinnitus 24/7 and I want now to distract myself away from that noise back to environment. If one direction works...why not the other too?

Maybe you can do this. I used to consider my T as white noise before it reached a higher decibel level. Now I have multiple sounds and one is not pleasant. I mean it is a whistling screech that you wouldn't hear from as sound machine. Whereas a constant hiss is more similar to white noise.

I like your idea of reverse focus! I think it works. Problem is the environment is constantly changing from noisy to quiet.

 

[streeter1985]

Maybe you can do this. I used to consider my T as white noise before it reached a higher decibel level. Now I have multiple sounds and one is not pleasant. I mean it is a whistling screech that you wouldn't hear from as sound machine. Whereas a constant hiss is more similar to white noise.

I like your idea of reverse focus! I think it works. Problem is the environment is constantly changing from noisy to quiet.

Yeah I also had white noise at the beginning and it spiked to a lets call it high frequency white noise constant background noise and a high frequency always changing sound at the top of it. Its hard to distract because it changes and could be part of the environment too so its like a natural thing to listen to it because it could mean "danger". I cant mask it as I am nearly deaf at the damaged frequencies...so music doesnt help me. The pc fans are ok.

I have no idea about the reverse focus but for example I come from a country where we only have one subway and I never use it and I often come to new york and that sounds are so crazy in a subway but still I can find people sleep in it or reading or teachers checking the homework etc. etc. it was funny for me to see how those people get used to an environment thats very very loud and they can focus on things you need concentration.