No Tinnitus in the Morning?

Hehe be happy mine is the other way around, loud in the morning, more silent in the evening. But good sleep is always great for the Tinnitus ..

 

I have it the exact same way.

Also, In the morning when I slumber in and out of sleep or near sleep it will fade away. Sometimes, very rear, I believe if this slumber in the morning is done in a special pattern. Especially if I wake up early and sleep for another 2-3 hours my T will be gone all day. Experienced that yesterday and Im stupid enough to believe Im finally cured every time and finding excuses/reasons for my sudden recovery.
After a night of sleep its back to normal torture routine, where all I can think about is killing myself.

So fucking diabolical this condition.

 

Not exactly, but my tinnitus loudness is pretty much always lower in the morning.
Always an increase soon after eating. Breakfast lunch or evening meal.

 

Rest? In the morning we supposed to be rested. In the evening often we are not. Not only physically, but also mentally.

Someone on TT suggested sugar level in blood. That I think was a good suggestion.

 

This is an interesting point. The variability of individual triggers is as large as the causes of tinnitus it seems, yet out of the population of tinnitus crusaders, some may well have diet as a means to control the T.

In the morning the body is in a fasted state (assuming one didnt take Ambien and then raid the fridge in the middle of the night ), which as a result typically means the body is in ketosis and heres little insulin in the blood stream. Ironically cortisol levels are high first thing, partly due to the fasted state, so eating first thing is not a good thing to do if you dont want an insulin spike.

All that to say, if in the morning the T is lower due to the MANY positive benefits of fasting, I wonder what the results would be with an actual regime of intermittent fasting. As soon as I am off my steroids (currently tapering) I intend to test this theory out. However in the past week my T is actually pretty high first thing, which is new - I was definitely waking up with it down at a 1 or 2 initially.

mf

 

You had it for less than 6 months. That's not that long. The fact that it is improving is a very good sign.

 

Hi @Samir,
Mine is really loud all the time and to wake up to it is tough but its blasting hellsbells at the moment.
It's got to settle soon .
Love glynis

 

Blood work for diabetes was part of ENT's work up. Apparently uncontrolled blood sugar can cause microvascular damage. This may pertain more to nerve issues however than T. My blood sugar was fine so not the cause.

I can be woken up by the T several times sometimes. Not sure if it actually wakes me up but I wake up several times and it is there. There when I go to sleep too.

 

I experience the same @Samir does. When you are "switching" between falling back to sleep and waking up again I can hear my tinnitus come and go accordingly.
Therefore I do not think tinnitus wakes me up, but something else did and the first thing that I am conscious about is my tinnitus.
I think the tinnitus sensation is not part of the unconscious/sleep.

Could it be that there is more commonality that is just not yet recognised?
One common denominator seems to be noise induced tinnitus. I don't know any percentage, but the wide majority of tinnitus is damage in the inner ear/nerves/brain after noise. (Often not recognised. The hidden hearing loss).
Even with something so complex as tinnitus you can expect effects of this damage to be the same in many people (within a certain range).

 

That's good news though, Samir!

Although mine never goes away completely it's usually at its lowest in the morning, with a few exceptions. (If I slept few hours or poorly).

This whole sleep + tinnitus thing is quite confusing. I'm one of those who get louder tinnitus after daytime napping. Other members here have said the same thing. I don't know what to make of this either.

 

Yes, you raise a very good point. Noise induced T is more common, even more so today ever I read due to modern technology. So yes, I agree on this.

 

I've had T for 9 years. It is always worse upon waking for me. It could be after a full nights sleep, an hour nap or just after a 10 minute cat-nap. Its always louder upon opening my eyes. Once I get up & move around, it subsides. Completely opposite of most that wrote here. So perplexing.

 

Yeah I have the opposite, loud in the morning and barely perceivable, almost gone, in the evening.

 

I presume stress and anxiety play a role. The "fear" of it increasing inevitably leads to it increasing. Very complex systems we have.

 

This is a common issue. For MOST, I find that the tinnitus is WORSE upon waking. Of course, part of that seems to be that everything is perfectly quiet, but there is certainly more to it than that.

• For those who notice MORE tinnitus after sleep, there is usually one of two causes:

• Some notice LESS tinnitus in the morning:

For those with LESS, I would refer to the same causes, and solutions, and find ways to capitalize on that REDUCTION of the Postural stress or Mental Stress response throughout the day.

@Mettafort , I'm certainly open to the idea of blood sugar being related. Without question, diet, in general, and blood sugar specifically, are related to neuron health. I find that these are critical to LONG-TERM recovery. In my research, those that had a "Healthy Brain Lifestyle" (which included a good diet) were more likely to respond well to the Auditory Discrimination Training therapy.

 

Hey @Dr. Jay Hobbs ,

I am no expert for sure, but I do know first-hand what intermittent fasting and then later, a strict ketogenic diet, did for my health and well-being. I am still tapering my 'roids, so I havent been able to effect any strategy with respect to fasting, though I am on a keto-diet right now. With the steroids still in my system, it feels like it is difficult to make a statement one way or the other at this point. As I have tapered, I feel my overall tinnitus has gotten louder, even though I am eating a ket0-diet. That said, yesterday and this morning I again woke up to a much quieter T than previous days first thing. However I would also admit that my tinnitus can start at around a 1 or 2 out of 10, and I immediately shower and get ready for the day first thing, and by the time I get downstairs I am already up at 5-6, sometimes 8 or 9, still in the fasted state. That said, I definitely intend to be quite scientific with these eating approaches once I am fully off the steroids and I can baseline.

I am not sleeping well right now either, so that might well affect how the T unfolds from T-0 after the alarm goes off.

Its definitely an interesting domain.

mf

 

The reason it is more quiet in the morning is that you have not been exposed to noise during the night while sleeping.

 

Mine is the opposite. The quieter the environment, the more my T ramps up. This includes waking up with high T. As my ears absorb more sound, the high pitch goes away and turns to a low hum which I can totally live with. It's as if general noise does the same thing as listening to static which results in lower T for most. Someone suggested to always keep the ear busy if you have T and this seems to be the best solution for me. I do is by going to sleep with nature sounds and I listen to "tinnitus cure" sounds from YouTube for a few hours a day while working. The one that works the best for me is this:

9 Hours Extremely Powerful Tinnitus Sound...

As long as I keep my ears busy, my T is just a low hum.

 

I'm the same. When I wake up I can hardly hear my tinnitus as if it's completely gone but after a few minutes of waking up it comes back and it's almost like your brain has woken up if that makes sense, but once it has, bam there's your tinnitus.

I struggle to go to sleep but once I'm asleep I have no trouble staying asleep.