Poll: What Is the Extent of Your Daily Tinnitus Intensity Fluctuations?

My tinnitus is fluctuating considerably.

And mild days (2/10) alternate with horror days (8/10).

I would describe these fluctuations as strong (4).

What is the extent of your tinnitus fluctuations?

 

I call mine irregular tinnitus, due to it being loud in the morning, and when I go to work it goes down, and at night it can go up.

But in between I can get crickets and static.

And in my opinion when I get static my anxiety symptoms kick in. I usually stay calm.

So I find it annoying when I spike in the middle of the night. Weird?

 

Split decision till now: 10x (no, very low, low) and 10x (strong, very strong)

 

About half of all tinnitus sufferers report strong daily fluctuations in intensity.

What does science have to say about this? A different degree of hearing system damage cannot actually be present.

There must therefore be a difference in perception between good and bad tinnitus days.

What is the cause of fluctuating perception?

Couldn't increased knowledge about this also be used therapeutically?

 

Seems to be affected only by my sleep cycle. Noise doesn’t seem to have any effect.

 

It would be interesting to know whether the noise-induced or non-noise-induced tinnitus tends to fluctuate.

 

Now 24:16 for considerable fluctuation!
And after a rather silent Monday my ear's hissing like crazy since awakening again today.

 

My tinnitus is always constant, and does not ever vary? What is the reason some people's tinnitus fluctuates while other's don't?

 

Moderate. I have 2 types of tinnitus sounds in my left and right ears. They tend to drown each other out. I'm somewhat habituating to my left ear (coil-whine) but the clicking sort of cracking "EeEEeEeEee" has been coming back a little lately. I just came back from the movies (Shazam) but it was bothering me before that so I'm not going to read too much into it. Today is about a 2-3/10 left ear and 5-6/10 in the right ear. Right ear has been quiet for the past few weeks so I'm.. adjusting today.

 

Very low. Mine rarely fluctuates and when it does, it is only a little change.

 

Does anyone experience different sounds during the day... one minute I can barely hear the tinnitus and I'm feeling positive then next minute it's a loud ring in my ear. Actually makes me jump sometimes.

From a static soft noise to a loud ring quite frequently during the day. I'm thinking maybe it's a good sign it goes so quiet sometimes though?

 

Does it randomly spike up for 10-30 seconds then go back down?

That is called fleeting tinnitus. It seems to be more common and prevalent when tinnitus first sets in.

 

Pretty much yeah. Is it a good or bad sign? Or just normal. I feel quite positive when it goes quiet.

 

Mine is running on a somewhat predictable cycle. It roughly looks like this:

2 days loud (almost nothing can mask, it competes with other sounds and rides over them)
2 days medium loud (can be somewhat masked but still can hear it over tv)
1 day relatively quiet. (Watching tv can completely mask it)

My T is caused by acoustic trauma and ear irrigation.

 

Since I suspect a somatosensory explanation for my tinnitus flcutuations, I also think about the head and cervical spine position during the night. And one possible explanation for the beginning of a bad day was the nocturnal cervical spine posture.