Poll: What Is Usually the Main Cause of Your Tinnitus Spikes?

It would be interesting to find out the cause of most spikes for most of us here.

If you answer "something else" please let us know what it is, in the comments.

 

It’s a bit of a flawed poll @Bill Bauer because often people will invoke a stress response when hearing a sound they believe is damaging. In which case, one may select noise, but how can they know? Or maybe one thinks it’s stress but they actually have accumulated noise damage? It’s anecdotal guess work of causality, and doesn’t really prove anything, unfortunately. If only the scientific method was this easy.

 

Knowing the cause that the people (who are aware that it could be stress OR noise) think is the cause gives us the best guess we can make about the truth.

In other words, when we have to make choices while having access to only limited information, we need to make the best guess we can about the true state of the world. To make such a guess in the absence of scientific studies, the testimony of the actual people experiencing spikes is the best source of data (as the alternative is just other people guessing about the reason for our subjects' spikes).

 

SOUNDS

 

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It sounds like you already know what the final outcome is going to be.

 

I'm an in between with spikes I voted something else cause I would wake up to a spikes in the middle of the night which last awhile or be gone by morning, but I also received spikes due to certain noises like construction nearby comes and goes too.

 

Bill you can’t win with these negative people. They will always be the yin to your yang. No matter what you say they will oppose. You’re doing a good job and helping a lot of people and doing it without a hint of arrogance or condescension.

 

Thank you!

I have gotten emotional when writing some of the posts, but I believe I have been able to keep it out of most of my posts.

 

Bill has kinda grown on me, he's strange... but he's a good guy

PS- I think he's a teacher as well, so I admire that....

 

We might have completely different personalities and value systems, but I also like and respect Fishbone. I disagree with Gman's statement regarding Ying and Yang energies. I would say that Fishbone and some of the others have the Yang/optimist/risk taker energy, whereas I am more of a Ying/pessimist/risk averse kind of a guy. (You can even see it in our avatars. ) But that's ok - it takes all kinds.

 

I do not think I have spikes...just the same annoying noise all of the time. I do protect my ears though by wearing buds when I am exposed to noise, and I live a relatively quiet life in a rural town.

 

Well swap them around then - I’m no expert on Chinese philosophy. My intention was that I don’t see you being negative by constantly ripping apart others for their viewpoints. So in that context I think my statement still applies.

 

"Spike" would have to be defined to answer correctly.
I have better and worse days. So far, I haven't been able to find a cause or pattern.

 

Yeah... Every time I setup those polls, I screw up. Every single time! I should have specified at least the minimum duration.

In any case, the results seem to be very encouraging. These days the doctors CAN treat stress, and so those people whose spikes are due to stress have nothing to worry about.

It is also surprising that those who choose that "other" option won't elaborate.

 

In the meantime, I suspect that my strange tinnitus is modulated somatically.

 

If someone doesn't agree with your opinion you are considered "negative".
Well don't ever go into any debate than please.

 

I voted something else :
Physical activity, alcohol, bad sleep, stiff neck, tense jaws, stress, wearing earplugs all increase my T to some degree temporarily. But I admit I do not notice spikes after loud noises. Maybe once though, due to the sonic (?) tool of the dentist, but it was exceptional

 

Hardly. Debate is good and differences of opinion are great. It’s the repetitive incidences of ganging up against a person when they offer differing advice that is pretty negative though.

 

It's not about the person, it's about his opinion.

 

Yes, of course.

 

Loud noises spike mine for sure

 

For T it seems to be Sugar, Salt and Alcohol...also spiked by jaw motion I think...e.g. chewing something hard.
Sometimes its something do with sleep...bad sleep, bad sleep position...who knows !
My H is made worse by cutlery, running water and multiple complex voice profiles i.e in a pub.
Damn thing...

 

Any sound, I can sit in the quiet and it's almost inaudible, if a car drives by then my T goes up for a few mins until it's quiet again.

 

Sleep and tiredness seem to make a big difference for me.

 

My tinnitus feels like a spike all day long and I pay no attention to it.....

Keeping busy, having goals, meeting and exceeding the goals and moving further in life, is the way I shut this agony out......

 

I can never know how severe your spike is @fishbone but commend you for being able to carry on when it is spiking or severe. It is something that I cannot do. My tinnitus is variable. From silent, mild moderate, severe and can reach extreme severe levels. When it reaches severe and this continues for more than a couple of days, the intensity is so great I have to take my clonazepam to calm it down. At that level for me I'm unable to ingnore it as it's just too loud and intrusive.

You are an inspiration to people in this forum Fishbone
All the best
Michael

 

You ought to begin feeling better soon. Mine was not as bad as this, but also pretty bad soon after onset.

 

This crap (excuse my french ) is never silent, it is not moderate or friendly. It's a menace and it wants to wreak havoc and control. I cannot give in and throw my life away. I have bigger dreams, bigger accomplishments to achieve. It is not easy by any means, it drains me but I keep living and just moving forward.

I will say this though, there are mornings when i wake up and i say "what the hell is this, why is it just so loud and brutal, I never knew it would be this loud". It's my reality, and reality has always been my friend..whether it is negative or positive.

Intrusive tinnitus is horrible and I hope one day maybe some folks can have comfort and hear silence again. I hope a treatment does come out, but living life even with this horrible affliction is what I and YOU folks must do and we must tell tinnitus to go and sit in the corner...

As I usually say it in my posts, mindset is so vital when it comes to living with tinnitus. Having that never say never attitude is, what it's all about.

 

You are so right fishbone and that's the only way a person can move forward with tinnitus. It may not be possible to be positive all of the time but even in the downtimes as long as we keep hope alive and not give in, we will come shining through....

Michael