Quieter in the Morning?

My tinnitus is usually fine 3 or so hours aver awakening then it starts to act up in various degrees as the day progresses. Does anyone else have this pattern?

 

That sounds pretty similar to me lately. Sometimes mine will be almost absent at the start of the day, so it sucks when it starts to fluctuate as the day goes by.

 

Those patterns are very similar to what mine are like Eric. Now the question is WHY?????

 

Don H

great question

my tinnitus is absent for a few seconds upon awakening...less bothersome until im fully away...many minutes or up to an hour

but

if i take an afternoon nap , when i awake my T is off the hook...always!...strange

 

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

 

Not always. In my case, it's silent until I begin to move a lot.

 

same here, i am also curious why

 

In your case it may have to do with the fact that you were in quiet all night, like many others. @Michael Leigh mentioned that the best way to get rid of this is to desensitize our brain to sound, and it may make your tinnitus always sound like this. Or as @Tamalak said in his story, he feels like his tinnitus was being agrivated by sound, and avoiding sound helped him get over it. Choose what you think would be most beneficial to your tinnitus by evaluating your lifestyle.

 

I do have the sound oasis machine playing at night. The T is generally lower in the morning then climbs up during the day.
I woke up this morning and I was like ugh damn Tinnitus, this will be a hard life lol

 

Is your tinnitus reactive? If not try turning the sound machine off.

 

No it is not reactive Tinnitus. I am still shocked and puzzled that the medical community is not researching more into this. I do not wish T and H on my worst enemy, this is going to be a rough life man.

 

If that's the case I really do think you have a lot to gain by turning off the sound machine. It may help reduce your tinnitus. Mine is reactive to everytime I chew something or stand up.

 

The sound machine treats H

 

Maybe my bedroom is too noisy. It can only be the sound machine. I try turning it off, so there is complete silence and my T is still bad.. I must be in the minority, oh well, my brain is unique.

 

I have H so I have to have some kind of sound running at night or I'll wake up and my H will spike. I wake up and my T tends to be lower than later in the day or when I start moving around.

 

You and me both brother, I don't even turn on my sound machine anymore.

 

Unless it's loud, I think it probably has more to do with the quality of sleep.

 

As opposed to common belief, TOTAL silence is best for me. Any background noise will make my tinnitus unrelentingly dreadful. As someone else said on this thread, after an afternoon nap, even if it’s only 5 minutes, sends it off the scale, literally! Always!! Some days I have acceptable days, some days total mayhem in my brain. This thing is so unpredictable I never know what sort of day I’ll have.

 

Mine does the same. Or well. After it spiked it does. Before it used to get better during the day and would only bother me during night if it bothered me at all.
I have no idea why it is suddenly the opposite, but I've been thinking that stress may be a contributing factor, as I've noticed that if I don't really do anything during the day because I am sick or have an off day my tinnitus level will stay the same although I listen to music or watch a movie. But it's just a guess.

 

Mine is always quiet in the morning...
Evenings seem to be the worse for me!