Shouldn't Earwax Changing Tinnitus Signal Peripheral Tinnitus Instead of Central Tinnitus?

[japongus]

We're always told T is a brain thing by the gurus, who like to describe things as subjective when in truth they mean poorly researched and shittily documented... but some signs point to how it could merely be an ear thing in its entirety. Wax changes the resonance of the eardrum, which is one of the usual suspects, together with the middle ear muscles, the tube and the veli palatini in the world of peripheral T. This week my eardrum is blocked again by wax and the T is higher but the TTTS and the H isn't. Given how often the gurus have given me sermons on how this is all just a brain thing, that the H is just a result of T because T is hearing loss and the H is just filling up for it through brain plasticity, color me orange and call me Aunt Edna if I don't find it highly suspicious that this increase in T isn't leading to an increase in TTTS/H.

Maybe wax on the eardrum having the capacity to change T should be a sign of objective T over subjective T. So what is the logic against this showerthought a halfwit welsh orangutan could have come up with, why isn't it mainstream?

Lemme guess, its a moronic logic? One of those ''brain plasticity'' jargon shrinks latch onto, capable of changing of zillions of years of hardwired genetic evolution? Or is the ear actually resonating to a brain sound? But wasn't the brain sound supposed to be not real? Why would a piece of eardrum wax affect the cochlear nerve instead of merely change the way an eardrum vibrates? Why would an eardrum, stretched by tetanic muscles surrounding it, slightly off the precise tonic tension zillions of years of evolution have designed human brains to adapt to. Funny to how tonic contraction can't be diagnosed, and how it can meld into a continuous tone if it's fast enough...

Is it a better logic, like say the eardrum is only interpreting what the brain tells it? Despite how neurotologists still haven't made their mind up on whether the stapes influences the brain or it's the other way around?

Or maybe most of you don't get changes in your T due to earwax and I'm just a moron for not having realised it was objective T sooner. Either way is fine by me, so fill up the polls, let's see how deep this mysterious earwax syndrome runs.

 

[shasta0863]

I'm close to contemplating suicide right now (I know that's sick to even say) over this, and hoping it's wax. I've had T like 7 years mild, and 2 very bad. I've struggled for 2 years with this increase, which include loudness changing and hyperacusis. Now my pure tone in my left, which sometimes will go up a tad, but go down, has got louder AND is now an odd high pitch that cuts through everything it didn't before. I've had some loud arguments recently, some semi-loud 80-90db quickness from starbucks and such, nothing crazy but here I am. Never had such an alter like this in 2 years, with this tone, so I think I may be screwed.

My ear feels, at times, a slight pressure/fullness but I'm not sure. I'm hoping earwax is cause but after 4 days I'm just about fed up, as this tone is literally making my stomach ill and uncontrollable anger.

I hope to all holy heavens wax can alter or change T. Otherwise I'm just done.

 

[japongus]

My ear feels, at times, a slight pressure/fullness but I'm not sure. I'm hoping earwax is cause but after 4 days I'm just about fed up, as this tone is literally making my stomach ill and uncontrollable anger.

I hope to all holy heavens wax can alter or change T. Otherwise I'm just done.

I'm not saying earwax is the cause, though it might. Mostly I'm saying the issue is probably nearby, because my variations have only ever come from earwax, which is when it increases and changes tone substantially, and if we don't count my two acoustic traumas that worsened me definitely, while earwax has only ever been temporary. Then I'm thinking that if it's near the eardrum either the tinnitus or the signal that's being sent to the brain to create tinnitus due to hearing loss, then the logic behind grommets, botox and tenotomy might make us better or worse, as I've written elsewhere in the forum. Tinnitus has also been reported in plenty of other diseases like otosclerosis or meniere's disease. But then again I'm more focused on hyperacusis as I get spasm/echo/vibration with the slightest whisper of sound.

 

[shasta0863]

I'm not saying earwax is the cause, though it might. Mostly I'm saying the issue is probably nearby, because my variations have only ever come from earwax, which is when it increases and changes tone substantially, and if we don't count my two acoustic traumas that worsened me definitely, while earwax has only ever been temporary. Then I'm thinking that if it's near the eardrum either the tinnitus or the signal that's being sent to the brain to create tinnitus due to hearing loss, then the logic behind grommets, botox and tenotomy might make us better or worse, as I've written elsewhere in the forum. Tinnitus has also been reported in plenty of other diseases like otosclerosis or meniere's disease. But then again I'm more focused on hyperacusis as I get spasm/echo/vibration with the slightest whisper of sound.

Interesting. Is your original T noise induced (outside the two trauma afterwards?

If you're saying wax has not only temp. increased the loudness but even changed the sound of it, which is what's freaking me out the worse, than I hope that's my cause. About 5-6 days prior to this happening, I wen't swimming and must of had plugs in deep, because my ear was full feeling for awhile. Took awhile of pulling lobe and general moving ear with hot shower to semi-give me relief. I didn't notice the T difference until days later when oddly, it seemed to have kicked in around (day later) when I was getting loud in an argument for over hour. Easily 90db hitting my ear from my own voice but seems odd this would do it, but who knows. So I noticed the change and how upsetting it was to now have it in such a pitch that it just constantly cut through the ambient surrounding my old tone was masked by. I still noticed if I messed with my ear it could get slightly tight/full feeling, so it's making me wonder if it's wax.

But I'm at a week already, and losing hope. How long has your temp. from wax lasted?

 

[japongus]

Interesting. Is your original T noise induced (outside the two trauma afterwards?


But I'm at a week already, and losing hope. How long has your temp. from wax lasted?

My two Ts are noise-induced. Variations due to wax sometimes get stuck there and only myself with a syringe of water is enough to push it out. Also you should count your blessings if you don't have it like me, as I have proprioceptors that mimic external sounds, all of them even the slightest of sounds.