Showering Solution in Alleviating Tinnitus

Hi All,

Just today before going to sleep I took an extra long shower.
This resulted in my strange T sound to lower in intensity even minutes after now I write this.

Possibly this happens because water on your head helps to influence the hyperactive neurons in your head do I have the idea.

How do we explain this decline in T sound?

 

Or shower gets the circulation going ?

 

Agree with Sherri, showering may have helped. Warm water will help your blood circulate. I am a diabetic, I some times have a hard time getting a blood sample when test my sugar level, a nurse told me to run warm water over my finger first. I tried it and it works very well. I tried very hot showers but it did not help for me, but that is not to say the same for you. Ler us know how it works out...

 

Sherri, very cool avatar!

 

@gary , thank you

 

I take very very long and hot showers every morning.....keeps the darn t very low for at least 2/3 hours.

 

Karen mentioned that to someone in here that was having a very difficult Tinnitus day.
She said, take a shower. I thought that was some Great advice.

If masking works at all, a "real" shower sound seems to help me. It seems to mask the T for a few minutes. A short break from the constant T, weather you think it masks or not. Water sounds, sometimes it may not work so much, I'd like to think it does, and take a hot long shower. Also what Sherri said. It just feels good.

 

That's interesting, you too! I am going to try one of those hot packs while I am laying down, usually I am not in the shower all that long....

 

Hey Robb, back to your question - YES, you are 100% correct. This is called residual inhibition.
The neurons in the brain calm down after receiving some input that was lost, due to the shower sound being a very broad band noise containing many frequencies, some of which match the ones you need a little boost. Bye!

 

Hi Dan, thanks for confirming this

 

I find that when I have an extra long hot shower, my tinnitus is fairly low all day.

 

I don't think it's due to the shower sound, it's more due to the circulation starting up
Just in my humble opinion ofcourse.

 

A shower will bring me relief. even if its short lived, its still sooo nice

 

I have been making use of the shower effect for a couple of years now. It doesn't always work, but when it does, I enjoy complete silence, often for the entire day. I think it's residual inhibition. That is, I believe the driving component is the sound and volume of the shower and not the warmth/massage. Weirdly, however, I have never been able to achieve the same effect with noise directly from a headset.

-Golly