Yawning Makes Hearing Better and Tinnitus Temporarily Go Away

I've noticed that when I yawn my hearing improves noticeably and my tinnitus goes away or almost entirely goes away, but it only lasts as long as I am yawning. Then, I can't hear as well and thet resumes as loud as before after I yawn. Anyone else have this experience or know why it happens?

 

Yes, I Think it's the eustachian tubes opening to let air through.

 

Did you get your jaw checked?

 

My tinnitus gets louder when I yawn! No idea why.

 

Me too!

 

No. Doesn't happen if I pop my ears. Only when I am exerting pressure to my head with the yawn.

 

I did. Expert said I don't have TMJ. ENT said muscle tension in that side of my jaw. I have neck and shoulder problems on that side too. Why?

 

I noticed this too.
The improved hearing, my ENT told me, was because of eardrum tension.
I get the same effect when air from by stomach needs to escape and this partly and temporarily pressurises the middle ear.
I can also do this by create negative pressure in my middle ear. I than noticeably get improved high frequency hearing. (4-8 kHz).
Unfortunately it is uncomfortable to maintain this negative pressure. When I swallow pressure equalises again and I loose the advantage.
It is a weird experience.

 

Well sounds like that's all linked somehow, but if the doc checked it.

 

Seems like something is creating a pressure that we are pushing against. Do you know what that is? Do you know the cause of your T?

 

My tinnitus does not change when I change the pressure in my middle ear.
My tinnitus is because of NIHL.

 

But you can hear better... doesn't seem like you would be able to improve your hearing by using pressure if your inner ear was damaged.

 

I tend to agree.
What my ENT told me about tensioning the eardrum is something I do not understand completely.
Especially because this does not happen with my less damaged ear (left ear).
It could be that cochlear amplification in my good ear compensates for this effect and the bad ear has no cochlear amplification any more to compensate because of damaged outer hair-cells.

In the end it doesn't matter. Just curiosity. Nothing is able to be fixed (yet) in the inner ear.

 

I get low frequency tinnitus from yawning that doesn't stop