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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / February 2004Help me understand it!
My tinnitus is driveing me qiute crazy! I don't understand how this really works! I will try to explain my self, though my english is quite poor. I'm a musician, and I've had tinnitus for qiute a while. The strangest thing happened some 4 month ago though. MY tinnitus just got louder. I know it it because of palying really loud music, ant the frequences my music usually are at, i'm allways playing to loud, and of course, using headphones. The problem isn't that i've got tinnitus, this I know very well :), but the core of my problem is that the tinnitus is acting in the strangest ways. Some days it's not there at all (or that i'm not focusing on it), or - that I hear it at the end of the day (still, the focus area).What is really driveing me crazy, is that some days its really loud, and some days not there at all - without my interference! How is this possible? Some days after playing music loud, I don't hear the tinnitus, though i should, and some days - after NOT playing music loud/or at all, its ringing so loud! Why is it that tinnitus seems to live it's own life, and only want to bother me, on its own terms? Just want to make my life really miserable? Why isn't it a pattern to it all? Whay is there no relativeness between playing loud, and the volume of my tinnitus? Loud music = consert tinnitus, and so on. But this??? I don't understand this. Loud one day, gone the another... Eskild Hello Skill: I cannot answer all your question but will comment on some common experiences between your tinnitus and my own. I have days when my tinnitus is extremely loud and others where it is very low. Once in a while its gone, but that doesn't happen often. This pattern has been ongoing for the entire 7 years I have had tinnitus. This pattern is fairly common among tinnitus sufferers. Maybe more so than just a constant noise with no fluctuations in loudness. Also, after being exposed to noise such as loud music and restaurants, for example, my tinnitus can be quite low for hours. This is thought to be related to a phenomenon called Residual Inhibition and happens to a lot of people with tinnitus. Other times it is loud. I don't know why your pattern changed just over four months ago. It could be related to some hearing loss. Or, something else. Some others will have some helpful insights to add. So, "hang in there" PaulS > My tinnitus is driveing me qiute crazy! > I don't understand how this really works! [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Eskild > Hello Skill: > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > > > Eskild One of the things I've been intrigued with is Casino noise. If you go to these, you've probably sensed some sort of melody; a concatenation of the sounds from all of the machines. When my GF and I drive away, we continue to hear this sound for 15 or 20 minutes. She doesn't have tinnitus, I do. skill, Perhaps your assumption that the cause of your tinnitus is the loud music is false. It's an understandable assumption, but if there appears to be no pattern relative to your exposure to loud music, then you need have other, possibly treatable causes investigated. Actually, it's a good idea anyway. It's also possible that your tinnitus hasn't become permanent. But if that's the case, and the loud music is to blame, then you really need to start protecting your ears. Well, you really need to do this anyway. Check into musician's earplugs, or try in-ear monitors . Best of luck to you. Jeff > My tinnitus is driveing me qiute crazy! > I don't understand how this really works! [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Eskild > My tinnitus is driveing me qiute crazy! > I don't understand how this really works! [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > How is this possible? I have tinnitus because of similar reasons to yours. Tinnitus varies all the time. Mood, noise exposure, time of day, all seem to cause it to vary, and these reasons are given far too much importance by people who say it might be in your own mind. Basically, the tinnitus is there because of damage from listening to music too loudly for too long. What I've noticed with any noise exposure that might occur after acquiring tinnitus, is that either it causes ringing to get immediately louder in one case. This is similar to the cause of tinnitus with noise exposure, but because of now using care, this goes away. A level of discomfort indicates to me that it is something that will go away after about a day or so, or less even. The other effect I've noticed with noise exposure, is that tinnitus can seem to vanish, which is something I like less, because it seems to happen when the noise exposure is worse. The fact is, when you have tinnitus, you notice its variations more obviously, which is only logical because you can hear it. Coping with the variations I find is inevitable, and don't need someone's opinions I don't agree with. > Some days after playing music loud, I don't hear the tinnitus, though i > should, and some days - after NOT playing music loud/or at all, its ringing [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Eskild > My tinnitus is driveing me qiute crazy! > I don't understand how this really works! [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Loud music = consert tinnitus, and so on. But this??? > I don't understand this. Loud one day, gone the another... Good luck trying to understand tinnitus when the "experts" don't have a good grasp on understanding this problem. As PaulS states, it's variable and different for everyone. In my case, it's reactive and any exposure to loud or unexpected noise will cause my tinnitus to spike and go thru the roof. For me, a sudden screeching scream from an infant or toddler will cause such a tremendous spike in my tinnitus I literally wince from the pain. frank Tinnitus should be classified into a few different categories in my point of view. For example, tinintus that always reacts to sound like music, I call reactive tinnitus. Tinnitus that comes and goes randomly should be called fluctuating tinnitus, and tinnitus that is just there all the time and does not change at all should be called.....constant tinnitus. I think that fluctuating tinnitus may be easier to treat than, say, reactive tinnitus. However, I think that fluctuating tinnitus is more challenging than say, constant tinnitus. If you can keep a rich auditory environment at all times, that will help. One thing I do ask my patients with fluctuating tinnitus is to really pay attention for 24 hours to how often they notice their T........and to also notice if they are asking a question prior to the noticing, such as, Is It There? Can I hear it now? These inquiries are helping to keep the tinnitus high in your internal processor.......like moving up to the front of the line repeatedly. Moving the tinnitus to the back of the line is a goal for many people. Marsha Johnson, MS |
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