Some tinnitus sounds are anatomical — they’re coming from movement within our musculoskeletal system, around our chest, shoulders, neck, jaw, teeth, and the temporal mandibular joint. And of course, within the ears themselves, we have small bones, muscles, and tendons. So, there is changing blood flow, contractions and relaxation of muscles and movements, and all of that can change the sound and mechanical sounds that are produced within the body and then perceived by the brain.
It’s very normal and it’s very common to have changing body sounds that can come and go in various positions. My recommendation would be to not worry about it. For sure, you can bring loving awareness, curiosity, and play to how your body sounds might be changing with different head positions or neck positions or jaw positions. But I certainly wouldn’t be overly worried about it, shaming it, becoming obsessively vigilant about it, etc. It is a phenomena, it does happen, and you don’t need to find meaning in it.
If you do notice any particular stressful areas that you feel you want professional support relieving stress throughout your head, neck, or shoulders, then that could be a pleasant experience for you, but it could also change the tinnitus sounds if it’s a part of your body that’s overworking and therefore creating more mechanical sound as a result of that excessive workload. The Rock Steady path and approach can be beneficial in meeting these sensations with a healing mindset, using neuroplasticity healing tools.
As far as I know, that’s not really a question that anybody can answer yet, but one thing you could do is to tune into your body and listen to your body and ask, “Something’s not right for me. My body’s screaming at me. I’m hearing this tinnitus and I’m not enjoying it,” and asking your body physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, “Body, how can I support you? Body, what things can I do to help you feel safe? Body, what can I do to help you feel heard and listened to?”
So, we can’t necessarily control the 5G that’s outside of our control, but what we can control is our reaction to what we’re sensing and feeling in our world. By all means, if you feel that you really need to take a break from being in a 5G area, maybe take a weekend away and see how you feel. But really listen to your body and work to support what you can control rather than trying to externalize and blame things outside of yourself, which will very rarely lead to happy outcomes. Doing that puts us in a powerless position. But as far as I know, I haven’t heard anything about 5G causing tinnitus, so I can’t speak to that at all.
Tinnitus sounds and body sounds could change, and are in fact likely to change, with concussion or any kind of head injury, as well as throughout the healing process. As the body, the brain, the skull, and the structures within are healing (we could think of it as like a really large bruise to the brain), we can expect the occurrence or or changing of tinnitus sounds.
Even as we do heal the concussion, there may be some ongoing tinnitus sounds as the body is reestablishing its own equilibrium and balance.
If you have ongoing tinnitus that bothers you and concerns you following concussion, you can always follow the Rock Steady program and the Rock Steady path of healing with neuroplasticity. There’s no reason for the tinnitus to continue ongoing after the concussion has been resolved, follow the Rock Steady process to resolve and heal that tinnitus if it’s problematic for you.
I have never been asked this question before, and my instinct is to say that the sounds that our bodies makes are related to the overall health of the body. This could go in all directions, including when we’re at a healthy body weight, when we’re very, very thin or anorexic and at a very low body weight, or at an increased body weight moving toward the obesity spectrum.
The sounds that our bodies make are mechanically influenced by the health and state of our body, so I wouldn’t make any big judgments around the sounds you’re experiencing and how that relates to your body size. The questions I’d be more inclined to ask would be:
How can I support my body?
Is my body asking me for some kind of wellbeing or health or lifestyle choice, some kind of alteration to improve my overall health?
Those kind of questions certainly can be helpful to reduce the tinnitus, if not completely heal it all together.
I recommend that you follow the Rock Steady process, and engage with the Rock Steady program to learn about healing tinnitus regardless of your body weight, with a focus on how you relate to the tinnitus and how you can resolve the tinnitus with neuroplasticity.
Pulsatile tinnitus is a sound that is made within the body, so nobody else can hear it, just the person who’s perceiving it. The sound could be in one ear, in both ears, in the head, or even in the body, and pulsatile tinnitus means that it has a pulsing quality to it.
Often that will be directly related to blood flow. So, as your heart’s beating and the capillaries around the inner ears and the neural structures around the inner ears are receiving that pulse of blood flow to and from the ears, some people can actually hear a pulsatile sound that’s mechanically generated in the body, and that’s why it’s called pulsatile tinnitus.
If you’re worried about it, ask your doctor to check it out, and if it’s an ongoing tinnitus that you can’t resolve and you’ve already had medical clearance, try the Rock Steady pathway to heal with neuroplasticity.
Can removing wax cause a flare up in tinnitus? Yes, and I do answer this question in my book called Rock Steady as well.
Having wax in the ears can change the sound dynamic going on in the ear. Just the wax itself can cause tinnitus sounds. Then, once we remove the wax, again and we change the acoustic environment of the ear, which can cause a flare up in how sounds are perceived in either ear. Removing the wax itself can cause a little bit of trauma to the ear canal or eardrum, depending on the methods used, which can influence tinnitus sounds as well.
Generally speaking, these increased sensations will pass and heal really quickly, just like any scrape, scratch or bruise would on the body. But, of course, because there is mechanical noise produced really close to the ear, it can have that sound perceived and that tinnitus sound created.
So, it’s nothing to worry about. If you have ongoing worries about tinnitus and you want to learn how to heal and change those sounds that are made from the ear using neuroplasticity, which means you’re changing how the brain perceives the sound, follow the Rock Steady process.
