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Tinnitus and autistic migraines

Mariusz

Over the last few days I gave it a lot of thought.

I get tinnitus attacks every now and then, here and there, and I couldn't find a reason behind it

For me tinnitus feels like drilling, piercing sound getting deaper and deeper into my brain, as if someone was pushing a needle into my ear, Intensity of it varies

I started paying attention to change in environment when it happens

Todays mild 5sec long attack happened after I turned on a boiler

Though I did not hear anything I would swear.

Can it be similar proccess to striplight's buzzing causing migraines? My brain deciphers it from what my ears pick up?

In other words - can tinnitus be another form of an autistic migrain?

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  • in reply to Mariusz

    I get very loud tinnitus. I would say it's the same volume as a plane taking off, but it's just a high pitched ringing. It's so loud that it feels like it's hurting my ears. And I swear, it seems to happen when I am near cell towers or WiFi routers (which seem to have become insanely strong recently).

    I know people will say that's in my head or it's the nocebo effect, but I only realised this after the fact. It's not like I decided it in advance.

    The tinnitus happened first and for ages I couldn't work out why or what triggered it. But I noticed that it was only in certain rooms, and when I went to stay with someone else I didn't get it at all for weeks, and then I came home and it started again immediately, particularly when going in a certain room.

    Then I randomly bought an EMF and RF meter, and discovered the radio waves (microwaves) were between 5 and 20mW/m^2 in this area ("normal" levels in the UK would be below 1mW/m^2). It made me wonder if my ears were somehow picking it up or being stimulated by the energy or the fields. I can also hear those cat deterrents and I used to hear when a TV or CRT monitor was on in another room, though that probably is actual sound that my ears are picking up.

    People will call me insane for saying that radiation is giving me tinnitus. I'm not gonna start wearing a tinfoil hat or anything... but I did have one of those emergency blankets in my car (space blankets) and when I put it over my head the tinnitus did go away. So who knows what is going on.

    According to science, tinnitus is completely in your head and nothing to do with hearing. They say that it is your brain inventing a sound because it is receiving no stimulus from the ears.