“Tinnitus an Auditory Migraine”

“A Case Study”

There are many theories about tinnitus and what might be the cause this audible ringing in the ears. Some say it’s caused by a lack of magnesium and other trace minerals. But there is also the possibility that in many cases tinnitus might be caused by stress. And like migraine headaches and visual migraines, their are also auditory migraines which can be triggered by many factors… but stress is the most common.

Take for instance a man who found a new job and was working the night shift. He had never worked the night shift before and having a hard time adjusting. At the same time they just had a new baby that was always crying and thus he had a hard time getting any rest before having to go back to work. And after a while he started having muscle spasms, tension headaches, tightness in his chest, and his hands starting going numb. And later he stared having ringing in his ears that became very loud and drove him crazy.

This went on for a few months and he tried everything but nothing in the way of medications that his doctor gave him seemed to work. Then one day out of frustration he went to see an herbalist and this person recommended learning meditation. The man thought this was crazy because he wanted something to take that would get rid of the tinnitus. But the herbalist knew that the man had a lot of stress going on in his life and needed to relax. And find some peace so that his body would stop going into stress mode creating cortisol, adrenalin, and a host of stress hormones which increased cholesterol and triglycerides, cause high blood pressure, and a list of 100 different things that can happen with stress. So the herbalist tried to get across to the man how important it was to learn meditation. Finally he agreed and started his daily practice of 30 minutes first thing in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening.

It was not easy for the man, he had to find a peaceful place to do his meditation. And sometimes sitting in his car was the only place he could find that was quiet enough to do his practice. But eventually he did find a quiet place and settled into his practice of meditating twice a day. And low and behold within one week the tightness in his chest, the muscle spasms, the tension headaches, the numbness in his hands and the ringing in his ears started to subside. And within two weeks most of his symptoms were gone, and within 30 days he was completely symptom free.

Within 30 days his tinnitus disappeared.

This doesn’t mean that all tinnitus is caused by stress, but perhaps a great number of people who suffer from this health challenge are stressed and don’t even know they are stressed. In fact I personally know lots of people who have stress going on in their lives who have tinnitus. Stress can cause all kinds of dis-ease and thus we have one more thing that stress more than likely can induce.

Many Blessings to Everyone!

Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist