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I'm 23 months out and dealing with a bad wave of tinnitus, head pressure and depression. I'm dealing with a lot at work and I have a hellish commute. I'm guessing it's probably stress. Does anyone have theories about waves being triggered by stress?
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When I've had stressful days (either from external stress or stress that I seem to put myself through) it can trigger waves. A couple weeks ago I worked out way too much trying to exhaust myself (trying to make myself exhausted so I might sleep more than a couple of hours) and set off a really intense panic attack.

 

Can you try some guided meditations when you commute? Or listen to podcasts to help distract you?

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My main theory for what all this is...is stress. Your waves ARE stress. An exaggerated response with a jacked up nervous system, but stress just the same. I think the sooner we acknowledge that and perform mitigation strategies the better.
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For me, even thinking a stressful thought without doing the "stressful" act can make my symptoms flare up. As I drove to work today, I thought about how I needed to do a load of laundry tonight because I need a certain shirt for Friday. Normally I do my laundry over the weekend so doing laundry tonight pulls me out of my routine. But I think basic chores or even thinking about basic chores makes me feel worse. I wonder when it goes away.
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Maybe the withdrawal has given your nervous system a new baseline for an anxiety. I believe a lot of people suffer because of this. The question is how do we lower the baseline back to normal.
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Waves are absolutely triggered by stress. No doubt abt that.

Maybe other things can trigger waves too- like too big a cut- but we are past that now.

Idk how to lessen this.

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Im 45 months off and yesterday I went into a wave because of a conflict with my teenage son, yes waves come from stress whatever the stressure is,,, the reason without doubt is the week CNS, after alot of researches and experimenting of diet, yoga, meditation, wimhof method, organizing sleep pattern.. etc. it goes back to the CNS. It cannot handdle emotional or physical stress factors.

 

I do sleep well, eat clean, excersise, i try my best to stay stress free but it will hit you once a while, thats really effects my achievements in life, but nothing to do.

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