12 years in and the only trigger that I have is taking a nap or only dozing off for only a minute. Will set my T off every time. Food,drinks(pop,beer,etc.)will not trigger a thing. Hope you find something that does.

It's fruit, desserts, candy, and artificial sweeteners for me. Salt is a maybe. With the sugars and artificial sweeteners, usually I can tell within 5 minutes or less.

deltadart.. we have something in common... naps triple the volume of my t every time. and for a long time . hours perhaps.. What a drag...

Actually, I may start drinking a bit more.. I like red wine and usually drink a little each day , to keep my cholesterol down.. It really works well.. I never was much of a drinker otherwise, but may start keeping beer around.. I like it, and if it calms my nerves down, is it really any worse than popping a benzo??.. not in my book.. If alcohol is NOT a trigger to my T, it may become part of my overall coping mechanism, more than just a few ounces of wine each day... People have been using it as a coping tool for ages.

Loriemar.. thats a real drag.. I love sweets.. Actually I was avoiding them as I wanted to lose weight.. Since my T started, I have dropped an alarming amount of weight, and now I actually need the calories..

I eat a lot of fruit and it has not proven to be a trigger ..

I have wine and beer sometimes and my tinnitus will not increase from it. I think you will find many people with tinnitus that naps are out for them also cause it sends there tinnitus sky high. Yes I think it's safer to have a beer instead of taking a benzo. I just never mix them.

MSG, and Salts take some time to get in the system.
MSG is more of a; the more you use the higher concentration in the blood stream. So many may not notice anything for a day or so.

adapt... I must repectfully disagree, and I will explain why... Years ago, in the exact same restaurant, while eating, I started to freak out, and was having a panic attck.. I said to my wife "we gotta get out of here".. My heart was racing and my anxiety level was through the roof..

my wife said.. "its just an MSG rush.. relax , calm down.etc..
I calmed down, and it never happened again, but it happened while I was eating, not hours or days afterword...
What I experienced was called Chinese Restaurant Syndrome... Google it, pretty interesting stuff, and yes I can certainly see where T sufferers would list MSG as a major trigger... In my case, I have my doubts, as I was fine Sunday night after the big MSG bomb was digested. [well as fine as someone can be with twin whistles in his brain]

I will keep my salt intake low as I have been doing for several years, but thus far, I haven't noticed it being a "trigger".. Sleep of any type, from 8 hours to 1 minute is my major "trigger".. My head screams bilaterally upon awakening, and after several hours usually calms down to one whistle on the left side, or at best a summer night field of crikets and katydids which is easier to mask and manage...
bob

I still struggle with the triggers - is it right away or the next day?? I have had t for 9 months and I have come to the conclusion the sugar sends it way up and that seems to happen within about 10 minutes. Salt can also bother me but that seems to be the next day. I still play the game of "what did I eat yesterday" or is it just the t doing its thing? So I use Stevia for sugar and stay away from salt as much as possible. I can drink a small amount of wine not much but that is it - I get terrible t from anything else with alcohol. I guess it just goes to show that we are all different. I have come to the conclusion that sugar is not good for us anyway and salt the same thing. I do things in moderation. I had stated before how weird it is that our ears now tell us what to eat!!

Hi Bebee,

I think I am learning that there is no right or wrong answer other then those with a claim diagnoses for a cure.

I have tested MSG with my T and there is affect on it. As well as sugar and salt.
I am also finding that how a person got T affects the triggers.
I do understand why you disagree, but I think the patterns are far wider and cause even wider then that. I do not have the answers, but I have questions and getting answers to those one at a time. LO problem is I have about 1000 questions so this could be awhile.

Naps--even for a minute--are a big no-no for me; I wake to screaming teakettles. : ( Not sleeping well at night--basically waking up often so I have had a series of "naps" all night--also sets off my T.

Since glutamate increases the neuron activity in your brain, sugar (processed, honey, molasses, MSG) all spike my T within minutes of eating it. Fruit, however, does not, nor do Stevia or Xyletol.

Salt does not seem to bother my T, though it might for those with high blood pressure.

Chocolate spikes my T, even 100% dark with no sugar in it.

Alcohol is actually a glutamate inhibitor, and green tea, red wine, turmeric, and cinnamon all reduce sugar in the blood steam, thus less gets to your brain. On a good T day (when my T is low), drinking green tea will actually make my T go even lower. Others on here have said the same. Taking 2 turmeric pills on a good T day will also lower my T for awhile, as will (usually) red wine in moderation. Some on here have said one glass of red wine lowers their T, but 2 glasses sets it off.

Now caffeine is an interesting topic because all the docs will tell you if you have T to stay away from it. But a recent clinical trial published in ATA magazine showed that caffeine does not affect T--neither makes it worse nor better. Caffeine/coffee (a vasoconstricter) does not seem to affect my T at all, though there are people on this site who say drinking coffee actually LOWERS their T. I will say that ESPRESSO seems to help my T--if I have low T in the morning, get a large coffee with espresso shots in it, and nurse it all day (taking sips every so often), my T will stay low all day. This happens every time, even though I have the kind of T that starts low in the morning and gets louder and louder as the day goes on.

I used to think the "vasoconstriction" of espresso and red wine helped reduce or at least maintain my T level because the constriction was reducing the glutamates getting into my brain. However, other vasoconstrictor foods on this list below (such as sugar, MSG, chocolate) spike my T--so maybe it isn't the vasoconstriction after all! : )

http://www.doctorsforpain.com/pdf/Foods_That_Trigger_Pain.pdf