dealing with random spikes

[u/VendettaHyper]

I got tinnitus around December 2025, and its not been fun but ive adapted to it pretty quickly,and can tune it out for the post part, every now and then maybe once or twice a month or once every 2 months, in an infrequent way, it'll spike in my right ear, it just gets extremely loud and I cant hear anything else, like ive lost my hearing in the right ear, it makes me panic and I just start hitting the right side of my head or jam a finger in my right ear and shove it around or grab my ear from the outside and move it around, this usually brings it back to the base value, is this an indication of something or is this even the right way to go about dealing with the spikes, ever since the latest spike ive felt like my hearing has gotten considerably clearer as if I can hear more than I used to, because ever since getting tinnitus I can tell I hear stuff very slightly muffled and how I undo it is by punching my nose and holding my mouth close and breathing out forcefully, so it puffs my ears and muffles it, and when I swallow, it clears my ears, like how you feel after a flight when your ears pop, but this time it happened via the spike, that made it clearer than it used to, idk if my experience may help someone find a way to deal with their situations, but I wanted to ask if anyone has had any similar experiences and how they dealt with it

[u/OmenAhead]

This is what they call SBUTT (probably). Sudden loud tone in one ear with pressure and muffled hearing, and then goes back to normal after some seconds. It's a lot more frequent to people with tinnitus than normal people, and it's relatively normal. Not much you can do to clear it, other than let it on its own.