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Tinnitus and Migraine: Link, Causes, and More

Migraine and ear ringing

According to research, vestibular migraine affects over 1% of the population.

Absence of sensory information

Tinnitus may be caused by the inability of your brain to adapt to altered sensory information. Your brain engages in multiple neural activities to help compensate for the change in sensory input. This causes buzzing or ringing in the ears.

Electric messages

How migraine affects tinnitus is not completely understood. Some studies show that it may be caused by spontaneous abnormal neural activity.

In vestibular migraine, experts believe that abnormal electric messages are a primary cause. This causes the blood vessels in and around the brain to dilate, including the vestibular artery. This disrupts the balance in the inner ear, leading to various symptoms.