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Thank you so much for the recommendation, I just tried them and they definitely help! I also have the physical vibrations that I feel all over my head. Have you found anything that works for you to use while sleeping? Best wishes!

I did. Unfortunately, I respond very badly to antidepressants - they make me very anxious and overstimulated. I don't suffer from depression. I'm sleep deprived.

I feel you, I have slept similar amount of hours for a year now. Is there anything that helps you with sleep? I'd be grateful for any advice. I'm thinking about you.

Sounds like a very similar situation - I have multiple sounds, each of them challenging and difficult to mask all of them at the same time. My sleep is awful, I just can't sleep through it. I sleep only when I really crash out of exhaustion. I can only take Melatonin that helps a little. All...

Do you know why? I just don't understand what increases the loudness so much - I barely hear it when vertical but when I lie down, within few minutes, it just skyrockets. What masking sound did you use? Thank you!

Do you know why Valerian root is always to be avoided in relation to benzos? I read about it a lot as a warning for people in withdrawal situations. Thank you for any insights.

Friends, I have multiple tones and hissing that I hear during the day and I'm somehow able to cope with them. However, my sleep continues to be a disaster damaging my health. Besides the stress and anxiety, it is also due to the fact that there is one particular intermittent beeping that only...

Well, I am scared of the rapid taper because I got tinnitus after the doctors suddenly took me off 1 mg. I struggled for 10 months after that and because I really was totally collapsing from insomnia I gave up and took 0.5 mg. It did save me from really harming myself, so I'm grateful for that...

I used Clonazepam for 3 months a year ago because of insomnia. Two weeks ago I got so desperate (=suicidal) that I gave in and took 0.5 mg again. It doesn't have the same sleep inducing effect on me anymore but it did calm me down a little bit. So, I'm thinking I should try to taper. At what...

3 sounds. In my left ear it is beeping sound, in my right ear it's a constant tone and absolutely the worst is the hight pitch metallic or electric like static hissing which is unmaskable. I can mask the first two sounds but the hissing is a lost battle. I'm very very suicidal and barely...

Amitriptyline caused my brutal tinnitus :(

@glynis, I read on one of your posts that your head tinnitus was caused by Amitriptyline. It happened to me too. After it happened to you, did you consider staying away from it, hoping it could go away? I read that you started Nortriptyline after that. I'm scared to death from the drugs after...

I'm glad Amitriptyline helps you a bit at least! How do you think it makes you worse? Amitriptyline is what gave me this horrible head drilling. I swore I would never get back to it but here I'm thinking about it again. It's this or life, I just don't know how to cope anymore. I don't sleep at all.

Hi Thuan, I think I have something very similar to you. I can mask the tones but the hissing is impossible to mask. It feels like it's literally making my head vibrate. It's awful and impossible to sleep with. Unfortunately, it never goes away, I have it 24/7. How do you cope? Best wishes!

Friends, thank you for your suggestions! I have a question about sleep perception. When I manage to sleep, it feels like I'm still aware of one of my tinnitus sounds which is a heavy drilling like sensation in my head. It feels like I'm always aware of this - does it mean that I don't sleep at...

Matchbox, what antidepressant gives you 8 hours of sleep? I haven't had 8 hours of sleep in more than 7 months :( I hate drugs but at this point I'm ready to take anything that gives me a break. Glad it works for you!

Friends, I need to sleep or I will go crazy. I'm unable to mask my high-pitched electrical, metallic-like sound with anything. It makes sleeping impossible. Please, any suggestions? I went through hundreds of YouTube sounds, an app on my phone. It's just impossible. It feels like this sound...

How are you doing, Capstan? I think I have the same tinnitus like you :( I cannot mask it unless I'm in the shower. Anything worked for you? Are you still taking Clonazepam? Wishing you the best!

I don't want to add to your dilemma but I must share my experience: I first got very manageable tinnitus as part of the Clonezapam withdrawal. I was taking Amitriptyline at the same time and when I stopped it 2 months ago, about 3 weeks after my last dose the tinnitus became brutal. It's now...

Thank you, linearb. I know I'm doomed forever. There are no good options for me at this moment. I just don't know how to move forward. My psychiatrist is useless. He doesn't believe in withdrawal and says my tinnitus is a sign of overthinking and wants me to take antipsychotics :( I'm trying...

I've been trying to wait it out hoping that the tinnitus will improve. Unfortunately, I'm very very sleep deprived and tinnitus actually feels like it's getting worse. Probably due to sleep deprivation. I hate that the drugs did this to me but I need to go back on something to sleep. I tried...

Thank you for your response. Do you think that the waiting out period can be spent with very little sleeping? I'm scared to take anything but at the same time I just don't sleep. It's been about 6 months of 3 hours on average.

I'm severely sleep deprived. I'm averaging 3 hours a night. Do you think that any healing can possibly happen when sleeping so little or is there no chance? I'm trying not to give up because I know there is no medication that is not known to either cause or worsen tinnitus. But at the same time...

My tinnitus got so so so much louder after stopping Amitriptyline :( Before, it was tolerable but now it's almost unmaskable. I'm 6 months off. Do you think it could get better, at least a little bit? Since it got worse, it hasn't changed either way. Absolutely static.

Thank you very much for this! Well, I took Clonazepam for 2.5 months and Amitriptyline for several months. I was basically cold turkeyed by the doctors, so I feel it was probably the withdrawal because it happened too fast. I also don't know if the worsening was caused by the Amitriptyline OR...

Friends, I got tinnitus from a combination of Clonazepam and Amitriptyline. First, when I stopped Clonazepam, I got tinnitus that was somewhat bearable. Then, when I stopped Amitriptyline, it got three weeks after the last dose so so much worse. It's been now 6 months and the tinnitus is still...