Bad Night — Ringing Louder Than Normal

[garywi]

Hey Friends, last night was the first night in my two month journey with T in that it was louder and woke me up at 3am and I struggled to get back to sleep. Usually, when my ringing (in one ear) wakes me up, it settles down and I get to sleep. Having it not go down make me somewhat upset.

I don't know what I did that day if anything to cause the ringing to get louder. I am on a strict clean diet, higher in protein, but I did eat cookies 3 times that day and had more diet coke but all before noon.

I have two white noise generators and a ceiling fan running. I could not get back to sleep even with these running.

Any thoughts on how to cope and not have the mental anguish..

Thank you friends...

 

[SilverSpiral]

Have you considered cutting out the diet soda? The sweeteners in those generally aren't good. I think aspartame is bad for tinnitus?

 

[garywi]

I will cut back but I need a little jolt in the morning. I have not found a coffee that I like.

 

[Jomo]

Sink sounds or heat sounds do it for me....i dont suggest trying to block it out completely when tryi g to sleep. The advice many give is a lil below the volume of the T. I sometimes just blend the sounds together. I find when i wake up the T is always lower than what it was before i went to sleep. I have an app called white noise that lets me create my own sound loops. I suggest giving that a try.

 

[garywi]

when you play an app, what are you using for speakers and does it play all night without interruption..

 

[Jomo]

Yeah an app on my iphone...plays all nite man..doesnt have to be surround sound speakers...my iphone is literally my portable tinnitus device lol on a funny note thk god we are not living in the 70s lol