How to Sleep with Tinnitus without Taking Medications?

[Dilshaad]

Hello

Can anyone please advise how one can sleep with tinnitus without taking sleeping medications. Please provide some advice.

Kind regards
Dilshaad

 

[IreneO]

Hi Dilshaad, different things will work for different people. I've used relaxing music (with sleep phones, low volume) and breathing exercises and found these helpful. Some find white noise helpful, or a fan left on etc, so experiment to see what helps you. Make sure you're tired when you go to bed. If you have a bad night or two, don't stress about it - one way or another, you'll get enough sleep to keep going. If you can go without sleep medication, great, but remember it is an option if you need it. Good luck!

 

[Hopeful1]

2 things
- dont be anxious....take an evening walk
- have masking like a fountain

 

[Dilshaad]

Hi Irene

Thanks for your quick reply. Since when you got tinnitus? How did it come from? Mine came after drinking antibiotics due to ear infection. Its been two months.

Kind regards
Dilshaad

 

[glynis]

Hi Dilshaad.
Try a warm bath,
Sound therapy
Lavender on your pillow
A warm milky drink
Black out curtains make it dark
Relax and unwind an hour or two before bedtime and keep off computers Tec
Try some reading

Hope this helps...lots of love glynis

 

[Sam Bridge]

After a period of sleep trouble i realised it was the anxiety keeping me up, not the sound.

 

[william adams]

When I first got T I was quite nervous about it and would lay for hours not sleeping also hands sweating and had frequent urination. My doctor put me on a low dosage of xanax for day and ambien to sleep and would play nature sounds all night to mask my T. This worked but I knew it was a temporary fix and didnt want to be on meds unless I had too. Seven monthes later dont need ambien anymore and take a very small does of xanax when having a bad day. What helped most with sleeping was to get one hour of vigorous exercise everyday, go to bed and get up the same time everyday, no naps inbetween, listen to soft music one hour every night befor bed to get into a relaxed state of mind.

 

[Dilshaad]

Hi All

Thank you for all your advices. Much appreciated.for the time being im taking melatonin and xanax o.25 and i put rainfall sound n then read till sleep comes. But i sleep only 3 to 4 hours and it is broken sleep. As soon as the sound stops my sleep got broken. I fear this sleep pattern is affecting my t and is making it becoming worse. Because in this short period i also got hyperacusis.....

I hope it goes away

 

[IreneO]

Hi Irene

Thanks for your quick reply. Since when you got tinnitus? How did it come from? Mine came after drinking antibiotics due to ear infection. Its been two months.

Kind regards
Dilshaad

I have T since the end of 2014, due to head injury from a traffic accident. Two months is very early days, hang in there and it will get better.