Pillow for Side Sleepers

[garywi]

I have trouble sleeping on my side when my ear is blocked by my pillow, it can't hear the white noise generators.

Has anyone found a pillow with a hole in the center that would let your hearing be open while you lay on your side and sleep?

Or, how do you sleep on your side and still allow white noise to reach your ears..

Thanks

 

[Ed209]

How about a sound pillow?

 

[Amber]

Has anyone found a pillow with a hole in the center that would let your hearing be open while you lay on your side and sleep?

http://thepillowwithahole.co.uk/

https://www.amazon.com/D-Core-Cervical-Pillow-Standard-Firm/dp/B000H2Y78M

 

[garywi]

Thanks Ed. Does the sound pillow work for you. Where did you get it..thanks

 

[Ed209]

I don't personally use one, but I don't use masking.

Two options are:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/ed6/Soundasleep-266888GE-The-Original-Speaker-Pillow-White/B000XS42RQ

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Oasis-SP-101-Therapy-Speakers/dp/B004H5IXUS

Amber found what you was looking for in either case.

 

[garywi]

Thanks Ed. How do you sleep without masking?

 

[Ed209]

Thanks Ed. How do you sleep without masking?

I'm just used to the cacophony of noise at night. My brain is just used to it and I pay no attention to it. I used to live near a train track and the trains coming past were really loud. When my girlfriend - who's now my wife - first slept there she said "how the hell do you sleep here, those trains kept me up all night". Surprised, I said I don't even hear the trains anymore, and that my friend is the very definition of habituation.

Nothing wrong with masking though. Do what's right for you.

 

[garywi]

I am not finding that speaker pillow in the USA?

 

[garywi]

I am struggling. Been at this for only 3 months. It feels like I will never be able to habituate to this. Discouraged today..

 

[Ed209]

I am struggling. Been at this for only 3 months. It feels like I will never be able to habituate to this. Discouraged today..

3 months is nothing gary. At 3 months I was still severely depressed by it all. Give it time, and go easy on yourself. You'll get there.

 

[LoneRanger]

I hope I someday will be on your level ed209. 2,5 years loud high pitched tinnitus in the middle of my head and still not used to it. It's getting even worse....

I have the same problem, i can only sleep on my side. I fold my pillow double and then rest my face on the pillow without my ear touching the pillow(it's less comfortable unfortunatley) and 2 fans for masking. Surviving....

 

[garywi]

Thanks Ed! I am depressed by it when I think to much about it. Right now, I fear going to bed at night..

 

[garywi]

Hey Lone Ranger. Can you explain more how to fold and sleep on your pillow. I need to sleep on my side while keeping both ears open. I think I should design a pillow for this purpose and become rich because I don't see one for sale anywhere..

 

[LoneRanger]

You fold your pillow in in the middle and then i only let my cheek rest on the pillow, my ear stays free. If my ear rests on the pillow it's A war in my head

 

[Ed209]

I hope I someday will be on your level ed209. 2,5 years loud high pitched tinnitus in the middle of my head and still not used to it. It's getting even worse....

I have the same problem, i can only sleep on my side. I fold my pillow double and then rest my face on the pillow without my ear touching the pillow(it's less comfortable unfortunatley) and 2 fans for masking. Surviving....

Mine is also really high pitched and shrill. I compare mine to a dentists drill in the middle of my brain. On top of that I have various hissing tones in both ears. I originally had a milder form of T for well over 10 years, so I had already adapted somewhat to having noise in my ears.

There's no ultimate time scale. All I will say is that anxiety and depression are a huge problem when it comes to T. You need to get over the anxiety of it to get better. It almost becomes a form of OCD. I used to check my volume each day, all the time, and I just simply wouldn't stop thinking about it. It all changed when I stopped fighting it, stopped checking it, and stopped being worried about it. It started to drop out of my consciousness, in essence becoming less intrusive. It's still as strong as ever but I'm not really tuning in to it anymore.

 

[Ed209]

Hey Lone Ranger. Can you explain more how to fold and sleep on your pillow. I need to sleep on my side while keeping both ears open. I think I should design a pillow for this purpose and become rich because I don't see one for sale anywhere..

Amber posted a link to one Gary.

 

[LoneRanger]

How long did it take before you reached the point it's not in your counsiousness anymore? I recognize everything what you just said. Till now everyday I check the volume. T made me depressed, my life went from white to black afther this horrible condition....

 

[Tweaker]

Pillow speakers. They usually come as a pair, so you can have a speaker against your ear whichever side you turn to.

 

[Ed209]

How long did it take before you reached the point it's not in your counsiousness anymore? I recognize everything what you just said. Till now everyday I check the volume. T made me depressed, my life went from white to black afther this horrible condition....

LoneRanger, it's usually the way. Checking on it and obsessing over it creates anxiety which fuels it even more. It's like chucking firewood on a fire, it keeps it raging. I had a mild form for 10 years which took me probably weeks to get used to, but I can't be sure it was so long ago. I was stupid and I made it worse; this new louder T took me around 18 months or so, give or take, for me to finally get used to it.

I was exactly the same as you, and there are many many more of us, millions of us if you look worldwide, who have got past that feeling of hopelessness and continued to live normal lives.

The secret formula is absolute acceptance.

 

[LoneRanger]

Till today (2,5 year) I don't have accepted it. I'm still angry and want to turn the time and not went to that bar.

My only fuel to stay alive is the hope that someday they will find A cure for this horrible condition. I'm just 27, since my 24 I suffer from this. Such A waste of my younger years... I try to live my life, but it never will be the same. 60% of my life joy has vanisched...

 

[Ed209]

Till today (2,5 year) I don't have accepted it. I'm still angry and want to turn the time and not went to that bar.

My only fuel to stay alive is the hope that someday they will find A cure for this horrible condition. I'm just 27, since my 24 I suffer from this. Such A waste of my younger years... I try to live my life, but it never will be the same. 60% of my life joy has vanisched...

I lived with huge regret because I also got it in a bar. There was a band playing and it was ridiculously loud in there, not to mention it was all brick walls so the sound just reflected back.

I never thought I'd get over it, I was suicidal, and I couldn't even get out of bed. It totally ruined my life. I paid loads of money to see all kinds of specialists in desperation that something, anything, could be done.

It's extremely hard, but you have to fixate on other things. Start doing a new hobby or go to the gym, do anything to get yourself out of the obsessive cycle you're in. You will never break free of it as long as it has a hold on you. I'm really obsessive so believe me, I know how hard it is. Don't beat yourself up, I'm sure you will look back on this one day and realise it's no longer a big issue in your life.

 

[LoneRanger]

Thanks for your great support, I appreciate that!

That one night in A sh*tty bar can change your life... before 06 december 2014 I never had heard of tinnitus. And then in one second you must suffer from it the rest of your life...

The bar was in Istanbul, very small with also brick walls. There was A "DJ" and a so called singer. The singer sung so hard it really hurt my ears. Outside was raining so I stayed and after three times my ears hurt I did cleenex in my ears. The next morning I woke up with A high pitched hissing in my head and never went away anymore

 

[Ed209]

Thanks for your great support, I appreciate that!

That one night in A sh*tty bar can change your life... before 06 december 2014 I never had heard of tinnitus. And then in one second you must suffer from it the rest of your life...

The bar was in Istanbul, very small with also brick walls. There was A "DJ" and a so called singer. The singer sung so hard it really hurt my ears. Outside was raining so I stayed and after three times my ears hurt I did cleenex in my ears. The next morning I woke up with A high pitched hissing in my head and never went away anymore

Your story is pretty much a clone of mine. The only difference is that I no longer suffer from tinnitus; I just have tinnitus.

 

[LoneRanger]

Nobody in my environment has tinnitus, the last 2,5 years i lost all my social life. Now I just work ( and i'm car mechanic) so every day loud and sudden noises) and afther work I go home and nothing else.

The problem is I can't laugh anymore and can't enjoy anymore, before this I loved life, now not anymore. Sometimes I think about suïcide, but it's only A thought. There are things worse in life than tinnitus like blindness. Only by tinnitus you almost don't get support by your environment because no one can see it and don't take you serious.

That makes it A very lonely disease....

 

[Penate]

Nobody in my environment has tinnitus, the last 2,5 years i lost all my social life. Now I just work ( and i'm car mechanic) so every day loud and sudden noises) and afther work I go home and nothing else.

The problem is I can't laugh anymore and can't enjoy anymore, before this I loved life, now not anymore. Sometimes I think about suïcide, but it's only A thought. There are things worse in life than tinnitus like blindness. Only by tinnitus you almost don't get support by your environment because no one can see it and don't take you serious.

That makes it A very lonely disease....

Yes unfortunately we are the least shit in this world for every thing, treatment, cure, research, and people compassion , the only evil condition nobody knows were coming from and nobody can fixed.