Tinnitus Week 2018 / Day 2: How Do You Manage Your Sleep with Tinnitus?

[billie48]

I have no trouble sleeping now. But at the first 6 months, I had to depend on sleeping pills to sleep and had to use sound enrichment with nature sounds for masking. Now I am so used to the nice nature sounds, I sometimes just listen to them for relaxation.

 

[Ozchatnoir]

I have the Re-Sound app and I play it at night while I'm going off to sleep and while I'm asleep. I listen to Enchanted Forest - that is my favourite and has all sorts of different sounds that you can tune into. I also often have the ceiling fan on (not in winter though). I sleep well. T is noticeably different in the morning - less than during the rest of the day.

 

[Stephen Field]

I usually need something to help me drop off to sleep, after that I sleep okay until morning. A small glass of gin usually does the trick.

 

[Richard Stephens]

How close are the researchers to finding a cure for Tinnitus?

 

[nuno1976]

I pray for 5 minutes and after a minute I fall asleep.
I never had problems to sleep, not even when I had a 3 months baby crying out loud 5 meters from my head.

 

[Dive Master]

Managed to get rid of any medication on year 3. My T starts to fade during the day, when in bed, just a small hiss.
On bad days (less and less) : I sleep in another room and listens Celtic/Brittanic music, very relaxing.
Most important : keep the same sleeping pattern. I'm sleeping from 11 pm to 6 am every day. It's hissing loud enough at wake up and fades away. Now instead of crying and rolling on the floor (1st semester year 1) I just say: "holly sh*t, I'll kill you some day m*ther f*cker". When in rTMS session: "take this in your face son of a b*tch".

 

[ofaisalo]

during the day I try as much as I can to forget about the T
it's helping me a lot of times but not always

 

[Samir]

I don't really use anything special for sleep. It used to be difficult for me to fall asleep when this all started, and I had a great deal of anxiety and panic attacks. But once I understood what tinnitus and slowly started to accept it, my anxiety went down and I was getting better at ignoring the noise without thinking about it. I guess you can say I have habituated. However I never wake up well rested, I always feel tired. It sometimes feels like being between the two states and that's very difficult when you know you have house chores to do or a job to go to the next morning.

I did try using some apps for generating noise at night, playing white noise or other types of sounds like the sound of rain. That didn't do much for me, it just made it more difficult to fall asleep. I think nature sounds were most effective, but not at silencing the tinnitus as much as putting me in a relaxed state of mind. So I would say white noise in general is best at suppressing tinnitus for me, but nature sounds are best at making me feel relaxed.

 

[Steve]

I usually take a while to go to sleep, I'm never sure if the tinnitus is a cause but I don't focus on it. Usually I read for a little in bed and try to wind down from computer / phone an hour before sleep time.

I should try doing some paperwork from my day job, 5 minutes of that and I'm often comatose

 

[SilverSpiral]

I just get so incredibly exhausted. The tinnitus takes your energy while waking, sleep is solace from it in a sense, even if it can interfere with getting to sleep sometimes.

I have had dreams of music though. Those are incredibly difficult to integrate into waking up to this mess.

 

[Tweaker]

I take Dr Stuarts "Valerian plus" tea which may give me 4 hours sleep. Every 2 or 3 days I take a quarter of a 15mg mirtazapine and quarter of a 10mg temazepam to give me around 6 hours of sleep. I've managed to get down to very low doses. It used to require 20mg temazepam or 15 mg mirtazapine to get any sleep. Hoping to get by on just the tea one day but struggle with very loud tinnitus. Sometimes I listen to hypnosis CD through pillow speakers.

 

[Gl0w0ut]

Habahaha, sleep? What sleep?

 

[vermillion]

I am in my 10 th year with very bad tinnitus. I learned how to sleep even with very loud tinnitus. How do i fall asleep? I don't know. Although i hear very loud tinnitus, my brain is so used to hearing that, that it falls asleep when some conditions are met (me in bed, with the intention to fall asleep).
That does not mean that tinnitus is not a huge problem for the sufferer. It means that the innate power of adaptation of an organism is so big that, if it has no choice, an organism adapts itself to hellish life conditions.

I have much respect for you @Dana

 

[Dana]

@vermillion Thank you, vermillion, but this is a post that i later realised that is poorly worded. What i wanted to say is that an organism is able to fall asleep even in hellish conditions, when having no choice, but i do not want to leave room for my post to be interpreted that i sleep like i used to, before i got T. The sleep is shorter, not so resting, and i wake up after a minimum of energy is accumulated, nothing more than the minimum, just enough to go on, to survive. I survive, but i do not LIVE.

 

[foliefortuna]

Lots and lots of pills

 

[just1morething]

@Equalizer, Why not check out StemCell 21 and provide us with some useful information? Not sure what your gloomy posts have accomplished. Provide us with some encouragement for a change.

 

[just1morething]

@Equalizer, If you do go to Stem Cell 21 clinic please provide us with the men's restroom location and number of urinals. I think we can pretty well wrap this case up then if you were really there.

 

[vermillion]

If i stay active and exhaust myself, sleep is better. However the more active i stay, the worse my tinnitus gets. But lately i choose to stay active, at least for now that i still can.

 

[Dmitriy]

Typically, I do not have issues falling asleep with T. On rare occasions I would wake up with loud T noise, and it almost feels like I went deaf. Then I realize that the room is deathly quite, and that sends my T into overdrive. Once the initial scare passes I fall right back to sleep.

Here are my general rules for sleeping, adjusted for both T and acid reflux

- I do some exhausting physical activity - workout, running, walking, etc, a few hours prior to going to sleep. Doesn't happen everyday, but on days that it does I sleep like a baby.
- I don't eat anything after 6. On the days I workout my last big meal is around 2PM, and I have final energy snack around 4PM
- Sometimes I drink relaxing or sleepy tea.

That's about it. Good luck to all.

 

[Jack Mccarthy]

White noise machine with variable pitch does the job for me.

 

[undecided]

Not sure if I should post this...

I found a YT video some time ago, the person who made obviously knows his(her) meds but is a bit on the wild side.
All I can tell you is that it works, cause I've tried everything and I thought I was immune to drugs nowadays - boy was I wrong. It had me sleeping like a baby in 10 minutes.

Please do take care, some of the stuff being used are prescription meds, some of them downright, extremely dangerous - but you don't have to use everything for his cocktail. Even half the ingredients will be a nuclear sleeping bomb.

So there you go ...

Mods, if you think this is inappropriate, please delete, I won't hold a grunge, it's not my video anyway, just thought someone might be helped by it.

But if you try it, have someone nearby to watch over you, at least for the first time.