Tinnitus and Sleep - how much rest are you get... - Tinnitus UK
Tinnitus and Sleep - how much rest are you getting at the moment?
Hi Pat i never sleep the whole night I wake up several times I take Amitrypalyn which helps and Boots Sleepease which is the same as Kalms
Use white noise and crackling vinyl to get to sleep, "T" goes mad when I wake up and its pot luck whether it settles down or not. Have 3 or 4 really bad days a week. Extreme high pitched scream in head
I listen to a audio book on low so I concentrate on that instead of the screeching noise in my head. It seems to help distract me long enough to be able to fall asleep.
I have a fan going which helps me get to sleep,unfortunately when I wake up in the middle of the night,no matter what,I struggle to get back to sleep,sick of this incessant loud buzzing ☹️
It's pretty rough trying to sleep when your brain is rattling.
I try to sleep without extra sound, and concentrate on natural, external sounds like clock ticking or/and have the window open. Nice listening to the rain. I really miss silence.
Hi Pat I have to have meds to sleep otherwise I would go crazy. I alternate -zopiclone and Amitriptyline. Sometimes I sleep well about 7 hours sleep and other times - like last night about 4 hours. Lack of sleep does affect my well being the next day and I feel quite depressed the next day as I have really loud tinnitus.
Love a good night's kip and consider myself extremely fortunate that my T has never really affected it. It's the only place I can go to get away from the horrendous racket - not much of a life when I'm going to bed at 6pm like I did yesterday, but needs must.
Clonazepam seems to work well for a lot of people, I am on 0.5mg a day, the tinnitus is the same noise level so far, but, this is work in progress & I may increase the dosage when I chat to the doctors about it. It helps a lot with sleep and you can easily sleep for 12hrs when you first start taking it. I also feel like I get a decent deeper sleep and so have more energy, I think it calms the brain a little bit, but, I think it is because I have more energy & so less focus on the tinnitus & because you have more energy from better sleep.
What are your thoughts on this. - kjorl.org/journal/view.php?...
