Tinnitus

[777john]

i am taking zopiclone for my tinnitus but i have been reading a lot of stories where people have been taking it for other reasons and they have got tinnitus because of this tablet can any body help me on this as i do not want to make my tinnitus any worse than what it is even though zopiclone has helped me sleep

[777john]

and what about phenergan any body report weather this can make tinnitus worse these sleeping tablets are meant to give us a bit of peace from our daily nightmare the last thing we want is for it to make the tinnitus worse is there any sleeping tablets that do not interfere cause or make tinnitus worse so we have one less thing to worry about or would a few pints of beer be a better option

[Happyrosie in reply to 777john]

I took this for vertigo. It didn’t have any effect on the T.

[Happyrosie]

Tinnitus isn’t shown as a known reaction to zop, 777john. Are these stores you are reading about on this site? Do you trust them?

[777john in reply to Happyrosie]

No i just googled them just wanted to make sure they were ok to take the last thing us T sufferers need is taking some thing that makes it worse iv only been taking zopicone for 6 days the 3.75 mg dose i might try tonight with out taking one see if i can get through the night ok, other wise would haft to go back on zopicone until my ENT appointment comes up can not get by with out sleep.

[Shakey3258 in reply to 777john]

Don't risk zopiclone please believe me my ears are ringing out of 100 out of 100 is moment in time coming off zopiclone I was on it 6-weeks

[doglover1973]

It's a tricky one john. When I asked my GP for help last year she offered me amitryptiline or phenergan. Both say on the leaflets they can cause ringing in the ears. I took phenergan twice a week for approx 3 months. It didn't make my tinnitus any worse. As rosie says zopiclone is ok but only for short term use I believe. In other words no easy answers for sleep problems. A few pints might be an idea 🍺🍺

[777john in reply to doglover1973]

There are certainly no easy answers the trouble is we all react different to different drugs we may be all human but we are all unique but i know one thing we can all get drunk and that makes us sleep so in moderation it might be better than the tablet form

[Amanda_Brighton]

I have high frequency continuous Tinnitus. It varies between "easy to deal with" and "head in hands crying". The doctor prescribed Zopiclone to help with sleep but advised against regular consumption as you get used to it and dependent on it. I now take it much less than once a week. I also had some CBT and I think I can summarise the advice as, don't struggle and don't be scared and to accept the Tinnitus as an unwelcome guest, but a guest nevertheless. It helped for sure in not trying to not get too anxious with it. As she explained to me, if you've already experienced "head in hands crying", how can it get worse? I found that advice extremely useful. I am also now using hearing aids as my tinnitus is accompanied by a bit of high frequency hearing loss. The aids help for sure - they raise the gain of the high frequency I'm missing and sort of act as a natural masker. I hear everything! And then, from time to time, I mix in tinnitus relief sounds or music if I need it. I find it very different having the relief delivered straight into your brain, effectively, rather than headphones or speakers and in my opinion, much better and more natural - you're not masking the outside world. The aids "mix it all up" naturalistically.

My advice, try some professional therapy, get a hearing test to see if there's anything that could be inducing it and try not to be scared by it.

By the way, I did go private for all this. An ENT Consultant, hearing test, brain MRI (just in case - it was fine!), CBT with a professional consultant and finally, the aids. It hasn't been cheap, but it's all been worth it. I am technically still on the NHS waiting list but was advised, back in December when the doctor finally referred me, that it's a more than 50week wait! That information is when I decided I had to pay and any cost was worth it as the Tinnitus was so bad, so I did some googling and went from there

[Shakey3258]

Don't take both my ageless cream not been on it 6 weeks I finished up in a mental hospital came back out stop zopiclone and my ears are absolutely screaming at me it's almost suicidal feeling this it's so hard to fight my spikes has to Titus hit me when I've gone to sleep it becomes louder in my sleep that's why I finished up and zopiclone and in the mental health unit