My thoughts

[Olamilekan12]

I’d discovered I had it at the beginning of July this year ( I probably must have had it longer but didn’t realize what it was until sometimes July I was starting to be stressed from doing my masters and then had a breakup so I think while just wallowing in silence from the stress of everything from moving to a new country to my breakup, it was at that point I asked myself what’s this sound I have been hearing and immediately I googled it my brain has been stuck on listening to it 24/7, ignorance they really say is bliss )

But looking back between now and July I’d say I have really improved from always sitting doing nothing and checking google for cures and reason why this is happening to me and not being able to sleep cos I started getting scared of night time or being alone in my house just cos I didn’t want to hear the sound and not being able to fall asleep easily like I used to ,I have been able to move on but not fully from doing that to at least sleeping even tho I still haven’t figured out a way to sleep early I go to bed around 2 eventually and manage to get 6 hours of sleep while waking at intervals but I have been able to manage this and get myself busy with doing something during the day ( work, school work, gym ,going out on walks , playing video games and trying not to always come here to check posts cos i realized I give from reading posts and my head just kinda focuses on my tinnitus and then it’s hard getting my mind away from it that day ) just anything to keep my mind from being idle and at night I try to take chamomile tea and a whole lot of different teas ( I wasn’t a tea person before cos from where I come from I’d only drink a hot tea cos I feel cold , but now I take these teas every night cos I’d rather take this teas than to make myself depend on sleeping meds ) so I have a few cups of teas and I play this rain sound on YouTube to help mask the sound. It’s been two months of learning about this and still trying to understand how this work but I can say for sure my anxiety has reduced ( by keeping myself busy ) the tinnitus is still there but I have gone from being bothered by it 24/7 to only a few hours a day ( few hours when I wake in the morning till I get busy either with work or my dissertation and then at night when I’m done with the days work and about to sleep ) for me this is progress so far and I hope to beat this or fully HABITUATE like people say here, so I’d like to say thank you to a few people here

TinnitusUKpat, untold , happy Rosie , jack 2316 , fministry, molbel, ray 200 and a couple of other people who gave me words of encouragement and advice 2 months ago when I came here and I was going crazy cos I was scared to shut about how the tinnitus and the anxiety it brought with it had made me feel.. I still have my down days sometimes but I try not to let it beat me down.. I just thought to come share my toughts here today and I hope one day we’d all achieve silence or maybe a cure or something that’d finally bring us peace

[Happyrosie]

this is great news what you have achieved in only a few weeks. Your improvement should continue, though perhaps not as quickly.

You are very wise not too Google too much as there are many people out there trying to get your attention and then your money!!

I’m hoping that you will get to the point where you won’t really think about it any more, except occasionally .