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
A traffic jam in a city in my head day and night.
Living with Tinnitus 
Tinnitus gone (for 2hours) the sound of silence!
Tinnitus worse -which Medications can reduce loudness?
How do I manage? 
