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I’m also housebound now. I can’t believe how loud the world is. Even the wind and rain feel overwhelming. There are loads of airplanes flying over our house. I never noticed them before, but now they all sound incredibly loud, just like the birds. And now I’m hardly getting any sleep. I’m...

I feel that way, too. I know my depression is coming from the lack of sleep. I’ve gone over 48 hours without any rest. I’ve been prescribed Zopiclone, which does work, but only if I use it very occasionally. I’m thinking about starting Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), but I’m really scared it will...

Hi Marx, just wondering how you are now. Did you take ldn and how did you get on. I have it in the fridge but I'm scared to take it. My tinnitus is very bad and I'm hardly sleeping at all

I was on Venlafaxine years ago, and it didn’t give me tinnitus. Withdrawing from it, however, was a terrible experience, but it still didn’t cause tinnitus. I stopped taking it because it wasn’t helping. Years later, after a pharmacogenetic test, I found out that I couldn’t metabolize it and...

I’m exactly the same: reactive tinnitus and hyperacusis. Mine started on April 20th. I just woke up one day with screaming tinnitus. I’m trying to manage by habituating and spending lots of time outside in nature, which seems to help, as long as it’s not too windy. Wind can make things worse...

I totally get what you’re going through. I’m in the same place right now. My brain won’t relax enough to let me sleep, so I’m getting by on about one hour a night. I have hyperacusis and reactive tinnitus. I just woke up on April 20th with screaming tinnitus in my left ear, which then spread...

Has anyone in this chat continued using LDN and experienced good results with it? I started at 0.5, and I am currently in a bad spike that has lasted for several hours. I am unsure whether to continue or not.