Recent content by wagen

Thank you so much for the recommendation, I just tried them and they definitely help! I also have the physical vibrations that I feel all over my head. Have you found anything that works for you to use while sleeping? Best wishes!

I did. Unfortunately, I respond very badly to antidepressants - they make me very anxious and overstimulated. I don't suffer from depression. I'm sleep deprived.

I feel you, I have slept similar amount of hours for a year now. Is there anything that helps you with sleep? I'd be grateful for any advice. I'm thinking about you.

Sounds like a very similar situation - I have multiple sounds, each of them challenging and difficult to mask all of them at the same time. My sleep is awful, I just can't sleep through it. I sleep only when I really crash out of exhaustion. I can only take Melatonin that helps a little. All...

Do you know why? I just don't understand what increases the loudness so much - I barely hear it when vertical but when I lie down, within few minutes, it just skyrockets. What masking sound did you use? Thank you!

Do you know why Valerian root is always to be avoided in relation to benzos? I read about it a lot as a warning for people in withdrawal situations. Thank you for any insights.

Friends, I have multiple tones and hissing that I hear during the day and I'm somehow able to cope with them. However, my sleep continues to be a disaster damaging my health. Besides the stress and anxiety, it is also due to the fact that there is one particular intermittent beeping that only...

Well, I am scared of the rapid taper because I got tinnitus after the doctors suddenly took me off 1 mg. I struggled for 10 months after that and because I really was totally collapsing from insomnia I gave up and took 0.5 mg. It did save me from really harming myself, so I'm grateful for that...

I used Clonazepam for 3 months a year ago because of insomnia. Two weeks ago I got so desperate (=suicidal) that I gave in and took 0.5 mg again. It doesn't have the same sleep inducing effect on me anymore but it did calm me down a little bit. So, I'm thinking I should try to taper. At what...

3 sounds. In my left ear it is beeping sound, in my right ear it's a constant tone and absolutely the worst is the hight pitch metallic or electric like static hissing which is unmaskable. I can mask the first two sounds but the hissing is a lost battle. I'm very very suicidal and barely...

Amitriptyline caused my brutal tinnitus :(

@glynis, I read on one of your posts that your head tinnitus was caused by Amitriptyline. It happened to me too. After it happened to you, did you consider staying away from it, hoping it could go away? I read that you started Nortriptyline after that. I'm scared to death from the drugs after...

I'm glad Amitriptyline helps you a bit at least! How do you think it makes you worse? Amitriptyline is what gave me this horrible head drilling. I swore I would never get back to it but here I'm thinking about it again. It's this or life, I just don't know how to cope anymore. I don't sleep at all.

Hi Thuan, I think I have something very similar to you. I can mask the tones but the hissing is impossible to mask. It feels like it's literally making my head vibrate. It's awful and impossible to sleep with. Unfortunately, it never goes away, I have it 24/7. How do you cope? Best wishes!

Friends, thank you for your suggestions! I have a question about sleep perception. When I manage to sleep, it feels like I'm still aware of one of my tinnitus sounds which is a heavy drilling like sensation in my head. It feels like I'm always aware of this - does it mean that I don't sleep at...