Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

What've you been trying again to help you sleep? I can offer some suggestions. While I'm not back to "normal" sleep yet, I have improved my average hours per night by like 2 hours over the last couple weeks.

@Drachen.. right now I'm still kind of dependant on lorazepam. Although I've cut the dose in half 1/2mg. What are doing if you don't mind me asking?

@BrOKeN_1 Oh, I didn't know you were taking benzos. I'm not sure how much I want to advise here given any potential interactions. What I typically do around the evenings now is take melatonin (1 mg), drink herbal tea (generally chamomile), and magnesium glycinate (400 mg).

While I still have not managed to sleep a full eight hours, getting to sleep itself isn't that difficult anymore. I'm also starting to improve the hours I sleep straight, though my intermittent sleep afterwards is still variable. There might also be some behavioral things I am doing that helps me out. I don't claim to have this figured out though.

@Drachen I don't think anything you mention here would have a detrimental effect with lorazepam. I would certainly check with my GP first. I have been trying to maintain working graveyard shift and it just doesn't work anymore so I will be starting day/swings on Monday. I seem to sleep better on days off.

@Drachen I will be starting a mild anti-depressant and gradually coming off the benzo. I know if I keep running around and making haste decisions I'll pay for it. I don't think it can get much worse then yesterday... but I got some pretty good sleep last night and T is behaving itself today. Win Win.