@Joshua Macleod My work environment isn't very loud. I'm a Cardiovascular Technologist and Neurodiagnostics Technologist at a hospital. So I work within Cardiology and Neurology. If machines get too loud I have ear plugs but my hearing sensitivity has gotten better. It does most days keep me occupied and the T is not there as much. How about you? Do you work? How do you cope?
@Diego LR At first it was super hard because my hearing was so sensitive but it seems to of gotten better with more exposure. I think having this condition no matter what makes anything challenging. I'm from Michigan near Detroit. How about you? Are you able to work?
@RunningMan I'm so sorry you're already a year in! I've already had the taste of lack of sleep from this. Does it get easier for you? Are some nights better then others? I wish I could give everybody a hug. This condition takes a lot of mental strength.
And the last 16 mo. is just when it spiked higher - already had annoying tinnitus before that not easily masked and some trouble sleeping. There was some improvement with sleep over the first few months after early 2022 spike was hell, but seems like sleep hasn't changed since early last summer.
Yeah, it varies night to night, 2hr one night, 6+ another, sometimes I take an antihistimine sleep med at bedtime and often zolpidem sublingual overnight when I can't get back to sleep. Then there's the anxiety and intermittent depression on top of that. Dr. didn't prescribe anything new this year.
@Mo8409 Much the same here. I'm a microbiology PhD researcher working in labs that are tolerable for the most part. I do frequently work with a bench top whole genome sequencer, however, that sits at an ambient 65 dB. I wear plugs for that, that's about it.
All the very best, I hope work can continue to alleviate.
That is good that you can manage work. it will help you with your mental health. I work from home, I am a CBT therapist and can not tolerate going to the office. I am from London.
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