Poll: How Many Hours Do You Sleep at Night?

I was wondering how many of us are suffering from insomnia due to tinnitus. How do you rate your sleep?

 

As much as I want. I drink myself to sleep and wake up 3-7 times every night. Mostly because my dog or the neighbor's. Basically tinnitus only slightly impacts my sleep.

 

At first I could not sleep at all, then I tried a couple of things, came up with routine, so most of the time I can sleep, but I have few nights that are disturbed.

 

Depends, had sleep problems before tinnitus. Used to use marijuana before tinnitus and I always slept so well. Now I have shit sleeps and can't smoke to help

 

I manage to sleep through the night but with the aid of a pillow speaker. If it wasn't for that, goodness knows?

 

I take my beauty scheep seriously.

 

I sleep ok most nights now.

love glynis

 

It took a while to sleep when I first got tinnitus and I was like that for 2 months straight were I hardly slept and was a walking zombie.

I got to the point were I got so fed up with tinnitus controlling my life that I just stopped caring about tinnitus and once I stopped caring about having tinnitus I started being able to live again and not let it get me down and now I just ignore tinnitus as I just don't care about it anymore, so I get a good 8hrs of sleep every night.

 

No option for waking up multiple times a night but still getting the same amount of sleep? Anyway, my tinnitus doesn't wake me up, but I live in an apartment complex and with my hyperacusis where it is now, any little sound wakes me up.

 

I recently got a puppy and I wake up every hour to get her to potty...she's so fun though so its ok

I really miss my sleep schedule.

 

I had mild insomina before my Tinnitus was severe, normally a fan would be enough to lull me to sleep.

Nowadays, not so much. It's actually the opposite since if I just have my tinnitus blaring away, I could fall sleep eventually, but with a fan going off, the fan reminds me of my tinnitus since it doesn't mask it anymore.

It makes me really depressed when I remember how I could easily sleep just by staying up a few hours watching adult swim and eventually passing out.....

 

As long as I want too. I'm dissabled and God puts me to sleep and lets me sleep. Every medaction but Valiran Root spikes my tinnitus. So God lets me sleep untill I decide to get up.

 

I'm nine months into T and and still a zombie.

 

My non-stop loud metallic screeching tinnitus stops me from getting any more than a couple of hours of sleep at a time. I fall asleep from exhaustion. When I awake, getting back to sleep with screeching in my ears/head is almost impossible. I have no quality of life because of tinnitus, and nothing will mask it, nor have I been able to habituate to it. I'm still working with a tinnitus specialist, and hope I do not lose my mind in the meantime. Extremely disturbing.

 

My sleep is very broken, I get an average of five hours sleep in total, over the course of eight or nine. I never have more than two hours sleep at a time, usually less. I thought that it mostly was due to a protracted benzo withdrawal problem which I have, but apparently others with Tinnitus are also not sleeping any better, or even worse, than me. I made the mistake of using a ear plug in my right ear during the summer, while trying to sleep with the A/C, and this has probably made my tinnitus and hyperacusis worse.

 

....er.....If I we’re you, I would too.....!
(Oops - Sorry......)

 

Yeah you cant be afraid of hearing it. It's like the clown from the movie IT.

 

@PatrizX I'm the same way, down to T sound type, and I feel your pain. I truly do.
Please know that there are some hopeful-looking treatments in development to actually reduce tinnitus.
Our community is here for you. We are in this invisible hell on Earth together.
Manny

 

Get a puppy and guaranteed you will not think about T once in the following days and weeks lol

 

What does your tinnitus sound like?

 

First weeks after the spike that made my tinnitus very very bad: 1-3 hours per night. Took me up to 6 hours to fall asleep. Nowadays I sleep 7-8 hours per day.

 

What was the cause of that spike? Is it over now?

 

At first it was like a plane engine now it's like a hairdryer type noise but high pitched but I'd say I have it mild as I can never hear it outside and thankfully don't hear it over the TV anymore.

 

I manage 5-6 hours most nights. Less other nights. Occasionally I lay in bed wide awake until it’s time to get up again. I forget what feeling well rested is like, much like I can’t remember what silence sounds like.

 

I started out fine. Tinnitus didn't interfere a lot with my sleep at first but last night was just terrible, since it got mixed with a headache.

 

This comment is mainly aimed at the "Tinnitus can't kill you" crowd.

Sleep is the thin red line between a condition that is still somewhat manageable and a death sentence.
It's the last defense that gives people a badly needed reset, so they can fight this evil POS yet another day.

You can stagger around like the Walking Dead zombie only for so long, before you body either starts shutting down and/or before you decide to just end it...
That kind of existence is simply not sustainable for too long.
Sleep is the most important number one necessity when fighting a nightmare debilitating condition like this.

 

3 hours if I am lucky, 13 months into this, and so exhausted.