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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / October 2004sleep
My tinnitus gets worse at night. What are ways to sleep better with tinnitus. Any ideas? jplammer@webtv.net (James Lammer) wrote in part: >My tinnitus gets worse at night. What are ways to sleep better with >tinnitus. Any ideas? Avoid too quiet a place. Use partial masking--a fan or air cleaner will usually do.  SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG >jplammer@webtv.net (James Lammer) wrote in part: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Avoid too quiet a place. Use partial masking--a fan or air cleaner will >usually do. I set the bedroom TV timer to 60 minutes, turn the brightness down as far as it will go, tune in the golf channel, and set the volume low (so I can just barely hear the commentators). I find that the monotone drone of the commentator's voices takes my mind off my tinnitus and allows me to drift off get to sleep. Fortunately, my wife is a sound sleeper and is not bothered by this :-) NB Avoid too quiet a place. Use partial masking--a fan or air cleaner will usually do. excellent advice. Move to a ground floor apartment in New York. Many persons "discover" they have T when they first come to a quiet place. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com > My tinnitus gets worse at night. What are ways to sleep better with > tinnitus. Any ideas? James, I solved that problem by tuning my alarm clock radio to our local public radio news station and setting it to turn off in an hour. Where I live, "as it happens" comes on at 10 p.m. and is followed by the BBC. Both are interesting enough to distract me from the tinnitus sound. Their laid-back presentation has me sound asleep before the radio automatically shuts off. In my case, the distraction from the tinnitus sound is more helpful than the limited masking effect. Bill > My tinnitus gets worse at night. What are ways to sleep better with > tinnitus. Any ideas? I use a white noise cd such as this one I just found on eBay : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75043&item=5528092333&r d=1&ssPageName=WD2V . This really helps mask the T. Sometimes I set the radio on a station which has lots of interference, which also masks the T. The last aid I have is a couple of jars of strong Belgian beer. Best of Luck with it. Simon, Holland. I use a Sharper Image Sound Soother set to a flowing brook. >> My tinnitus gets worse at night. What are ways to sleep better with >> tinnitus. Any ideas? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Simon, > Holland. Have the TV turned on, esp the channels with the ads. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com I just close my eyes and drop off in seconds. I am fortunate in that I am the type who sleeps to get away from problems. Ben I think most persons have learned to "tune out" the advertisements. If you leave on QVC you almost automatically go in and out of it, none of it grabs your attention from going to sleep and it may be just enough to distract from the tinnitus. Murray Grossan, M.D. http://www.ent-consult.com |
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