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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / February 2006New to Tinnitus
Hi, I developed what is apparently tinnitus a week and a half ago after three months of wearing headphones to sleep at night to block out construction and other noises in the mornings. I spent the night at my parents and didn't wear the headphones for the first time in about a month and when I laid down to go to bed I noticed buzzing each time I began drifting off to sleep. After several dozen of these sleep disruptions (I never was able to drift further into sleep), I gave up and went to urgent care. Also, I had been sleep-deprived for 24 hours before I eventually got to bed and this all started. The part I'm confused about is the buzzing begins when I start to drift off to sleep. I've never been diagnosed with sleep apnea and never had buzzing in my ears before I began using the headphones at night in September. What I'm wondering is whether anyone has heard of a case like this. NOTE: my buzzing doesn't start when i lay down or just after i've been laying down, but ONLY when I'm about to doze off. Other notes: - I wore the headphones every night (and only to sleep) for three months until dec 29 when this all started, except when I stayed with my parents over thanksgiving. - I didn't have buzzing when I stayed with parents over thanksgiving. - I didn't have buzzing when I fell asleep at work one day a few days before xmas (I realize it can be intermittent). - I am also noticing that different parts of my body twitch very often when I'm about to fall asleep since this all started. I've experienced the "loss of balance" twitching when falling asleep in the past, but not this frequently (i.e. fifty times in one sleepless night). So I'm wondering if maybe whatever is causing the buzzing is also affecting my equilibrium. - the buzzing sounds like the hum of electricity - i've noticed in the past that when i'm about to fall asleep external noises become quieter, like my ears themselves are going to sleep. - My main question is why this would happen only when I'm about to fall asleep (assuming for the moment I didn't suddenly develop both sleep apnea and tinnitus a week and a half ago). All this look like you somehow are forgeting what is to feell quiet and calmed when you want to sleep and believeme, i think what you are experiencing is some kind of consequence of masking (with your earphones) other disturbing sounds at your surroundings so let´s say that you brain needs to be re-educated to a normal sleeping habits, i´m not an expertices but perhaps you can make yourself some bloodtests to see your leves and detect an hipertension or cholesterol problem or something else and if nothing is wrong (what I think it´s right and with luck and best wishes for you it will be that way) you´ll need to try some tinnitus re-training terapy there are some computer programs that can help you on that and understand in a better way what it might be happening to you. you can check some of those programs at the Elly´s Webpage: http://eebee.net/sound/sound.html by the way a good page i can recommend to you to get started and try good alternatives of resolving your tinnitus before accepting it like a medical condition (it helped me a lot) the program i´m talking is "Tinnitus Tammer" and the webpage for it is: http://www.vavsoft.com/ Good luck!. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > asleep (assuming for the moment I didn't suddenly develop both sleep > apnea and tinnitus a week and a half ago). All this looks like you somehow are forgeting what is to feell quiet and calmed when you want to sleep, it is more like that you are experiencing some consequence of masking (with your earphones) other disturbing sounds at your surroundings so let´s say that you brain needs to be re-educated to a normal sleeping habits, and sounds, of course there is a limit but there is always noise at our surroundings. I´m not an expertice, just another tinnitus sufferer but perhaps you can make yourself some bloodtests to see your levels and detect an hipertension or cholesterol problem or something else and if nothing is wrong (what I think it´s right and with luck and best wishes you´ll be perfectly fine) you´ll need to try some tinnitus re-training therapy. There are some computer programs that can help you on that and understand in a better way what it might be happening to you. you can check some of those programs at the Elly´s Webpage: http://eebee.net/sound/sound.html by the way a good page i can recommend to you to get started and try good alternatives of resolving your tinnitus before accepting it like a medical condition (it helped me a lot) the program i´m talking is "Tinnitus Tammer" and the webpage for it is: http://www.vavsoft.com/ Good luck!. > The part I'm confused about is the buzzing begins when I start to drift > off to sleep. I've never been diagnosed with sleep apnea and never had > buzzing in my ears before I began using the headphones at night in > September. What I'm wondering is whether anyone has heard of a case like > this. NOTE: my buzzing doesn't start when i lay down or just after i've > been laying down, but ONLY when I'm about to doze off. I've got the same thing in my right ear ... when I start to doze off I get a rumbling sound, then I fall asleep. This is not Tinnitus, it is something else, but I don't know what. Years ago I used to get pain along with the rumbling sound as I would doze off, but the pain has stopped -- the rumbling has continued. These brain/neurological/sleep related anomalies are beyond the current understanding of medical science :( It may have something to do with poor blood circulation in your head. Try a gingko biloba each day and see if there is any tangible effect. Quit it after one month if there is nothing.
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