"mardavc" <mardavc@googlemail.com> wrote in part:

Tinnitus tends to wake people up at points in the sleep cycle where they are
in light sleep or momentary wakefulness. A noise-generator of some sort that
runs all night can prevent this (a fountain, recorded nature sounds, a fan,
an air cleaner, etc.), It should be loud enough to be heard and may not need
to be much louder than that. I don't know if your daughter's hearing loss is
too severe for that to work.

You're welcome, Margot.  I'm not the expert here either -- look at
Jim's message.  He knows more than I do about this, even tho I do have
Meniere's myself.  I don't really know if it wakes me up -- something
does.  I wake up about 5 times a night, but am not aware that it is
the tinnitus waking me up.  I agree with what Jim said here, too,
about foods.  Sometimes dietary restrictions help, and sometimes they
don't.  When you experiment and find what helps and what doesn't, you
can decide what foods to let Naomi have.  I certainly wouldn't just
yank her custard away from her.  I gave up caffeine for a year, and it
didn't make a difference.  So I went back to my cup of coffee every
day.  There are no hard and fast rules.  The main reason I wrote was
to warn you about believing what fypoon said.  I wouldn't listen to
him if I were you.  He's a bit nuts.  :)  Good luck!  I hope Naomi
does well.  There are lots of things to try that could make it better
for her.

Eva

Margot,

Tinnitus did wake me up at that time when I had it.  It was like
someone blowing a whistle at the centre of my brain and it happened
soon after I had fallen a bit asleep.  It was a nightmare experience.

far, your current ENT doctor does not have an answer for that, if I
were correct.

I am going to tell you the treatment my ENT doctor gave me when I had
the same problem of sleeping and I hope you bring the idea to
'another' doctor and discuss it with him.  The reason why I suggest
you change doctor is because your daughter is suffering from the
inability to sleep and there does not seem to be anything your current
ENT consultant is able to do for her---aside from charging money from
her Mom.

The name of the medicine is called FLUNARIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE.  It
helped me sleep at that time when my tinnitus was bothering me
immensely.  This drug can be bought where I am OTC.  It is totally non-
addictive and I was told this med can help improve blood circulation
in the head.  You can talk to 'another' doctor about this.

Without this med, life could have been a living hell for me.  I
managed to dick out my old posts back in 2004 to show you below.  You
see, I had to battle against the habituation experts in this group in
order to save myself from a tormenting state. Some of these
'habituation' experts such as Stephen Nagler are doctors and as
doctors they are as professionally innocent as your daughter's current
ENT 'consultant'.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.tinnitus/browse_frm/thread/a31eb49cf8
0fdaaf/165301e258750f1e?lnk=gst&q=chloride+fyfpoon&rnum=4#165301e258750f1e

I hope this is what you have been looking for in this group, aside
from a few words of comfort and sympathy from the school of
'habituation' experts.  And you know whom you should listen to next
time you come.

Good luck,

FP

On 3月17日, 下午11时36分, eques...@unm.edu wrote:

What makes you think I don't tell her to talk to her doctor first
before using any advice here?  Why don't you finish the whole
paragraph before replying?

Where else should I advise you to go?  Harvard?  or to assist Jim in
doing studies?  or to help out Murray in his clinic?  Your IQ
qualifies you for none of that.  Thus a couple of classes in the
Affirmative Action program where you will  sit with the IQ minority
should be the recipee. No?

 I think it's hysterical when you say that since

Understood. I wonder what percentage of T sufferers also suffer from
significant hearing loss?