If I do manage to fall asleep I will eventually be woken up by the tinnitus – it’s like an alarm clock buzzing which I find can be a rather traumatic experience when it constantly happens. Because I myself would have described static, hissing, cicadas and ringing all differently.Ģ) Does anyone else get woken up by their tinnitus? I even noticed that most people have described their tinnitus as a ‘ssssss’ or ‘eeeeee’ which made me start to wonder if all types of tinnitus eventually start to sound like a ‘sssss’ or an ‘eeee’ to the individual, which I think makes it hard then to understand but also convey what one is hearing and whether it is different to what someone else is hearing. I’m yet to speak to someone who pretty much says they hear a tuning fork or horn to see how they cope. I’ve experienced ringing from a nightclub but the tuning fork sound is nothing like that.
I’m also shocked that sleeping pills don’t always knock me out– I always thought that if you took sleeping pills you were guaranteed to knock out.ġ) Does anyone else have a tuning fork sound?īecause most people I seem to speak with say that they hear static, hissing, fluttering, cicadas, their heartbeat or ringing like when you walk out of a nightclub, and they say that they can get off to sleep and that it doesn’t wake them up. I remember the first month I got it, I spent each night walking around my neighbourhood because I was trying to figure out which neighbour or what machine was making the awful noise - that’s how loud it is. I lie in bed most nights thinking how the hell can I not notice or ignore this sound (like the doctor and audiologist suggest) when it is so loud – and even when I don’t think about it it’s there and prevents me from falling asleep.
However, that has happened which is frustrating because I can’t even get the noise to change at all (for better or worse). I thought that time would have helped, or that over time the noise would have become less intrusive and bothersome. I’ve done all that and none of it has really helped, so I often sit and think to myself well what am I meant to do or what the hell am I doing wrong then. I was told to just ignore it, use masking, take sleeping pills or try TRT, CBT and/or relaxation strategies.
I’ve had all the testing done and my hearing and MRI were normal. I’ve struggled to get off to sleep most nights and some nights I just don’t get any sleep which eventually takes a toll on me physically. I've had a continual sound in my left ear for 4 years that sounds exactly like a tuning fork which a doctor uses.
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