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I could do with something like wireless speakers that cound be attached to the headboard,but they are all expensive which I done mind if they will work.

The problem i would find with a pillow speaker is I sleep with my arm under the pillow ,and i'm very restless as well,so I don't know if it would work ?

B M I bought one of those pillows for my daughter at xmas.I think I will have to borrow it and give it a go .It sounds a good idea.

Has anyone tried a pillow speaker ?

it might be worth having a look at this site

http://www.rnid.org.uk/shop/products/tinnitus/?from=/tinnitus-shop/

Sometimes when I turn over in bed I get a woosh sound and can hear my heart beat for a while.
I didn't realise this is such a common problem.

I have a little pair of headphones and either play music or have the radio on all night, other noise distracts the mind from the buzzing.

I too have the dreaded noises , but when I had lazer treatment on my eyes, some time later I suddenly realised the noises had stopped, I had two days free, its come back,but I wonder how it sorted it even for a short time. I am going to tell the eye clinic when I go again.....very strange ,but most welcome.....


Jean x

Mine is in both ears although sometimes it can be louder in one ear than the other,
and its a high pitch fizzing with an occasionally a really shrill note which stops you in your tracks and makes you wince.

I read there is no cure. Only distraction, such as playing back ground noises. I have it in both ears and it's very loud at the moment, as I have a cold. Been shouting a bit at work today!

It drives me mad too.

:(

My left ear has a high pitched whine which I can hear over the sound of the TV and in the quiet of the night it can be awful.

Sue

The last few nights I have slept in the spare room as I have disturbed OH so much by all the tossing and turning and light on and off and the turning of the pages on my book!!!!!!!!!!!!.I am determined to stay in my own bed tonight even if I have to have a sleeping tablet.Saying that they only work for a few hours.
We will see.I may be tottering along the landing at 2 in the morning into the spare bed lol.

I still don't think he understands the intensity of it,its one thing listening to it for a couple of minutes,its another thing listening to it every waking minute.

I usually go to bed about an hour before him, so i can put the radio on,
If i wake up in the night and don't go straight back to sleep,i usually end up getting up.

Some days i don't know how I will put up with for ever more !

Im very lucky as mine is only very loud when im tired, so once im in bed im gone till the morning

Thanks for that Blue Moon.I will try that.Not tomorrow though cos it's his birthday.I may wait 'till he makes some sarky comment about it and then let him hear.
What did your OH say to it?

Hi Helen

if you look at the British Tinnitus Association web site,you can hear the sounds of tinnitus,I made my oh listen,so he has a slight idea of what its like.

http://www.tinnitus.org.uk/

I wish someone could hear our tinnitus then they would know what we are talking about.It is just there in your head all the time.I will have to do something to distract me from it as I have become a bit obsessed about it.I keep listening for it if you know what I mean even though I know it's there.
Sounds Bonkers doesn't it!!!!!!!

Tinitus can be sorted but not cured you can get an aid to wear in your ear that counteracts the high pitched sound thats constantly heard by the suferer.
Go to your doctor and ask him to explain in more detail and if he will refer you to get these fitted they look like digital hearing aids but work

its worth finding out I know people that have the same problems and they work for them

Paul

bob do you mean that my tinnitus could be heard by somebody else according to what you have read? My OH has extremely acute hearing, drives me mad he would hear a pin drop in the road outside (well maybe not but you know what I mean?), he can't hear my tinnitus.

ann
Glos

read somewhere, that the noise is the result of the brain "MISSING" the sounds that SHOULD be there if the ears were working normally,

although I have heard it said that the noise CAN be heard by a very astute listener......

cant really see LOL (Hear) that being right......
Bob

I have had my hearing checked and it is normal.Even though OH says I'm flipping deaf!But now I have a reason .That sounds and conversations can be difficult to hear properly sometimes,as they are distorted.I rest my case OH.!!!

Sometimes it is louder than others, it always seems louder at night because there is no other noise to hear. I too wear hearing aid and have quite a significant loss of hearing, i am sure the two are connected. The tinnitus does seem worse if i am under the weather with a cold or whatever.

ann
Glos