4-Step Bedtime Relief Process

Yesterday I went to my ENT, and he noticed I have an ear infection in the ear that has gone deaf.  I have been having intratympanic steroid injections, so the pain I had I put down to just a side effect of the injections.  However it seems I have an infection and I am on systemic steroid therapy, and have also been on a 10 day course of antibiotics.  So I was prescribed some larger-dose antibiotics as a remedy.  I took my first tablet at lunch time, and within the hour I had a train bell ringing very loudly at 180 bpm.  Until this episode, I had been coping pretty well with the tinnitus, but all of a sudden my hyerpacusis red-lined and I found the rest of the afternoon more challenging than previous days.  As bed time approached, my anxiety levels increased – I need to get my sleep.  So I hatched up a process, and slept like a baby…

Creating A Tinnitus Plan

When this new reality began to dawn on me, it was easy to fall into old habits, to allow the pain, the torment, the suffering, the why-me cries to the universe to become my new experience.  From what I have read of most moments of life-crises, this can be a common response.  It isnt empowering.  Dont do it.

Sleep

Lastnight took me longer than expected to drop off to sleep, though I deliberately went to bed a little earlier so I can begin to align with my return to work sleeping patterns.  However for the first time lastnight I did wake up and my Apple Watch shows that I was awake for 75minutes, so I didnt get good deep sleep.  I am aware of waking up on previous nights and falling back asleep almost as fast, but lastnight was less effective.  I will keep an eye on what factors are playing out to see if there are obvious things I am doing or not doing.  I did take an NAC tablet right before bed and got it stuck in my chest, so I am sure that didnt help.