Tinnitus and insomnia?

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I've had covid for a few days and I'm really struggling to sleep for long. I'm waking at 3/4/5 am and can't get back to sleep at all.

Sitting here with really annoying tinnitus as well. 😵‍💫

Anyone else had this and did it go away quickly?

I'm already tired and light headed enough without the no sleep. 😬

I'm exactly the same! I envy the people who manage to atleast sleep some time away of this horrible virus. I'm getting those horrible fluey nightmares and delirium when drifting off too xxx

Yes I also had really weird dreams as well 🫤

Yes I had awful tinnitus and insomnia for 18 months following Covid infection in March 2020. The combination of the two was like torture and I really thought I was losing my mind! Thankfully, symptoms did recede as time wore on. Sympathies, it was truly awful.

Don't want to tempt fate but I slept slightly longer last night. Hoping it might just be short term insomnia for me. 😬

@Norugratsatall Did you do anything to help? Did it go gradually or all of a sudden? I’m 7 months in and it’s so frustrating…

@Rispa42 nothing I did worked sadly! Sorry I know you won't want to hear that. Insomnia gradually eased after about a year, tinnitus after 18 months. CBD oil helped with the anxiety it all caused.Hang in there, it does get easier.

And yes to vivid dreams/nightmares!

Thanks @Norugratsatall ! The insomnia I have is so weird - I’m jolted awake between 3am-5am with this adrenaline rush and then can’t fall back asleep even though I’m so tired… did you have other long covid symptoms? I’m also taking cbd oil!

I have tinnitus, and it's awful. I use Alexa at night to play thunderstorm sounds and I have no problem sleeping. It drowns out the ringing brilliantly.

My 5 year old had covid last summer and is still suffering with the tinnitus. We have had hearing tests etc........ and there is nothing they can do other than coping techniques such as white noise etc......

I hate it when I see people saying covid is mild in children, yes it was for her initially and she has been left with this (quite probably) life long condition so its not that mild is it? She sometimes cries at night as she wants the ringing to stop.

Oh no, sorry to hear that @ItsSnowJokes - tough enough at this age, let alone for a child 😔

@Rispa42 yes I've had the full works! Fatigue breathless, lung pain, brain fog, muscle and joint pain as well as ear ache, insomnia and tinnitus, also depression and anxiety. It's been hell. I'm more than two years in now and things ARE much better so don't lose hope.

@ItsSnowJokes that is awful to hear your five year old suffers from tinnitus? Did she have ear ache with it too? Take comfort that it will prob ease up massively (mine did!) and I think is unlikely to be lifelong. I've suffered from tinnitus on and off since a child but each time it's gone so never been permanent. Poor little one. 💐x

I suffer from tinnitus and when it's at its worse I find falling asleep with background noise helps as then I'm hearing that rather than the ringing in my ears.

No, she didn't have earache. It started about 7 days after she was positive. As I suffer from tinnitus (it started after I had a burst ear drum 5 years ago) I knew what she was describing and just hoped it would go away. It's coming up to a year now so I think it will always be there and the ENT said the same. She goes to sleep with the fan on even in winter to drown out the tinnitus. It breaks my heart for her as she does sometimes find it very distressing, but hopefully it will get better one day.

Love her heart, shes too young to be suffering like that. I had a very bad virus 6 years ago (like covid) which left me with tinnutus, I can only imagine how distressing it must be for a 5 year old xxx

That is very interesting. I had some kind of illness and I thought I had recovered but now two months later have terrible tinnitus.

I developed tinnitus after having covid in July. Still there but much less than at the start. I also cope with it a lot better and can sleep as normal. The first months were miserable though.

I developed horrible, loud, high pitched and constant tinnitus a couple of weeks ago. After a sinus infection.

I am also terribly anaemic and just found out I am at an all time low for hb and ferritin

I had a suspicious infection in November and developed tinnitus unrelentingly in January. Is there a link? Post viral?

I had the same after the first covid vaccine. After 5 months of hardly sleeping I added 600mg n-acetylcysteine before bed and was instantly cured of the insomnia.
schoolafm.com/ws_clinical_know/insomnia-relief-for-night-time-racing-mind/

The tinnitus has gradually got better with time and no-longer bothers me. Still buzzes sometimes after eating but I am trying to watch blood sugar spikes which really seems to help. Faint ringing in one still which doesn't bother me anymore but sleeping with a fan or white noise can really help. When you have insomnia though I find the white noise etc doesn't help.

Also try high dose methylated b12.