high pitched tone when trying to sleep

I've had it for around 16 months now and it was hell to begin with. I will have it for the rest of my life. The only thing a consultant can do is offer you therapy this basically helps you train your brain to ignore it. The waiting list for this is huge and I haven't started yet it not sure I will bother. Anyway, I've actually trained myself to ignore it. I don't even need background noise to sleep.

If you want a chat about it my email is in trust.
 
I would put money on it being some appliance rather than a health issue. Your hearing gets miles better when your eyes are useless in the dark. It's amazing just how much you can hear.

Try tripping the trip switch for the entire house and see if you can still hear it.
 
BigglesPiP said:
I had a monitor start doing this before failing, its backlight would cut out after a few seconds when cold. THe noise is the high voltage inverter that runs the back-light.
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Well it's been doing it for ~6 months now, no back light issues (as yet). If it fails, it fails, it's out of warranty now that's for sure. :(
 
I get it when I think about it, I have to distract myself for a few mins and I don't notice it again untill the next time I think about it.
 
I can hear a tone in one ear slightly. It's annoying but only if I focus on it...do my best not to!
 
I get tinnitus and I've never stepped into a disco or nightclub in my life... go figure :confused: .

For me, it gets worse when my ear is blocked with wax, but there is always a high pitched tone at night - usuaully have the iPod on with the earphones 'near me' that way you get a quiet background noise.

As somebody else said, when I wake up I generally cant hear it as the ambience noise overpowers it.
 
I used to get that. You can play with it. Make it louder, quieter, shriller or deeper. Eventually, fade it down to nothing. It's fun, but I don't get it any more.
 
My grandad once bought a fox repelling device from the back of a magazine, supposed to produce a noise only foxes could hear that annoyed them and caused them to run.

First time we stayed round after he got it we had to get him to turn it off because my sisters and I could both hear the high pitched whine it was making in our beds.
 
I think I can remember reading somewhere that evrybody can hear a high-pitched noise when in the still of the night. Was somethink to do with your nervus system ?
 
I've had this since I was a child (first found out what it was called during a music class when we were learning about Beethoven who was a sufferer). I normally go to sleep with either the radio or the telly on very quietly and it seems to drown it out enough.

You can train your brain to block it out, but it's a lot of work at first.
 
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