The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that tinnitus causes increased sleep latency and insomnia. What’s surprising to me is this recent study, which seems to suggest that tinnitus patients may suffer from disruption of multiple  sleep stages, including a significant reduction in REM sleep:
All tinnitus patients had a statistically significant alteration in sleep stages. Average percentage of stage 1 + stage 2 was 85.4% ± 6.3, whereas, in the control group, the average percentage of stage 1 + stage 2 was 54.9 ± 11.2 (p < 0.001). Stages 3 and 4 and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was lacking in … Continue Reading