After a fairly encouraging first week’s training, this last week has been pretty rubbish as I have woken at 4:00am every day! As a result I have been too knackered to train properly. I have been to work on my bike a few times though I don’t count this as training. I feel good today as I generally sleep well at the weekends so I am going to go for a run this afternoon and bike ride tomorrow.
I have just received a book TRT (Tinnitus Retraining Therapy) which is by leading experts in treatment of tinnitus and half of it is science. The tinnitus and perception of noise has virtually nothing to do with the ear itself, although slight hearing loss is the trigger for tinnitus.
It is all to do with the neurological pathways between the ear and the brain, and the auditory nervous system. Basically when the tinnitus started the nervous system sees it as an unwelcome threat and puts the body into ‘fight or flight’ mode. Which explains the difficulty in getting back to sleep, my body is literally ready to get up and go. Apparently these signals from the brain to the nervous system cannot be changed by conscious thought alone which explains why no matter how hard I try I cannot change my sleeping patterns with any amount of routine change. At least now I know this, it helps you to understand what is going on and I guess I am lucky that my tinnitus doesn’t drive me crazy even though the after effects are deep rooted into my auditory nervous system, and also my limbic system, which I had no idea existed until yesterday!
I said I wasn’t going to discuss tinnitus in here but after a week of being tired I’ve nowt else to report.
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