Tinnitus acting up this evening--suggestions?

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I think I am more aware of it/less able to suppress it because I got under three hours of sleep last night.

But it's distracting. I have work to do and the whistle is surging. Does anyone have any good techniques for distracting your own attention when you start to focus on tinnitus?

I'm sorry you feel this way.

Ironically, maybe the work you do will distract you, thereby lessening the tinnitus, either dramatically or gradually. You're a graphic designer, right? That takes lots of concentration.

Doing work frequently distracts me--to the point where I forget about various problems.

Sometimes, when I take a shower, various tensions go away.

Have you ever taken a shower, and your tinnitus went away?

Then I'm thinking: when is this work due? if it's not due until tomorrow or something, maybe you should just get some sleep. I hardly slept last night myself; I know how you feel.

If it is due tonight, I would just try to apply myself to it, and get it over with.

try this-can personaly recommend it; a pair of head phones and the downloaded back catelogue of binaural beats/idose.
the frequencies on some of them can really help with canceling out tinnitus.

Thanks.

It never goes away, but I normally lessen my focus on it/awareness of it.
I think my fatigue is making it hard to concentrate.

No choice about the work but to press on until it's done.

I did it for myself this way.
Positive Auto-cognitive Reprocessing

Permanently eliminates noticing it.

I find listening to steady music masks it effectively.

don't try doing anything to fix it. it only bothers you when you're aware of it. trying methods to make it better only make it worse, because it means you're thinking about how it bugs you so it ends up bugging you more.

My tinnitus has been getting worse recently, such that it is sometimes like I have a constant low-grade headache. I spend many hours at the computer doing imaging work. I work from home so there is no interfering office noise; but that also means the tinnitus can be more noticeable. Fortunately I am also a history buff, and I can often find a documentary something on TV to leave on in the background. So far, that sound is enough to mask the hissing in my ears. I hope that continues to work; if the tinnitus gets worse I will be really annoyed.

both William shatner and leonard nimoy are plagued with tinnitus from their days on the TOS set exposed to loud pyrotechnics.

Last time I saw an ENT about my tinnitus, he asked how I get to sleep at night. I whipped out my iPhone, and demonstrated the white noise generator app I have installed. He's here, "Well, you're already doing what I, and a lot of other ENT's recommend. He also prescribed some supplements to help lessen the noise. He also told me that there's not much more he can do, unless I want to go to Baltimore to the University of Maryland Med Center, where they are doing the latest research on tinnitus.