{"id":36584,"date":"2025-02-21T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=36584"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:52:11","slug":"my-tinnitus-wouldnt-let-me-sleep-for-more-than-three-hours-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/my-tinnitus-wouldnt-let-me-sleep-for-more-than-three-hours-a-night\/","title":{"rendered":"‘My tinnitus wouldn’t let me sleep for more than three hours a night’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A musician has described how he could only sleep for three hours a night while living with a “constant” and “horrible” sound in his ears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eugene Capper lives with tinnitus – a condition that affects one in eight UK adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said it tends to occur in his right ear, and sounds like TV static, but with a singular high soundwave amongst it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It’s horrible.. like a really screechy pure white tone. It’s constant.” <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Conventional treatment options don’t seem to work for Eugene, and he felt the need to show people exactly what he experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He first started experiencing symptoms during lockdown, and now spends his time creating compositions using tinnitus noise machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He came up with his own exhibition called You’re Design Here, an audio-visual installation at the BayArt Gallery, to raise awareness, which starts on 21 February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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