insomnia by hepatitis?

[bkhenry]

I have chronic hepatitis b and I'm not on any medication but as of lately, everytime I try to sleep my body temperature would rise and it's been keeping me awake (not to mention I have tinnitus in one ear making it a nightmare also). Is this related to the virus doing something weird?

[bkhenry]

I've had an ultrasound screening of my abdominal area 2 months ago and I was fine. I've had tinnitus before I've even known that I had hepatitis b. My worry is that the sound of the ringing has increased and has caused the insomnia I'm experiencing from when my tinnitus first started. I couldn't sleep for about 6 days w/o some sort of drug (i.e Unisom) when I first got tinnitus and the symptoms are reoccurring now again. I did several test with my ENT except for the Meniere's disease since I was not experiencing any of those symptoms. But precursor to my tinnitus, I've had tonsil stones and still have it, could it be related?

[xxriver]

Tinnitus should have nothing to do with HepB.
But temperature rise could.

Go have some check, AFP (possibility of liver cancer), HBV-DNA (reactive)

[Sharp7]

Well... I've had this whining sound since several years. I'm mostly used to it now. I suppose you too will get used to it -- maybe depending on what yours sounds like. I now find it difficult to even imagine absolute silence.

But!!! Tinnitus can also be a sign of something going wrong somewhere! Especially if it started recently. An ear infection? Nerve damage? Side-effects of medication? In any case, I recommend that you visit an ENT doc and get it checked to rule out serious issues.

[bkhenry]

any methods of reducing the sound of the tinnitus?

[bkhenry]

any methods of reducing the sound of the tinnitus?

[Sharp7]

HepB and tinnitus? Interesting thought. I have tinnitus too, in both ears. But no, there is no evidence at the moment that links any of your symptoms to HepB