Tinnitus Help - Stop the Ringing in Your Ears

A  BBC article  from way back in 2008 confirmed that research for a tinnitus cure is ongoing throughout the world. One British audiologist believes a noise-suppressive drug with no side effects will be found within 20 years.  A neurologist in Germany, who believes tinnitus sufferers have overactive hearing cells , is trying to normalize them by creating a magnetic field over the patient's head. The magnetic stimulation reduces neural activity and diminishes unwanted sound. Does it work?  "Only one patient so far has been completely cured but many have found the volume of their tinnitus reduced ." In Belgium, 30 patients have had electrodes implanted into their brains to permanently normalize overactive neurons, with some successful results.  For example, one woman, who had a permanent 80Db ringing in her head and felt suicidal, was the first tinnitus sufferer to have the operation. The outcome?  "The first night I fell asleep. I woke up and didn't hear a thing

When the noise travels with you , inside your head, you have tinnitus.  If, on the other hand, you can literally run away from the noise , then you may be actually hearing something that's in your environment (older model wind turbines can create a hum, for instance).  Some people have very sensitive hearing and really suffer from hearing noise that nobody else hears. Check out this article about a British woman plagued by a 'hum' that no one else heard. The article details her story and goes on to report that it's "estimated that between 20 and 30per cent of the population suffer from some sort of noise sensitivity and at least 10,000 people hear The Hum."  What's problematic about hearing a noise that doesn't come from inside your head is that only "about a third of cases the specific cause of the noise can be identified." Don't forget to read the comments at the end of the article -- they're interesting and might well be helpful.

Over a decade ago, doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit were saying they can pinpoint the area of the brain that is activated by tinnitus .  By using a special scanner to examine the brain, they hope it will allow more targeted therapies to be developed -- which might include implanting microchips to interfere with tinnitus signals sent out by the brain itself.  Imaging systems currently used to study tinnitus are simply not as sophisticated as the one being used in this study, and can only provide general information.  The research doctor compared the accuracy of the imaging as being "... like having the lights on in only the city of Detroit, compared to having the lights on in the entire state of Michigan." Although not a sure-fire cure, a UK doctor (where 2.3 million people suffer from moderate or severe tinnitus) says " this work could potentially solve a further piece of the tinnitus puzzle ."  Read the full article BBC News . Try Quietum Plus

TRT ( tinnitus retraining therapy ) combines retraining (perception modification) and sound enrichment (masking) in an attempt to achieve two goals: To stop a sufferer's negative reaction to the ringing in their ears. To lower and hopefully end the sufferer's perception of the noise. It is within TRT that the current school of thought that there's no cure for tinnitus is questioned. Advocates say that when a tinnitus sufferer is retrained successfully, it means that the person's awareness of the sounds in their ears is back to the level it was before the noise became a problem.  This is again going back to the idea that everyone has tinnitus ; the problem of the condition only crops up when a person (1) perceives the noise; and (2) the perception of that noise negatively impacts that person's life.  Unfortunately, these ideas in no way help those many tinnitus sufferers who have tried TRT (and many other therapies) and have not found relief.  However, it does i

Tinnitus Masker is hardware you can download (there's a free trial so you can try before buying).  It's supposed to help mask your tinnitus by allowing you to mix sounds together to create either real time or recorded masking relief.  The theory here is that as each person's tinnitus is unique, pre-recorded masking sounds simply cannot be adjusted minutely enough to perfectly suit the individual user.  But by adjusting the output of each sound exactly to your specific requirements, you'll hopefully be able to create a masking effect that works for you and which can be adjusted (if need be) over time as your tinnitus changes.  Disclaimer: I haven't tried this product nor am I an affiliate. I just thought it looked promising. If you've tried this or any other masking device, please leave a comment as to whether or not it was of any help. Try Quietum Plus