Tinnitus Help - Stop the Ringing in Your Ears

While tinnitus is said to have no cure per se, there are some things you can do to help yourself as you explore treatment options.  For example, relaxation therapy can make the tinnitus sounds easier to ignore. Stress makes the volume of ringing in the ears louder, so while the sounds will not disappear through yoga or tai-chi, learning how to meditate will help lower anxiety which will in turn make the sound somewhat more manageable to live with.  A simple exercise to start out with is to focus "past the noise" of the tinnitus and instead on the sound of your breathing. If that's impossible to do, try it initially with white noise or natural sounds in the background.  Exercise is known to help people who suffer from clinical depression -- a condition that is very much associated with tinnitus sufferers. The physical well-being that exercise brings about lowers stress and again may make it easier to ignore and cope with the noise of your tinnitus. Concentrating on so

   Neuromonics is a treatment device for tinnitus developed by an Australian audiologist, Dr. Paul Davis.   It's sometimes looked at as a potential cure, and the medical device company that   sells the device claims an 83% success rate, with tinnitus reducing by 50%-90%.   Neuromonics works by retraining neural pathways in the brain. As a result of the   retraining, a person's auditory system is desensitized to the sound of their tinnitus.   Basically, you wear headphones and listen to the small device. It plays four tracks of   music and ambient nature sounds and has a neural stimulus treatment overlaying the soothing music, which targets the brain's auditory pathways -- helping the brain filter out the disturbing tinnitus perception.  Through testing, the music and overlaying neural stimulus on each device is customized to the patient's audiological profile and personal tinnitus pitch for each ear.  One tinnitus sufferer who was interviewed for an article on the devi

Some people with tinnitus find that other sounds, pleasant ones such as nature sounds or wind chimes, played at a volume slightly below that of the ringing in their ears, can help with the condition.  The idea of an alternate noise is not to block out the sounds, but to create a sort of diversion – something to concentrate on listening to instead of the tinnitus.  The goal is to get so used to the tinnitus as a background noise that you don’t hear it.  There are many products on the market from which you can choose to experiment to see if this is the right approach for you. White sound generators can be anything from a fan that you already have in your house or a channel of static on the television or radio to tabletop devices and electronic ear-inserts with myriad sounds to try.  If the distraction tactic seems to help, you should start reducing the volume of the white sound generators slowly, over a number of months. The ultimate goal here is twofold:  First, to no longer pay attenti