New Therapy for Tinnitus

[Mr__Bill]

Suppressing Tinnitus With Music Therapy as reported in the NYT. You may have to register but it 's free for now.


Bill

[catta12]

Do you just play music so loud that the ringing is inaudible?

I have always had it to a limited extent as long as I can remember and my dad has it as well. Guess that might be part of growing up around tractors without cabs. Do you have it bad Bill?

[phi1l]

What's nice about this is you can do it yourself for free, once you quantify the frequency of the tinnitus.

Audacity is an open source(free) program that will edit audio files. you can easily filter out that 1 octave range from you favorite music.

[Mr__Bill]

Do you just play music so loud that the ringing is inaudible?

I have always had it to a limited extent as long as I can remember and my dad has it as well. Guess that might be part of growing up around tractors without cabs. Do you have it bad Bill?

It comes and goes throughout the day. I'm not sure if I am just ignoring it or if it's really transient. Sometimes it serves as a nice white noise to block out what is going on around me. The last time I talked to the Dr about it he said that the final kicker is, if I were to go completely deaf I would still hear it.

I like the idea of making my own thearpy music. Wonder how one would find out at what frequency the noise is. I'll have to give it some thought.

Bill,
at least it's noise and not voices.....

[billwmeyer]

Do you just play music so loud that the ringing is inaudible?

I have always had it to a limited extent as long as I can remember and my dad has it as well. Guess that might be part of growing up around tractors without cabs. Do you have it bad Bill?

Tractors and farm machinery in general is what I attribute mine too also, and my hearing loss. Actually, mufflers were a luxury at times on our tractors. Our old DC Case and H Farmall got pretty loud at times.

I am sure the loud rock music from the 60's had no affect on my hearing!

Bill

[cabinetman]

I've had it for many years and it's all the time. Shop noise, primarily routers over the years to blame. Not wearing ear protection was my own fault.
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[Ed62]

Tinnitus is one of the symptoms of Meniere's Disease. It's hard to get a correct diagnosis because most doctors will attribute it's symptoms to something else, like allergies.

Meniere's Disease can run from very mild attacks to very severe. My wife had the very severe attacks. At her very worst, she would lie on a sofa, and look at one spot on the ceiling. If she even moved her eyes, she would vomit profusely. To make a long story short, after several unsuccessful surgeries, she finally had the hearing intentionally destroyed in one ear. This made a major change in the lifestyle, for the better.

Ed