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I used them for about a year and a half. Yes, the masking noise is more pleasant - unfortunately my tinnitus frequency is high and it kind of just shrieks over it anyway. My hyperacusis got much better but my tinnitus got much worse. After an ear infection, I found that the noisers just agitated...

I feel ya on the elevation of baseline. Unfortunately my TRT provider said to just push through it because it'll get better. Well... it didn't.

Ha, I know that feeling. Mine is from an infection - infected wisdom tooth + head cold combo that went straight to my ear - and I still blame myself for not getting said wisdom tooth out earlier, even though I saw x-rays of my mouth and I knew I'd have to have it removed eventually, but I put it...

Lol this is a great post. But obviously TRT didn't work out for me because I "didn't believe in it". Right!

Man, my CBT therapist refunded me halfway during the course because he felt he couldn't help me and didn't want to keep taking my money because all I did was cry through the sessions (which, by the way, were in the quietest room you can imagine, making it even harder with screaming T). Good...

It's all good. Just gonna put Michael on my ignore list and be blissfully unaware of his constant victim-blaming from now on. Putting those damn sound generators on is one of my biggest regrets and I wonder where I'd be today if I hadn't constantly irritated my hyperacusis and T with white...

Lol I leave this place for a short time and the thread explodes... 1: Yes, it was proper TRT. I actually spent quite a bit of money to fly to the UK where I could work with someone who specialises in it. 2: Yes, I believed in it. I believed in it for years. I believed in it for years, even...

Lol Michael is like... the poster child for TRT brainwashing. Don't expect him to consider any perspective that is not his own, and I say this as someone who's done TRT (and got nothing out of it, because, you know, it's a scam).

Eh, tbh the costs of a Neuromod trip just to get a MML measurement aren't really worth it IMO - if it works, I'll know, if it doesn't, there's no sense in measuring some arbitrary values. I've had this thing long enough to tell in various environments if it's being masked better or not and I...

Honestly, from what I've seen in the User Experiences thread, if I decide to go for Lenire (still waiting, although the new sound that popped up in my formerly good ear three weeks ago isn't helping with patience), if the first settings help, I might make up an excuse to avoid changing to the...

Why are any of you engaging with Mr. Leigh here? He's clearly a good little TRT padawan! jUsT haBItuAte lol

Fair enough, thank you. I'm on a bigger dose (1 mg in the morning, 1 in the evening combined with some other meds) but it seems to be helping a lot. Benzos allow me to function. Right now I feel like I'm choosing the smaller of two evils, you know?

7 years? I'm nearing 1 year of taking it. How has it been treating you? Have you needed to raise the dosage much?

So all I see are replies from people who registered at the Dublin clinic - has anyone tried the Hannover one yet?

Honestly, I don't think I'll ever be honest with them. I'm not about to disclose information (meds I'm taking, suicidality) that will make them likely to turn me away. No effin' way.

Good luck with that. No one should have to take medicine that is clearly not working for them.

Interesting! Can't wait for the Android version!

I'm currently taking 2 mg per day, combined with some other psych meds, have been for almost a year now - it's the only thing that gives me a very real, measurable reduction in T volume. For now, I'm sticking with it and when/if consequences arise, I'll deal with them. I don't seem to be...

I actually really admire you for sticking around even though you're no longer directly affected. We need more people like you.

Huh. How come you're still here? Most people would just move on if something like that happened to them.

Lol all these threads and my mindfulness therapist basically ended things in the middle of the course because things just weren't working out...

Interesting news. Germany is somewhat closer to me than Ireland, although I'd still have to fly as it's a 11 hour car/train trip...

Seriously. Julian Cowan Hill need to go the hell away with his habituation bullshit.

Well, if the podcast is going to be audio only I won't be able to listen to it (I can't really focus on audio alone anymore due to tinnitus, there has to be video) but I figure you guys deserve a little support, even though I'm broke as hell. Let's do this. Will there be a transcript? I...

And here I'm just taking my little cocktail (that includes clonazepam, an antipsychotic and an anti-Parkinson medicine) and trying to not think of the possibility it'll one day stop working or if I have to come off it, lol. Honestly, it's the only thing that's keeping me alive and working and if...

This is making me a little worried. I'm on a shitload of meds that make my tinnitus go from catastrophic to moderate/severe on bad days - if I'm excluded based on that, well. Actually now considering lying at the first appointment.

Is that the Ototoxic Meds book? Are there meds that aren't in there? Lol

Holy shit a German clinic would make such a huge difference for us continental Europeans. Can't wait! I also hope they'll speak English as my German is a bit rusty...

Having to see them so many times is a big oof. I was planning to travel to Ireland, but I'm not sure this is gonna be possible now... Shit.

Wasn't the case for me. If anything, it helps me sleep and that makes the T a little better sometimes.

Germany, nice! Seems like I might not have to fly after all! If only they had it in Austria, it's right next door...

I think the whole "turn 360" thing is a meme from the good old Xbox days. Anyway. Sooner or later this shit will have to come out. C'mon, Neuromod.

I'd guess hearing loss that's so severe that you can't hear the audio component of the treatment would do the trick.

Yeah that's my main issue with this approach as well. I can tell the difference between when I'm focusing on it and it sounds louder vs. when it's actually louder - does the sound of the fridge cover it up? Cool, I'm having a quiet morning. It doesn't? Great, I'm having a loud morning and it's...

Lol how easy it is to counter that with "but it is louder, I used to only hear it at night in a quiet room and now I hear it everywhere" though? Bless these CBT types.

I love how they ignore the fact that tinnitus does get worse for a lot of people. How dare they base a "treatment" plan on that smh.

Yeah I think we've just realised that there isn't much else to say until they finally release. RIP.

Yeah seriously. That podcast about the brain "not focusing on the tinnitus anymore" is very worrying. Seems like this will be a habituation device after all... What a bummer.

Yeah, your average audiologist's opinion means nothing when it comes to Neuromod. Some of them don't even know what hyperacusis or TRT is, why would we expect them to be up to date with the modern stuff?

Good luck, keep us updated!

I mean... if that's the only way I could afford it, I wouldn't mind much lol

It's video game slang for "Non-Player Character". It's also used as a derogatory term/meme.

Doesn't really matter (maybe they're waiting to finish their presentations, peer reviews etc), we just have to wait. Should be definitely out this year though!

Uh, okay? I never said I was taking this combo for depression lol. Not sure what you're trying to say.

I'd rather be an NPC than a tinnitus wreck to be honest... then again, they don't seem to have this effect with me, even combined with the antipsychotics, they just lower/soften the volume so I can actually function on most days. Which is a nice change.

Ah yes, the good old "get used to it" method.

Yeah well, screw you, buddy. What was even the point of this post besides telling me off?

Oh nice. How'd we not see this one before?!

This is such a good way to put it. It's been two years and I can't tell what I've been doing - I had to stop going out, I had to quit most of my hobbies besides video games (and even that has suffered a lot as my focus is terrible and and I can't play anything that doesn't have non-stop action...

Oh this happens to me sometimes. It's usually when I'm extremely stressed, like to the point of not being able to function at work levels of stressed. It really sucks, especially since sleep can already be hard with T.

Some people have had luck with nortriptyline or amitriptyline. For me personally, ami added a new tone so be careful with what you put in your body.

Sounds good. Thanks!

Hi, did you manage to maintain the dose for 6 years? Or have you had to increase?

I'll check it out, thanks.

Gotcha. Thanks for the detailed reply. Fwiw my plans are somewhat similar - keep taking whatever meds help until Neuromod is out or something better comes along. I also have some TMJ issues, just got an NTI-tss dental guard like two weeks ago to see if it helps as I grind my teeth - I'm hoping...

You're right, people who have no issues usually don't post on forums about it. Funny thing is, for me it's not even about anxiety, it's about literal volume reduction. I have no other mental issues when I'm not aware of my T and my cocktail can lower the volume to where it can easily get lost in...

How are you doing with the long-term benzo stuff? Any plans? My sulpiride/hydro/benzo combo seems to stop working if I drop the clonazepam to 0.5 and I'm kind of thinking about just sticking with 1 mg/night as I seemed to be stable on that. I was very intent on tapering and eventually dropping...

Probably not, but with the prices of medical devices it's still a pretty big gamble.

I really do wonder how many of us will travel to Ireland when it finally launches though.

Interesting. So if Neuromod is gonna be available officially in Belgium in September... I wonder what other expansion plans they have in place that we don't know about? It would be much easier for me to travel to, say, Austria than Ireland...