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    Best Guess on When Tinnitus Will Be Cured?

    Yes Paul, I agree with you. What I'm saying is that those who manage to reach a stage where they report that T does no longer affect them have habituated. In the absence of a medial treatment to " turn it off" promoting habituation is perhaps the best way forward. Achieving it is the hard part!
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    Fully habituated. British Tinnitus association Trained counsellor. Willing to help online if I can

    Fully habituated. British Tinnitus association Trained counsellor. Willing to help online if I can
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    New Tinnitus Sufferer... Help

    Where are you may be I can help.
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    Tinnitus Retraining Therapy

    TRT is absolutely the only reliable documented way forward and it's not that difficult to do. For many it takes time and a trained counsellor.
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    Best Guess on When Tinnitus Will Be Cured?

    For a new sufferer what I am going to say will be difficult to accept but here goes. We already have a treatment that can and does work. It's called "habituation". There is a lot of information about how to achieve this and how to promote it in others on the Internet. The tricky bit is that many...
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    Is Learning to Ignore Tinnitus Considered a Cure to You?

    Hi Emma, What you have described is what we call " habituation". When you achieve it its just the same as not hearing tinnitus. In effect a "cure" even though you still hear it. Best wishes, Clive
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    First Summer with Chronic Tinnitus Coming Up

    Hello Marku, I enjoyed reading your posting and hearing of your story. I am sure that the success of this forum has helped you. Your writing indicates to me that you have partially habituated. For example you describe your tinnitus as "chronic". Also you say you have " quite" successfully...
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    Hey, folks! I'm Mack, a tinnitus (non-medical) researcher.

    Hello Mack, Welcome to the forum. The items you mention above are used by most people to some extent. Why dont you set up a poll hear to gather data? Best wishes, Clive
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    General Tinnitus Management Guides Plus Tips and Tricks

    Good ideas Svein! Just don't overdo number1. Clive
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    General Tinnitus Management Guides Plus Tips and Tricks

    Hi Jim, Thanks for your reply. Was the tone he generated exactly the same as your tinnitus? Also I think that the instuctions he gave should have been to report when the generated sound was the SAME volume as your tinnitus. How interesting that your perception was increased after this...
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    General Tinnitus Management Guides Plus Tips and Tricks

    Hi Markku, The research you quote above is very important! It shows that sufferers report tinnitus as being louder that it actually is. We can therefore say that the REACTION to the tinnitus is greater than it should be based on the loudness of the sound being received. This fits in very well...
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    Hi Everyone!

    Hi Mukaul- Welcome to the forum! How are things in India? Clive
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    Do You Notice the Noise When You Wake Up...?

    Hi Paavo, "Acute listening listening mode." Some people think that this is a relic of the time of the time when we needed to be alert to danger when asleep. When the room falls silent after the music finishes your awareness of your tinnitus may increase. I suggest you have have some sound in the...
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    Do You Notice the Noise When You Wake Up...?

    Yes Paavo. This is very common. The reason is thouught to be that your brain goes into acute listening mode while you are asleep and pays more attentin to the tinnitus. Are you using sound therapy while you are sleeping?
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    Ear Ringing for 4 Days

    Hello SrS, I am sorry to hear your story. My name is Clive and I'm lucky to be in a position to provide help and support to people like yourself. Your posting is very typical of people in the first stages of tinnitus and I know exactly how you are feeling at the moment. My advice is to listen to...
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    General Tinnitus Management Guides Plus Tips and Tricks

    What habituation is and what it is not? To many suffers of tinnitus habituation is the holy grail to which many aspire. Yet the concept is often misunderstood. Habituation is not: 1. "Learning to live with it". This phrase suggests that you would rather not live with it if you had a...
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    General Tinnitus Management Guides Plus Tips and Tricks

    This is really excellent! Compulsary reading I suggest. Thank youJim.
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    Relative Whose Tinnitus Disappeared After Surgery

    Hello Caralyn, Thank you for your posting. I am pleased you auntie is so much better. As I'm sure you know despite hundreds of trials and many many false leads there is no medical treatment that can guarantee removal of the tinnitus signal. (I must say straightaway but I'm not saying that...
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    Hello everyone.

    Hello Markku, Thank you for you reply. Yes I am very lucky to be a tinnitus therapist. The reaction you describe "nothing can be done ............etc" is one that many of my clients report when I first see them. I always make it clear that I have no magic pill -which is what they really want...
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    Hello everyone.

    Hello everyone, My name is Clive. I am living in North East England UK. I have just found this forum and very much impressed by the set up. Maybe in the future I can tell a little bit more about the work I do here. Let me just say that for the moment I provide management and support to clients...