MemberAnother success story today, she is using her hearing aids less and less than before Tinnitus Mix, if this reverses deafness that could be a major breakthrough!
I Invented a Sound That Knocked Out My Tinnitus
- Thread starter R. David Case
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YES IT IS a masker. How stupid do you think we are? There is a special place in hell for people like you!
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First of all, thanks @R. David Case for making this sound!
4 nights in. Unfortunately my tinnitus hasn't changed - if anything it has gotten somewhat worse. My tinnitus is very high pitched - maybe that has to do with it. I can sometimes even hear my tinnitus on the higher frequency while listening to the Tinnitus Mix.
I'm wondering whether super high pitched tinnitus requires a sound that has more high frequencies in it.
4 nights in. Unfortunately my tinnitus hasn't changed - if anything it has gotten somewhat worse. My tinnitus is very high pitched - maybe that has to do with it. I can sometimes even hear my tinnitus on the higher frequency while listening to the Tinnitus Mix.
I'm wondering whether super high pitched tinnitus requires a sound that has more high frequencies in it.
Calm down. Take some deep breaths. Try and forgive your mother for what she has done to you.
I wasn't expecting the hearing to improve like that... especially in less than a week! More people should be trying this. Now if I could get to where I'm able to sleep consistently with the headphones on I have a better shot at lowering or getting rid of the ringing. I'll try having the volume a little bit lower at night, as you suggested. I realize that getting rid of the tinnitus might take a while, but this is a surprisingly good start! Thanks again for offering this... and for free!
I am too having hearing improvement. I've actually been listening to music and greatly enjoying it.
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I am not sure if I am healing or just greatly suppressing my tinnitus. We shall see.
- Apr 29, 2018
- 166
- Tinnitus Since
- March 2018
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Ototoxicity
Those who have read the thread in its entirety know that I tried this therapy (with the correct headphones) in early January this year. So almost a year has passed and I'm glad this thread has been gaining traction again, I feel this is one of the best things out there for tinnitus. Unfortunately I had to quit the therapy because of side effects (I was probably the only person out of hundreds who got any side effects, besides increase in tinnitus obviously). One can read about it here:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...ked-out-my-tinnitus.33001/page-35#post-420399
My suggestion is, especially if you have hyperacusis or even if you don't, why not start as low as possible, for short durations during the day and work your way up. From my experience and from what I understand, there's no downside to starting this low. I luckily was wise enough to do this from the start, I literally probably started with 1 percent and moved up to like 4 percent of full volume (my phone might have been higher volume by default too, I can easily make out words at 2 percent and I have an app for setting the volume very precisely).
I will repeat, my hyperacusis and reactivity used to be very severe and it's also important to bear in mind that they're much worse to synthetic sounds. Most people can probably go higher and even skip this step if they don't have hyperacusis. My main point is, there's no real downside to being extra careful. Obviously this is not some magic sound that doesn't damage the ears at any volume that you can try to listen to it no matter how loud and some people have a very low threshold for getting further damage. Also, different devices have different volumes for same percentages. I feel why some people don't have good results is they listen to it too loud. Be careful folks.
I'm contemplating taking a shot at this again, I still have my Koss headphones and my situation is much, much better than it used to be a year ago thanks to other alternative therapies I'm doing and I think the side-effects I got might have had something to do with a Magnesium deficiency. I probably won't but it's something that's on my mind.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...ked-out-my-tinnitus.33001/page-35#post-420399
I understand that Mr. Case has had experience with the Tinnitus Mix for almost 2 decades. With all due respect, I feel this advice is too generic. This is probably fine if you don't have hyperacusis. I had severe hyperacusis and reactivity when I tried Tinnitus Mix, both of which were worse to synthetic (meaning sounds from speakers or headphones) and even just a few minutes of 30 percent of volume would have probably done damage to my ears.
My suggestion is, especially if you have hyperacusis or even if you don't, why not start as low as possible, for short durations during the day and work your way up. From my experience and from what I understand, there's no downside to starting this low. I luckily was wise enough to do this from the start, I literally probably started with 1 percent and moved up to like 4 percent of full volume (my phone might have been higher volume by default too, I can easily make out words at 2 percent and I have an app for setting the volume very precisely).
I will repeat, my hyperacusis and reactivity used to be very severe and it's also important to bear in mind that they're much worse to synthetic sounds. Most people can probably go higher and even skip this step if they don't have hyperacusis. My main point is, there's no real downside to being extra careful. Obviously this is not some magic sound that doesn't damage the ears at any volume that you can try to listen to it no matter how loud and some people have a very low threshold for getting further damage. Also, different devices have different volumes for same percentages. I feel why some people don't have good results is they listen to it too loud. Be careful folks.
I'm contemplating taking a shot at this again, I still have my Koss headphones and my situation is much, much better than it used to be a year ago thanks to other alternative therapies I'm doing and I think the side-effects I got might have had something to do with a Magnesium deficiency. I probably won't but it's something that's on my mind.
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You weren't the one who essentially trapped me in a loud MRI, so I am happy with you volunteering to help everyone, whether I am personally helped or not.
I'm 4-5 days in, so I will do 30 days if not longer... what's there to lose?
I have had tinnitus... either around 18 years, or recently like one month... depending on how you define it. I didn't even notice it after a few years back then, and then for almost 2 decades I was good... until a new acoustic trauma a month ago (MRI).
I am playing the Tinnitus Mix on my iPad during the day, and a small MP3 player at night I can wear in my pocket. The only way I get the mix to play on an iOS device is connected to the internet and your website. I haven't figured out how to download it to iOS, hence the inexpensive MP3 player with 7-8 duplicate .wav files.
When I am on an airplane, how loud should the mix be... barely audible over the airplane noise, or louder and easily heard but not masking? This is where some passive noise reduction (ear muffs over the Koss) may be needed.
Thoughts?
- Apr 29, 2018
- 166
- Tinnitus Since
- March 2018
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Ototoxicity
Not an option for me unfortunately. I tried curcumin several years ago and when I got my spike from hell in 2018 I tried turmeric. They both flare up my psoriasis really bad, weird because they're supposed to help it. The few doses I took seemed to actually help tinnitus but like it usually is with me, I can't tolerate the side effects of a supplement that helps me a lot.
He has recommended the Sony voice recorder so that you can boost the high frequencies as needed via the EQ. I'm thinking about getting one.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FWNSXJO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
What were your side effects if you don't mind me asking?
What therapies worked for you?
Why couldn't you enjoy music before? What it distorted or muffled or did the tinnitus interfere?
Ah ok. So do the people reporting hearing improvements with this mean they can just hear better without the tinnitus masking it or are there other, separate improvements?
- Apr 29, 2018
- 166
- Tinnitus Since
- March 2018
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Ototoxicity
I put a link in my post. It was a side effect rather than effects.
Lots of stuff worked well but I couldn't tolerate the side effects. Tried about 15+ things, not gimmicky things like Tonaki Tinnitus Protocol I mean stuff that's reasonable like oxygen therapy, Nicotinamide Riboside, NAC, etc (all worked well, couldn't tolerate the side effects).
I have written my success story on my PC, haven't posted it yet. Currently I'm not taking any supplements that work well, my body can't tolerate them apparently. I've been doing LLLT diligently for almost 1.5 years and 3 months since the spike (crucial factor).
Also I've been doing cold showers and intermittent fasting for almost half a year which greatly increased the speed of my recovery. I understand not many people believe in them because they think the Liam guy is a scammer, I haven't bought his program.
I discovered that it's important for the water to be as cold as possible for good effect because I'm in a cold climate with warm summers and in the summers the effect wasn't nearly as good. Also I find taking a cold shower after warm is an important factor.
In warm climates you can take ice baths I guess. The effects seem to be cumulative, not noticeable in my case in 1 month only now in 5 I can say they've worked well.
Anyways don't want to derail this thread too much its about Tinnitus Mix.
I have only used the sound treatment for (1) night and so far no improvement. I hope that time will deliver the good results the other folks are getting.
- Jun 18, 2019
- 294
- Tinnitus Since
- 05/24/2019
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Chronic headphones use and acute noise induced trauma.
Against my better judgment, I just ordered a Koss KTX Pro from Amazon and I am about to try this and see how it goes, I have many other (much better and incidentally more expensive, in the thousands of euros) headphones, including electrostats, but I bought the €30 Koss so I can be as truthful to this experiment as possible guess is all we are seeing is placebo effect and I do hope I am wrong.
Yeah it's good. My next step is to do this therapy as long as possible while continuing to take turmeric, glutathione, and NAC supplements. Then I am going to slowly experiment coming off them and the Tinnitus Mix one by one and see if I am healed or if I am just suppressing the tinnitus.
I want to go and hop on my beloved drum set but I need to play it safe and wait a while and play it all by ear.
@R. David Case
I think adding curcumin or turmeric combined possibly with NAC to this would help. What do you think?
I think adding curcumin or turmeric combined possibly with NAC to this would help. What do you think?
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