Yes. My tinnitus in the the past 2 - 3 weeks has been getting better (maybe about 40% better) compared to at the onset).
First, I live in a very quiet single family house, on a quiet street, with thick double pane glass that blocks almost all noise from the outside.
Previously at the onset, it was semi loud hiss almost all the time. The only time it was I could not hear the loud hiss was on shower, or occasionally if I was talking on the phone.
Now for the most part it is just low to medium hiss, though if there is noise such as furnace fan, the tinnitus does getting a bit louder.
There are many times, during the day, where once I go inside a quiet room, that I can not hear any hissing from the Tinnitus, though usually it only lasts for several minutes.
Before, the tinnitus was reacting quite a bit (tinnitus spike), after I drive about 5 - 6 miles on the highway. Now driving 10 - 15 miles does not cause any spike. For any driving longer than 25 miles, I do wear my Eargasm/Audiomate musician's earplugs. While my car is very quiet inside for driving on regular road, but on highway, I measure the ambient noise can go from 68 dB to 77 dB.
I try to help my body fix the tinnitus by:
I. Avoid any loud environment. I installed the NIOS SLM and decibel X app on my phone, and if the ambient environment loudness is close to 75 dB, then I would wear my Eargasm/Audiomate musician's earplugs.
75 dB is not that much actually. A busy cafeteria in a mall, with people shouting, music, etc. can easily be around 80 dB.
I also avoid any ear phone/ear bud (I never liked them in the first place either though). That said, I have to wear headphone for conference call, and for that I set the volume to be as low as possible.
I also put the headphone, not right at the ear canal, but slightly ahead by the temple. This is especially for my right ear, which has the tinnitus.
II. Try to eat healthy, with more fruits.
III. Supplements:
- Zinc (every day initially, now only 2 - 3 times a week)
- Magnesium (almost every day)
- Vitamin B Complex (every day)
- Vitamin B12 (every day, and now tapered down to 4 - 5 times a week)
- Vitamin D3 (5000 units tablet per day initially, now only 1000 units tablet per day)
- Vitamin E (occasionally)
- NAC occasionally
All of the above supplements help with ear health, and tinnitus in general. Go search at Google for "X ear health" or "X acoustic shock". Replace the X with the name supplement above
I did blood test thru walk-in-lab, about 3 weeks after the onset to test my Vitamin D3, Magnesium and Zinc level. My Magnesium and Zinc level was normal, but the Vitamin D3 level was extremely low. Normal range is supposed to be 30 to 100 ng/mL, and mine was 15.
Other than that, I take no other supplement or drugs.
IV. Sound retraining. This was to help me to sleep initially in the first a couple weeks at the onset (and I still do it until now, but rarely).
I play instrumental elevator music, like the like from Richard Clayderman on my laptop, at the volume that is as low as what I could hear while lying on the bed trying to sleep.
I would try really hard to make my mind to focus and to find that music, in the high pitch noise of the tinnitus.
It was quite hard initially, but after some times it is getting easier.
Also when I play music, while working in front of computer, I do the same thing also. Before the onset, I used to place the stereo set right across of me.
Now, I put the stereo set at the other room 20 feet away, and I try to make my brain and ear work to try to find for that music, and ignore the hissing noise from tinnitus.
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