I wanted to share my positive experience with tinnitus. After 3 and 1/2 months my tinnitus is virtually gone. It had started as a morse code chirping in my left ear and after about a 2 months, switched to my right ear. The morse code chirping then completely disappeared and the noise turned into a flat beeeeeep in my right ear that would come and go. Sometimes I still believe I hear it at a very low volume, but I think this may just be the "normal head noise," that pretty much everyone hears in what is considered a silent room (20-40 Db's).
I do not know what caused my onset. I had a full audiogram and was able to easily hear frequencies up to 18,000. I have not had any other tests. My biggest challenge has been sleeping comfortably. I was extremely depressed due to constant lack of energy and being unable to sleep at night without going through a meditation battle to calm down enough. It was soul sucking. I think the worst thing about tinnitus is not being able to sleep properly. If a human cannot sleep, than game over. I have used headphones to listen to rainfall during sleep for the past 5 years after I moved to a noisy city and could not sleep without blocking out all of the sirens, neighbors, doors slamming, cars, etc. I would actually wear silicone earplugs and also over the ear headphones while listening to this music and I kept the volume to the point that it was barely audible. Often, I would wake up and have to check that the music was still playing because I ear plugs in and had the volume so low, so I would surprised if my tinnitus was noise induced. I had drank a lot of alcohol and smoked cigarettes in my late 20's (I am 30 now), so I am not sure if that had caused it. I have read that toxins from both of these things can damage the auditory nerve as well as the hair cells nerve endings.
Anyways, the positive thing was that audionotch worked wonders for me. I think sometimes masking doesn't work for people because they are not finding the right frequency to mask their sound. Basic rainfall, white noise, Youtube videos, etc may not be enough because they are not tuned to match an individuals tinnitus frequency. I also think the biggest challenge is just accepting it. Like most things, once you accept them they do not bother you anymore. I have a friend who got tinnitus from playing the drums all his life with no protection. He still plays them without protection because he said he doesn't care about the noise at all (think he's nuts!). I just wanted to say that it does go away from some people. If it doesn't it usually only gets better from the time a person is at their worst. I suggest to everyone to do all they can to get a good nights sleep so they can be healthy and rested each day. When we are all rested, we can tackle any challenge. Good luck to everyone and feel free to private message me or respond !
I do not know what caused my onset. I had a full audiogram and was able to easily hear frequencies up to 18,000. I have not had any other tests. My biggest challenge has been sleeping comfortably. I was extremely depressed due to constant lack of energy and being unable to sleep at night without going through a meditation battle to calm down enough. It was soul sucking. I think the worst thing about tinnitus is not being able to sleep properly. If a human cannot sleep, than game over. I have used headphones to listen to rainfall during sleep for the past 5 years after I moved to a noisy city and could not sleep without blocking out all of the sirens, neighbors, doors slamming, cars, etc. I would actually wear silicone earplugs and also over the ear headphones while listening to this music and I kept the volume to the point that it was barely audible. Often, I would wake up and have to check that the music was still playing because I ear plugs in and had the volume so low, so I would surprised if my tinnitus was noise induced. I had drank a lot of alcohol and smoked cigarettes in my late 20's (I am 30 now), so I am not sure if that had caused it. I have read that toxins from both of these things can damage the auditory nerve as well as the hair cells nerve endings.
Anyways, the positive thing was that audionotch worked wonders for me. I think sometimes masking doesn't work for people because they are not finding the right frequency to mask their sound. Basic rainfall, white noise, Youtube videos, etc may not be enough because they are not tuned to match an individuals tinnitus frequency. I also think the biggest challenge is just accepting it. Like most things, once you accept them they do not bother you anymore. I have a friend who got tinnitus from playing the drums all his life with no protection. He still plays them without protection because he said he doesn't care about the noise at all (think he's nuts!). I just wanted to say that it does go away from some people. If it doesn't it usually only gets better from the time a person is at their worst. I suggest to everyone to do all they can to get a good nights sleep so they can be healthy and rested each day. When we are all rested, we can tackle any challenge. Good luck to everyone and feel free to private message me or respond !
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