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Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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I hope this comment reaches anyone suffering from tinnitus. My tinnitus is so bad that I’d … well good news is, I found a great way to manage my brain melting tinnitus. Step 1: YouTube-dl this blessed sound: https://youtu.be/8indTo2ykPw?si=izyTOg4gYvnfsqZs (Plz tip the guy) (You should be able to tell just by listening to the sound that it immediately cuts out the tinnitus— if this sound print doesn’t work for you, t…

I might be late to this, but I was wondering, do you use a special audio player for this?

I've dabble with these kind of audio tracks in the past (although without the bone conduction headphones) and a major issue was that i couldn't listen to anything else on the phone without stopping the tinnitus track. Not because it's on the same audio player, but because Android has some sort of system-wide control about which app gets to have audio "focus" at any moment.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

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I had a concussion about ten years ago (lost consciousness and fell on the floor). This gave me amnesia, which lasted for a few hours, and a tinnitus that lasted for about three months. The tinnitus was high pitched and on a specific frequency (don't recall any more details). It made it difficult to focus. Based on some Internet search I found that other people were helped by listening to (coloured) noise. I started…

Congrats! Did you listen to the pink noise on headphones or speakers?

Hey, I missed your comment. Anyways, over-ear and in-ear headphones only, so quite immersive. Colleagues and family were not so keen on me putting it on speakers for some reason.
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