> Banks paid about $4,000 for the Lenire device
Hahaha, yeah alright...
An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
81–90 of 184 posts
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#82I wonder if you could have similar results from licking a 9v battery
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#83Hmm, seems interesting but it's intended to take the "focus" off of the ringing rather than actually fix the underlying cause. Personally, having tinnitus for so long I don't even notice it anymore; it would be nice to experience complete "silence" again though.
I can make mine go away temporarily (as in a minute or so) by sticking my fingers in my ears and jiggling them around to make a lot of noise for 10 seconds. I suspect it's just the contrast, but it is really nice to have something resembling real silence. A few years back I got a bad wax buildup in one ear and stopped hearing anything. After they took the wax out, my ear was hypersensitive for a day or so. I heard ev…
I can also make it go away temporarily (also just a minute or two) with the tapping technique
"Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of your middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times"
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#84My case is classic: hearing damage at one particular frequency (from one stupid event). Apparently, the neurons got bored, and decided to create their own input at that frequency.
As others gave said, you get used to it and rarely notice it. I suppose that is more difficult if it's not just constant noise.
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#85I've had a mental visualization I've used to control tinnitus flares for about 20 years now - i.e., "biofeedback". I image the entire soundscape (what I'm possible of hearing) as a long, thin line which is warbling a bit, as I'm hearing things right now -- like the line in an oscilloscope. The present tinnitus represents itself as a sharp spike in this visualization, the location dependent upon its texture (sharp pin…
Holy crap this works! I've the loud high-pitched type all evening and i've just used your method to reduce its volume significantly! Thank you!
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#86I've had a mental visualization I've used to control tinnitus flares for about 20 years now - i.e., "biofeedback". I image the entire soundscape (what I'm possible of hearing) as a long, thin line which is warbling a bit, as I'm hearing things right now -- like the line in an oscilloscope. The present tinnitus represents itself as a sharp spike in this visualization, the location dependent upon its texture (sharp pin…
Holy crap this works! I've the loud high-pitched type all evening and i've just used your method to reduce its volume significantly! Thank you!
It gives me goosebumps that this method works with others. I thought it to be very idiosyncratic...but it seems not? Either way, I'm glad it could help!
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#87I wonder if you could have similar results from licking a 9v battery
It's the sounds and the noise together.
I wager that, given the details of the patent and any published literature, it's likely it would be possible to replicate the effects cheaply.
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#88Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#89I've had a mental visualization I've used to control tinnitus flares for about 20 years now - i.e., "biofeedback". I image the entire soundscape (what I'm possible of hearing) as a long, thin line which is warbling a bit, as I'm hearing things right now -- like the line in an oscilloscope. The present tinnitus represents itself as a sharp spike in this visualization, the location dependent upon its texture (sharp pin…
Oh this sounds really interesting, thanks!
Sometimes during my daily meditation practice I use my tinnitus as an object of awareness, like you would with your breath, which, coincidentally, I did this morning. There's so many more frequencies and changes going on when you meditate with it, including tones that definitely only arise when you're practicing with it. I find it helps and I'm definitely going to try it with your visualization.
Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
#90I accidentally did something similar, but there’s a significant cost. Got tinnitus at 15 and over time my brain filtered out the sound. Unfortunately one of the tones was in the upper vocal range so I then developed trouble understanding people with higher-pitched voices as some syllables would be entirely filtered out. Second is that I stopped paying attention to sounds that aggravated it. This caused me to gather m…
Have you tried hearing aids? I went to an audiologist a week ago and found that I have mild hearing loss in higher frequencies and as a result certain letter combinations are hard for me to hear. She told me hearing aids might help. I get a 30 day free trial, so the only thing I have to lose is the time to get them and get them dialed in.
The audiologist also gave me a copy of the audiogram. In the health app I used the camera to scan it and it adjusted the frequency output on my ear buds to compensate for some of my hearing loss.