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Lenire Tinnitus Treatment

I'm truly sorry to hear this. I hope it gets better for you.

FWIW, mine spiked up a few years ago and never went away, though intensity varies. But I find I can still 'listen through' and sometimes ignore completely. I also find that after listening to music, it's worse for awhile :< This is via speakers, headphones/earbuds makes it even worse.

Also fwiw, I did Lenire for six months solid. It didn't work. That's a few thousand $$ that could have gone towards , I dunno, a nice electric scooter , a vintage Fender P bass, or something like that. Still, I feel it was worth a try, supposedly it had a 70% success rate.
Thank you.

I’m glad you’ve managed with yours. Obviously this is quite a common condition.

My Tinnitus has long varied, and it was fairly common for it to be louder after listening to music for quite a while. That never really bothered me because it didn’t get too extreme and it would also fade in an hour or two or by the next day. This time was different. Though as I said I’ve habituated quite a bit to it. So a lot of this could be simply just about how spooked I got.

I actually plan to try listening to some music today.

As far as treatments, I once had an absolutely horrendous period of hyperacusis. All sound was distorted. All sound was painful, including even my own speaking voice. You can imagine that’s not a good scenario for somebody who has to work all day long sound effects design! So I did a treatment for it, based on TRT (tinnitus retraining therapy), employing little gentle noise generators in my ears to habituate. It seem to have worked: by the end of the therapy, my ears had never been stronger, and I was able to listen louder than I ever had in decades. it’s just too bad about my tinnitus spike ruining things for now.
 
My tinnitus was kicking in strong yesterday night but then I was subjected to a very loud relatively high pitch fire alarm sound for about 15 minutes, it was difficult to talk when it sounded just to get an idea of the level. Lo and behold my tinnitus was gone after it stopped and I was able to enjoy the rest of my evening. Of course it’s back today, but now I know where to go and set the alarm off to get some relief :)
 
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My tinnitus was kicking in strong yesterday night but then I was subjected to a very loud relatively high pitch fire alarm sound for about 15 minutes, it was difficult to talk when it sounded just to get an idea of the level. Lo and behold my tinnitus was gone after it stopped and I able to enjoy the rest of my evening. Of course it’s back today, but now I know where to go and set the alarm off to get some relief :)

I’ve kind of had those experiences, it’s like being exposed to a really loud sound causes my hearing to go into a kind of shock or something, and it’s like “ oh strangely that didn’t seem to fire off my Tinnitus”
Then, at some point later, the effect occurs and the tinnitus comes on.
 
I've had tinnitus for decades. About 15 years ago I was prescribed mirtazipine and my tinnitus disappeared - blessed silence! I couldn't tolerate the mirtazipine so stopped it almost immediately. I'd forgotten about its unusual side-effect until I read this thread.
I had a mild tinnitus onset on my left ear almost twenty years ago when I was 29 after anxiety problems (not linked to sound trauma though I was in a concert the day before), it lasted about a year or so and subsided in time, fortunately. I had it checked on an audiometry. I used to dial a few dbs on headphones for balance and yet noticed some frequency dips.

I remember I travelled to central America and slept a few nights in the jungle and the noises in the night helped me bypass mine and it was the beginning of recovery. I still have it back mildly temporarily when I'm under stress, lack of sleep, or after high volume listening on headphones. Yet today I sometimes hear a faint buzz in complete silence or when I press my ears but I hardly notice. I did a frequency hearing test years ago with a phone app and headphones and I was surprised to hear up to 18-19 Khz or so in both ears levelled.

I take a lowish dose of mirtazapine for a few years now and occasionally to help sleep (but not from tinnitus).

I wish the best for all people with this. It might have a nervous origin as in my case and certainly it contributes. My father has it permanent from his 60s (he said it was after attending a football match in a stadium with trumpets behind him), doesn't hear well on that ear but it doesn't affect him. Today I attend classical concerts in auditoriums and enjoy music. I can't stand loud volumes and get away from any.

A guitarist friend of mine told me he has a mild permanent tinnitus, probably from years playing loud with bands in rehearsing rooms.
 
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My mate has had tinnitus, as well as poor hearing, for decades. She tells me that her tinnitus gets reduced with her - Revel C308 priced - hearing aids.
Her hearing problems have always befuddled me, because what I hear and what she hears must be completely different but we are joined at the hips when it comes to tastes in music, TV, etc. [OT: ... Or, at least, she tolerates them... or, maybe, she uses 'noise' cancellation.]

Anyways; in the last few weeks, we had some crickets that got inside the house.
She absolutely does NOT hear crickets, even when she gets near their hiding spot.
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I've always considered cricket' song to be a burst/pulsed or an impulsive sound with broad frequency coverage...
Few days later, I came out of this rabbit-hole with my suspicions confirmed!
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Some researchers take the male Gryllus bimaculatus singing seriously and most agree that the primary Fc lies around 4.6kHz to 4.9kHz.

Her hearing must be much worse than I thought but she seems to hear everything else w/o problems.:oops:
Is there any correlation between Tinnitus and tolerance of singing crickets?
 
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My mate has had tinnitus, as well as poor hearing, for decades. She tells me that her tinnitus gets reduced with her - Revel C308 priced - hearing aids.
Her hearing problems have always befuddled me, because what I hear and what she hears must be completely different but we are joined at the hips when it comes to tastes in music, TV, etc. [OT: ... Or, at least, she tolerates them... or, maybe, she uses 'noise' cancellation.]

Anyways; in the last few weeks, we had some crickets that got inside the house.
She absolutely does NOT hear crickets, even when she gets near their hiding spot.
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I've always considered cricket' song to be a burst/pulsed or an impulsive sound with broad frequency coverage...
Few days later, I came out of this rabbit-hole with my suspicions confirmed!
View attachment 399632
Some researchers take the male Gryllus bimaculatus singing seriously and most agree that the primary Fc lies around 4.6kHz to 4.9kHz.

Her hearing must be much worse than I thought but she seems to hear everything else w/o problems.:oops:
Is there any correlation between Tinnitus and tolerance of singing crickets?

I am the one with Tinnitus and I played in a loud band for a long time, and yet I was shocked a while back when I tested my wife’s hearing. Her high frequencies are shot! Dropping off well below mine, (she’s 62 and I’m 60)

I started wearing ear protection pretty early on in the 90s after my Tinnitus started, Which is how I still have good hearing.
 
Well, I had quite an experience today!

As I’ve mentioned earlier in the thread, something like six months ago I spiked my tinnitus like never before by playing music too loud and too long one night. Ever since I’ve been trying to habituate to the Tinnitus again.

Fortunately, I had managed to sleep again, and got to the point quite a while ago, where it is not bothering me much of the time during the day. The main issue that it is still very reactive and even playing music quietly on my iPhone would pump up my Tinnitus.

I actually stopped watching movies in my Home Theatre and listening to music since then. Which has been torturous.

So I was just this week going to start gently re-introducing listening to music if I could.

But today in the kitchen, I was reaching up into the cabinets over our fridge, which contain all our metal trays and metal containers for cooking.

I was carefully trying to pull one large metal tray out, when some holder snapped, and all the metal containers in implements started pouring out at me. I’m frantically waving my arms around, trying to block each one, but they’re all falling out bashing off my arms bashing off my head, bashing off my shoulders beside my ears, one of them falling into the floor with an ear shattering crash.

It felt like it went on forever! It was astonishingly loud, and write in the most aggressive frequency range, of course for somebody with tinnitus.

My ears essentially feel “ in shock” which is typically how they feel if they’ve been exposed to really loud sound and then the tinnitus slowly comes roaring on by night time or the next day.

I sure hope I can sleep tonight and that hasn’t sent me back after all this time :-(
 
My ears essentially feel “ in shock” which is typically how they feel if they’ve been exposed to really loud sound and then the tinnitus slowly comes roaring on by night time or the next day.
So...Any loud and sustained noise (in the frequency range of your tinnitus frequency) may set a delayed tuning-fork reaction around your cochlea?
It's been probably tried before but can a technique similar to noise-cancellation headphones (but around your tinnitus frequencies) be used?

"Tinnitus Matching - The audiometric way to determine your tinnitus frequency." [link]
"Match YOUR Tinnitus Frequency: from 20Hz to 20000Hz with this Online Human Hearing Frequency Sweep" [youtube link]
I was shocked a while back when I tested my wife’s hearing. Her high frequencies are shot! Dropping off well below mine, (she’s 62 and I’m 60)
Have you given her [my] cricket test?;)

I have always wondered how awful sounding hearing-aids must be... and whether there is such thing as SOTA in that market?
 
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Hope it hasn't.

Rough night, trying to sleep.

But also. I’ve had worse.

Ringing a lot today. But actually started to fade into the background, which was nice.

But then I did the mistake of trying to listen quietly to some YouTube videos, and that’s all it took to get the ringing loud again.

Tinnitus is bad enough. Reactive tinnitus is even worse.

But I’m still hopeful I haven’t completely set myself back.
 
Rough night, trying to sleep.

But also. I’ve had worse.

Ringing a lot today. But actually started to fade into the background, which was nice.

But then I did the mistake of trying to listen quietly to some YouTube videos, and that’s all it took to get the ringing loud again.

Tinnitus is bad enough. Reactive tinnitus is even worse.

But I’m still hopeful I haven’t completely set myself back.

Unfortunately, still dealing with the aftermath of all those pans smashing to the floor a month ago. Yep, I f*cked up my Tinnitus real good. So much for getting decent sleep….
 
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