Lenire Tinnitus Treatment

[Sal1950]

Thank you Jeff. Alas, the treatment was ineffective. Fortunately I am able to cope very well with my tinnitus anyway and most of the time I don't even know it is there.

Thanks for the reports Amir! Thankfully my tinnitus is very moderate, specially considering the abuse I've subjected my ears to.
Most normally mine can be the worse in the mornings, sometimes seeming to wake me up with a loud hissing type noise.
Otherwise barely noticeable during the day and evenings.
After a few gunfire injuries in the 70s - 80s I became anal about protection at the range, at concerts, anywhere very loud.
I do really miss hearing a full FR at live concerts, etc but better that than the alternatives.

 

[donjoe0]

I’d known of a possible treatment based on tinnitus retraining therapy, which used small hearing aid like devices in the ear to softly pump in carefully sculpted white noise which overtime was supposed to help the brain recalibrate and get used to noise. (The devices reduce dynamic range to a degree so sounds hard as startling, and over many months, the nature of the sound is changed and the sound is dialled higher and higher).

I underwent the therapy and the result was, while not a total cure, that my regular hearing came back, and was more robust then it had been in 20 years. It was frankly glorious.

Do you remember anything more specific about this sculpted noise, like which provider or program, or if it was the well known notch therapy of 1 octave around your tinnitus frequency, or something else?

 

[MattHooper]

Do you remember anything more specific about this sculpted noise, like which provider or program, or if it was the well known notch therapy of 1 octave around your tinnitus frequency, or something else?

It was created by the audiologist who treated me, based on testing my hearing.

Since my treatment was for hyperacusis, the specific noise might’ve been a bit different than if I was being treated for my tinnitus.

Not sure of the exact basis of how the noise was chosen. But I do remember that it was quieter and a softer quality to begin with, and became a bit more challenging and coarse as he changed it over the months. I believe he was adding more upper frequency, energy or something like that as we went along.