Advice

[Dean1405]

Hi I am again considering seeing the tinnitus clinic In Bristol but the costs are in the thousands. There are lots of reviews on the website but does anyone here have any experience. Thanks

[JohnJopp]

See this post from about a year ago ..

healthunlocked.com/bta/post...

John

[Ruud1boy]

One of the leading lights of tinnitus research in the UK, Don McFerran, suggested at a recent BTA Info Day that people would be better spending their money on an exotic holiday rather than these commercial T providers. His thrust was you'd likely gain just as much benefit re your T in relaxing on a 2wk Caribbean jaunt as you would at these clinics. Easy to say I guess when you haven't got a screaming steam whistle in your head, but I can understand his point.

The treatments / therapies these places offer don't work for everyone and it is an awful lot of money. That said, I've still got in in the back of my mind to resort to in a few years time if all else fails. I'm kinda hoping that if I can put up with the racket for a few years, the habituation process will do for me naturally what they promise.

[Dean1405 in reply to Ruud1boy]

Thank you. I am at a point of desperation and it’s making me very stressed and ill . I think I will pay for their consultation and see what the clinic say.

[Ruud1boy in reply to Dean1405]

Best of luck. Be interested to hear what the outcome of your discussion with them is.

[Hidden in reply to Ruud1boy]

I think habituation works.

a week on a caribbean island (Aruba in my case) certainly worked. I don't have any memories of my ears playing up on that holiday.

[Hidden]

if you have It, so if it works you pay, if it don't then you don't pay ,if they that confident then that sound s fair

[Hellsbells181]

The thing about going private is you won't get any guarantee of any kind,Furthermore, with Tinnitus they will tell you things like " your Tinnitus will be significantly quieter after treatment "? And it probably will be after prescribing you a sedative at the end of your trestment period. One last point, should they make your condion worse, they will point out you signed a document wavering your right to sue them after treatment, as is standard for all private medical treatment

This is why the NHS does not offer treatment for Tinnitus, only noise masking Tinnitus hearing aids

Best of luck anyway

[Dean1405]

Thank you for your advice . I have just returned from the nhs with hearing aids and in built white noise generators and a good chat with hearing therapist. For now I have cancelled the tinnitus clinic and will take my family away for a nice weekend break instead 🙂

[Hidden in reply to Dean1405]

seems sensible. in my case I tend to get better results with only one earphone in for white noise. The hearing air I was given is in a drawer.