This has been working for me for the past week or so, I just want to post this in the hope it may help others...
1) Eat a decent meal, make sure your tummy’s full and sip water before, during and after, at least 500ml.
2) You need a relaxation space for this, ideally on your bed but with no distractions or outside noise. Unplug the house phone and put your mobile on do not disturb. Have a hot bath before if you feel like it and make sure you pee so you don’t have to get up.
3) I have been using a desktop fan 6” on the floor for white noise and to simulate the sound of the air outside. This is placed a few feet away from the bed. Also a portable travel clock with just a gentle ticking, placed away from the bed.
4) Now I’ve been using an album I found on YouTube called tinnitus sound therapy. There are 50 tracks, all roughly 5 minutes long. I found on YouTube adverts play every other track so I bit the bullet and paid the £7 on amazon music, you can find the app.
5) I find if my tinnitus is insane levels, I play the tracks at the volume of the tinnitus and every few tracks I start to decrease the volume. It’s important not to focus on the sound of the tinnitus, instead put all concentration on the sounds of the therapy music. I also find thinking about what I’ve done during the day and what I’m doing the next day gives my mind something to focus on.
6) I have found doing this process for a few hours a night has really helped to the point of nearly no tinnitus at all. It’s important to keep lowering the volume of the therapy album and the tinnitus I find lowers volume with it.
Any questions I’d be happy to answer; it really has been working for me the past week and if you follow the steps I’m sure it’ll have a positive effect on somebody! The key is not to be distracted by anything for a few hours and just let the music do its thing. I light a few incense sticks so my smell sense has something to focus on too.
I find the ticking clock, the fan, and the varied music all gives my brain something to focus on instead of the damn phantom tinnitus. If you allow yourself to hear these things, to focus on them, the tinnitus really decreases because it’s not a real sound.
Let me know if it works for you..,,
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Thank-you for taking the time to write this out, Ross81. I will surely give this a try, the whole process sounds lovely and relaxing, I especially like that you added aromatherapy to it all, great idea.
I'm am not sure what you mean when you say that tinnitus is not a real sound, though. Could you please share your thoughts? I am sincerely interested.
The exact sound therapy album I use is called Tinnitus sound therapy and can be found on YouTube.
I have been suffering with tinnitus for 3 months now and have been doing a lot of reading about the condition and treatments.
When it comes to masking tinnitus I think it’s important to try and use sounds just below total masking level so your brain has to listen to the mask and the tinnitus. Then it’s a case of focusing on the mask rather than the tinnitus and using different levels of sound to try and decrease the tinnitus over time.
Tinnitus isn’t a real noise, mines like a low flying plane or an electrical generator, a low frequency buzz. It’s the brain’s reaction to trauma, in my case extreme noise exposure, that makes it create the sound we know as tinnitus.
That’s why I think it works to get to a relaxed state and really focus your mind on sound therapy rather than the tinnitus sound, and train your brain that the tinnitus sound doesn’t need to exist, it’s created by the brain and doesn’t need to be there. That’s why when my T is bad I use the fan, the clock and the sound therapy so my brain has real sounds to listen to and has to fight through the tinnitus to hear, you really have to focus on the real sounds and mentally block the tinnitus or filter it out.
I probably haven’t explained it very well at all but the technique and therapy I use has been working fairly well for me and if it can help anyone else then great!
Thank-you for the reply, Ross81, I appreciate it. You have explained it very well.
I have habituated to my tinnitus in the the sense that it no longer drives my fear and anxiety to high levels. It has been a long journey for me, over two years since my tinnitus began. There are many times throughout the day when I don't hear the tinnitus, meaning that I am not aware of the sound due to being distracted by my everyday life activities. The opposite is true other days, when I can do nothing but focus on it because of the intensity, usually during times of stress.
Your method interests me a great deal, I will incorporate some of what you suggest and see where it goes.
Hi Ross81, sounds like you have found your skis when it comes to finding a relaxing combination of things. I've been looking at tinnitis sound threapy on you tube and amazon but get so many links , can you perhaps message me the link? Cheers!
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