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Has anyone any thoughts on “Clearhearing Sono “ or are they another expensive piece of nick - nackery ?
“Cleanhearing Sono”: Hi Has anyone any thoughts... - Tinnitus UK
“Cleanhearing Sono”
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Until you mentioned it, Threeminuteboy, I wasn't aware of this product - so thank you for the heads up about it: cleanhearing.com/
It's theoretically helpful, in that it uses electromagnetic pulsing to deliver relief alongside notched sound - which you find in some brands of hearing aid to deliver sound enrichment. Some people do respond to this method of therapy whilst for others it doesn't deliver the desired improvement, which is true of any medical treatment.
It's a considerable price, certainly, but I would expect that for a device developed by a small company with initial R & D costs. I think it's definitely worth reading through the FAQ section for anyone interested in it to get a sense of whether it applies to your experience of tinnitus.
Our overall advice on repetitive magnetic stimulation - which this device might be thought of as an example of - can be found here: tinnitus.org.uk/tinnitus-an...
The electromagnetic pulse it delivers is interesting , it means it’s not just sound through headphones .
I think that device has been around since 2018. It was initially called something else and cost €300. It’s recently been relaunched and is now much more expensive. An internet search finds one person who bought the original equipment and he says it helped him a lot. I’ve never heard of it. And if it worked I think I would have, people would be raving about it and there would be many good reviews on the Internet, but there don’t appear to be. It’s well worth keeping an eye on the device and any reviews or independent studies, but at the moment there doesn’t appear to be any evidence it actually works and it’s very expensive to just take a punt. If it worked I’d buy it today.
How much is it out of interest ? I just looked on their web page and it doesn’t say unless you push a “buy it now” button . That alone is dubious at best .
I clicked the button just to see the price - £1650 !
You can get 10% off if you register with them, I believe. But it’s a lot of money for something with no guarantee of success, you can send it back after 4 months if it hasn’t worked, but you only get a maximum of 60% back. If they were confident it worked that would be 100% refund because no one would send it back.
It’s £2000 including VAT.
That’s profiteering from the fact there is a lot of desperate people out there with T and we have to accept there is no cure .
So true. We are a vulnerable market!
It’s expensive considering an early version was €300. But these devices do seem to start around £2000. The Lenire device is about the same. I’d like to see a few more people saying it’s worked for them, and people who aren’t affiliated to the company.
I think Lenire is £3000 approx. I've read about several of these things but haven't tried any of them. It's just too big a risk. And there's no way of knowing if it could make the T worse. I expect they keep the bad reviews under wraps as far as possible.
There was a group of people on Tinnitus Talk who were trialling the Lenire device, they seemed positive at first but after several months the feeling was that it didn’t work. It did make some people worse, but I think that was temporary. The results of the clinical trial Lenire did was encouraging but strictly controlled, you had to be between a certain age, and to only have had tinnitus for no more than five years. I failed on both counts. I think when something comes out that actually does work we will all know about it soon enough. There are a few things in the pipeline, so there’s hope for the future. There will be a cure one day.
