After watching the Beato tinnitus YT this came up in my suggestions.
"How I cured my Tinnitus"
youtu.be/y4zuVk5STuM?si=GbA...
He's an ENT doctor and comes over as very genuine and says his method might not work for everyone.
It seems to me it was like a constant distraction and masking to retrain his brain to ignore the tinnitus.
I must be missing something obvious but I didn't really understand what to do.
Anyone tried this?
Hi, thank you so much for posting this video. It explained a lot to me!
I had ear operations as a child/teen and I have good hearing in one ear and hearing loss in the other as I still have a hole in my ear drum and have never had hearing aids. I think I’ve always had somewhat tinnitus even in the good ear, a clear sound that goes loud then quiet and disappears. I always just thought it was normal 🤷🏻♀️
Then in 2022 when I was pregnant, I flew to Madeira and got woken up by a loud humming in my left ear that plaster about an hour before I fell asleep. I’m not sure it’s been as loud since but recently it’s happened (the same humming) and lasted all day. I’m waiting to see a specialist now. But it’s really interesting what he’s saying in that video.
I found that it was often worse a day after having alcohol but then it’s become sporadic again. It happened the night before last before I went to sleep. I just tried to forget it and I fell asleep. I think this is the kind of brain training he’s suggesting. It makes sense - the brain is hugely complex and it makes sense to retrain the brain not to make the noise.
Have you tried white noise as he suggests? We had to play it whilst my baby was sharing a room with us and we got really used to it. So much that now if we put it on, it’s like a lovely sound that helps us sleep. I think what he says is it’s important not to give the sound an emotional response and quickly listen or distract yourself with something else. It’s certainly something I’m going to try.
Thanks, I'm pleased you found it useful . I liked the fact he was quite open about whether his methods work for others. Sadly I can't get my head around what he's doing but I thought his explanation was very useful.
I was given a noise generator by an NHS uadiologist a few years ago but I found it didn't help me at all. I found it impossible to sleep with the noise unfortunately.
I even had a bit of rushing earlier, so I quickly stuck on a tv programme in the background and it disappeared. I think that’s the thing, when you hear it try and distract yourself with another noise, and then I guess you just have to be okay with the fact if there’s nothing you can do to distract. Maybe tell yourself it’s out of your control and will stop - then hopefully your brain will start to turn off.
If we view tinnitus as a sound which our brain creates and which becomes more intrusive if we pay attention to it, then distracting ourselves with external sounds or our other senses draws focus away from tinnitus. Then we're telling our brain what we care about - anything else - and what we don't care about - tinnitus.
None of this is necessarily a conscious action on our part - in fact it may be better if we're not doing things specifically to get rid of tinnitus, because we end up thinking about the thing that we don't want to be aware of. Doing things because they're fun, or interesting or help us to relax is probably the best option - because it's taking attention away from you-know-what.
Dr Veer used distraction, plain and simple. Reading subtitles on a movie he was watching distracted part of his brain from 'hearing' his tinnitus and being attentive to it, anxious about it, etc. Playing games occupied a part of his brain which might otherwise have been stuck on the noise in his head.
I honestly agree with just about everything that Dr Veer is saying here. No reinvention of the wheel, just what worked for him and putting the issues into context - it doesn't matter if we blame tinnitus for our depression or depression for tinnitus, the point is that we do something to get help for one of those problems rather than treating them as impossible to change.
All of that makes sense to me.
You're quite right, it all makes sense. It's just my personal take that the distraction strategy has never worked for me. I am struggling to imagine in purely practical terms about doing what he says. It's my problem and takes nothing away from his methods.
I watched this and its amazing.
I have a completely different approach now. I think I have been CBT without realising it. It has been working for me and since Monday my T has gone from a 9 to 1.
I also recommend checking out treblehealth.com Ben Thompson is amazing and offers a lot of advice and sound therapies. I have put together my own Tinnitus Sound Therapies and Tinnitus Shimmer gives such relief. I advise checking out on YouTube.
What have you got to loose?
Granted, it may not work for everyone but what have you got to loose when there is the possibility of relief if you are in chronic discomfort 24/7.
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Agreed, there is nothing to lose and it's worth trying. I'll check out Ben Thompson, thanks.
For me being busy (rather than trying to mask with other sounds) is the best relief from Tinnitus. If I'm involved in sewing, or reading I will suddenly realised I haven't noticed my tinnitus for a while although it's still there, loud and much too clear. On the other hand, when I'm on this site it's front and centre. Or more accurately left and side for the worst of it.
Right I agree with that in general. But I will sometimes just decide to do another activity and as I become more engrossed in that it I will stop noticing the tinnitus. You can't just will it into oblivion though.
That's how it works for me but it has to be a decision made without thinking about the tinnitus.
Why is there no cure for tinnitus?
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