Tinnitus Lenire® Therapy - Successfully reduced tinnitus

[Hopeful108]

Hello, I came across an article that says the Lenire has just received approval and is being offered in the UK for £3,500 - a bargain! You listen to a sound for an hour a day for a few months. I wanted to find out if anyone has had any success with this or any other therapies? What actually works? Has anyone tried hypnotherapy? Sound baths? Accupuncture? Please share your success stories and any other info you have about the Lenire. Thank you.

[TinnitusUKPat Partner]

Hello Hopeful108

There may be some confusion here in the story you're referencing. Lenire has been available in the UK for a number of years. It was initially available via maker Neuromod Devices office near Dublin and has since been offered via a number of audiology professionals in the UK.

It has been approved for use as a class 2 medical device since March 2023 in the US via their Food and Drug Administration - accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_doc.... This is the most recent change in availability for the technology.

Lenire is an option to consider for people whose tinnitus is tonal and consistent and where overall hearing loss is considered minor. It is expensive, which is a caveat to be aware of. With that said, it is not much more expensive than a pair of mid-range, high quality hearing aids purchased privately via an audiology clinic.

The evidence base for the therapy is limited to that provided by existing users of the device, which doesn't negate the results but does place it in a context. The TENT A1 research study results on the effectiveness of Lenire can be viewed here - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

In transparency terms, Neuromod and the Lenire device has sponsored our annual conference, previous public events run by our charity and are corporate members of some standing.

With best wishes

[Cookie24 in reply to TinnitusUKPat]

Good info

[doglover1973]

Hi Hopeful. I don't have a problem with Lenire itself but choose a clinic carefully - if you decide to try it. There are some unscrupulous people out there. Ask T UK before you embark on anything and read every single review you can find - including Trust Pilot. Keep your expectations in check. T is unpredictable. Treatment is experimental. Habituation is the Holy Grail and - and it's often free.

[Hopeful108]

I posted the same question on various tinintus facebook groups and received a lot of advice to avoid the Lenire, some say research excluded placebo control and also that for some people it made T worse.