Worsening tinitus

[Kell46]

Hi all,I'm asking for any helpful advice/information on how to help my poor husband, who has had tinitus for many years now ,he has managed to cope in he's on ways for sometime now,but recently the tinitus has has gotten so much worse,with no down stretch like he had before, no new medication to blame or anything...we've tried pretty much everything now...but hoping something or someone can help,kindest regards kelly

[Covenette1]

hi Kelly, it’s awful when your T increases and you don’t know why, does your husband wear hearing aids? As we get older and our hearing deteriorates T seems to increase because you aren’t hearing all the sounds around you as clearly, so T jumps in and fills the gap so to speak. Also stressing about it, as you know, just ‘feeds’ your T, so relaxation techniques might help. There is lots of useful advice on this site for you to access as well. Hang on in, your husband can do this! Wishing you both a happy and quieter 2024. Kim x

[Gardenhack]

I can sympathise with your husband having had tinnitus for some years now.

It seems to get worse when ever I am stressed. No medication etc., makes any improvement. The best thing I find is to try and manage a walk in fresh air for at least half an hour a day. Sounds odd but it does work. My tinnitus is far worse at night when I have taken out my hearing aids. I found that listening to piano music whilst going to sleep masks the tinnitus a little and makes sleep easier. I think it is because it is at the right pitch to mask tinnitus.

Hope that this might help and that you and your husband have a more positive New Year.

[Cookie24 in reply to Gardenhack]

Can you suggest an app with piano sounds? My tinnitus is high pitched eeeeeee noise.

[Gardenhack in reply to Cookie24]

I use an Echo Dot and ask it to play "Gentle piano music" it plays continuously so I often fall asleep to it, but any piano music seems to work as it is at a good pitch to help partially mask my tinnitus and it is soothing.

[Cat-Mother in reply to Cookie24]

Hi. I use an App called Relief. It has lots of sounds to choose from and you do a mix of the ones available until you get the right sound to mask, or lessen, the T.

[arthursseat]

I have had tinnitus for well over 30 years now and was very fortunate in being able to welcome it as a friend when it got worse some years ago. Sound foolish, I know, but as it is there anyway so I found by welcoming it and almost talking to it gradually helped. My hearing also deteriorated and I had hearing aids thinking they might make it worse but I found that being able to hear so many sounds I hadn't for a long time overrode the T. Perhaps looking at new hearing aids boosting normal hearing is worth looking at. Have your husband try to welcome it, not try to wish it wasn't there at the same time as 30 minutes of relaxation breathing. Regularly doing this will eventually help. John.

[rabbits65 in reply to arthursseat]

I agree with you, I too welcome the T , it just came naturally to me to welcome it, after all I said you appear to want to stay. Thanks for posting this arthur .

[EvilAries]

This anti-Tinnitus sound therapy sounds awful but listening to it for at least 30 minutes seems to lower my T when it is spiked. I listen to this laying down with ear plug in affected ear. Hope it helps. onedrive.live.com/?authkey=...

[doglover1973]

Hi Kelly. I'm sorry to hear about your husband's T . It's not easy when T gets worse. This happened to me three years ago - as a result of hearing loss. It took me a year or so to adjust to the louder sounds. Agree with arthursseat Someone gave me similar advice at the time. Don't try and push T away. Embrace it if possible. Strangely enough when you do this it becomes less intrusive.