Steve

It was the ACRN one you made. Is it normal for your frequency of the tinnitus to change a lot? As I can seem to keep to one frequency!

Yeah I really think waves will help me. Its so calming for me. I love the sound of it.

Have you got any files for 6910htz? I seem to be on this just now! But wondering if there is a site i can download the files?

thanks again Steve!

It can be normal for the pitch to change. It happened to me when I first tried the ACRN device.

If you PM me I can help work up some audio files for you.

Thank you! that's very kind of you to say.

Hi. Your best bet is the free generator that one of our members created. Go to http://generalfuzz.net/acrn/

If you want a more general sound I have some sound files. The above link is very close to the actual treatment.

Thank you. Makes sense. What has been the most successful protocol for using the audio files. Simply playing the for hours at a time in the background with earphones?

I personally think that listening time should be less than an hour per session, with maximum 4 hours per day. Otherwise the sound gets into your head.

Try listening for 20 minutes each time, spacing the sessions out over the day.

Hi. Yes I do still get ear fullness. I am 99% certain it is related to muscles. I had an enforced period awn from the gym recently and noticed that the fullness had dropped. When I went back to the gym I realised the link and have much of the fullness back.

My issue is around the neck.

Hi Tom.

There are things that you can try to help yourself out. It's really down to finding out what feels like it makes the tinnitus better or worse, then trying things out and experimenting with different therapeutic approaches.

There is loads of info on different treatments around the site.

Thanks Jeff. Only noticed this message now, sorry :)

Hope you had a great break. Things are not too bad, although my ears are a bit blocked, have had a cold that just keeps giving.

Hi Fiore. The ACRN treatment is designed for a single frequency, the advice they give is to pick the frequency that is the loudest for you. It isn't tested to use on multiple frequencies at once.

You need to make sure you have matched the loudest tone and work on that one first.

Hi. I kept contact and chased it a few times but it just went quiet. The last I heard the people at MAPS were looking at it but I got no replies from them http://www.maps.org

Hi JJ. My personal preset is Neural Drops, that works the best for me (after much playing around to get it right). I like to use animate too sometimes.

I use Propellerhead Reason for most of my music work, I only use Audacity for notch filtering as the notch filter there is really good. All of my Neuromod work has been in Reason.

Hi. I'm afraid that we don't know the full detail but we are working to get more for the next videos. There isn't one answer for tinnitus, rather that this patient responded to a particular medication for a diagnosed underlying cause.

Hi Ricardo. Yes I did and thanks for the comments, always nice to hear it's helping someone.

Definitely! I've been habituating, but when my tinnitus gets a little annoying; I just plug in and zone out :)

I have heard that before and I've played with something similar, it seems to help a little but I find that having periods of silence or mixing tones like this with others works better than a constant flow of the same noise.

All I can suggest on the trumpet playing is that you use a noise monitor and check the volume level and then see what your earplugs attenuate. Should help to understand if the volume levels may be dangerous over the length of time you play.

There are some reasonably good apps to gauge volume for phones, at the worst they will give you a good idea of the level.

Hi Bob, yes that's me.

I haven't got anything reliable to base success rates on but the number of up votes versus down votes on YouTube suggest it's more helpful than not. Best I can say for now, though it would be great to run a trial of sorts to see how it can work.

Hi Bob.

With a hissing tinnitus it isn't the easiest to pin down any frequency. I made my general tracks for this type but they are experimental. They're in the free downloads section on the main forum page, just scroll down to see them.

One thing with these types of audio therapy is to reassess your tone, so if you're notching audio you may well find that after a few weeks you tinnitus tone has changed.

side effects mostly involve effects from not sleeping from steroid

ENT said it was the adrenaline produced by my steroid and my natural production cycle , right around 9m

Hi. Wonder if when you lie down it could be the way you're sleeping? If you're putting pressure on your jaw that can intensify the sound, bit like when you clench your teeth.

I used to sleep a different way but now sleep on my side and am pretty careful about the right pillow that's supportive, not cheap fibre ones.

Hi Tim. There really is no right or wrong thing as people seem to respond differently to each treatment.

One thing I can advise is that in the early stages you need to forget about it as much as possible. Whether that means listening to sounds (soundscape, nature etc), gaming, fitness, work... What ever you do make sure you aren't in a position to focus on the T.

Try both and see if they feel like they are helping, best way to make the decision.

The scale is exponential - for example A = 440Hz, next A is 880Hz, then 1760Hz, then 3520Hz, then 7040Hz and so on.

The higher the frequency the bigger the gap needs to be for us to hear a difference in pitch. For example the gap between A4 and B4 is 53.88Hz - the gap between A8 and B8 is 862.13Hz.

Thanks Steve, i have a T of 12000 hz, so which track you have made till know covers the most?

Well, maybe nothing specifically at the moment but I can have a look at making a track that goes up to that frequency. I can use some of the higher frequencies to create a file using only those frequencies near your T.

Hi. Unfortunately you need to be able to hear tones both above and below your tinnitus frequency, so using the neuromodultation technique isn't suitable Are you sure it isn't around 7500-8000Hz? Sometimes an octave can be confusing when you're trying to find the pitch (speaking from experience).

If you visit the general fuzz site you'll see what the ANM sequence is and see what you can hear.

Hi. The highest frequency is close to 10,000Hz - it's musical so it isn't precisely there, I think it's 9956Hz (D sharp).

Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your reply. So because i'm not technical, if somebody could help me to make a mp3 musical with tones arround 11500 hz. f.e. 8805 hz, 10316 hz, 12531 hz, 15997 hz or a wider range. The webapp http://generalfuzz.net/acrn-hifreq/ helped me a lot. Thanks a lot.

I don't have any way of recording it unfortunately, used to use Soundflower but it stopped working. If you are on PC you can use Audacity (free software), see here http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html

Hi. All I can say is that it sounds pretty awesome, I think that everyone here would love that. It is probably very strange though as you will have all of a sudden lost a frequency that has been there and it probably feels like you are missing something in your hearing?

If it was me I would probably use sound enrichment (music or anything really) to stop me from thinking about it too much.

It was about how God helped him through the hard times. He wanted to encourage others to not give up and trust the lord. Don't seem fair to turn that message into debate of religions. Some are being vary mean to him.

I hope I acshly got in with the people I ment to reach! Theres four diferent numbers involved hear. And two arnt even on the webpage. There registered in my phone.

Guess what? My dad thinks fluid in my middle ear is my problem. This idea is supported by my new ear infection in my right ear again. This time they gave me Zithramax and Iv taken two doses of it, but I just learned that its one of the worst tinnitus causing meds out there. Do you know what else I could try? My ear infections are hard to get rid of.

Doing some very quick research it looks like it is ototoxic in high doses, that doesn't mean that it can't be in lower doses too. It did seem like people recover after they stop from what I've read.

You really need to ask your Doctor about it, tell them that you are concerned, they should look at your medical history and give you the best one that isn't ototoxic at all.

Hey Mick, no worries there, I'll MP3 the files and mail them over and see if that does anything, although I have found they work best at high quality.