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...better, there were days were it was barely noticeable but it reminded me it was there from time to time. So today I got my hearing aids. About 20 minutes after having them on/in, my tinnitus went thru the roof. It was nice in the MD office, I didn't think it was there anymore. But it...

Hang in there @SharonBell. Have you seen an ENT to at least explore hearing aids? I know it doesn't work for everybody, but they helped me!!

Good morning all! I'm having a senior moment here and am hoping someone can jog my brain... in 2014-2015, I came across an article about a French study of a type of hearing aid referred to as a FOLD aid. It's not a brand, it's a descriptor of the aid itself. I can't remember the link for the...

I am pretty sure my tinnitus is at a high frequency, much higher than what hearing aids can produce. For example, when I drop an Allen wrench on a tile or solid floor, the resulting reverberation creates a very temporary residual inhibition for me. This effect lasts only as long as the noise...

For your interest. Not necessarily a recommendation! See your ENT first anyway. Lidl are flogging hearing aids --- they call them hearing amplifiers, not hearing aids --- for the price of 10 EUR each. For you out Stateside, that would come to circa 18.50 USD for the pair. In the instructions...

Basically give me a price for low end hearings that is reasonable and a price for high end hearing aids that is reasonable. I like a pair of high end ones but they just seem so expensive for being so little. It definitely helps with my tinnitus though.

...mean silence is actually helpful for you. Why not try wearing earplugs when you go outside? I would consider wearing earplugs with hearing aids over them. The hearing aids can help keep the volume at a controlled level so you can still hear people, while the earplugs offer protection from...

...I was getting old and crotchety.. :) We only discussed options for dealing with the tinnitus. At one point he mentioned hearing aids and I sort of jumped on that idea and we didn't discuss anymore options.. but then I came to find out my insurance doesn't cover hearing aids. I'm...

Deaf individuals with tinnitus can't mask the ringing, making their experience particularly challenging.

...though there was a long wait to get started. However, over the past few days, I’ve noticed a new sound in my right ear. Along with the ringing, there’s now an entirely different noise, and it’s not something I can easily ignore. I manage to mask it somewhat with my tinnitus app on my hearing...

Maybe we should view it all like a football match. We all want our team to win the World Cup, but it takes a few years to train a good team. With diligence, hard work, and a good trainer, a team eventually develops that can coordinate things well. At some point along the way, we may even get a...

I'm very sorry that you went through the trouble of getting hearing aids, and they do not help. I do not think that any permanent harm has been done to you by them, but I don't remember many people saying that they helped with their tinnitus. I've had tinnitus for almost 7 years and I wouldn't...

...All that progress seems to have been undone by just a few sessions. Has anyone ever recovered from this? Most stories I’ve read about pure tone exposure suggest that the new spike becomes the baseline, along with further hearing loss. Would hearing aids at least make the tinnitus more bearable?

I really hope the hearing aids help me deal with my tinnitus; I have never had as loud tinnitus as I have now, and I do not have much hope of improving at this point.

How are your hearing aids tuned? Do they play low-level pink noise or are they tuned to amplify certain frequencies? Have they helped with hyperacusis?

...COVID-19 booster. I'm trying "sound therapy" with Widex Zen behind-the-ear maskers to try to habituate. But I wonder if amplifying hearing aids would be more helpful. My hearing is within normal range in both ears (at least up to 8000 Hz), but my left ear threshold is about 10 dB lower...

I think this is a pile of absolute junk. We already have cross hearing aids that do that.

If you have hearing loss like I have then the tinnitus becomes more noticeable I find hearing aids are a great help.

The latest research has shown that hearing damage, whether or not an audiogram is normal, is necessary for tinnitus. This does not mean everyone with hearing loss has tinnitus, but it is necessary for tinnitus (Shore, Djalilian, etc.). Benzodiazepines are not ototoxic. Ototoxic means it causes...

I've had 2 audiograms up to 8 kHz - they showed perfect hearing. My tinnitus is bothering me during the day and I feel like I would benefit from in-ear sound enrichment from either streaming my sound apps to a wireless earbud like Apple AirPods or getting a hearing aid that has a tinnitus...

I have used several Oticon hearing aid models, including the OPN 3, More 1, and currently, I’m testing the Intent 1. These are all (mini)RITE-type aids, where the device sits behind the ear, and the speaker goes into the ear canal. There is, of course, a wire connecting the device to the...

...tires, yet the noise persisted. At this point, I wonder if it might be my hearing. I recently had it checked and discovered I will need hearing aids. I am not sure if the noise is from hearing loss at high and low frequencies, but my tinnitus has spiked as well. I even tried three sessions...

...as a coping mechanism, though I limit my headphone use to 90 minutes a day. Are all your tones maskable with white noise when using hearing aids? Unfortunately, mine aren’t—only the high-pitched ones are—so I turned off the masking. Music or white noise in the background doesn’t really help...

...prevent noise and music from triggering my tinnitus, which would greatly improve my quality of life. I have some questions regarding hearing aids. First, I have very narrow ear canals and am concerned that a receiver-in-canal (RIC) device may not fit. The behind-the-ear solution I tested...

...the age of 25, in both ears. Vertigo, motion sickness, hearing loss and yes, tinnitus. Over the years my hearing has got worse. I have hearing aids in both ears. My tinnitus screams 24/7 to the point that it's like my head's in a glass oven on full blast. Sleep is a nightmare, I need meds to...

Hello, I have just joined the group and thought I would introduce myself and tell you my story. I have had tinnitus since 1986 and both ears usually need syringed yearly at my GP surgery, as I suffer with excess wax and narrow ear canals. This service was stopped this year and so had to have my...

Anyone have any success using the notch therapy function of the Signia hearing aids? Seems interesting.

...as middle ear myoclonus. Professor Bance is the go-to expert for this. As I understand it, pulsatile tinnitus is not usually connected to hearing loss, so I'm unsure if hearing aids are relevant in this case. It sounds like you may have been dismissed, which, unfortunately, doesn't surprise me.

Do not ever touch them unless you have an actual hearing loss below 4 kHz. I have severe reactive tinnitus, and the use of hearing aids to play crickets very quietly for less than an hour set me back for weeks or months, and I perhaps have not fully recovered. Do you have hearing loss anywhere...

...to help me sleep, but there were many days when getting out of bed and facing the day felt impossible. I will say that earlier in my recovery, using hearing aids, with white noise playing through them, was the first thing that genuinely helped. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Glad you resolved that issue my elder brother. Now that you stopped pulling your hearing aids out, you can work on not pulling your pecker out as the neighbors may get vexed with your eccentric behavior. Love and hugs to you and the family. Stay well Elmer. Daniel

I live in the mountains so I can step outside any time and extract myself to pee any damn place I want, with or without my hearing aids.

Hi all, new here! After nonstop reading on the subject of tinnitus, this paper gives me hope!

I also wonder what shooting amplified sound waves into the cochlea is doing to the undamaged hair cells. We've already observed low-frequency sounds damaging both low and high-frequency hair cells as well as higher frequencies damaging adjacent hair cells.

...no more than six frequency points, broadly within the range of human speech. The goal seems to be finding just enough evidence to sell hearing aids, which is frankly embarrassing. When you consider how hearing loss occurs and the variety of tones present in everyday sounds, hearing aids can...

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...I track it constantly while working, even with background music or podcasts playing, and I still notice it outdoors. I have tried hearing aids with different types of noise, but nothing masks it. Does anyone with hearing loss across all frequencies only have pure tone tinnitus? Has anyone...

Let your son know that extremely severe tinnitus after acoustic trauma is often temporary, and it usually improves over the course of months or years. Habituation also tends to develop over time, making everything more manageable. In the meantime, tell him not to panic. Encourage him to stay...

...frequencies. What I've noticed is when I put on the hearing aid feature, the outside sounds are amplified, and when I take off the hearing aids. Everything sounds much softer, including the ringing. I'm not sure if this is good for reducing my T or not. It seems to be working, but I...

Hi @SueX, Just wondering how your hearing is going. Have they managed to stop the pulsatile sound? I have similar issues. There is a right-sided neurovascular conflict seen at the trigeminal root entry zone, caused by the ipsilateral superior cerebellar artery. And, like you, there is...

...it was a waste of time because: I will inevitably have high-frequency hearing loss. I don't have any prior test results for comparison. Hearing aids are ineffective at high frequencies. Knowing my tinnitus frequency doesn't impact current treatment options. It won't affect future treatment...

If you do get insurance to cover hearing aids, I strongly suggest considering devices that produce pink, white, or brown noise. In my case, pink noise provides a slight sense of comfort. I use these devices when my tinnitus becomes severe. As for audiologists and even ENTs, there is often...

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I just recently got hearing aids too. But I feel like my tinnitus has gotten worse with them on because now I'm hearing more noise which makes my tinnitus worse. I'm trying to decide if I should keep them. I have 2 weeks left to decide.

They actually make frequency lowering hearing aids in which they can convert higher frequency sounds to be heard at lower frequencies. However, tinnitus can often be at higher frequencies. What if there were such a device that took lower frequencies, amplified them, and converted them to...

Listening to white noise through hearing aids or AirPods can be beneficial. It will improve your mood;

Hearing aids are different than sound machines. I think that hearing aids give you the perfect hearing that you didn't know you were missing.

...best surgeons can't restore it 100% if there's scar tissue or issues with the stapes footplate. This study is one of the first I've seen regarding bone-anchored hearing aids and tinnitus. The one they used in the study is the Med-El Bone Bridge, which is pretty advanced. The other one is the...

Hearing test done. It hasn't changed so that's good. I had hearing aids adjusted so that I can wear them. They were way out, to the point that any loud noise had me pulling them out.

@Juliane. Have your tried hearing aids yet?

Yes, I've heard it. It sells hearing aids and is merely a hypothesis as far as I'm aware.

I believe you're wrong. Each person's case is as unique as a fingerprint. Sound, intensity, and every other factor vary from individual to individual. The only thing common to all is the source - the DCN, and the cause - hyperactive fusiform cells.

...Counseling for distress. Tinnitus can be emotionally overwhelming, and counseling can help manage its impact on your mental health. 2. Hearing aids. If hearing loss is detected, hearing aids may provide some relief. 3. Medications. Look into established protocols, such as: - Dirk De...

I'm going in for my second set of hearing aids. My first were Widex Moments with the Zen Tones. They didn't do much for my hearing or tinnitus. Supposedly, Widex's strength is in its natural sound, but maybe this isn't so relevant to me because I will never hear a "natural" sound again. My...