Does Masking Help Lower Tinnitus After Use for Some Time?

Does masking help lower the T after use for sometime? meaning after masking, the brain will get used to it, so even without masking afterward, the T will be quiet/almost non-existent?

I'm asking cause my T doesn't really bother me, I guess I'm habituated, sometime its annoying, but never to a point I need background noise to help me sleep, during daytime I heard it, but doesn't really bother me too much especially if I listen to radio.

But if masking helps lower/get rid of T, then I'll be willing to try it. My understand is masking helps brain get rid of T by training with white noise/noise at the frequency I lost some my hearing at?

 

Think of it like spraying perfume in the bathroom. The horrible stench can go away if it's a small stench but if it's a big one then you're still going to know that it's there. If the T is small then it can go away if you don't think about it. If the T is stronger then it can go away when there's other sounds distracting your brain. If the T is really strong then masking doesn't work and a lot of people end up committing suicide.

 

wow you are pretty pessimistic

 

@s002wjh - Tinnitus really is mysterious condition and some things work for others and for others they do not. I have noticed that when I use certain masking sounds - like 'wind chimes' from a particular app, it kind of resonates with my left ear's T and after listening for a while, it can even settle a spike in that ear. I have different T frequencies in my left and right ear, and this sound doesn't do the same for my right ear. I don't know if over time it can help me cure T, but since I need masking (when trying to sleep), I will continue to listen to 'wind chimes', since it seems to soothe my T a bit. Then again white noise has the opposite effect and it aggravates my reactive T, but I don't think it can do any damage. So perhaps it is just a temporary effect, yet not sure if there is any critical concensus about this.

I have read some people telling they got completely rid of their T by listening to a certain frequencies, and I suppose it would make sense that brain maybe would be then able to detect the phantom noise. Hopefully someone knows better when it comes to the research of this stuff, whether it is promising or completely false.

 

Source?

 

For me, it simply (at times) tames the beast. It does not stop the noise. I can handle taming meaning not so harsh or whatever.

 

What kind of sources are you looking for? Stories of people offing themselves because of tinnitus ?

Here's a few of very many, if you would like more, just google away, not hard to find man.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/623763/Catastrophic-pain-tinnitus-man-death

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.the...was-driven-mad-by-tinnitus/amp/?client=safari

http://m.richmond.com/news/article_c5c400e1-8453-5c07-a2a6-57bd92256a48.html?mode=jqm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tus-died-shot-head-condition-driving-mad.html

http://www.nme.com/news/music/them-crooked-vultures-1274465

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8462355.display/