Has Anybody Ever Got Long-Term Relief from Sound Therapy?

[Paulmanlike]

Either notched music, ACRN, any others, has anybody got permanent or long lasting relief through these methods? And how long did you try it for? I'm sat here with tones playing in the my ear....just another 5 months to go. :-0

 

[glynis]

Sound Therapy is to help you cope better while your brain builds up its own natural filter and not see tinnitus as a threat .

Sound therapy gives you a option to listen to other sounds and not let your tinnitus sound distress you while you get use to it.

It is not a tinnitus fix.
Once you feel like you can cope with the sound emotionally and sleeping well then sound therapy is optional.

Love glynis

 

[RudyL90]

Yes, by listening to pink noise in my earbuds 24/7 for a few months time, my reaction to the sound is now almost completely gone. At this point I do not need masking during daytime anymore, which is a great relief for me. The sound is still the same, sometimes even "worse" than in times I was still bothered by it, but I don't care.

 

[Paulmanlike]

I played some white noise before and I woke up and I couldn't hear, it was still playing but it took me a while to tune into it. I guess this is the process of habituation.

I thought this ACRN is designed to actually lower the volume of tinnitus by making longlasting changes to the overactive neurons responsible for tinnitus?

 

[RudyL90]

I played some white noise before and I woke up and I couldn't hear, it was still playing but it took me a while to tune into it. I guess this is the process of habituation.

I thought this ACRN is designed to actually lower the volume of tinnitus by making longlasting changes to the overactive neurons responsible fo

I experience the same. In the morning I often do not hear the masking sound and sometimes I even do not hear my tinnitus then.
My audiologist told me that the brain will bring the masking sound to the background and thereby the tinnitus with it.

I don't have any experience with ACRN, I don't know what it is. :')

 

[maltese]

I thought this ACRN is designed to actually lower the volume of tinnitus by making longlasting changes to the overactive neurons responsible for tinnitus?

Yes, something like that.