Hours of Relief

The weirdest, most wonderful thing happened today. I listened to an old half hour TV show on YouTube with headphones. It was a BAD recording. Probably something from someone's VHS recorded over 3 times. Anyway, it was not like our digital stuff nowdays, it was unclear and had a LOT of hissy scratchy background noise. Oh, the most annoying part, it wasn't stereo, and it was audible only to my left ear, my bad ear. I had to concentrate to understand the words. It was worth it - it was a funny show. When it was done, I took the headphones off and my tinnitus was GONE !!!!!!!!!! For a few hours anyway. This is the first silence I've experienced in decades. It was wonderful - that old familiar stillness. I just smiled and smiled. So I'm going to gather up clips like this, and I'm going to experiment with stereo 'hissy' clips too. I suppose it's like masking AND the 'listening' excercise together. I'm not giving up yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! Try it!!

 

Wow, great news, keep us posted what happens.

 

That's terrific! It could be residual inhibition. As I have mentioned here and elsewhere, I am able to turn off my tinnitus with a shower, which generates high frequency sounds. It doesn't always work, but when it does, it lasts for hours or even the whole day. -G

 

That's great news! Somehow it makes me feel hopeful!

 

Huh, didn't you just find another technique that worked about as well a couple weeks ago? I think you're on a roll.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/a-few-hours-of-silence.2870/

I'm somewhat surprised you'd get such strong and long-lasting residual inhibition from this, and not from say, a shower which hits all frequencies at once.

Residual inhibition, for me, generally lasts seconds. A lot of times when the shower stops it'll be gone for a few seconds and then it'll slowly work itself back into it's usual electrical stream. Before my spike, I'd say there were also plenty of times I couldn't detect my T when changing environments; like after coming home from a noisy Wal-Mart, it'd take several minutes for me to detect it again.

 

I'll never stop trying.

 

Thats amazing. I can imagine this alone is hope for others. It can go away, even if only for hours