How to Set-Up Your Home to Minimize the Hearing Your Tinnitus?

The only way I don't hear my tinnitus is when I have music on my laptop. The TV does not mask it.

Anyone has any tips for planting devices at home to run nature or other soothing sounds to minimize the sound tinnitus?

 

Loving my Amazon Echo to play music through the day.
Love glynis

 

HI @Dizzyhead888

You haven't had tinnitus long and I understand that you want to mask it so that it can't be heard, but this isn't a good idea. If you mask tinnitus (cover it up) so it can't be heard, your brain will not learn to habituate to it. By all means use nature sounds for sound enrichment but their volume should be kept lower than your tinnitus. Please click on the links below to get a better understanding of the use of sound enrichment, tinnitus and habituation. If you haven't had tests on your auditory system at ENT yet then I suggest you do. If it is stress and anxiety that's caused your tinnitus, a referral to a Hearing Therapist or Audiologist for the treatment and management of tinnitus can be helpful. More about this is explained in the links below.

Try to read the posts in full and not skim through them.

All the best
Michael

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/should-i-mask-my-tinnitus.17964/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/the-habituation-process.20767/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/acquiring-a-positive-mindset.23969/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-and-the-negative-mindset.23705/
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/is-positivity-important.23150/

 

I love my echo, too! I received an echo dot for Christmas and a small wireless Bose speaker. Paired together the sound is wonderful. I have it play music during the day and switch to cricket sounds at night.