Long Term Tinnitus Management Strategies

Hi Folks,

Anyone aware of a posting / document / book that outlines approaches for long-term tinnitus management? Not thinking about shorter-term / specific actions, but more on a general guide to how to maximize quality of life with tinnitus in the long run?

Thinking about it myself, the categories I think that a document like that should cover would be something like.


1. Prevention of Additional Damage
- Noise
- Medications

2. Management of Sound environment
- Enriching background noise

3. Sleep Management
- Sleep Hygiene
- Sleep Monitoring - Quantitative / Qualitative

4. Stress / Depression Management
- HADS / Periodic assessment
- Mental Health checkups

5. Breakout / Spike Approaches
- What to do during a spike / bad period

6. Focus / Attention Management
- Approaches to remove attention from T

7. Diet Management
- Evaluate any trigger
- Supplements (if any)
- General good diet

8. Health and Fitness Management
- Health checkups
- BP / Cholesterol
- TMJ etc
- Periodic hearing evaluation

9. Support and Social Management
- Maintenance of social / friends / family
- Engagement with local communities
- Online Engagement
- Network building

10. Review and support for new therapies
- Assessment of new approaches / Clinical Trials
- Evaluating participation

Cheers.

Peter

 

A good read is Living with Tinnitus by Laura Cole (who is @Cheza on Tinnitus Talk) found on Amazon.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/introducing-my-new-book-living-with-tinnitus.26125/