New from Pennsylvania

Developed tinnitus Dec 18 2017. I have noise induced hearing loss from my work in construction. Very high pitched ringing 24/7. Joined to be around people like me and maybe get some ideas.

 

Welcome to the forum. Have the ringing caused much stress and anxiety, perhaps even sleeplessness? If so, perhaps you need to have some enrichment or masking sounds. Have you done so? Usually for new, noise-induced tinnitus, we recommend some prednisone treatment but you may be a bit late there. Here are some masking options just in case you are thinking of masking. For our high pitch T, you probably need heavy rain, cicadas, cricket, waves, waterfall or shower sound. Take care. God bless.

1) Mask at bed time if having trouble sleeping, by using a sound pillow or sound machine with pillow speakers. There are good sound machine & pillow therapy systems like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Oasis-...d-Oasis-Therapy-System-Speakers/dp/B00MH5HKTA

2) If you need masking on the go, try load an ipod with nature sounds or music using itune. If you have a smart phone, you can download free APPs for soothing or T-masking sounds. Use wisdom in the use of headphones or earbuds as extended use or excessive volume may hurt your ears. Try set the volume slightly below that of your tinnitus.

3) With PC & speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds to see which one masks best:

TT's excellent audio player: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/audioplayer/

or this online sound library, particularly the self-mix nature sounds: https://mynoise.net

or download free sound generator ‘aire freshener’: http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

or click play to mix these sounds with this simple sound generator: http://asoftmurmur.com/

or search youtube with words like 'tinnitus masking sounds', 'white noise', 'rain sound' etc.