One of the Strangest Success Stories I Have Ever Read

The story I read is about an Italian guy, who wrote 5 years ago on Yahoo Answers. The title of the question is "How I defeated my tinnitus".

He explains that he had an acoustic trauma due to loud music and headphones. He tried benzos with no results, then Zyrtec with a minimum improvement.

Then he started to read a lot about tinnitus (like all of us) and he discovered that he could use some tinnitus maskers, but his ENT suggested not to mask completely tinnitus. (I guess the classic TRT).

But this strange guy said he wasn't convinced and, in a moment of crazyness, he decided to raise the music (the white noise) of the headphones at full volume. For 10-15 seconds the tinnitus (bilateral but louder in the left ear) disappeared completely, but then it came back.

So he decided to listen to loud music for ten days, all day long. His tinnitus disappeared completely.

 

That is strange.

My tinnitus reacts to certain sounds or frequencies by getting louder, but it does not do that to all loud noises. Oddly, I have noticed immediately after some very loud noises (like a huge metal tray dropping at the grocery store) that my tinnitus stopped for a few seconds. Because of my hearing loss, I cannot hear higher frequencies until they are nearly 90 dB loud. I wonder if it’s possible that when I hear the lost frequencies, the tinnitus stops.

Despite that, I don’t think I want to blast white noise at 90 dB for ten days.

 

I d like to try and see what happens... but I think I would die of pain and my tinnitus getting so loud that I would regret it so bad

 

Don't try this at home.

 

I read also his story but from what i know he didn’t update so you cannot be sure it is a success story

 

That sounds like a really bad idea.

 

Normally if something is too good to be true, it normally is. This is a prime example of that and residual inhibition won’t cure tinnitus.

 

It could be a troll hoping to shift other people's tinnitus into debilitating territory.

 

This reminds me of an idea I had not long after the onset of my T. I really wanted to get my head zapped with a Taser. T is supposed to be the result of neurons being stuck in a feedback loop, and a Taser just might be the thing that can break the loop and get those neurons to "snap out of it". Of course, this would probably make things worse, so I never got to try this potential cure.

 

This is a terrible idea! Don't do it! It's like when some guy said that you could charge your iPhone in the microwave. Common sense tells us that nothing good will come from blasting your ears for 10 days straight.

 

Worst idea that I've ever heard. But I do have to admit that it crossed my mind that certain loud noise might somehow "reset" my T. Does not mean that I'll test that out.

 

I use residual inhibition a lot, holds exactly for 80-90 seconds with a special tone sample a 20sec at a medium level.. Gives me 80 sec ofnear silence and repeat but would definitely not try to do this with too loud tones or for too long. I think the chance if damaging your ears further is 99.95%, if you are the 0.05% you may get lucky . Just kidding stupid idea to listen to loud music. Anyway these days I use a mixture of nature sounds plus special created sounds which inhibit my noisy ringing, and even I often put in only in one ear sometimes 24/7 btw, it works magic.. my brain does not bother that it rings, 80% better than with no masking and inhibition ... in the end I highly doubt this story is true..

 

I do think he is a troll. This person might next suggest we find a musician who plays the cymbals and then place our face right next to them <grimace> ! MAYBE .... even for ten consecutive days!!! owwwwchhhh !!!

 

I don't believe that.It must be a fake story.Otherwise we would all have been cured by now.

 

Sounds fake.. But i believe that there is a cure that no one has found out yet.. could be simple, it could even sound stupid but could work.. kinda like your idea with the zapper @Bill Bauer i Probably wouldn't try it lol. And while I'm here, my father is a welder, and he worked a lot of his life in very noisy environments, he's a little bit deafened but not much, and has no T.. When he was younger he was in the army, and partied a lot (clubs etc).. i find it amazing how he doesn't have it, and i have it after a single rave Tinnitus is a strange thing.

 

But but... The Reddit Tinnitus Cure!?!

/s

 

Everything about reddit is garbage no surprise they would think this is a fix-all for tinnitus.

 

Today I experienced my first "residual inhibition".
The train conductor didn't think twice while he blew on his whistle as loud as possible one meter from my ear.
After the initial scare my tinnitus level was definitely lower than average.
So I know now from own experience that residual inhibition can work.

Makes me more confident that if and when hair cell regeneration is possible, tinnitus could well be effected positively.
But that is not for this thread.

 

Id NOT do this. It sounds like classic internet trolling.

If loud sounds could cure T, anyone with it who wore earplugs to a rave would be cured - yet Richie Hawtin still has tinnitus. so... yeah.

 

How's your H and distorsion those days? Are you getting better ?

 

Thanks for asking.
Unfortunately the distortion is still there. My impression is that it has not improved.
Because of the distortion I am simply hard of hearing. I feel that in this last year this worsened. I was hoping my brain would get better in filling in words I do not understand during a conversation. It seems to go the other way. (Or my hearing is deteriorating even further).
Hyperacusis is still there and also not improving a lot.

 

I wouldnt try that

 

Ok, I have to share...one day when I was driving, I felt like I was going crazy, so I sorta screamed/yelled/hollered while coincidentally cupping my ear and part of my mouth, so that my voice accidentally reverberated right into my ear and it was quite LOUD...It was a bit of a shock, but the noise went waaaaay down for awhile. So now, sometimes in my car I will reenact this strange event when I'm searching for any kind of relief. The longer I "howl"..lol..the longer and better the relief...So now I'm wondering if there is something to this possible "loud noise remedy"...?