Sound Therapy International?

Work for free? of course not.. but £37 for a downloadable ebook? it seems a bit on the high side...

 

Hi all. This is my first post, I'm doing it here because I've ordered the Level 1 listening program from Sound Therapy Perth and will probably only post in this thread. Although it is pricey at $600ish if it does help it will be money well spent. I know a woman who swears it has helped her, so that has given me confidence in this method.

What I'm somewhat concerned about is that after reading Rafaele Joudry's book Triumph over Tinnitus I came away convinced that I'd be provided analogue (cassette) recordings and not digital, because she explains analogue is the only way to ensure all the frequencies in the music are pure. However I've just read on the Sound Therapy Perth website that they have a transfer method from analogue to digital that ensures the true high frequency harmonics are preserved and that they provide a Screen Max 3 digital player with the music pre-loaded. We'll see how it goes.

I'll try to keep an update going here to chart my progress. My tinnitus is constant buzzing, louder after coffee. Damn it. I live in a fantastically quiet house and look forward to hearing its calm and complete silence again.

 

Correct, i've noticed also that digital music/sounds bother my T and analogue music is soothing.

 

I would not set for myself the goal to obtain complete silence again. You set the bar too high. If I were you I would set as a mark of success a noise that has a volume and a type that you are ok with.

Something that does not bother your thinking, concentration, sleep. Your goal, in my opinion, should be to be content, not necessary to have complete silence. It is an easier standard to achieve.

 

Thanks Dana, I'll keep that in mind and aim first for content. But a quote I read a long time ago has stayed with me: Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. If I don't end up with silence, it won't be because I haven't tried.

So an hour after putting up my first post in this forum today I bumped into the woman I mentioned and I had the chance to quiz her about her experience. She was practically suicidal when she first heard of sound therapy five years ago, and using the cassettes it took her three months of listening at least three hours every day to beat it. She said it has come back a couple of times, but she gets out the tapes and it goes again. Sounds promising, although I do understand we are all different. She also said I could've borrowed the tapes and saved a heap of money. Doh! Mine should arrive in the next day or two, I can't wait to get started.

 

I can't find any scientific study or clinical trial about this, except a paper describing the experience of ONE patient.
Is there such thing as a clinical study for this method?

 

Smart words there! Everybody take note!

 

The player arrived on Wednesday (it's Friday today) and I got started immediately. They suggest only listening for an hour or so each day for the first week in order to avoid over-stimulating the ears. That's hard to do, I'm finding it very relaxing and have been listening at least two hours per day, maybe more. There's been no change with the tinnitus, although I didn't expect there would be yet. Most noted benefit so far is that wandering around the garden in spring time has become even more pleasant, if that's even possible.

Unicorns...now there's a cause I hadn't considered Pleasure_Paulie

 

ha. Finding the exact cause of tinnitus is often about as impossible as seeing a unicorn!!

 

So, time for an update on my progress with the Sound Therapy. I've listened to about 120 hours and although the tinnitus is still there, I've been having periods where I'm not really noticing it until I realise it has just started again.

For the last several nights I've been sleeping a lot better and waking up feeling charged and ready to go. Last week for a few days I was waking feeling super tired and sluggish and staying that way for a good part of the day - the Sound Therapy book said that could happen, usually just before great improvement. Fingers crossed I'm nudging the great improvement stage, although apparently a lot of people experience that around the 300 hour listening mark.

I feel a lot calmer at the moment, more likely to overlook things that would usually annoy me, stupid drivers excluded.

So, completely off topic but pertaining to unicorns, here's something to make you smile and maybe help you in ways you'd never before imagined.

This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop -...

 

Thanks @Ja

Thanks for the update and glad it’s helping.

Keep us updated on the progress.

 

Any updates? Im excited to try this therapy.

 

Hey Joe. The tinnitus is still there but I'm not as aware of it as much as I usually am. It isn't as loud as it was before I started the Sound Therapy, so I'm feeling positive about it. Things are definitely improving. I've listened to about 180 hours, so still short of the 300ish most people say got them the results they wanted.

Have just had a really loud in-law staying for more than a week so I've been copping a lot more volume than I usually do and coped pretty well with it. It seemed to help having the earphones in and music on while in the vicinity of his bellowing.

 

I purchased level 1...2 and 3 and used it for a solid year for hours and hours every day and slept at night with it, didn't touch my tinnitus, doesn't mean it wouldn't help someone else I guess

 

Hello Mark,

I have noise-induced T in my right ear for over 2.5 years and am always looking for ways to help myself (and others) cope.

Masking (with my smart phone app, music, etc) really helps me forget about T for a few hours but it is always a hassle since I am usually on the go.

The lead singer of Coldplay copes with his T by wearing high-tech frequency matching ear pieces, however, ones that I found run $1,500+ and require a visit with a specialist (increasing the price even more).

Is there a low-cost ear piece available (under $50) which has a general masking pitch that drowns out most T?

I occasionally see general low-cost, non-custom over-the-counter hearing aids and think that this would be a great over-the-counter device to be available to the masses. -- Preferably not needing to be connected to a smart phone app (since that can be clumsy for folks like me).

I know this is a loaded question and please excuse my 'layman terms'.

 

Absolutely dead right,
and hopefully “achievable!” x