SoundCure Serenade Tinnitus Treatment System

Did the Soundcure Serenadetherapy work for you?

 

I just heard about sound cure today ! Please can you tell me anything about it ? I'm at the end of a short rope . Can you email me at mikebrakebill@live.com please !!!!!!!!!!

 

It didn't work fork me, it only works for people with Tonal Tinnitus upto 10khz. Mines high pitched around 12 k so perhaps second generation machine might do it but then again how do you get a frequency over 10k past the ear canal ?

 

To all,

The Veterans Administration called me today and said they wanted me to come in and try the Serenade Sound Therapy. This is something they are working with Veterans for Tinnitus. It has trickled down to the VA in Middletown Ohio. So they have someone coming in and I will be the first one in the area they will try this on. From what I have read it has been around for a while. I am just putting this out here to see if anyone’s ever used this and if it did anything for them. If anyone wants to comment please do.

I have put some information about it below.

Tinnitus Sufferers Hoping Serenade Sound Therapy Can Relieve Ear Ringing

By Larry Greenemeier | June 15, 2012| 11








Tinnitus, a condition that causes people to hear sounds such as ringing in the ears even when all is quiet, afflicts at least 10 percent of American adults. Although there’s nothing doctors can do to alleviate this discomfort permanently, new approaches to treating the problem are in the works. One of the latest is a sound-therapy device designed to produce unique tones that distract the wearer’s brain from more irritating sounds. The SoundCure Serenade Tinnitus Treatment System has received a hearty endorsement from the American Tinnitus Association (ATA), which invested $138,000 in the technology’s development and this weekend is hosting a fundraiser in Portland, Ore., to raise additional money for tinnitus research.

SoundCure, a Silicon Valley startup, made the Serenade system available this past March. It is a handheld device with headphones that produces low-frequency modulated sounds the company claims provide more relief than the standard treatment—unmodulated tones or high-pitch white noise. The tones are customized for each patient based on that person’s specific level of tinnitus, although the reprieve is temporary, experienced only when the Serenade is in use.

Reports of tinnitus are rising because of widespread use of personal entertainment and communication devices, particularly in children, according to researchers at the University of California at Irvine’s Hearing Research Center, where Serenade was first developed. In a paper published online in April by the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the researchers, who describe tinnitus as a “brain disorder,” said their device was most effective when the volume was set at a level just softer than the sounds produced by tinnitus (pdf). Tinnitus is also the most common disability among Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Other approaches are attempting to provide more permanent relief. With help from the U.S. Department of Defense, Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., is fleshing out a concept for a small delivery device inserted near the membrane-covered window—no more than three millimeters in diameter—separating the middle ear from the inner ear. Once at the membrane the device (essentially a polymer capsule, although Draper is not developing any of medicines that might be placed inside) would release a drug into the cochlea, the tubular organ residing in the inner ear that enables us to hear. The plan is to embed wireless communications into the capsule so that a patient or doctor can control the dosage. After the capsule finishes delivering its supply of drugs, it would dissolve.

Portland’s 2012 Jack Vernon Walk to Silence Tinnitus is being held June 16 with ATA contributing twice the amount of each donation of $25 or more to tinnitus research.

Serenade image courtesy of SoundCure, an Allied Minds company

 

Mike,

If you have a chance to try the Serenade device, go for it definitely. I have read about this device before and it looked very promising. I hope it works for you.

Fish

 

I am going to try it on the 20th of Nov. tuesday. I have tried everything else and I think it is worth a shot. I Dont think it is going to cost me anything. So that is one good thing. My honest thoughts on it is that it is just a Ipod with different sounds and its not going to make a different,but I hope I am wrong. I will keep eveyone posted. There will be one day when someone comes up with something that puts this noise to an end. I just hope it is sooner and not later for everyone.

 

I have been using the serenade for 9days 3/5 hours a day . Sorry no help but its still early .....

 

I've been using the sound cure serenade for 11 days and have not had any success , is there ANYONE out there that has used this ? I'm surprised that this seems to be getting little attention because its the only treatment approved by the FDA and its been out now for 8 months . It has a 30 return policy so I'm curious as to why the lack of interest . Thanks everyone .

 

I'm just amazed that there's almost nobody that's used this and it's approved by the FDA , I've tried endless Internet searches but get almost nothing !!! This device has been around plenty long enough to have more than the one person I've talked to be using it !!!! Thanks for your response .

 

Another week down and no results , I called my doctor so I could talk to other patients and she said yes but that was 4 days ago and nothing yet . I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this . How can we confirm that this device really is approved by the FDA ???? Anybody ?????

 

I went to the FDA website and in a nutshell it says that this is a masking device equivalent to neurominics . Go to there site and search sound cure tinnitus and its all there in the official report . More of the same . Sorry .

 

I didnt want to say but I've had one of these for a week now.

It was tuned in via the software and when I HAVE IT IN it sort of cancels out the T noise.

When I take it out I think the T is softer but I'm not sure about this.

I am still really unclear as to whether this is supposed to be a short-term relief thing or whether if you keep on using it its supposed to reorganise the neurons to give long-term relief.

I have 2 weeks left on the trial to decide whether to return it for my money back (minus £200).

If I had loads of money I would keep it as it is good for cancelling the noise when you put it in. But for a long-term 'cure', when its all the money you have, not sure.

 

Mike, are you still using the Soundcure ? Any updates?

 

I also tried SoundCure and was not impressed. I'm somewhat pissed off about how some products with slick advertising budgets are being touted.

I am also puzzled with the buzz about Microtransponder. This thing works on the vagus nerve. I can see how a device such as this may be effective for pain. However, I can't see how the vagus nerve has anything to do with the auditory system. Microtransponder seems to be a "product looking for a condition", tinnitus being one of several potential markets.

The ATA is desperate to make progress and find a cure. Recently I got an email from them, asking me for more money, saying that there have been so many great advancement like the above. I will pledge again, but I don't consider these two therapies "great advancements".

It's almost like we're living at a time when men were attempting to fly. Some of those early flight pioneers built crazy looking contraptions, looking like birds and bats. At that time somebody must have said, "What great progress we're making! Look at these great looking bird-like and bat-like contraptions! We're gonna fly soon! One of these damn things has gotta fly! It's in our business plan! This is the year!"

What we need are the "Wright Brothers of Tinnitus", who can invent a 100% effective cure for tinnitus.

 

Hi Mike, I've had the Soundcure for 4 weeks and have another 1 week to make up my mind. My T changed since I got it and now I done get the suppression I did in the first 2 weeks. I've also realised I cant pitch match my T. There seems to be too many pitches and sliding up and down of the sound along with general background noise. I think having a stable tone is important for devices like these as they 'notch' the sound at the pitch you match. I still like the way I get (partial) masking in the ear with it but 2k is too expensive just for that when there must be other in ear maskers around.

 

can anyone comment on the effectiveness of ATA approved soundcure device?

 

I have used it for 2 months off and on it really did not make much of a difference. It may have Changed my tone to a more constant noise. Not much. I will be keeping mine. I got it through the VA. At this point I do not think it is worth it.
I will keep using it when I can. If it really did something that help the noise. I would use it 24/7. But so far no big difference. I will keep everyone posted of any changes if any.

 

Hello,
I am trying it now along with Gabapentin +Klonopin. I just joined this support group today. The audiologist I am seeing wants me to use it more and decide if I want to purchase it. Inconclusive at this point. I had tinnitus to varying degrees from 2008. This is my first use of sound therapy. T is very hard to take. Could I ask how you acquired your T if you know?

hiss1

 

Hi Hiss1,

Are you just starting with Gabapentin and Klonopin at the same time as the Soundcure? Or have you already been taking the drugs before?

I'd be really interested in what the Gabapentin does for T.