Very Recent Onset of Tinnitus

[Mark Mandell]

Unlike a fair number of those posting here, I'm quite fortunate that this very recent onset of tinnitus has been "benign".

When I consulted my primary care doc a few days after it appeared(as a very high pitched hiss sound which I immediately knew was tinnitus), he recommended flavinoids but I was skeptical they would work and so I didn't take that route.

A few weeks later, I consulted an ENT who I'd seen before for a neck related condition. He cleaned out a wax buildup in the right ear but also made an appt. for me with for an MRI (this based on the very remote possibility of having a neuroma if one ear is afflicted.....mine actually is in both ears as far as I can tell).

The other thing is that mine is intermittent so that there might be two or three days where I'm good followed by it coming back.

I have read encouraging reports about notched sound therapy with white noise so in lieu of wearing hearing aids I decided to acquire a pair of $50 Bluetooth hearing buds in connection with playing a YouTube video notched at my particular frequency. It does take several months for it to work based on a report I read.

 

[Bill Bauer]

You seem to be on the cusp of being cured. If I were you, I would just give it time. There is a good chance that yours will fade and go away. Using earbuds and some sound therapy can potentially (if unlikely) make it worse.

Check out
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...eone-else-who-has-tinnitus.26850/#post-307822

 

[maccebu]

I believe my tinnitus was actually caused by cheap headsets. Without noise-cancelling capability, I normally max out the volume to hear the music playing especially when I'm outside. With noise-cancelling you don't have to do this.

I was also into white noise when it started by over time, I kinda accepted it and began to not really think of it at all.

Trust me it gets better in time.