Hi Tinnitus community,
it's been over 10 years I suffer tinnitus and want to offer people some hearing samples that work (always temporarily) for me. Among them you'll find shower,waterfall, vacuum noises...Let me mention here I'm not a specialist, ENT doctor or whatsoever but experienced on myself what works and what doesn't.
Thus literally it'll be one more of those tinnitus blogs but too much on that topic is never enough to cheer up and bring "daily strength"... This comes from a personal incentive in search for mutual help, and wish others will do the same.I'm sure some of you after or during stressful events/tiredness can't help searching the web hoping to hear of some technique,device, medical progress was newly made to heal that harassing whistling. ...During those "tinnitus crises" when it reaches its highest level, you might attempt getting a new working sound too, so would I...
Then here is my point, to create some kind of library of sounds directly associated to an efficiency rate and persons feedbacks.
Actually I noticed that those noises in real conditions (not coming out of speakers) temporarily damped my tinnitus (few minutes relief before coming back), especially shower and vacuum (most efficient) noises. I guess this is nothing new to most people reading this however it's always useful to read about something that works in relation to tinnitus even to some reduced extent, not mentioning people ignoring the short-term benefit of sound therapy. This is certainly due to these noises covering the whole human hearing range of 20-20000 Hz. To remain in line with TRT assays I'd suggest not to listen to it loud as after a while the tinnitus always strikes back quite dramatically increasing as though the brain tuned itself to the sound. Likewise the idea is to pitch the sound to the tinnitus level enough to let it be slightly perceived.
TRT treatment has not revealed to be efficient on everyone on the long term and is expensive. Then for those who can't afford it or merely or are not willing to spend money for eventually quite little outcome, here is a batch of relieving sounds on which I'd like your feedback. Indeed, I don't believe there is anything such as a universal sound cure for everyone but still that could be interesting to know which sounds work on whom so to possibly later constitute a database/statistics everybody could consult.
Research moves slowly forward in that field and one is never better served as by oneself so let us people try to come up with new ideas other than the mainstream ones since all TRT treatments seem to use the same white noises and that other treatments are far from being successful yet. Moreover most researchers don't suffer this condition to make science sincerely go forward and research funding raise doesn't follow either given the few available academic or clinical scientific publications.
Thanks all for your help and reading that post! :) Sounds which you can download (click on "share" of desired sound icon, then on link to mp3 and at last download) are following right hereafter.
SHOWER sound:
WATERFALL sound:
WIND sound:
TAP WATER sound:
JACUZZY sound:
CLASSICAL WHITE NOISE sound:
3150 Hz sound:
4000 Hz sound:
6000 Hz sound:
11000 Hz sound:
14000 Hz sound:
