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My tinnitus is usually not bad enough to be bothersome, but when it gets painful, I listen to https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.ph

My tinnitus is usually not bad enough to be bothersome, but when it gets painful, I listen to https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.php https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera... That's not just noise, it does... something... that provides instant relief. That site also has a great variety of background sounds which you can adjust and combine in myriad ways.

didgeoridoo 9y ago
Holy. Crap. I just listened to that for 5 minutes and my tinnitus (which was pretty bad today) just vaporized. I feel like my jaw has relaxed for the first time in weeks. How did I not know about this??
- jpindar 9y ago
  Weird, huh? The sounds are similar to tinnitus in frequency, but since they vary, your brain hears them as musical rather than noise... I guess.
  - jpindar 9y ago
    Which doesn't explain why the relief persists after you stop the sound. As an electrical engineer, it's as if tinnitus is the audio processing part of your brain being phase locked on one audio frequency and these external signals make it lose the lock.
- burnte 9y ago
  After reading your comment, I loaded that up and played it for several minutes. I've never heard ACTUAL silence before. I have tinnitus from a couple of bad concussions when I was a kid, and I've always had at least a quiet tone in my ear. This is weird!
certifiedloud 9y ago
Wow thanks. I had no idea how much my tinnitus bothered me until I listened to that and felt the relief. It felt like water was being drained from my ears!
randlet 9y ago
One of the modes on my hearing aids plays "fractal" tones [1] that are fairly effective in quashing my tinnitus in a quiet room (where my tinnitus is the worst). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWMa7fEH-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWMa7fEH-4
dguaraglia 9y ago
Definitely trying this next time I feel my tinnitus getting worse. It hasn't been too bothersome, seems to be the consequence of some cisplatin chemo I had to do years ago. Thanks for the link!
dvtv75 9y ago
Thanks! I found this site a year or so back, but lost it in a browser crash (of sorts). Haven't been able to find it until now, so you're a (figurative) life saver!

didgeoridoo 9y ago

Holy. Crap. I just listened to that for 5 minutes and my tinnitus (which was pretty bad today) just vaporized. I feel like my jaw has relaxed for the first time in weeks. How did I not know about this??

jpindar 9y ago
Weird, huh? The sounds are similar to tinnitus in frequency, but since they vary, your brain hears them as musical rather than noise... I guess.
- jpindar 9y ago
  Which doesn't explain why the relief persists after you stop the sound. As an electrical engineer, it's as if tinnitus is the audio processing part of your brain being phase locked on one audio frequency and these external signals make it lose the lock.
burnte 9y ago
After reading your comment, I loaded that up and played it for several minutes. I've never heard ACTUAL silence before. I have tinnitus from a couple of bad concussions when I was a kid, and I've always had at least a quiet tone in my ear. This is weird!

certifiedloud 9y ago

Wow thanks. I had no idea how much my tinnitus bothered me until I listened to that and felt the relief. It felt like water was being drained from my ears!

randlet 9y ago

One of the modes on my hearing aids plays "fractal" tones [1] that are fairly effective in quashing my tinnitus in a quiet room (where my tinnitus is the worst). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWMa7fEH-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWMa7fEH-4

dguaraglia 9y ago

Definitely trying this next time I feel my tinnitus getting worse. It hasn't been too bothersome, seems to be the consequence of some cisplatin chemo I had to do years ago. Thanks for the link!

dvtv75 9y ago

Thanks! I found this site a year or so back, but lost it in a browser crash (of sorts). Haven't been able to find it until now, so you're a (figurative) life saver!