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Interesting. It seems my tinnitus is around freq 8200. I'll give this tool a go when I'm in a more quiet environment.

by x2f10 7y ago

peheje 7y ago
I remember when I used it the ringing totally stopped in between the calibration sounds. Does it do that to you as well? The sounds were pretty annoying but at least I could control their intensity and while going to sleep I could gradually make it lower and lower until I slept.
SNACKeR99 7y ago
Same! I'm going to try to nail it down really exactly, but so far 8,236 is as close as I've got while on a conference call :)
mav3rick 7y ago
Can you update and tell us what happened ?
- x2f10 7y ago
  Update: I tried it twice. Both times it failed. There were times between the beeps were I swore it was gone, but when I took off the headset (or muted the volume), it was indeed still there. Perhaps you have to continuously do it?
  - mav3rick 7y ago
    I am scared of trying it because of some unknown side effects:/
  - peheje 7y ago
    Hi. In original post I wrote I had ringing for a weekend. It was in fact a week. I used it 1-3 times a day. Mostly while getting to sleep or walking, I could lower the volume more and more until I slept. The ringing was totally gone in between the tones but as you know it's really a short span. You say you're used it twice and it failed, I don't think you can conclude that. You can read section 2.5 in the paper. Here it mentions treatment of 4-6 hours a day not split into sections shorter than an hour and over ~12 weeks. If you fall asleep with some earphone in maybe that also counts the time? Then it's easier to get such a high number therapy. E.g. one walk session a day for 1 hour. And then 3 hours at night until you wake up groggily and take of the earpieces and continue sleeping.
scarygliders 7y ago
Mine seems to be 9880 or thereabouts - up that high it seems to be difficult to differentiate slightly higher or lower tones. Been living with that high a tone for decades now and it's always been extremely noticeable. I always coped with it by convincing myself "that's just my brain's CPU frequency" - sounds a bit nutty but that's a coping mechanism which worked for me. Tried seeing my doctor about it a couple of years ago (UK, NHS GP) but at the time he dismissed it saying "nothing can be done" :/ This tone therapy - I'll try this and see how it goes.

Interesting. It seems my tinnitus is around freq 8200. I'll give this tool a go when I'm in a more quiet environment.

by x2f10 7y ago

Interesting. It seems my tinnitus is around freq 8200. I'll give this tool a go when I'm in a more quiet environment.

I remember when I used it the ringing totally stopped in between the calibration sounds. Does it do that to you as well? The sounds were pretty annoying but at least I could control their intensity and while going to sleep I could gradually make it lower and lower until I slept.

SNACKeR99 7y ago

Same! I'm going to try to nail it down really exactly, but so far 8,236 is as close as I've got while on a conference call :)

mav3rick 7y ago

Can you update and tell us what happened ?

x2f10 7y ago
Update: I tried it twice. Both times it failed. There were times between the beeps were I swore it was gone, but when I took off the headset (or muted the volume), it was indeed still there. Perhaps you have to continuously do it?
- mav3rick 7y ago
  I am scared of trying it because of some unknown side effects:/
- peheje 7y ago
  Hi. In original post I wrote I had ringing for a weekend. It was in fact a week. I used it 1-3 times a day. Mostly while getting to sleep or walking, I could lower the volume more and more until I slept. The ringing was totally gone in between the tones but as you know it's really a short span. You say you're used it twice and it failed, I don't think you can conclude that. You can read section 2.5 in the paper. Here it mentions treatment of 4-6 hours a day not split into sections shorter than an hour and over ~12 weeks. If you fall asleep with some earphone in maybe that also counts the time? Then it's easier to get such a high number therapy. E.g. one walk session a day for 1 hour. And then 3 hours at night until you wake up groggily and take of the earpieces and continue sleeping.

scarygliders 7y ago

Mine seems to be 9880 or thereabouts - up that high it seems to be difficult to differentiate slightly higher or lower tones. Been living with that high a tone for decades now and it's always been extremely noticeable. I always coped with it by convincing myself "that's just my brain's CPU frequency" - sounds a bit nutty but that's a coping mechanism which worked for me. Tried seeing my doctor about it a couple of years ago (UK, NHS GP) but at the time he dismissed it saying "nothing can be done" :/ This tone therapy - I'll try this and see how it goes.