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I hope this comment reaches anyone suffering from tinnitus. My tinnitus is so bad that I’d … well good news is, I found a great way to manage my brain melting

I hope this comment reaches anyone suffering from tinnitus. My tinnitus is so bad that I’d … well good news is, I found a great way to manage my brain melting tinnitus. Step 1: YouTube-dl this blessed sound: https://youtu.be/8indTo2ykPw?si=izyTOg4gYvnfsqZs https://youtu.be/8indTo2ykPw?si=izyTOg4gYvnfsqZs (Plz tip the guy) (You should be able to tell just by listening to the sound that it immediately cuts out the tinnitus— if this sound print doesn’t work for you, there may be others that work better. But I have let other tinnitus sufferers wear my headphones and they all say it makes the tinnitus go away completely) 1a: (cut out the dialogue in the beginning with audacity) Step 2: buy a pair of these waterproof mp3 ONLY (it’s an appliance) bone conduction headphones: https://a.co/d/aqqhPm9 https://a.co/d/aqqhPm9 Step 3:put the mp3 you ripped on the headphones and remember what a normal life feels like The only times I realize I have tinnitus is are right before I fall asleep, right when I wake up, and once a day for 20 minutes when I need to charge my headphones. And I want to emphasize my tinnitus sounds like the screaming sun planet on Rick and Morty. It’s really bad. But thanks to this technique I only experience pain a few minutes per day. Good luck everyone.

burnte 3y ago
I'm thrilled it works for you and I'm sorry yours is so bad. Mine is average I'd guess, but I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I've had it since early childhood so I think I learned to tolerate it better, I can mostly ignore it these days. So I'd just say to other people, be careful with those apps/sounds, you might get dependent on it VERY quickly.
- upghost 3y ago
  Oh yeah, I’d give anything to hear the real silence again. Someone sent this to me as an FDA treatment that’s new, but I haven’t tried it: https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/ https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/ I’m hoping for some “silence tourism” once in awhile!
  - seviu 3y ago
    Lenire is snake oil Avoid it
  - WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
    Tinnitus hub gives some reasons to be skeptical. https://www.tinnitushub.com/heres-why-the-jurys-still-out-on-lenire/ https://www.tinnitushub.com/heres-why-the-jurys-still-out-on... I suspect we don't know the cause of tinnitus in many/most cases - even when we think we do. I think that makes finding cures a lot more difficult.
    - upghost 3y ago
      Yeah. It sounds like I could just lick a 9v battery once in awhile and get most of the “benefits” haha. But hey, I’ll give anything a shot at this point!
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
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    - upghost 3y ago
      XD
      - Obscurity4340 3y ago
        > ...I'd give anything to hear...silence again... SILENCE!!!
  - KomoD 3y ago
    > I’d give anything to hear the real silence again Same, I was unlucky enough to get it at ~16-17
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  > I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I was like that when it was a lower volume. When it got louder persistent sound became important (I use rainfall over speakers). The day it suddenly became shopvac-in-the-room loud, I had to use earbuds and a noise app (beltone's underwater blurbing) at mid-volume to keep my sanity.
bloopernova 3y ago
How loudly are you supposed to listen to that sound? Like, at the threshold of hearing, or blasting it, or something in between? Thank you for sharing it, I am hopeful it helps me :)
- a2800276 3y ago
  Just try it out? It's bound to be fairly individual.
- upghost 3y ago
  Not that loud, actually. With the bone conduction headphones you hear the sound “inside your brain”, which is convenient bc that’s where I hear the tinnitus too. I turn it up a little when I get “flashbangs”, but for the most part the pattern itself just scrubs the noise. I actually don’t even really hear the pattern most of the time unless I stop to think about it.
cryptonector 3y ago
That's a very pleasant noise. It doesn't make my tinnitus go away though.
- rowanG077 3y ago
  Do you have bone conduction headphones?
  - cryptonector 3y ago
    No, but I'm thinking I'm going to buy some, yeah.
- upghost 3y ago
  I noticed the relief immediately when I heard that noise, so if it doesn’t, might be worth shopping around for a tinnitus scrubber sound that works for you. The gentleman who made that noise in the link I posted makes many others. My tinnitus is in the very high frequency range, above 15.5khz, and I don’t think is tied to any hearing damage— at least as far as the audiologists can tell. If you have a lower frequency ringing you might need something closer to “brown noise”.
MegaDeKay 3y ago
Link without the share id generated by youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8indTo2ykPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8indTo2ykPw
rngname22 3y ago
yt-dlp is the active/best fork of youtube-dl for anyone who needs it
actinium226 3y ago
Wow, that's amazing, how have I not stumbled on this sort of thing before? Like some other commenters I'll probably stay away from it for now since my tinnitus isn't too bad and I think the "just accept it" strategy is right for me, but that's awesome that you've managed to find a solution and work it into your daily life. How long have you been doing this?
- upghost 3y ago
  It started in April and got progressively worse. By June it got so bad I couldn’t sleep any more and had trouble coding and kinda flirted with a nervous breakdown. Feel really lucky to have stumbled across this little hack.
nurettin 3y ago
I think I got more tinnitus from this.
ricccardo 3y ago
I might be late to this, but I was wondering, do you use a special audio player for this? I've dabble with these kind of audio tracks in the past (although without the bone conduction headphones) and a major issue was that i couldn't listen to anything else on the phone without stopping the tinnitus track. Not because it's on the same audio player, but because Android has some sort of system-wide control about which app gets to have audio "focus" at any moment.

burnte 3y ago

I'm thrilled it works for you and I'm sorry yours is so bad. Mine is average I'd guess, but I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I've had it since early childhood so I think I learned to tolerate it better, I can mostly ignore it these days. So I'd just say to other people, be careful with those apps/sounds, you might get dependent on it VERY quickly.

upghost 3y ago
Oh yeah, I’d give anything to hear the real silence again. Someone sent this to me as an FDA treatment that’s new, but I haven’t tried it: https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/ https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/ I’m hoping for some “silence tourism” once in awhile!
- seviu 3y ago
  Lenire is snake oil Avoid it
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  Tinnitus hub gives some reasons to be skeptical. https://www.tinnitushub.com/heres-why-the-jurys-still-out-on-lenire/ https://www.tinnitushub.com/heres-why-the-jurys-still-out-on... I suspect we don't know the cause of tinnitus in many/most cases - even when we think we do. I think that makes finding cures a lot more difficult.
  - upghost 3y ago
    Yeah. It sounds like I could just lick a 9v battery once in awhile and get most of the “benefits” haha. But hey, I’ll give anything a shot at this point!
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
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  - upghost 3y ago
    XD
    - Obscurity4340 3y ago
      > ...I'd give anything to hear...silence again... SILENCE!!!
- KomoD 3y ago
  > I’d give anything to hear the real silence again Same, I was unlucky enough to get it at ~16-17
WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I was like that when it was a lower volume. When it got louder persistent sound became important (I use rainfall over speakers). The day it suddenly became shopvac-in-the-room loud, I had to use earbuds and a noise app (beltone's underwater blurbing) at mid-volume to keep my sanity.

bloopernova 3y ago

How loudly are you supposed to listen to that sound? Like, at the threshold of hearing, or blasting it, or something in between? Thank you for sharing it, I am hopeful it helps me :)

a2800276 3y ago
Just try it out? It's bound to be fairly individual.
upghost 3y ago
Not that loud, actually. With the bone conduction headphones you hear the sound “inside your brain”, which is convenient bc that’s where I hear the tinnitus too. I turn it up a little when I get “flashbangs”, but for the most part the pattern itself just scrubs the noise. I actually don’t even really hear the pattern most of the time unless I stop to think about it.

cryptonector 3y ago

That's a very pleasant noise. It doesn't make my tinnitus go away though.

rowanG077 3y ago
Do you have bone conduction headphones?
- cryptonector 3y ago
  No, but I'm thinking I'm going to buy some, yeah.
upghost 3y ago
I noticed the relief immediately when I heard that noise, so if it doesn’t, might be worth shopping around for a tinnitus scrubber sound that works for you. The gentleman who made that noise in the link I posted makes many others. My tinnitus is in the very high frequency range, above 15.5khz, and I don’t think is tied to any hearing damage— at least as far as the audiologists can tell. If you have a lower frequency ringing you might need something closer to “brown noise”.

MegaDeKay 3y ago

Link without the share id generated by youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8indTo2ykPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8indTo2ykPw

rngname22 3y ago

yt-dlp is the active/best fork of youtube-dl for anyone who needs it

actinium226 3y ago

Wow, that's amazing, how have I not stumbled on this sort of thing before? Like some other commenters I'll probably stay away from it for now since my tinnitus isn't too bad and I think the "just accept it" strategy is right for me, but that's awesome that you've managed to find a solution and work it into your daily life. How long have you been doing this?

upghost 3y ago
It started in April and got progressively worse. By June it got so bad I couldn’t sleep any more and had trouble coding and kinda flirted with a nervous breakdown. Feel really lucky to have stumbled across this little hack.

nurettin 3y ago

I think I got more tinnitus from this.

ricccardo 3y ago

I might be late to this, but I was wondering, do you use a special audio player for this? I've dabble with these kind of audio tracks in the past (although without the bone conduction headphones) and a major issue was that i couldn't listen to anything else on the phone without stopping the tinnitus track. Not because it's on the same audio player, but because Android has some sort of system-wide control about which app gets to have audio "focus" at any moment.