The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
Why Hope?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: hope and illness stoicism suffering
Why hope? It's a simple question. Despite the best efforts of medical science, and despite the existence of treatments that can lessen your suffering, there still exists no cure for tinnitus. I regularly get e-mails from people who have slipped into despair. They tell me that they can't sleep because of the noise. They...
Tinnitus Pillow
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus insomnia tinnitus pillow
Some of our users have e-mailed us regarding the possibility of listening to Notched Sound Therapy in their sleep. Would this work? What would be the efficacy of this? Although we don't have any clinical evidence that Notched Sound Therapy would work overnight, it's not necessarily an unreasonable thing to try....
Tinnitus Forum rTMS
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 18, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus Research
Tags: rTMS forum tinnitus rTMS tinnitus
For people suffering from tinnitus, they often want to learn about the experience of others with a particular treatment. One good source for this information is forums. Consider the following forum links to discussions on rTMS: Tinnitus Talk Forum thread on rTMS Tinnitus Support Forum on rTMS Unfortunately, the...
Famous People Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 16, 2014
Categories: Celebrities with Tinnitus
Tags: famous people tinnitus
What are Symptoms of Tinnitus? Tinnitus is an unusual health condition that physicians do not completely understand. In addition to affecting ordinary everyday people, there are famous people tinnitus sufferers attempting to cope with the strange symptoms. Patients visiting physicians or audiologists describe hearing...
And then it rained
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 13, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: personal story Tinnitus
When I was 22 years old, I went out with some friends to a nightclub. I was in my first year of medical school. Like most people my age, I wasn't concerned with noise trauma (despite being a medical student). The next day, I noticed the ringing in my ears wasn't gone. I started to research tinnitus. I became panicked -...
Residual Inhibition for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 10, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: residual inhibition tinnitus Tinnitus
Some of our users have noticed that listening to their tinnitus frequency using our tinnitus tuner, and then turning the computer generate sound off, can result in a temporary reduction in their tinnitus tone. This is a known phenomenon that has been studied and is known as residual inhibition. To read more about this...
Musical tonnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 27, 2014
Categories: AudioNotch
Tags: musical tonnitus
From the British Tinnitus Association, an interesting review of Musical Hallucinations - otherwise known as musical tinnitus: What is musical hallucination? Musical hallucination (MH) is the experience of hearing music when none is being played. Hearing sound that no-one else can hear is quite common, but the...
Tinnitus Desperation
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 21, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus Desperation
What Can Cause Tinnitus? Anyone dealing with constant ringing and clanging noises in their ears will have tinnitus desperation that leads to visiting multiple physicians for medical treatments. No one knows exactly what causes tinnitus symptoms, but many medical experts have theories concerning the condition. In many...
Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve tinnitus vagus nerve vagal nerve stimulation tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Here's an overview of our posts on vagal nerve stimulation for tinnitus as a therapy: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tinnitus New Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Study Approved Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting...
A musical composer copes with tinnitus through art
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 16, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: art and tinnitus tinnitus and composition
Tinnitus can be an extremely debilitating affliction. Sometimes people are devastated by the illness. Take, for example, the story of one young composer by the name of Fishkin, who was unable to continue in his field of work because of tinnitus. Creating an art show that incorporates sounds reminiscent of tinnitus was...