Does anyone here suffer with tinnitus?

[Hardbopjazz]

Does anyone suffer from tinnitus? If so, anything you do to help decrease the ringing or take your mind off the ringing?  

[xybert]

Yup. Mines not too bad, similar frequency to a CRT TV. It's always there but not bad enough to keep me from sleeping etc and i can forget about it sometimes.

No tips for decreasing it sorry mate. I'm conscious of things that exacerbate it like caffeine, alcohol, being tired, being sick.

I do everything i can to avoid further damage.

 

[mjzee]

I find that when the ringing gets louder, it's related to higher blood pressure.  As I relax, the ringing decreases.  See if you find whether that relationship works for you too.

[xybert]

55 minutes ago, mjzee said:

I find that when the ringing gets louder, it's related to higher blood pressure.  As I relax, the ringing decreases.  See if you find whether that relationship works for you too.

That reminds me, being stressed is another things that exacerbates it for me.

[Hardbopjazz]

My daughter is the one with tinnitus.  She does have  anxiety/stress which I think  elevates  the ringing.  

[rostasi]

I've subscribed to this channel called "MyNoise" for years. About a year and a half ago, the fellow who runs it began a video blog and the latest happens to be about tinnitus. He has some information at the beginning about sound masking - which is a relatively common way of masking it (I don't have tinnitus, so I'm going by what I've read and heard from others), but his personal story at the end is interesting. Anyway, he has a very soothing way of describing the various ways of dealing with the various kinds of tinnitus. Maybe it could be of some help if you're interested in knowing more:

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I have been sleeping with a fan for decades. It dramatically helped me sleep through my tinnitus.

When I travel, I use an app on my iPhone called White Noise Lite. As an added benefit, it comes with a large clock display, so I use it as a noise maker and a clock. I bought a magnetic charge stand and it travels everywhere with me. This is the stand:

It's only $14 on Amazon. You need to have a MagSafe charge cord and a newer iPhone that supports MagSafe.

[rostasi]

Does it allow you to listen to a laundry machine in a rainforest?

2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I have been sleeping with a fan for decades.

Sounds like something Frank Zappa might've said... 🥁brummph...

[Brad]

When I first had tinnitus I purchased a white noise machine but over time I found I didn’t need it. 

On 4/23/2017 at 12:10 AM, Hardbopjazz said:

My daughter is the one with tinnitus.  She does have  anxiety/stress which I think  elevates  the ringing.  

I realize Hardbopjazz’s post is is over nine years old but when my tinnitus was bad years ago, anxiety would definitely make it a little louder and I used to internally talk to myself to relax the anxiety level. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.