The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

Here’s an interview where Barbra Streisand talks about her tinnitus:

There’s something important about this anecdote: Streisand acquired tinnitus years before her singing career, and despite that, became tremendously successful.

This isn’t to disparage the very real, and individually variable suffering of tinnitus patients, but to acknowledge that this suffering can be overcome with the right tools.

It’s interesting that unlike most musicians with tinnitus, Streisand’s doesn’t appear to have been caused by noise induced hearing loss (and from the interview, it sounds like she has an element of hyperacusis symptoms as well).