The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
Is there evidence that caffeine can reduce tinnitus volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: caffeine and tinnitus diet and tinnitus
Here is an idea that I've always found intuitively ridiculous: the concept that dietary changes can modify your tinnitus tone volume. Now - most of you are probably aware of "EBooks" that purport to "cure" your tinnitus in an "all-natural" way, usually involved some combination of dietary modifications and new-age...
Tinnitus Volume Mayo Clinic
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 25, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: mayo clinic tinnitus tinnitus volume mayo clinic
The Mayo Clinic is considered a good resource for patients who want to acquire a basic understanding of their illness and also to seek clinical diagnosis and treatment for whatever symptoms they're experiencing. Lots of people seeking to reduce the volume of their tinnitus will likely look for resources like the mayo...
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....
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...
Can an old drug (D-cycloserine) reduce the cognitive side effects of tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: D-cycloserine tinnitus tinnitus research
Extremely interesting new research indicates that some tinnitus patients found a subjective improvement in their cognition when they took D-cycloserine: People with tinnitus perceive ringing in their ears and this phantom noise can cause difficulty concentrating. A new noise doesn’t make the perceived noise go away—but...
Tinnitus may only be curable in an initial 6 week window
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: furosemide tinnitus
New research on animal models indicates that a commonly used drug, Furosemide, may be effective in treating tinnitus: Six-week treatment window Mulders’ research suggests furosemide is only therapeutically effective in the first six weeks after hearing loss, when auditory neurons appear hyper-excitable. “There is...