The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

Here is a link to an abstract on a paper about the effects of Lidocaine on tinnitus. Lidocaine is a medication that is used as a local anesthetic and an anti-arrhythmic agent (suppressing cardiac arrhythmia) . Via brain imaging, it was found to produce both increases and decreases in the loudness of tinnitus. This constitutes proof that there are pharmacological pathways that can be manipulated in order to effects changes in tinnitus volume.
Using a single-blind placebo-controlled design, we mapped lidocaine related changes in neural activity, measured by regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) with (15)O-H(2)O positron emission tomography. Intravenous lidocaine … Continue Reading

Recently, AudioNotch has been getting a lot of queries about how we interface with clinics that might refer their patients who suffer from tinnitus to our service.

We’re increasingly making inroads into a broader interaction with the outpatient tinnitus treatment setting, and excited to work hand in hand with clinicians in treating tinnitus sufferers. A lot of physicians are frustrated by the paucity of helpful treatments available to them. They hate having to say “just deal with it” to people who are suffering tremendously from tinnitus, or merely offering treatments that help them to cope with it, instead of directly lowering … Continue Reading

Gingko Biloba. Is it a natural cure for tinnitus?

A double blind, randomized controlled trial is considered the gold standard in experimental design and the best way to determine if true causation is present (i.e. whether or not a real treatment effect is seen with a given therapy, in a medical context).

This type of experiment is designed to eliminate the presence of various forms of bias and determine what’s really going on.

Here is a link to a paper that tested whether or not Gingko Biloba is effective in treating tinnitus. The conclusion was as follows:
50 mg Ginkgo biloba extract LI 1370 given … Continue Reading

Testimonials have a long a storied history in the world of marketing. Indeed, you’ll note that we display one on our landing page. For a variety of consumer products – say, for example, a type of cleaning agent – testimonials might be enough. They might sway you to make a purchase. However, in the field of medical therapy – testimonials are not enough. Testimonials alone shouldn’t convince you that a particular medical treatment is efficacious in treating tinnitus. Testimonials, which really amount to anecdotes (and this is assuming they’re even legitimate), are the lowest form of evidence available. The reason … Continue Reading

Homepathic Cure. Tinnitus Treatment. Natural Remedy.

These are the keywords that people are searching for when they’re looking for tinnitus treatment online, and it’s unfortunate.

A great deal of tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any type of effective treatment. They’re willing to try multiple therapeutic options in their quest for a cure. Homeopathic tinnitus treatments are widely available and marketed aggressively on the internet. Under normal circumstances, individual patients might be unwilling to try alternative treatments. However, due to the apparent paucity of effective tinnitus treatments, some will purchase Homeopathic medications.

Save your money. They don’t work.

Homeopathy is based on a wildly … Continue Reading

Astute users will notice that the sound files for Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy have absolutely no digital rights management restrictions. This is intentional – we deliberately refused to put any type of digital locks on the files that we provide to our users.

Why? The simple reason is flexibility – if a user pays for our subscription service, then they should have the right to listen to it using any device that they want. For some, this may involve using an MP3 player on a train ride to work. For others, it will be via headphones connected to an office computer. Others might want to … Continue Reading

Hi Everyone,

I’m very happy to announce that we now have a free trial available for anyone to use. We’re providing a brief sample of streaming Notched White Noise. We recommend that you tune your tinnitus tone as carefully as you can, and after you do so, listen to the Notched White Noise for 2-3 minutes, then take your headphones off. We’ve heard anecdotal reports that users have experienced a reduction in tinnitus volume after only several minutes of listening to Notched White Noise.

As always: make sure you’ve matched your tinnitus tone as accurately as possible with our tuner in … Continue Reading

I make an effort to meditate daily for a variety of health reasons. Meditation has been shown to yield structural changes in the brain that help us to deal with stress and to improve our emotional regulation. There’s a movement sweeping across North America right now which is advocating mindfulness meditation, a meditation practice that involves coming into the present moment as much as possible.

I personally have found meditation to be the best habit that I’ve ever introduced (apart from regular exercise). I have also found it to be useful in aiding me in coping with my remaining tinnitus. National Public … Continue Reading

If you look around our web site and read our in-depth F.A.Q., you’ll notice that we’re very careful not to market ourselves as a tinnitus cure. Be extremely skeptical of anyone marketing themselves as such, since the threshold of evidence that one needs to meet in order to describe something as a cure is very high. As of yet, there is no cure for tinnitus – in most cases, it is caused by an extremely complex reorganization of neurons within the brain, and reversing this reorganization safely and selectively is no easy task.

AudioNotch, when used correctly, should lower the … Continue Reading

It’s difficult to explain the suffering caused by tinnitus to someone who doesn’t have it. In fact, many people suffer from a mild form of the illness, in which they can hear a faint ringing in silence (indeed, the prevalence of tinnitus in total silence is much higher than in the context of ambient noise).

It’s frustrating for individuals with severe tinnitus to hear comments like, “Oh, that ringing in your ears? I sometimes get that. It’s not so bad.”

It’s critical to understand that the louder your tinnitus volume, the more you suffer. There is a difference between trying to do … Continue Reading