I am no expert

Hi Pkndr,
You could make an evaluation appointment with an otologist or neurotologist. They are otolaryngologists with specialized training in, among other items, vestibular sensory systems of the ear. One will certainly be able to guide you toward a helpful solution.

If you find none in private practice near you, a hospital medical system will have them available for consultation & follow-up.

Insurance companies generally cover this as they do any other medical specialist visit.

Hope This Helps!
Paul

The cochlea is the size of a pea. It is filled with a fluid the maintains the function of the hair cells. If you breach the cochlea and the fluid leaks out, all the hair cells die. So there are challenges.

Tinnitus doesn’t just reside in the cochlea though, it’s in the brain. If you simply server the auditory nerve, tinnitus will still be there for a lot of people even though hearing is gone.

But tinnitus fluctuates. If you got it recently, there’s still a good chance that it will fade, but the process takes years not months. What you need to do at this point is find strategies to manage it while you’re waiting for it to fade. If you think about it all the time and pay attention to it all the time, your brain will think it’s important and focus on it more and then it can get louder (this is obviously simplified, you and your brain are not separate things). If you’re good at distracting yourself, telling yourself it’s not dangerous, generally being calm about it, you’re brain will be like “oh, unimportant" and fade it out over time.

Sometimes it’s really useful to find an audiologist who works with tinnitus patients to support you in this if you’re struggling with doing this on your own. Hearing aids can also be a substantial help.

Tinnitus

Had it longer than I can remember.

Don’t know whether I only have it when I am awake. Or whether it’s 24 hours a day

I figure it must have some use. So I’ve made it my stress monitor. If it’s really bad I ask myself, “what am I stressed about? “.

Maybe I meditate. Maybe I take some Rescue Remedy. Or Passion flower

I don’t drink. Or I’d drink a lot

Hope this helps.

oh. I’ve read TheEmotion Code. Bought the book on Amazon.

Dave L

I always thought the idea that hearing aids helped with tinnitus was incorrect, at least in my personal experience. I didn’t doubt that some people got relief from tinnitus with aids. Tinnitus takes many forms, and not everyone has the same experience with it. But in my case, the four pairs of ReSound aids I’d gotten over the years with full-service audiologists, the last of which used the ReSound tinnitus app, made no difference to my tinnitus, in or out of my ears, with or without the tinnitus app.

Until I got Jabra Pro 30s from Costco (which does not support tinnitus reduction with an app or aid settings). These are by far the best aids I’ve had for speech clarity. Yes, as others have complained, they’re a little loud in the default All Around mode, but I’ll take it, because the speech clarity is so much better for me. But I didn’t even notice until I’d had them about a month: my tinnitus which previously was loud enough to interfere with my speech comprehension is all but gone when the aids are in. (Tinnitus does return at night when the aids are out, but it doesn’t keep me awake or bother me, as I’m used to it.)

So yes, now in my experience, too, the right aids, set the right way, can greatly reduce tinnitus. Color me amazed.

@hamjor1 said:

So yes, now in my experience, too, the right aids, set the right way, can greatly reduce tinnitus. Color me amazed.

It’s always good to hear about hearing successes.