Do you know of anyone who has cured tinnitus?

I’ve had tinnitus in the ears for as long as I can remember. I haven’t had it done because of the cost, but a doctor once recommended that it may be cause by over-pressurization of the fluids in the inner ear. What they can do, apparently, is take an x-ray of your head to find out, and then just take a little needle and very carefully draw out some of that fluid. Dangerous procedure for your hearing, of course, but if it’s bad enough it could be well worth it.

Tinnitus can be caused by many, many things. To get the ear ringing to stop, you should find out what is causing it. Depending on the cause, it may or may not be curable. For instance, if it is caused by high blood pressure, there are solutions to the problem. If it is chronic tinnitus caused by long-term exposure to noise, it’s not something that can be fixed.

Approximately 1 in 5 Americans have at least mild, ongoing cases of tinnitus.

I’ve researched the topic because I have had ringing in my ears for over 26 months now.

I’ve had tinnitus for a long time. Sometimes it gets really bad. Other times I don’t even notice it. Have your pops talk with a doctor about it. There is a device which can help train your brain into not hearing it however it never really goes away.
Someone once told me that it is a gift from angels. Whomever started that never had tinnitus.

I got mine from music and am excited about a recent test see http://bit.ly/7c8IuR and take a look at this also. http://www.restoredhearing.ie/ I agree that there a lot of fakes out there and understandably so, since the average sufferer is looking for any way to stop it. A quiet area with no sound is our biggest enemy. There is usually a low level of noise that blocks it during the day, but at night when it is quiet, the ringing goes on. If you don’t have it protect your ears. It basically cost a little of one’s time to do this experiment, if anyone is interested, I can pass on what I know so far.

Oh, will keep my tinnitus, love listening to Jingle Bells all day and everyday!

Seriously, there are a lot of good information on the internet about the disease. A person’s diet is mentioned a lot in those articles. Also, keeping music on during the day helps lot of people to drown out the ringing.

Check this site out.. http://www.ohsu.edu/ohrc/tinnitusclinic/factSheet.html-

No. Both my husband and my best friend have it and every doctor and trustworthy, reputable website they have consulted has said there is no cure.

Mine’s comes and goes. I agree with reactor5. I notice it occurs when I feel I have fluid in the ears caused by a slight head cold. For me if I take something like actifed and dry out my sinuses than I notice less ringing and sometimes no ringing. But I don’t have permanent tinnitus so I do not know if it would work for that.

@judochop A gift from the angels!?!?! As if!

I have tinnitus from listening to Metallica at full blast on my walkman in high school (dates me a bit, but oh well). I would do anything to cure it but I don’t think there’s anything science can do yet.

I have noticed that it’s worse if/when I take asprin. So I stay away from it. Actually, one of the first signs of an asprin overdose is tinnitus. I would ask your stepdad and friend if they take a high dose of asprin on a regular basis.

@Cotton101 that link returns a
404, for me
at least. Here’s the main page: http://www.ohsu.edu/ohrc/tinnitusclinic/

after reading all this it seems that the cheapest way to do this is to remove your tinnitus frequency from your music. I haven’t tried it yet since I’m on my iPod, but here’s a site to find the frequency of your tinnitus. Once that’s done, I imagine it would be a trivial matter to batch edit your MP3 files in Audacity after backing them up… I’ll have to clear off some space
on my computer and give it a shot.

Hello. I am an Audiologist, and have had tinnitus for my whole life.

As noted there are many causes of tinnitus, and for most people, there is a combination of causes. When there is pressure or fluid in the middle ear, infection in the outer or middle ear, or a build up of cerumen (ear wax) in the ear canal, the tinnitus is perceived as being louder because those conditions are blocking ambient noises so the internal sounds are more noticeable.

As with so many conditions, what works for one person may not work for another. There are devices that mask the tinnitus with other sounds, devices that teach the patient to tune-out the tinnitus, and for those with hearing loss, hearing aids also offer a masking effect. Ginko Biloba is the only supplement that has been correlated with reduction in tinnitus in a significant number of patients in independent clinical studies. However, supplements are not regulated, and therefore the quality and quantity of effective ingredients on the label may not be what’s actually in the bottle. Also note that ginko is a blood thinner, so a person must first consult their physician – especially if they or their family history has cardiovascular illness.

I am on my iPhone getting a pedicure, so I can’t get links and all that. Arches Tinnitus Relief Formula is a brand of Ginko from an ENT Physician who promises quality control. I have used it, and it did relieve my tinnitus, but it did not ‘cure’ it. I did not expect it to, and their staff honestly advised me that it wouldn’t. The key is to take the supplement consistently – I am not good at doing that, but when I did, the ringing was far less noticeable and it was noticeably louder when I was not consistent.

@reactor5 gotcha….thank you!

The New York Times recently published this article about tinnitus and the effects of music therapy. It’s not quite a solution, but helped in some scientific studies.
It’s similar to what @reactor5 described with adjusting music to fit your frequency.

I’ve had it since an extremely stressful February. “Whistle’ is the best word I can come up with for mine. I read that with some people it’s so loud that the person standing next to the sufferer can hear it.

@Aster: There supposedly is such a condition as “Objective Tinnitus”, but in my 18+ years as an Audiologist, I have yet to encounter it.