Beginning The Search For A Tinnitus Cure

An article by Adrian Featherstone. 

If you were able to ask a large group of sufferers who were looking for a tinnitus cure to describe the arrival of a tinnitus sound in their lives, a great many of them would tell you a remarkably similar story.

For so many of us, it won’t have been a case of waking up one morning to a tinnitus sound of loud ringing or hissing in our ear or ears. It was more probably a gradual realisation that this thing had crept into our lives by the back door. You see, for most people the beginning of what we come to realise is the sounds of tinnitus, starts as something almost insignificant. So insignificant in fact, that our brain doesn’t at first register it as being a problem at all, even less a threat to our overall wellbeing.

It only becomes an issue when our consciousness recognises what our sub consciousness had probably known for some time. That is, that this noise in our head is just not going away! This is the sudden realisation that says “hello we have a problem here”. It is then that the tinnitus sound comes to the forefront of our minds and into the front line of our thinking. It is then that a sense of panic takes over. It is then that the volume of the sounds of tinnitus starts to turn itself up, and turn our lives upside down.

Those of us who have lived with or are indeed who are living with tinnitus sound know only too well that the more that tinnitus sound is focused on the louder or more intrusive it becomes. This is the very first lesson we learn. But in that moment of realisation, this new tinnitus sound and the threat it represents is just about the only thing we can think about. In consequence it just gets louder.

The next consequence of living with a tinnitus sound constantly in your head is that it interferes with your sleep. In the quiet of the night when your tinnitus sound is keeping you awake that same tinnitus sounds seems to get louder and louder. There is no other sound to compete for your attention. You don’t sleep and as a result you become tired and you become stressed.

The more you are stressed, the louder becomes your tinnitus sound. An extremely vicious circle soon develops. This is a bad time and a bad place to be.

So, many of us then turn to our family doctors, only to be told that we have tinnitus and that there is little or nothing that can be offered as a cure. Hopefully we do get to be examined by an audiologist but most of us fortunately, do get told after examination that there is no physical abnormality to concern ourselves about. We get told that tinnitus sound is just something that we will have to live with.

The secret to survival and peace begins with closing your mind to your tinnitus sound and in opening your mind to trying something new. There is no one certain tinnitus cure for anyone. What we do have though are a range of approaches, any one of which might work for one person although possibly having no effect for another.

These approaches include dietary awareness, hypnotherapy, exercise regimes, relaxation, stress relief and countless others. Some of these will give some people an amount of temporary relief from tinnitus sound, whilst others can potentially offer some sufferers permanent noise reduction.

The need is to become positive and to have a positive plan to work with. To structure such a plan so that it works for you when you don’t have the knowledge or experience is going to be at best difficult. But there are some good books out there that have been put together by people who do have that experience. Some of these books have been written by people who have been through the stress and frustration of living with a constant tinnitus sound and have come out the other side.

Getting hold of such a book that gives a structure to work with in combating tinnitus is a really good starting point. The value in the book will greatly exceed its cost by giving hope, help and guidance. That has to be better than hiding under the bed covers, doing nothing and hoping it will go away or maybe just grabbing at every ill-informed piece of advice that gets thrust at you from just about everyone you meet, because that is what happens.

Well meaning as they all are, the only people who truly understand living with tinnitus sound are those who can honestly say, “I’ve been there, I’ve suffered that and this is what I did about it.” You too need to become someone able to say just that. To be able to say “I have suffered with tinnitus, but I took positive action and as a result tinnitus sound no longer has any impact on my life.”

Now that’s a much better place to be.

More articles by Adrian Featherstone:

• What Causes Ringing in the Ears.  What causes the ringing in the ears that we universally call tinnitus?
• Much Needed Tinnitus Relief.  Living a normal life with the sounds of tinnitus constantly ringing in your ears would seem an impossibility to most tinnitus sufferers.
• Tinnitus Cures That Might Work For You. With the realisation that the noises you are hearing in your ears or in your head are not going to go away comes the journey to either eliminate them or to learn to live with them.
• Alternative Tinnitus Treatment.  Most people who have found that they are living with the ringing in the ears which characterises the sounds of tinnitus will have been told by their medical practitioner that there is no known tinnitus cure.
• Subjective and Objective Tinnitus.  The sounds of tinnitus that will be so well known to those living with this condition are variously described as ringing in the ears, hissing,whistling or buzzing.
• Symptoms of Tinnitus.  Millions of people around the globe experience the symptoms of tinnitus. The ringing in the ears which characterises this complaint is especially common in the towns and cities of the industrialised western world.
• Symptoms For Tinnitus.  Ringing in the ear is one of the primary symptoms of tinnitus. Tinnitus being a condition which commonly affects about a fifth of the population aged 55 or over.
• What Causes Tinnitus.  There will be few people who have gone to a discotheque or to a live band concert who will not have experienced the sounds of tinnitus.
• Finding Your Own Tinnitus Relief.  Only those of us who have lived with the sounds of tinnitus singing away in our consciousness and who have suffered the constant ringing in the ears that goes with it truly understand the trauma tinnitus creates.
• The Early Days of Your Tinnitus. Whether they realise it or not most people have heard the sounds of tinnitus. After exposure to any very loud noise we all have a ringing in the ear to some degree. 
• Tinnitus Hypnosis.The use of Tinnitus Hypnosis and Tinnitus Hypnotherapy in the battle to clear tinnitus symptoms has long been recognised...
• The Effects of Tinnitus. Tinnitus is widely described as a condition
  in which a person hears noises where no corresponding external noise exists.
• Do Any Tinnitus Remedies Actually work?  Anybody who has had the misfortune to find themselves living with tinnitus will be only too well aware of the frustration that this debilitating condition can cause the sufferer.  
• In Puruit Of A Tinnitus Cure. Realising that the noise in your ears just isn’t going away can initiate a sense of panic and stress into even the most stoic of us. The diagnosis of tinnitus that so often follows this realisation only serves  to compound the problem still further. 
•  Tinnitus Masking. Those of us that suffer with the intrusion of tinnitus sound in our ears will know that the condition is at its worst when there is no other external noise to dilute that sound. It is at these times that tinnitus masking can be extremely effective. 
• Turn Down Those Tinnitus Sounds. The volume of your Tinnitus Sounds will almost certainly relate closely to your state of mind. When we are feeling down and out of sorts, when we feel depressed and moody we become very inward looking. Of course for the tinnitus sufferer, waiting for them inside their head there are always those tinnitus sounds. 
• Sleeping With Tinnitus Sounds. We all feel somewhat jaded when we fail to get a good night’s sleep. It seems that while we sleep our bodies recharge themselves and our minds are refreshed. When we are deprived of that resting period our energy levels and ability to get the most out of the day becomes diluted 
• Tinnitus Sound and Stress. Stress has long been recognised as being a major player in both the cause and subsequent intensity of tinnitus sound.