In Pursuit of a Tinnitus Cure

An article by Adrian Featherstone.

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. With that diagnosis will almost certainly be the prognosis that this is a condition that you will have to learn to live with because there is no recognised tinnitus cure available to you today.

The first and hardest challenge to be faced is in fact the acceptance that you have tinnitus. Once that fact is accepted it becomes easier to move onto the next challenge which is, what are you going to do about it? Because there is no mainstream medical tinnitus cure available as yet, the focus has to be on managing the condition and managing your mindset.

To say that tinnitus is entirely a condition of the mind would be a long way from the truth. However to what degree those sounds of tinnitus are allowed to invade your life and dominate your thought processes will be very much controlled by your attitude of mind.

One of the first things that most new tinnitus sufferers come to realise is that the more they focus on their tinnitus the louder and more invasive it becomes. Well that is actually very good news! After all if concentrating on tinnitus turns the volume up, then surely the converse must be true, and by not concentrating on it, must the volume not be turned down?  

Although many people find it difficult to believe, a positive mental attitude can in itself produce a positive outcome to many of life’s challenges, and tinnitus is very definitely a condition affected by the manner in which you approach it.

A positive attitude towards your tinnitus is a crucial step towards formulating your own tinnitus cure. Sufferers who hold a positive attitude towards their tinnitus find it to be far more manageable than those who take the opposing negative outlook. Negativity invokes stress and stress is the single most volatile fuel on which tinnitus feeds.

So there is the next element to look at in the quest for tinnitus relief. Stress is known to exacerbate tinnitus. Louder tinnitus of course in turn exacerbates stress. Here is the start of a vicious and destructive downward spiral if it is not held in check.

Stress levels can be reduced by taking regular exercise and taking time to relax. Having something that absorbs your interest not only relaxes you but keeps attention away from your tinnitus. Those sounds of tinnitus that have been causing so much stress will fade to the back of your consciousness while you are engaged in such pursuits.

The other important strategy in coping with tinnitus, although not in itself a tinnitus cure, is the avoidance of quiet! Whilst that may seem at odds with your goal, it is when your subconscious has nothing else to focus on that it starts to focus on your tinnitus. We have already seen that once tinnitus is focused on, its presence becomes most pronounced and more invasive.

To at least keep some low level of background noise, such as a radio or a specifically recorded tinnitus masker, will help considerably to suppress the impact of those sounds of tinnitus. This is especially true where tinnitus interrupts a good night’s sleep.

The truth is that there is no all encompassing tinnitus cure but, there is a great deal that can be done to minimise the effects of tinnitus. But it all begins with some good old fashioned positive thinking.

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.
• Beginning the Search for a Tinnitus Cure. 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.
• 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.
•  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.