Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill

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  cluckers
  May 29th, 2023
  

  

  I have major hearing loss and loud ringing in my ears from the army. I hope this helps.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  raven235
  May 29th, 2023
  

  let me know

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  granular
  May 29th, 2023
  

  Apparently, trick is to “learn to get your whole central nervous system to switch off”.
  Also, buy his book and pay for his “craniosacral” “therapy”.

  Which “uses gentle touch to feel non-existent rhythmic movements of the skull’s bones and supposedly adjust the immovable joints of the skull to achieve a therapeutic result.

  CST is a pseudoscience and its practice has been characterized as quackery.[1][2]

  It is based on fundamental misconceptions about the anatomy and physiology of the human skull and is promoted as a cure-all for a variety of health conditions.[3][4][5]”

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  erouting
  May 29th, 2023
  

  This book sounds like woo.

  To be fair I fixed a supposedly life long heart condition with breathing exercises and by becoming an endurance athlete. Took five years but I did it. That was based on the theory that the heart condition I had was caused by over-activation of the sympathetic nervous system.

  I have absolutely no idea if sympathetic hyper sensitivity applies to tinnitus but its easy enough to check. Pick a day when you have nothing else to do. Have no stimulants 24 hours before hand, sit in a quite place with no distractions and do combat breathing for a timed hour. Assuming you managed to remain calm, is your tinnitus any better? If yes, do it again several other days and see if the effect replicates. If it does you probably have an SNS issue. Keep up the breathing exercises and take up being an endurance athlete. You know, in your copious spare time.

  If you noticed no improvement then your tinnitus (and possibly tinnitus generally) isn’t caused by over-activation of the sympathetic division of the nervous system. The difference between my suggestion and this book is my advice is free and, worse case scenario, you’ll be pretty calm after an hour of combat breathing. Which isn’t a bad thing.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  cluckers
  May 30th, 2023
  

  I have tried meditation and practiced it for years. Yet if anything the quieter the environment the louder the noise. My condition is because of damage due to loud explosions. I am hearing impaired now due to this. I listened to the book and so found nothing helpful. Sigh. At least my hearing aid helps a bit. I can hear books if I use Bluetooth hearing aids. So that works at least.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  cluckers
  May 30th, 2023
  

  JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. Published online May 23, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2019.0821
  Effect of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy vs Standard of Care on Tinnitus-Related Quality of Life

  Question Among patients with subjective debilitating tinnitus and audiometric normal to mild hearing loss, does treatment with tinnitus retraining therapy with conventional sound generators result in better outcomes than tinnitus retraining therapy with placebo sound generators or standard of care?

  Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 151 participants with 18 months of follow-up, average tinnitus distress decreased in all 3 groups. There was no clinically meaningful difference in extent of reduction in tinnitus distress or other important end points among patients in the 3 intervention groups.

  Meaning Tinnitus retraining therapy with conventional sound generators is no better than tinnitus retraining therapy with placebo generators or standard of care.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  erouting
  May 30th, 2023
  

  I’m sorry you have to live with this condition. Glad you can still hear books. It seemed unlikely to me that this was an SNS issue because SNS issues are not normally caused by actual damage to the body, as with hearing damage due to explosions.

  The way to manage this if it were a pain condition would be signal interference with an implant. Do you know if anyone has tried pinpointing the frequency they hear and then phase shifting it with a physical speaker to try to cancel out the unwanted noise? That would only work if the heard sound actually exists at that frequency somewhere in the ear cancelled of course, but it seems like something that someone would have tried. Pretty simple experiment to run so I can’t imagine that someone hasn’t done it.

  Lemme check. And they have, doesn’t work. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00405-009-1145-y Well that’s the only idea I had. Hope you find a treatment that helps you.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  cluckers
  May 30th, 2023
  

  My hearing aid does just that. That is great for the daytime. Yet it sleeping that it gets bad. I have been offered surgery I don’t want the risk of doing that as I can live with it. The risk of losing all hearing is the cost of surgery and implants. Well, life happens. It is how you move on that is the rub. Ty for the conversation.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill
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  erouting
  May 30th, 2023
  

  I wouldn’t want surgery either. Thank you for the conversation and information as well.

  Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of the Ringing in Your Ears - Julian Cowan Hill

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