Tinnitus: How to go from Habituation to Silence
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- I have been asked several times to explain how I moved from habituation of tinnitus to silence. I try and describe it here. Please be aware this is how it worked for me, I am not a tinnitus expert and I would see Dr Kiran Jumani - ENT Consultant if you want specialist care for tinnitus. I do not provide specialist care for tinnitus.
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Vik, your first video years ago pulled me out of a suicidal spiral. The timing of this one is perfect as I unfortunately had a terrible recurrence over Christmas, and am now in this habituation phase as things settle down and the tinnitus ever so slowly fades. I’ll be listening to this one on repeat, no doubt. Hope your next videos are not too far away 😊
Thanks Vik your Videos really helped me through a really difficult 12 months with my tinnitus was In a really dark place got bad for me in November 2022 but got down to a level where I don't notice it and if I do I can ignore it again hopefully it will keep improving to where I don't notice it anymore..got my tinnitus almost 5 years ago from using an angle grinder cutting steel in 2019( no ear protection) but I learned to get used to it and habituated but in November 2022 it got bad ( my ears were blocked I have narrow ear canal ) but I didn't now it at the time and it got really loud and intruding and I got kicked out of my habitation and I feel into deep depression and anxiety but your video help me alot didn't help right away but it slowly help when I felt at my lowest I would watch it and it would give me hope again...I'm almost back to where I was and getting back to injoy life again I'm about 70% there and I would like to say thanks for your videos it really gave me hope and I'm on the road to recovery..Thank you Vik Veer all the best in life and God bless you 🙏🙏Hopefully Your Videos will help someone else going through a though time with their tinnitus...hopefully a cure for it soon in the future 🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
Amazing, thank you. I am so pleased that it helped you. take care.
@@VikVeerENTSurgeoni don’t get how i got mine from a sinus infection
@VikVeerENTSurgeon You said there were 2 follow on videos but I can't find them?. Mine tinnitus is really loud and I hear it all the time above other things like the car. How do you distract from that?.
Veer. You are a brilliant Doctor. Anyone would be lucky to have you as their ENT referral. Great video, thanks (I've been down multiple tinnitus rabbit holes over the years. I've had it most of my life, bit it doesnt bother me anymore). Keep up the great work. Nick, Toronto.
Your video about getting rid of tinnitus helped me overcome it, thank you so much. This is the next level I will try. Wish you the best.
Yup this works. I fall asleep to music, I don't hear it anymore.
great to hear. well done.
Did you have tinnitus for a long time?
No need just sleep to the sound of Tinnitus im in 4 months now i sleep with nothing
This is a Godsend. I am catching up my videos and my tinnitus has been so bad I am miserable! Going to find the first video. Any improvement at all at this point is welcome! ❤❤
This was immensely helpful, and aligns with my own experience of habituation.
Thank you for this follow up video! I very recently watched your last video (about a week ago). I've been practicing all day, and into the night, retraining my brain to hear the noises around me. Saying or just thinking "I hear ____" and also telling my brain that I'm not interested in those interior noises anymore. Lol I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or not but sure enough I had my first day not being bothered by the ringing...and I've had ringing for as long as I can remember. Again I say thank you for your video! Not just making the video, but giving away life saving information and hope!
Thanks Doc❤ A lot of advices were coming from non Tinnitus patients hence they cannot understand what we are going thru. You are on our side and your videos are clear and relatable. I did read about a report that's has the same theories as yours. He also has tinnitus. So I hum a song in my head when is silence. I also find meditation helpful. I believe I am on my way to recovery. 😊
Yep, such an amazing advise! Thanks so much for explanation and sharing this precious information and your successful experience 😁👍
Another Great video as always Dr Veer. Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks again!
You are brilliant. I have learned so much from you just to overcome anything that’s going on in my brain anyway gonna work on this and I’ll let you know.
hello doctor, i was very pleased to watch your first video! since everyone else says that this is incurable! but it seems that a lot of people are being cured of it! it is either m trying to convince myself or it is just that people who cured prefer not to talk about it again which is fair!
i had my tinnitus 10 days ago maybe because of altitude difference, going back and forth between two cities. i have a mild hearing loss at 4000 and 16000hz but the doc said that this is not even considered hearing loss and would affect nothing, but i have ear pressure which i can feel and it stated -3 dapa i do not really know what that means. at same time m having a sore throat with an inflamed sinus which is making my tinnitus a bit loud now. and honestly i was so stressed and depressed before i got it.
after watching your first video i had a great belief that i would heal one day and i hope you comment on this.
How are you now?
Great video, it was very informative and I will definitely be trying that technique, thank you.
You are so welcome! Good luck!
hey vik this video make me have a motivation to pursue my dream to be a doctor
Thank you for your videos, doctor. I love the way you explain things, being positive but realistic at the same time. I would be thankful if you could help me on the following question: do you think it´s realistic to "silence" tinnitus even if it´s caused by hearing loss? Or is "habituation" the highest goal I can strive for in that case? How about your tinnitus? Was it caused by hearing loss? Or any other cause? Many thanks for your response in advance!
Prior to me focusing on this low frequency Tinnitus, i have this other Tinnitus that would make my left ear vibrate to the pitch of others voices when they speak on my right side directly. Other times if im not focused on it, its not triggered if im not focusedon it. I am going to see a ear specialist on the 31st down here in Orange Ca. This new Tinnitus has been annoying for the past two days, but i feel from watching your last video has given me hope and to not stress about it.
I'm glad it helped - i do hope you get there soon. take care
Thank you for sharing this video, I recently got tinnitus. Your tips and experience are helpful.
Best of luck!
Thanks a lot doctor for your great videos, I got tinnitus recently and I have been suffering from it for the last 2 months, until now I didn't get a chance to see an ENT doctor as the medical system is so slow here in Ireland, it's impacting my sleep and my daily life badly.
I always try to listen to music or something before and while sleeping, but it seems not to help much yet, my brain not able to create the filter as maybe I'm still giving my tinnitus too much attention.
I'm still hoping to know the root cause of my tinnitus and hoping it's treatable, I went to audiology and said my ear is seems healthy and maybe the ENT could do more checks and maybe an MRI as my tinnitus is only on the right ear, I'm really terrified to have this tinnitus for the rest of my life.
So sorry for the long comment, just venting.
Many thanks again doctor. 🙏
watch enough of my videos and you'll see the benefits of me venting... keep going !
Yes, makes sense. The less I think about it, distracted by anything, the less the ringing is. And with all the craziness going on, not thinking seems to allow better life in other ways too!.
Thank you so much i suffer from tinnitus it's been 2 months in the first month i was really depressed and also the 2 month but I found your videos and you give hope ❤ ( I'm sorry my English is not good I hope you understand 😊)
Thank you so much. Super helpful.
Vik I think I'm reaching this status. Thank you so much for these videos, they are a lifesaver: they give me the hope necessary to go on.
This is very helpful. Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you so much for this.
You are so welcome!
Sounds like ear level generators plus a white noise machine in the bedroom for when you take them off might be a good combination. Would you advise looking into TRT at this point? Thanks for the update :)
Thank you for the video I have a couple of questions for you if that’s ok 😄 do you have hearing loss ? Cause I think with hearing loss it’s a bit difficult to ignore and did you change your diet ?
No and no. I think i talk about hearing loss in the first video. take care
Hi. I really enjoy your videos but on this one I am kind of confused. Are you saying you would stop reminding yourself about the tinnitus and remove all reminders? Sorry. Just wasn’t clear. Can you give some more guidance. Thank you again so much!
Vik, what do you think covid does for it to make some peoples tinnitus worse?
Thank you for this followup. I understand now where I am and why I am not progressing further.
I will automate my distractions to see if that helps me forget.
Sorry I wasn't clear about that in the first one. good luck and keep going!
Hi, I am also a medical doctor from Turkey. I have tinnitus for 40 days, I learned a lot from your videos and benefited. The point I want to ask is about the character of tinnitus. In my first days of tinnitus, I heard only one sound like whistling, it was sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing. But a few days later I heard a second noise, it was a humming noise, it dominated following days but I still have two different noises in my right ear. Is it because I am focused on my first sound and produce a second one on my own; does it have a clinical importance to have "double tinnitus", or is tinnitus always a tinnitus whether there are two, three? Thanks you so much for sharing your experience.
Hi, my name is Onur living in Melbourne. I developed tinnutus in the past week due to middle esr myoclonus in believe. Can I ask what started your tinnitus and what sort of sound is it a constant eeeeee or something else. Mine sounds like crickets. It is difficult to adapt.
Does the room have to be quiet at night ? I always sleep with a tv bc I think about work a lot. Now when tv is off I hear rumbling with a random high pitch in the very back that varies. Is this bc of a lack of sound from my tv ? I also have TMJ on that side
God bless you
my pleasure. hope it helps.
please help me with an opinion. I have tinnitus and I sleep very well with it. I wear earplugs when I sleep before the tinnitus started and I continued after, even if I hear it louder because of them, (my ears are perfect and I go for regular check-ups, without infections or wax ) I sleep very well and I don't wake up from noises around me and I'm rested, so I hear it less during the day because i have good sleep with ear plug
my question is: can the earplugs worsen the tinnitus or cause it, considering that I sleep very well with the plugs and the tinnitus? should I give up? it helps me to be very rested
thank you I appreciate all your work
I also used to wear earplugs to sleep prior to getting T. I think this might be my reason for getting T. The plugs cause your brain to focus on what it hears inside your head and not outside. Well.. that's my humble opinion.
Hey there. I’m assuming you had mild t. Like for myself I have jet engines nothing masks mine
Dear doctor is it possible to get pulsatile tinnitus from using headphones?? And If so isn’t curable or no???
Would love to habituate to tinnitus but for 3yrs only relief is cricket sound bath for varying amounts of time but still changes the frequency of buzzing.Started after I started Mestinon for MG, need mestinon to get through the day breathing and isn't on side effect list so just have to deal with it as US MDs don't believe in tinnitus
At this point I hear it but it don’t bother me to much only when only when Im not feeling well.
I have developed Tinnitus over the last week from the use of a power tool without ear defenders. From what you are explaining it sounds as though hypnosis could be a quicker way of telling the brain to forget about it.
I've been thinking about that myself.
Is this the same for Pulsitile Tinnitus ?
Did you go to work the whole time you suffered from tinnitus, even in the beginning?
I have to have some form of white noise in the background in order to sleep. Not only due to tinnitus, I've become accustomed to it because it masks distracting sounds that would otherwise wake me up. If I try to sleep in a silent environment, I find it very difficult.
Hi Vik! I am having a hard time forgetting I have tinnitus, specially because it has been such a traumatic experience for me that changed my life completely :( I am getting the depression caused by tinnitus treated by a psychiatrist, but I just don't know how I can be able to forget about it, do you have any tips?
Hello liz.
I just wanna ask you to stay strong! Honestly i do not know how to help but i would have loved if anyone would just show me solidarity. So here i am showing it to you.
With love.
I’m 3 years down the line I’m ex military I’ve been shot and blown up I’ve over come so many life changes, but this is the one that nearly made me kill myself 24/7 torture is what I have no rest at all . Quit is now my enemy . I can only let you know my thoughts as I have had it so long. First thing is except it not many people can stop the noise the sooner you realise it’s with you for ever it helps you deal with it. I sleep with a soft head band with built in speakers at night with relaxation music it really does work. At night if my family in bed again I’ve purchased great quality blue tooth headphones so I can watch tv at night and keep my buzzing at bay . All these exercises you see on you tube hitting your head with spoons and tapping your head with fingers forget it. Some people are lucky it can leave them but it’s only a few there is no cure I know I’ve got mine till the end . Realising this has helped me but I have many bad nights still . It’s a battle for sure . I pray 🙏 for you it gets better or even it leaves you for good .
Dr. I have Tinnitus from Covid, different pitches, I feel it the Eustachian tubes, I’m able to pop them, I also have some wax around my ear drum, can it aggravate it ?
After the vaccine?
Видимо это инструкция для тех, у кого совсем легкий случай! Но не для среднего-сильного уровня!
Enjoying your videos, as an ENT specialist may I ask you a question which I can't find the answer to anywhere at the moment. I have blocked ears due to earwax but I also have severe hyperacusis. Micro suction is too painfully loud for me so what are my options?
Would having earwax removal under general anesthetic prevent hearing damage? I'd be most grateful for any advice you can give on this as I'm not sure what to do at the moment or who to go to, maybe you're the chap for this.
ask the ent surgeon to remove it with crocs, they will know what I mean. that is silent. that's what I do for hyperacusis patients.
@@VikVeerENTSurgeon Many thanks for your response. Never heard of that option.
@@VikVeerENTSurgeon Huge thanks for responding. Does this work for soft and sticky wax too? Apparently that's what I have.
What if your T is extremely loud? Is it really possible to get the volume down? I mean if you read the stories of Peter Studenik & Carol Lee Brook- they claim TRT really helped them and they both had severe T like myself.
I talk about that in the first video. I hope you get the relief I got.
In both videos I don't get the message about the 'cure'. Have now listened to both videos. Your explanations are a bit confusing. Sorry.
Makes sense what you say Doc....but my tinnitus reminder every morning and every night is the fact that I wear hearing aides. Any ideas? On how to try and forget about the fact that you have to put them on and take them off every day? Hearing aides do help me with the tinnitus during the normal work hours because they are setup to amplify my audio frequency gaps and so they have a masking effect on my tinnitus.
I didn't have hearing lost but have had T for a long time. I am in the same situation as you now though and may need a hearing aid in one ear...I think though that it doesn't matter if you completely forget consciously...I think it is more like getting over an ex partner.....You can still think of them but not feel any emotion because your heart isn't broken and it don't bother you no more....I think that is how you get cured....You can remember you had it but you don't hear nothing no more because your filter works again in your brain. ..It's all about healing your filter so it goes back up and filters it out as pointless noise not to bother noticing.
is the cause important ? loudness was the problem ...
Is there really hope? One month in .
This explains a lot my tinnitus is always loudest when I wake up from a nap or been asleep and for a long time I thought it was due to a chemical process etc etc but I hypothesized this exact point was the issue and now it’s confirmed
I still didn't understand this
What is this chemical process? My opinion is that I believe its a resonance problem...
May I ask if there are any relevant drugs for treating tinitus
Thank you very much
its so loud its screaming at me.... no way to ignore
Five people I know all said the same thing. Their tinnitus started soon after getting the pointy carrot.
Assalamwaliqum. How long did it take to get rid of your tinnitus?
I talk about it at end of the video. it depends on what you mean I guess.,
Sir i have new onset tinnitus.since
21 jan 2024,
No ear infection, no hearing loss, pta
done
I am taking sleeping pill bcz i
couldn't sleep. Pill contain 0.5mg
clonazepam +10 mg escitalopram
My ent hod prescribed it on my
complaint of not getting sleep due to
tinnitus. He also prescribed some
ginkovas.
Sir I'm a mbbs 4th year student from
india.
Should i try to sleep without pills
Sir if u read my comment, please let
me know sir.
I saw your 42 min video on tinnitus
Same happening with me fr last 15 days . and was taking same medicins. what u can do try some breathing exercises and have a positive mindset that you will be ok soon . skip this sleeping pill fr a day u listen some soft music . u will get the confidence that u can sleep without pills. god bless u
Hey
I m mbbs 2nd year student
I got tinnitus on 24 November 2023
Had similar issues in first 2 week
But my ent consultant is so nice he talked to me,counseled me and finally I m just adapted to it, also I would recommend you to play some masking sound while sleeping ,,that helps a lot
Same with me
Got pta done,other things normal as well ,just tinnitus vecoz of acute loud sound exposure
That's the beauty of studying in Indian medical college ,medical system is just so approachable,