Tinnitus FAQ

What is tinnitus?

Tinnitus, "ringing ears" or ear noise is a phenomenon of the nervous system connected to the ear, characterised by perception of a ringing, beating or roaring sound (often perceived as sinusoidal) with no external source. According to the American Tinnitus Association, tinnitus is pronounced two distinctly different ways, with both being acceptable: ti-NIGHT-us, or TIN-i-tus.

What does tinnitus sound like?

Many sufferers report that their tinnitus sounds like the high-pitched background tone emitted by some computer monitors or television sets. Others report noises like hissing steam, rushing water, chirping crickets, bells, breaking glass, or even chainsaws. Some report that their tinnitus temporarily spikes in volume when under extreme stress, with sudden head motions during aerobic exercise, or with each footfall while jogging.

In a database of 1544 tinnitus patients, 79% characterized the sound as "tonal" with an average loudness of 7.5 (on a subjective scale of 1-10). The other 21% characterized the sound as "noise" with an average loudness of 5.5. When compared to an externally generated noise source, the average loudness was 7.5dB above threshold. 68% of patients were able to have their tinnitus masked by sounds 14dB or less above threshold.

Can tinnitus be cured?

Although there is no simple cure for tinnitus, people have managed to drastically improve the condition by trying a number of treatments to see what works for their particular case. A combination of external masking and psychological counseling known as tinnitus retraining therapy is widely practiced. Many report that it becomes much less disturbing and in some cases the offending sound is no longer heard at the conscious level (Habituation of Perception).

Tinnitus News

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PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 09, 2010 – Tinnitus is ringing or buzzing sound in your ears. As you already know that it is a vast difference of hearing a constant buzzing or ringing sound, and occasionally hearing of those sounds day-by-day. You ...

How to Stop Tinnitus in Your Ears With a Simple Way by Yourself. - PRLog (free press release)

New website with a guide to understanding how to cure tinnitus , including what it is, how it is caused and how it is treated. (PRWEB) March 4, 2010 -- New website with a guide to understanding how to cure tinnitus , including what it is, how it is ...

Cure Tinnitus Information: How To Cure Tinnitus In 7 Days (Or Less) - YAHOO!

ASHWAUBENON -- Northern Lights Clinic is offering a tinnitus management program and is hosting an informational seminar March 16. Often described as a ringing or buzzing in the ears, tinnitus affects 50 million people in the United States. Northern ...

Clinic offering tinnitus seminar - Green Bay Press-Gazette

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 08, 2010 – Tinnitus affects many people worldwide. Recent estimates indicate that around 12 million people in the US have have suffered or are currently suffering from it. Obviously this goes to show just how common ...

High Pitched Ringing Ears Are a Clear Indication That You Have ... - PRLog (free press release)

DETROIT (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Fifty million people live every day with ringing in their ears. It's called tinnitus , and there is no cure. A new treatment could silence the ringing and give thousands of sufferers relief. You need Flash Player 8 or ...

Silence the Ringing in Your Ears - Ivanhoe

Symptoms include attacks of vertigo, dizziness, nausea, hearing loss, and tinnitus (TIN-IT-US), or ringing in the ear. It may begin in one ear and spread to the other. While there's no absolute cure, an ear, nose and throat specialist may develop a ...

Meniere's disease - WXYZ

When I was growing up, one of my mother's favorite admonitions -- along with "If you keep making that face, it's going to freeze that way" and "Don't sit too close to the television or you're going to need glasses" -- was the classic "Turn that music ...

Despite what you may have heard, there's no boom in deafness - Washington Post

Article Description: Tinnitus, or ringing of the ears, is the most common injury experienced by veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The distressing condition may also temporarily affect 75 percent of people ages 18 to 30 who frequent ...

Ear, Nose and Throat - eMaxHealth.com

Badger's sonic palette can definitely inspire tinnitus: "Lucius" forces effects-driven, contact-mic'd-wasps-in-a-jar chicanery to play nice with Mogwai-lite gloaming, while "The Vessel Megalo" is all orchestral, noise-metal swing. "Aria 7" gently ...

Know Your Product: Jonathan Badger, Unsung Stories from Lilly's Days ... - Baltimore City Paper

It has been in the medical literature for a long time that prolonged high dosage use of medication like aspirin has the possibility of causing tinnitus, a ringing in one or both ears. This study reports that there is a cause-effect relationship.