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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: Mickey on July 30, 2008, 08:17:30 am

Title: Any tinnitus getting better after AN treatment?
Post by: Mickey on July 30, 2008, 08:17:30 am

 Just liked to know for the future in making my decision some day to have AN treatment.  I guess you can say I`ve gotten used to it over the years but sure would like to know what its like to experience quiet other than when I`m sleeping. Thanks, Mickey

Title: Re: Any tinnitus getting better after AN treatment?
Post by: Jim Scott on July 30, 2008, 02:03:13 pm

Mickey:

I can't blame you but to be honest, I wouldn't count on losing your tinnitus after surgery.  Of course, anything is possible and I'm sure that has happened....but not very often.  Sorry.  I wish I could be more positive but false hope (like resistance to the Borg) is futile.

Jim

Title: Re: Any tinnitus getting better after AN treatment?
Post by: Boppie on July 30, 2008, 05:22:18 pm

I have moments when I try to remember silence, but the quiet is gone from me, too!  My best times are listening to the ocean and listening to little birds chirping in the morning.  I can forget tinnitus for times like these. 

Sound masking machines work for some people in the same way that nature sounds work. 

Title: Re: Any tinnitus getting better after AN treatment?
Post by: Mickey on July 30, 2008, 07:09:07 pm

I do Neuoromics as of now which kind of tones down the noise. Got to do what we can and accept the rest I guess. Thanks, Mickey

Title: Re: Any tinnitus getting better after AN treatment?
Post by: Tamara on August 01, 2008, 06:56:58 am

I seem to be the oddball in so many ways...but one of them was that the tinnitus is greatly diminished or possibly gone after surgery.  No guarantees on that though...

Tammy