Tinnitus relief: Finding the right solutions

Tinnitus is divided into two kinds according to vibration frequency: low and high tones. Photo credit: sciebtificanimations.com

 

Tinnitus is associated with surprisingly wide-ranging brain activity, researchers report, and this may be why the hearing disorder is hard to treat. But what is it? About one in five people has tinnitus, which is the sensation of a steady ringing or buzzing in the ears.

Tinnitus or phantom sound, also called tinnitus, is the observation of a continuous sound, without a sound source to be identified in the environment. Tinnitus can vary from a beep, sizzle, whistle, hum, or muffled sound in one or both ears.

Usually, the sound is mainly observed when there is little or no ambient noise. The name comes from the Latin tinnitus aurium, which means ‘the ringing of the ears. A term used in the entertainment world is ‘disco-deafness.’

Initially, it was assumed that the cause of tinnitus lay in the auditory organ itself. However, the cause of tinnitus is probably in the brain. Overactive parts of the brain in the auditory region continuously give signals, while the sound is no longer there (“phantom noise”).

For this reason, tinnitus is also compared with phantom pain. The overactivity of the brain can be demonstrated with positron emission tomography or functional MRI techniques.

Hearing damage caused by very loud sounds is the most important cause, but retroviral treatment can lead to tinnitus. However, tinnitus is a sign of incipient hearing damage and can occur immediately after a visit to a discotheque.

Tinnitus or “squeaky stress” is common among young people who have gone out for an evening. On pop stages, festivals, and in discotheques is often played at a volume around 100 dB; a volume that can cause acute hearing damage after ten minutes.

More than 15% of young people aged between 16 and 30 are already suffering from a form of permanent hearing damage. Also, listening to music at a high volume via portable personal sound equipment (such as MP3 players) is suspicious in this respect.

It is important to go to a doctor as soon as possible in the event of an audio trauma. If the tinnitus lasts longer than a few days, one should be examined.

List of possible causes

The major emotional tensions: traumatic noise (sound linked to trauma), burnout, stress and fatigue, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, anxiety disorder, and depression.

Trauma: at the head (skull fracture), the neck, or barotrauma.
Medications: retroviral treatment, some ototoxic drugs, especially acetylsalicylic acid painkillers (aspirin) are associated with tinnitus. Tinnitus is also a known side effect of the antibiotic kanamycin.

It reduces the stiffness of the hairs on the hair cells (stereocilia) and thus promotes tinnitus. Diuretics, aminoglycosides, quinine, calcium antagonists, antihistamines, anti-epileptics, and statins can also cause damage to the ear.

After a prolonged use of benzodiazepines (especially after discontinuation of use, this can occur as a withdrawal phenomenon).

 

Cerebrovascular cause: high blood pressure, diabetes, and atherosclerosis (‘arteriosclerosis’). Neurodegenerative cause: Alzheimer’s disease, chronic otitis media with fluid behind the eardrum, Otosclerosis, closing of the auditory canal by, for example, an earwax plug, water or a cotton ball, Meniere’s disease, Lyme disease, inflammation of a wisdom tooth, Bridge gum, Operation on the ear, Disease of Von Hippel-Lindau and hearing loss due to age.

An underlying cause for the occurrence of tinnitus cannot be demonstrated in 40% of cases. Many ask how they can stop the constant ringing in their ears or whether there is a cure for tinnitus. Unfortunately, there is so far no scientifically proven cure or treatment for tinnitus.

However, having tinnitus myself for over twenty years, I started to improve alpha, theta, and delta waves in my brain, and guess what? (see test below)

Tinnitus, the devil in my ear or a phone line to God?

Ringing, hissing, buzzing, roaring tinnitus can take many forms. The bothersome and uncomfortable noise in your ear varies from one tinnitus sufferer to another. So does the impact of tinnitus on people’s lives. Some get used to the never-ending noise in the ear with relative ease, while others are driven to despair.

Many ask, can tinnitus be cured? How to stop ringing ears? Is there a tinnitus remedy? Is there a cure for tinnitus?

 

On the internet, on TV and radio commercials, and in papers and magazines, you can easily find many who offer methods that can cure, or at least reduce, tinnitus. This could, for example, be in the form of “medication” (pills and injections), herbal treatments, different types of therapy, and hypnosis. But other “cures” also exist. The list of “cures” is long and is getting longer.

 

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