Tinnitus is perceived as louder when it’s quiet, like at the end of the day when you’re getting ready for bed. Fill your days and nights with sounds that are soothing to you. This could be achieved with various sound generators, some which can be set with a simple phone app. Patients often tell us they feel deep guilt and worry about their tinnitus, and wonder what they did to cause it. Rumination of the cause of your tinnitus can aggravate it. Understanding your tinnitus through an tinnitus evaluation can help alleviate some of that weight. Your fight, flight, fawn response in your brain (via the Amygdala) can keep tinnitus locked in and loaded in an effort to protect you from [perceived] danger. Having awareness of how your nervous system is functioning can help with bothersome tinnitus. Last, no, you don’t “just have to live with it.” There are positive treatment options. Understanding your tinnitus through reputable, educated sources (namely, Audiologists trained in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, or TRT) is a good way to reframe bothersome tinnitus. An audiologist who administers TRT is someone who’s undergone extensive training with the founders and authorities on TRT, Drs. Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff. I am happy to say that we are providers of TRT, and if you are in our neck of the woods (Lawrenceville, NJ), we can help. Like and follow for all the ear things. www.oraclehearingcenter.com
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