Interesting.
No tech needed, there’s also this technique:
And why it works:
I also just found this one, I’m not sure it works for me:
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Interesting, not going to lie I am one of the people who are suffering with that condition and there are times that it can be scary especially more scary when you are not listening to any music at all and suddenly the ringing happens. I hope this kind of treatment can work for most everyone for I am sure all of us are scared to lose their hearing here for we love this hobby that we are doing so much.
Tried that several times, it worked for me a grand total of once. 
And the effect lasted for about 10-20 seconds.
When it’s not due to infection or earwax or blood flow mechanics, it’s a neurological problem - it would be comical for such a simplistic technique to get rid of it for any considerable length of time.
What works for me in keeping it under control are about 2 things:
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Avoid broad-spectrum buzzing and hissing sounds (electric guitars, high-pich buzzing motors, running water) or turn them way down when they come up in movies etc.
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If I’m trying to sleep but can’t take my attention off the tinnitus (very rare but happens), I try to concentrate on the whole soundscape around me except the tinnitus, to somehow convince my brain that tinnitus=silence, that “that’s what silence sounds like, there’s nothing there to pay attention to, that’s the experience of not hearing any sound” if that makes sense. And my brain “buys it”, usually the ringing does diminish and gradually falls out of the scope of attention.
I think this is sometimes described as the meditation method, and I think those who say trying to meditate makes it worse haven’t understood the working principle of the technique: you don’t focus on the ringing itself but on everything except the ringing. The point is to “make the ringing your new silence”.
Other than that, I’ve also tried a few variants of Notch Therapy (noise-based, not music-based) where you listen to broad-spectrum sound containing everything except a critical band around your tinnitus frequency (or in some methods you also remove critical bands around some harmonics of the tinnitus frequency), but didn’t get any noticeable improvement. I think this is because I have multiple tinnitus frequencies and they’re not even the same in both ears, and this makes defining a “correct” treatment stimulus near-impossible.
In my case it’s something to do with my neck. When I move my head a specific way the sound changes in pitch. It’s 100% repeatable. I’m hoping that with various neck muscle rehab over time I can get rid of it.
I feel like it’s common. This specifically I believe is because of a muscle, so I see that as muscle cramps, but… audible lol.
I honestly had tinnitus forever and thought it was… the sound of brain waves or something like that. Only in my 20’s did I learn it was not “normal”. 
For me, relaxing or “hitting the back of my head” (…the first video 
) works. For me it’s muscular, associated with stress, high blood pressure, etc. I honestly haven’t even bothered to make it disappear 100% because I’m just so used to it I don’t even care. If I want to make it disappear I press “play”.
Sennheiser HD280 Pros. Nothing above 10khz and my tinnitus is at about 12khz or more. I used em for like 10 years, so I think I unknowingly was doing “notch therapy” with that, and now that I’m discovering and enjoying new headphones and speakers, my tinnitus may be getting worse. But will I ever go back to headphones without “air” or soundstage just to get rid of tinnitus? Meh.
Same here, I asked my mother when I would about 8 years old after she said she had a ringing in her ear, I thought everyone had it. I just thought it was the sound of air in the ear canal. I have two pitches of tinnitus, the high pitched one (C6) goes away with the finger tapping technique for about 10 seconds. The lower pitched (A5) doesn’t go away no matter what, but it’s much quieter.
It can be exacerbated by stress and tension, but the only way to “get rid” of it is audio training to desensitize your brain to those frequencies which is an imprecise science to put it kindly.
I’ve never had sustained tinnitis…It’s like mic feedback, sudden and out of nowhere and fades away within a minute or two.
Looks like it’s not a device that anyone will be able to just order unfortunately but rather a treatment you’ll have to go in for. I’d like to try it tbh but I doubt this will make it to my remote part of the world anytime soon.
I’m suspicious of anything offering a cure, I saw an ENT about mine and his take was causes vary a great deal and if you can treat the actual cause High Bloodpressure, Stress etc. then great, but in most cases it’s actual hearing damage and either a nerve is firing or it’s perceptual in the brain. Neither of which can be practically treated.
His view was once you start losing your hearing it’ll go away as the nerves die…
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Technically not offering a cure but I see your point. Personally I don’t think mine is hearing loss (most likely contributes partly though) and what is causing it I could be seeking treatment for and probably should be.
At the very least this thread is a good reminder for us to take care of ourselves and our hearing.
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I believe this is the original paper the article refers to:
note that nowhere it is stated that it is a cure, there is no known cure for tinnitus. It is a possible treatment and further studies will confirm or reject these results. If a may give an advice nobody should try this sort of things without medical assistance. DIY doesn’t work with medicine. Doing things wrong may damage your hearing further so go see a doctor.
I think to even have a chance at dealing with it you have to pay a lot of attention to what makes it worse. If there is a pattern and you can identify it, you’re halfway there. It took me many years but I traced mine to the neck. I assume it’s related to nerves that get aggravated.
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Hello,
I have had 7 hearing falls in the last 10 years.
Only last week I had the 7th in my left ear.
Since then I have had a slight tinnitus on the right side that has accompanied me for 2-3 years.
There are days when it bothers me more and less.
My remedies are to listen to soft and relaxed music which usually helps the most.
Or to distract the brain so that it does not dominate me.
At the same time try to find out what is good for me.
For exmple even if it is not very beneficial to enjoy a cigar with a good whisky and music.
Or other things that bring my inner peace in balance.
Where I suffered most of my hearing loss was mostly due to noise at work.
Although I always made sure to wear hearing protection, I couldn’t always avoid letting it go, and it was really annoying when my colleagues thought they had to blow out the parts with an air gun at full power, or the annoying machine noise in the hall.
the last one i had i can’t explain to myself at the moment. i’m doing a retraining and had to travel a lot because of that. the bed in the hotel was really shitty. It was so uncomfortable and had to stay there for 4 days. if that was the reason for not getting any restful sleep for 4 days would be possible. and occasional stress would be conceivable.
I think it’s a real pity that the doctors have no explanation for it until today.
I think we should do more research, because this topic will accompany us in the future more than we think.
Maybe even to cure tinnitus.
I do not wish it to anyone who does not know how to deal with it.
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Yeah obviously. At the end it says “Neuromod is seeking FDA approval”. Don’t put 9V batteries on your tongue to cure tinnitus or whatever 
lol
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