Reddit mentions of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy: Implementing the Neurophysiological Model

This is a copypasta from another music related website I visit:

I have had tinnitus in my left ear for nearly 4 years now that has the effect that there is a difference in my hearing of about 25dB SPL @ 8Khz. Its a loud ringing/hissing sound that gets worse if Im tired, stressed or listen to loud music for any length of time. I used to be a sound engineer and would spend hours making music. Now, I cannot last more than about 2-3 hours before my ears tire and I feel fatigued.

It was caused by an old flatmate, who in his infinite wisdom, though it would be really funny to scare me by coming into my room, whilst I was buried in coding a website and bang a saucepan with a wooden spoon near my head. It took him about a month to be convinced that I wasnt messing when I said my ear was still ringing because he only heard the spoon hitting the top of the pan, making a slapping sound, whereas I had the full blast of the tone of it.

I went to my doctor and got referred to an ENT clinic at major London hospital. Through them, I had hearing tests and an MRI scan but they said they couldn't locate any damage and therefore they couldn't treat it. the graph of my hearing test

What I have found from it is examine your diet, music listen and other habits: cut out/down on sugar, caffeine and processed foods. Eat more fresh raw veg and fruit. Exercise a lot and drink plenty of fluids/water.

I also have a scanned PDF of a book that I got that suggests enriched nutrients and raw food diet could help [as it did the author] which I have made available here

You will have a certain degree of 'somatic' sounds (noises produced by the body: blood pumping through your ears, jaw cracking & creaking, etc and is a condition in its own right) but tinnitus, by definition is sound heard by with no definable external nor internal source. Because of that definition, schizophrenic voices also fall into it.

I have another book called Tinnitus Retraining Therapytby a guy called Pawel Jastraboff and he was involved in this website (forgive its 1999 look) called tinnitus.org