Your wife has my extreme empathy Bruce… Nothing worse than a recurring chronic illness, with no respite…
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Reiki is fascinating.
Thanks Kev!
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Hi, They have a prescription pill to calm tinnitus? I’ve never heard of it before. Do you mind telling me what it is? My tinnitus has gotten louder since I started using HAs. It’s driving me nuts!
Thanks, Linda
Errrr…
It’s not an prescription used to treat Tinnitus. I found it it helps calm my brain nerves while sleeping and working. lt might not work for everyone. I take a low dosage pill of Clonazepam. I have been taking it at bedtime for years and l am not addicted to the drug.
There is another alternative for Tinnitus treatments. FDA approved a new treatment for Tinnitus that use two devices. It’s the Lenire treatment that use non-invasive bimodal neuromodulation, which means it targets two sensory pathways to modulate or suppress tinnitus symptoms.
It uses a headphone for auditory stimulus and an tonguetip device on the tip of your tongue.
Mild and safe electrical pulses are delivered to activate nerves to the brain on the tip of your tongue.
Yes, the speech must be louder that is why it is imperative that you only press the button when you hear the beep. This way the audiologist knows to program your hearing aid accordingly. If you push just because maybe you thought you heard a beep, then your hearing aid will be based on these responses and you will not be pleased and say it doesn’t work. I don’t know how old you are, but the tinnitus gradually diminishes your hearing. I started at 30 and I was told then that because of the noise I hear that I would be deaf by the time I was 60. They were pretty close. I am 69 and just got a CI. So glad I did. Good luck to you. Time is good as technology gets better and better!
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Thanks!
I shall do better next time I have a test. 
I find that my hearing gets worse every year. My loss is due to exposure to loud noise at work.
DaveL
First: a hearing test isn’t the sort of test that one can pass or fail. Cheating on this sort of test jsut harms the test taker.–although I admit tbat I always want to “do well” on this test and others.
I have mild tinnitus and also eustachian tube dysfunction. This last means that at any given day or hour, my hearing becomes muffled. And then it will open up again. So…what do I test for? Muffled or unmuffled?
I don’t know.
As for tinnitus: I always mention this before testing. Every single audi has nodded and said they understand. And they will re-test for the same tone several times, and not always in sequence, if they suspect tinnitus ringing or imagination, etc. Tinnitus is common and audis know, or should know, how to set up a test that takes it into account in order to get as accurate a picture as they can. The fact that I have a long history of tests available to these audis as comparison also helps. If something seems off, given this long history, they doubtless do a double and triple check to see if tinnitus is playing a role in my response to the prompts.
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You can’t cheat on a hearing test. We always know. 
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I suspect a false positive at 8 KHz for my right ear in my recent test. I happen to have tonal tinnitus in my right ear that’s around that frequency.
I recall hitting the button during the test, possibly in rhythm, at the highest perceived frequency in that test, but was completely unsure that I heard the tone, as it could have been swamped by the tinnitus. You’ll also notice a baffling upslope at 8 KHz in my audiogram.
Hi Tina,
I had the same questions. My audiologist told me that they account for the variations in the response time and although the intervals between the beeps are the same, they can repeat a tone several times, to make sure it wasn’t a random press.
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