Hello All,
I am in my second week of wearing Signia 7ix after wearing Oticon’s (micrite r) for about 5-6 years.
Practically speaking, if you have tried the notch therapy for tinnitus , what has been your experience? If it didn’t work out what did you end up doing?
Thank you
Joe
Almost a week and nothing to say on Notch Therapy working? Very telling.
What’s “notch therapy”? i assume it’s a program on the Signia ha?
My understanding of the term ‘therapy’ is something like, an activity that benefits a patient by reducing symptoms and the cause of the condition. I know of nothing that does this for tinnitus. One can mask tinnitus with various forms of HA generated white noise. But then you have, essentialy, another form of tinnitus masking the original form–which by the way is still going on.
no thanks. doubling down on tinnitus in order to ‘treat’ it has never made sense to me.
I have had tinnitus for almost 50 years, I have found that learning to put my tinnitus to the far back of my mind is the only treatment that truly works. I have learned to just not pay attention to it and it doesn’t bother me. As long as I am wearing my aids I don’t even think about it or realize I have it anymore. When I take out my aids at night I power on a sound machine in my bedroom that plays white noise just loud enough to mask my tinnitus.
The keys is this, stop paying attention to it, don’t stay in a quiet environment without someway to distract yourself, reading, listening to audiobooks or music if no one is there to talk too. But the number one key is DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO IT.
As you can see the topic (notch therapy) doesn’t get much discussion. My understanding is if you can identify the frequency of your tinnitus, notch therapy can be effective. However I agree with others that the best solution is to learn to ignore it.
Lots of posts on the forum about tinnitus and notch therapy. It will for the most part tell you it doesn’t work or helps very little…
Try doing a search on questions you have. It’s very informative.
Good luck.