This is Ben Thompson here. *Thank you Julian* for all of the years you have been helping the online tinnitus community. Happy to collaborate with you here. I make more tinnitus and hearing videos over at my channel Pure Tinnitus.
this was very useful video ,but I was bit confused by an apparent contradiction in your comments ; your advice was to use the soothing sounds sparingly, not all the time , only when the tinnitus was bothering you . Then you also said the military research said it was benficial to have low level sounds all the time ?
Im not such a great fan of audiologists or ent's . They unfortunately have never been of any help to me .I like Mr Hills approach , and also Adrian Dickenson has been of true benefit in helping me reduce my own T . These two are by far the best individuals within youtube . I was a major skeptic but its true one can make a recovery from T.
Great job Ben. This is just great advice. Gosh...new tinnitus sufferers need this support so much. If they embrace your advice...they will change the conditions that allowed the onset of tinnitus and move them steadily in positive, healthy direction. Everything this man said is spot on folks. No surprise that Julian associates with him! If you are suffering and scared. Know you will not only survive, but recover and thrive again. Every success will be yours and you will control much more of your life and who and what can affect it😊. All the best.
@@Lin-uv9mt Hi there! 14 years is tough. Suffering 14 years is eternity. I feel for you and wish you healing. Know this….please First, the ringing is not going “away,” you won’t hear it when you heal but it is there if you hunt for it. There is an underlying anxious insecure personality in all of us with tinnitus. I skirted getting better for YEARS. I always had ringing since childhood. I was a scared insecure boy. However 4/4/97 it kicked up so loud it was deafening. I was in the Army and had a ton of stress. I got habituated after years of work but did not change my lifestyle or work on myself and BAM on 6/2/18 the tinnitus increased to complete bedlam that spun me out of work, life and everything. It put me on the couch blubbering. I came back and took my wellness seriously finally. It took so much work and repeated failure. I finally accepted… 1. There was no pill or cure 2. There were things I was responsible for that were the underlying causes of my tinnitus 3. I needed therapy 4. It would take years 5. I needed a routine and would have to give up much of what I thought made me ME. 6. I was gonna do it for my grown kids and my wife. No giving up on them. It is a job everyday to stay on the level. My tinnitus tells me if I am messing up. If I exercise, meditate, check in on myself, have no sugar no carb diet, focus outward on others instead of me and above all fill myself with the Lord…I sleep 6 hours a night and barely ever hear my ears. Wellness is possible again. I don’t want silence if it means being the stupid blind person I used to be. I will take this burden of tinnitus if it makes me a better human…and yes there are days that I can’t hear it😃. They are few but they are happening because of constant efforts to bring myself down… Believe in yourself. There is no magic, just your strength and that is enough. I will pray for you and all those suffering with tinnitus.
Mr ben Thompson i have the same experience as yours.initially it was very loud but now its mild. Still want to get rid of this thing completely. Hope to get well completely very soon.
Thanks for the advice. I particularly like RUclips to find soothing sounds. I found that Otin Lucas Channel has been very helpful, especially when my tinnitus is felt in my brain.
Thank you so much for this video. I just couldn't get rid of my anxiety and stress due to mainly tinnitus & family problems. All bad thoughts regarding tinnitus haunts me.But now I'm feeling relaxed knowing that tinnitus is not threatening .I will try my best to follow your instructions. Thanks again. From Bangladesh.
I agree one should avoid negativity and tragic stories related to tinnitus, I don’t agree however that reading about success stories of people who found relief or eliminated their tinnitus by taking supplements, alternative medicine, or possible new treatments should be avoided. One can follow a TRT program while trying to find a treatment that can really get rid of tinnitus.
For me coming out of fight or flight was what helped the most. Providing therapy is a very direct and powerful way of working with people and providing a lot of support which brings about significant changes. Positive tinnitus stories not only provide hope, but inspire people to get the right kind of help. TRT can be useful for some but it wasn't for me.
I mean really do appreciate this advice and I am going to be trying to follow it. It's really good. I do see I need to control my emotions and my reaction to it.
Hello. I really appreciate your effort. I would love to have more doctors like you in czech republic. Only thing that is problematic for me was finding a mixing point for first five years. .. i had panic fear from tinnitus and also migrains. .i really wasnt preaperd do hear any of my tinnitus so i needed to cover it all..i am perhaps very sensitive person so i am very hard tinnitus patient . .what helped me in the end was deacydifying pills that somehow affect nervus vagus. My tinnitus is lower. Also i treat myslet with a bee vnom because of undiagnosed lyme i know i have. .this is also reducing my tinnitus. Have a nice day
I have someone who is really interested in your experience with bee venom and lyme. Would you be prepared to talk to her? If so please send me your details to me by email and I will forward them onto her: info@juliancownahill.co.uk Thanks Julian
Great talk. Great people trying to help others. I have tinnitus for two weaks, it vary on frequence, but when i nicely massage my neck, head, skull muscles and massage ear loops or behind them on those specific places (for a couple of minutes) my tinnitus i s -60% and it last like that for some time. It's not that bad but what i want to ask (i still need to see ORL) does it mean that in my case it's almost certain that on of the biggerst trigger for tinnitus is neck/scull muscles? (siting whole day on computer).
Thank you so much, Mr. Thompson. That was so far, the clearest information and tips to help tinnitus. It made me think of so many possibilities. Please, could y write your web site address? Greetings from Norway.
Any tips on living in cities and visiting really loud ones? It’s been maddening hearing all the cars, planes, sirens. I use air protection almost 24 hours between ear plugs and noise cancelling airpods If you can talk about travel too though would be really nice
My advice is to get hands-on help to calm your nervous system down and practice many of the techniques on my app which you can find here: www.quietenapp.com You can invest in musician's earplugs to help in the interim, but the big win comes when you come out of fight or flight and your whole auditory system sensitivity resets itself back to normal. Then sounds on the inside and round to you no longer sound too loud.
Hi Julian, I am new to your channel and really liked your positivity. I got tinnitus about two months ago. It came and then went away and came back again. My GP initially said its the ear wax. But ear wax removal did not help either. I realised like my T is following the same pattern as my post nasal drip (pollen). Is it possible? My GP just did the covid test whenever i went to see them again. I am too afraid to go back there. I have been doing breathing exercises (pranayama) and hoping to get better. Thanks a lot for your work :)
Yes - nasal drip causes inflammation and irritation in the ENT area. You may be sleeping with your mouth open causing the throat to get too dry during sleep and causing overproduction of mucous to help compensate. This is like having a minor cold the whole time. If this is the case you could try putting a bit of micropore tape over your lips to encourage you to sleep with your mouth closed. This can help.
@@JulianCowanHill Thank you for answering that above. I, too, have been wondering if sinus infection/allergies/ear infections (both ears at the moment) could have been the initial cause of tinnitus for me beginning in 2017. I did very well with it after about a month of two of crying/sadness; however, with this current bout of both ears being infected (swimmer's ear), I find that it has amped up so much and now I have ringing in both ears. The right was the only one affected but the left one just started ringing a bit today and I am on the last antibiotic pill. This is actually viral, come to find out, but the antibiotic was needed just in case it was bacterial. Lots of people are having this viral illness apparently. I remember having swimmer's ear in both ears as a child and the screaming in my head and pressure was something I haven't forgotten. I believe it is the same thing I am experiencing now. I was getting worried that it was coming back and louder than than ever but I do believe the pressure from the sinuses/ears is what is causing it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your help! Just purchased your book, also, and am enjoying reading it. This, too, shall pass.
Actually I preferred to use the clenching and relaxing technique to shift the focus into the body and relaxation, taking the attention away from hearing. I find this more successful. Its good to take the focus away form the ears and leave them alone.
So I know I have T and I'm pretty sure I have hyperacusis but I don't know what caused it. I had been under a lot of stress over something I was obsessing over and I would put headphones on and listen to videos on youtube with the volume loud. I have had these issues for about five months and I don't know what to do. I don't have enough money to go to the doctor, I don't have insurance and I don't have the patience for yoga or meditation, possibly due to my ADHD. I'm also autistic so that doesn't help. If someone could give some tips or something on how to deal with this I would forever thankful.
Try guided meditation. Maybe tai chi, watch julian Cowan hill videos they are so helpful. It will help you. He suggest hands on therapy. You have to find what works for you. Stress and loud music does not help it at all. All the best
Does your tinnitus group cost money? I’m poor. But I want to fully habituate. I don’t want to even have moments of panic anymore over this. It’s been six months for me. And it’s unilateral. I know habituating cannot be forced. But I want to make even more progress. I have in law relatives that have had this for longer than me and said- They had forgotten about until I brought it up. I want to be there in that place. I don’t want to panic anymore. I want to progress. Can’t you please help me.
I couldn't bear the sound ...I couldn't work anymore....I can't even sleep...I take xanax three times a day ....I am helpless but it doesn't help sometimes...my tinnutus started during the lockdown period 6 months ago due to severe anxiety and stress which I am trapped in....I am from Malaysia btw....there is no specific specialist for tinnutus here even the psychologist telling to live with it.....I am constantly having panick attacks
Eat a lot of meat, do intermitent fasting, could showers, avoid masturbation and porn, take ginkgo biloba and magnezium, avoid xanax, hope this will help you brother.
@@JulianCowanHill thankyou though I don't really understand.it's also affecting me when I swallow and talk? .It sounds like static every time I swallow or talk and yawn and when I walk it's like hearing a sound like loose change.I feel that there's something more going on???no one knows what's going on though my ENT is saying he can see my right ear pulsating.
You are temporarily super-activated just now. So one irritable part of the body can be activated by another irritable part. Nervousness in one place reacts to another. Its like being stung by one mosquito but this triggers a sensitive skin reaction and you feel itchy all over. When you switch off and settle all of the reactions calm down, including tinnitus.
This is Ben Thompson here. *Thank you Julian* for all of the years you have been helping the online tinnitus community. Happy to collaborate with you here. I make more tinnitus and hearing videos over at my channel Pure Tinnitus.
I see you are in the Bay Area. I just added you on LinkedIn. I am at almost 4 mo the with noise induced tinnitus.
@@Jas_01101 Yes I am based in the Bay Area California. Thank you for reaching out.
this was very useful video ,but I was bit confused by an apparent contradiction in your comments ; your advice was to use the soothing sounds sparingly, not all the time , only when the tinnitus was bothering you . Then you also said the military research said it was benficial to have low level sounds all the time ?
Has anyone else seen this? twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/new-research-could-help-millions-who-suffer-ringing-ears
@@SteveN-df3xyBackground noise is from anywhere like the environment, not just sound therapy
Im not such a great fan of audiologists or ent's . They unfortunately have never been of any help to me .I like Mr Hills approach , and also Adrian Dickenson has been of true benefit in helping me reduce my own T . These two are by far the best individuals within youtube . I was a major skeptic but its true one can make a recovery from T.
can i ask what caused your T?
Great job Ben. This is just great advice. Gosh...new tinnitus sufferers need this support so much.
If they embrace your advice...they will change the conditions that allowed the onset of tinnitus and move them steadily in positive, healthy direction.
Everything this man said is spot on folks. No surprise that Julian associates with him!
If you are suffering and scared. Know you will not only survive, but recover and thrive again. Every success will be yours and you will control much more of your life and who and what can affect it😊.
All the best.
Thank you for the encouragement. We need to hear from people like you that have healed.
Thanks for the encouragement....but I don't believe it anymore...suffer with it for 14 years and it doesn't get any better, only worse after corona
@@Lin-uv9mt Hi there! 14 years is tough. Suffering 14 years is eternity. I feel for you and wish you healing. Know this….please
First, the ringing is not going “away,” you won’t hear it when you heal but it is there if you hunt for it. There is an underlying anxious insecure personality in all of us with tinnitus. I skirted getting better for YEARS. I always had ringing since childhood. I was a scared insecure boy. However 4/4/97 it kicked up so loud it was deafening. I was in the Army and had a ton of stress. I got habituated after years of work but did not change my lifestyle or work on myself and BAM on 6/2/18 the tinnitus increased to complete bedlam that spun me out of work, life and everything. It put me on the couch blubbering. I came back and took my wellness seriously finally. It took so much work and repeated failure. I finally accepted…
1. There was no pill or cure
2. There were things I was responsible for that were the underlying causes of my tinnitus
3. I needed therapy
4. It would take years
5. I needed a routine and would have to give up much of what I thought made me ME.
6. I was gonna do it for my grown kids and my wife. No giving up on them.
It is a job everyday to stay on the level. My tinnitus tells me if I am messing up. If I exercise, meditate, check in on myself, have no sugar no carb diet, focus outward on others instead of me and above all fill myself with the Lord…I sleep 6 hours a night and barely ever hear my ears. Wellness is possible again. I don’t want silence if it means being the stupid blind person I used to be. I will take this burden of tinnitus if it makes me a better human…and yes there are days that I can’t hear it😃. They are few but they are happening because of constant efforts to bring myself down…
Believe in yourself. There is no magic, just your strength and that is enough. I will pray for you and all those suffering with tinnitus.
Almost 4 months with noise induced tinnitus. Ringing 24/7. Luckily it’s been on the low side. I also made a video if anyone cares to watch.
Mr ben Thompson i have the same experience as yours.initially it was very loud but now its mild. Still want to get rid of this thing completely. Hope to get well completely very soon.
hows it now?
Thanks for the advice. I particularly like RUclips to find soothing sounds. I found that Otin Lucas Channel has been very helpful, especially when my tinnitus is felt in my brain.
Thank you so much for this video. I just couldn't get rid of my anxiety and stress due to mainly tinnitus & family problems. All bad thoughts regarding tinnitus haunts me.But now I'm feeling relaxed knowing that tinnitus is not threatening .I will try my best to follow your instructions. Thanks again. From Bangladesh.
What is his instructions please clear me I don't understand that
I agree one should avoid negativity and tragic stories related to tinnitus, I don’t agree however that reading about success stories of people who found relief or eliminated their tinnitus by taking supplements, alternative medicine, or possible new treatments should be avoided. One can follow a TRT program while trying to find a treatment that can really get rid of tinnitus.
For me coming out of fight or flight was what helped the most. Providing therapy is a very direct and powerful way of working with people and providing a lot of support which brings about significant changes. Positive tinnitus stories not only provide hope, but inspire people to get the right kind of help. TRT can be useful for some but it wasn't for me.
I mean really do appreciate this advice and I am going to be trying to follow it. It's really good. I do see I need to control my emotions and my reaction to it.
Excellent! Thank you !!!
Hello. I really appreciate your effort. I would love to have more doctors like you in czech republic. Only thing that is problematic for me was finding a mixing point for first five years. .. i had panic fear from tinnitus and also migrains. .i really wasnt preaperd do hear any of my tinnitus so i needed to cover it all..i am perhaps very sensitive person so i am very hard tinnitus patient . .what helped me in the end was deacydifying pills that somehow affect nervus vagus. My tinnitus is lower. Also i treat myslet with a bee vnom because of undiagnosed lyme i know i have. .this is also reducing my tinnitus. Have a nice day
I have someone who is really interested in your experience with bee venom and lyme. Would you be prepared to talk to her? If so please send me your details to me by email and I will forward them onto her: info@juliancownahill.co.uk Thanks Julian
Thank you so much.
Great talk. Great people trying to help others.
I have tinnitus for two weaks, it vary on frequence, but when i nicely massage my neck, head, skull muscles and massage ear loops or behind them on those specific places (for a couple of minutes) my tinnitus i s -60% and it last like that for some time. It's not that bad but what i want to ask (i still need to see ORL) does it mean that in my case it's almost certain that on of the biggerst trigger for tinnitus is neck/scull muscles? (siting whole day on computer).
Excellent advice.
Thank you so much, Mr. Thompson. That was so far, the clearest information and tips to help tinnitus. It made me think of so many possibilities. Please, could y write your web site address? Greetings from Norway.
Any tips on living in cities and visiting really loud ones? It’s been maddening hearing all the cars, planes, sirens. I use air protection almost 24 hours between ear plugs and noise cancelling airpods
If you can talk about travel too though would be really nice
My advice is to get hands-on help to calm your nervous system down and practice many of the techniques on my app which you can find here: www.quietenapp.com
You can invest in musician's earplugs to help in the interim, but the big win comes when you come out of fight or flight and your whole auditory system sensitivity resets itself back to normal. Then sounds on the inside and round to you no longer sound too loud.
Hi Julian, I am new to your channel and really liked your positivity. I got tinnitus about two months ago. It came and then went away and came back again. My GP initially said its the ear wax. But ear wax removal did not help either. I realised like my T is following the same pattern as my post nasal drip (pollen). Is it possible? My GP just did the covid test whenever i went to see them again. I am too afraid to go back there. I have been doing breathing exercises (pranayama) and hoping to get better. Thanks a lot for your work :)
Yes - nasal drip causes inflammation and irritation in the ENT area. You may be sleeping with your mouth open causing the throat to get too dry during sleep and causing overproduction of mucous to help compensate. This is like having a minor cold the whole time. If this is the case you could try putting a bit of micropore tape over your lips to encourage you to sleep with your mouth closed. This can help.
@@JulianCowanHill thank you so much for your reply. Actually, I do sleep with my mouth open. I will try the tape and see if it gets better.
@@JulianCowanHill Thank you for answering that above. I, too, have been wondering if sinus infection/allergies/ear infections (both ears at the moment) could have been the initial cause of tinnitus for me beginning in 2017. I did very well with it after about a month of two of crying/sadness; however, with this current bout of both ears being infected (swimmer's ear), I find that it has amped up so much and now I have ringing in both ears. The right was the only one affected but the left one just started ringing a bit today and I am on the last antibiotic pill. This is actually viral, come to find out, but the antibiotic was needed just in case it was bacterial. Lots of people are having this viral illness apparently. I remember having swimmer's ear in both ears as a child and the screaming in my head and pressure was something I haven't forgotten. I believe it is the same thing I am experiencing now. I was getting worried that it was coming back and louder than than ever but I do believe the pressure from the sinuses/ears is what is causing it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your help! Just purchased your book, also, and am enjoying reading it. This, too, shall pass.
@@deepikakanyan5831 how are u now
Did they anything here about eustachian tube dysfunction???
Thank you!
hello julian did you use nature sound for sleeping??
Actually I preferred to use the clenching and relaxing technique to shift the focus into the body and relaxation, taking the attention away from hearing. I find this more successful. Its good to take the focus away form the ears and leave them alone.
@@JulianCowanHill thank you i will try too
So I know I have T and I'm pretty sure I have hyperacusis but I don't know what caused it. I had been under a lot of stress over something I was obsessing over and I would put headphones on and listen to videos on youtube with the volume loud. I have had these issues for about five months and I don't know what to do. I don't have enough money to go to the doctor, I don't have insurance and I don't have the patience for yoga or meditation, possibly due to my ADHD. I'm also autistic so that doesn't help. If someone could give some tips or something on how to deal with this I would forever thankful.
Try guided meditation. Maybe tai chi, watch julian Cowan hill videos they are so helpful. It will help you. He suggest hands on therapy. You have to find what works for you. Stress and loud music does not help it at all. All the best
And julian responds when you ask a question.
Does your tinnitus group cost money? I’m poor. But I want to fully habituate. I don’t want to even have moments of panic anymore over this. It’s been six months for me. And it’s unilateral. I know habituating cannot be forced. But I want to make even more progress. I have in law relatives that have had this for longer than me and said- They had forgotten about until I brought it up. I want to be there in that place. I don’t want to panic anymore. I want to progress. Can’t you please help me.
You can download my app which costs £2.99 per month at the moment. www.quietenapp.com You can join live Q&A sessions there.
Also unilateral here, right ear.
CBT OR TRT. Which one should we get help with.
How about using organic supplements
I couldn't bear the sound ...I couldn't work anymore....I can't even sleep...I take xanax three times a day ....I am helpless but it doesn't help sometimes...my tinnutus started during the lockdown period 6 months ago due to severe anxiety and stress which I am trapped in....I am from Malaysia btw....there is no specific specialist for tinnutus here even the psychologist telling to live with it.....I am constantly having panick attacks
Your spikes will desappear soon, dont be affraid, be patient.
Munisamy gopi. Watch this self help video ruclips.net/video/I7RL0TW6Efg/видео.html
Eat a lot of meat, do intermitent fasting, could showers, avoid masturbation and porn, take ginkgo biloba and magnezium, avoid xanax, hope this will help you brother.
Start running or walking to release your stress
Daniel Lesan Avoid masturbation? Why? Even sex? I love sex
Is it normal to have pulsating tinnitus like s heart beat?? underlying cond possibly??
Yes this is common. Most likely to be listening out too acutely to the cardiac pulse which the auditory system normally ignores.
@@JulianCowanHill thankyou though I don't really understand.it's also affecting me when I swallow and talk? .It sounds like static every time I swallow or talk and yawn and when I walk it's like hearing a sound like loose change.I feel that there's something more going on???no one knows what's going on though my ENT is saying he can see my right ear pulsating.
You are temporarily super-activated just now. So one irritable part of the body can be activated by another irritable part. Nervousness in one place reacts to another. Its like being stung by one mosquito but this triggers a sensitive skin reaction and you feel itchy all over. When you switch off and settle all of the reactions calm down, including tinnitus.
@@JulianCowanHill thankyou
How about playing loud rock n roll
Loud sound is not a good idea! Wear musician's earplugs if you must.
TRT is very expensive.
What if your bothered all day.
No help