At one point or another in your life you’ve probably heard some ringing in your ears. That ringing is called tinnitus. At any given time 15-20% percent of people, as reported by many studies, experience tinnitus. Though the majority of people only hear this ringing intermittently, some people experience chronic tinnitus that won’t go away. The most common treatment for tinnitus is, fortunately, relatively straightforward: hearing aids.
Dealing With Chronic Tinnitus
Some of the many reasons why tinnitus develops are fairly easy to figure out, others not as much. Tinnitus can also sound like a wide variety of subjective and objective sounds, from pounding to clanging to metallic buzz-saw sounds, whatever loud cacophony your ears can produce.
The noisier and more extreme the sounds are, the more invasive tinnitus tends to become. Over time, tinnitus can cause declines in mental health, create trouble communicating, and interfere with your daily life.
Tinnitus And Hearing Aids
While hearing aids don’t actually “cure” tinnitus they are quite good at dealing with some of the more pronounced symptoms. There are several ways that hearing aids achieve this.
Making The Ringing in Your Ears Harder to Notice
The symptoms of tinnitus will normally appear along side of hearing loss issues. They can have the same underlying cause or not. But it’s very likely that your tinnitus will worsen as your hearing loss worsens. When you can’t hear external sounds as well, the internal ones really stick out.
Your hearing aid can turn the ambient sound of the world up. Your tinnitus will once again, to your relief, disappear into the background. Now you can go back to enjoying your life again.
Muting The Noises Out
Obviously, there’s a difference between overwhelming your tinnitus and masking your tinnitus. So to help manage your buzzing and ringing, many modern hearing aids use a form of noise cancellation technology. Certain white noise frequencies can be tuned into your hearing aids that can help minimize tinnitus symptoms. Basically, by generating particular types of sound, your hearing aid can help reduce the volume of your tinnitus symptoms.
This is a customized technology and a consultation with us will help you determine if this is right for you.
Most types of chronic tinnitus don’t have a known cure. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find a way to manage it. The ringing, buzzing, and other tinnitus-related noises will be gone and you will be able to enjoy a full life with hearing aids that are calibrated properly. Hearing aids are the ideal choice for individuals with tinnitus.
