Can hearing aids cure tinnitus?

[dim73]

I'm wondering if HAs can cover my tinnitus?
Does anybody has any experience about that?
An audiologist that I had visit in the past told me that my tinnitus comes from my brain and that the therapy is to put a device together with HAs which will produce a sound, so the brain will get used to hear this sound.After some time this device will be take off and the tinnitus will stop.
Also told me to avoid caffeine, aspirin,alcohol, things that became true.
The audiologist that I last visited told that the tinnitus comes from my hearing loss and by putting the HAs the tinnitus will be covered.
Does anyone of you has been advised the same and what is the examines you have to do to find out the therapy?

My Audiogram:
HZ:R 250-500-1000-2000-4000-8000
40 - 55 --70 --65----70----95---
Hz:L 250-500-1000-2000-4000-8000
45--55----65--60---60------95--

Tinnitus are specially in my right ear.

[dim73]

What type and what brand are your new hearing aids, it covered completely your tinnitus?

[Renovator]

How about trying to permanently cure tinnitus, instead of only masking it? There is a good article about tinnitus homeopathy, hope it helps:

http://help-for-tinnitus.com/tinnitus-homeopathy/

That looks like an advertisement. It states that it will cure tinnitus.
.....You Can Start Using This Powerful Homeopathic Formula RIGHT NOW To Get INSTANT Relief And Permanent Tinnitus Cure!

Is this a guaranteed cure for tinnitus?

[dim73]

Has anybody tried this "tinnitus control" product?

[pondlife]

If you believe in homeopathy then you believe in magic.

[brilang]

@pondlife: I totally agree.
Here's a comic I ran across a while ago on the subject of Homeopathy.
http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/06/homeopathy.html

[DocAudio]

There are no medically proven studies showing any resolution of tinnitus with prescription or homeopathic medications.

[davidhop]

I am interested to know about hearing aids that can help in curing tinnitus control. I will like to get some links to these products to check the prices and specs. Thanks

[Renovator]

If you believe in homeopathy then you believe in magic.
I agree.
Whenever I read the fine print on any herbal or other OTC products, the label ALWAYS has a DISCLAIMER that the treatment MAY NOT in fact cure what it states it will cure.

In other words, it may work or it may not work!

I have yet to find any herbal, natural or any other OTC preparations that actually did what they stated they would do!

Also, when reading the fine print, if you are not satisfied with the product, the hoops you need to jump through to get a full refund of the money you have into the product is also a joke - by the time all is said and done you might as well just flush the remaining pills, powder, etc, down the toilet and hope that it benefits your septic system by building up the proper bacteria!

[Hkellins]

I recently tried the widex passion 440 HA and it has a zen program that uses music to mask the tinnitus. It worked pretty well while I had the HA in but was louder when I took it out.

Two problems though
1) they are expensive unless you need an HA (about 3500 or so)
2) the HA made me dizzy and got nausea for it ( but that is another issue)

They are very cool though

Hope this helps
Herb

[DocAudio]

I am interested to know about hearing aids that can help in curing tinnitus control. I will like to get some links to these products to check the prices and specs. Thanks

Tinnitus is a problem because basically the brain detects the sound and associates an importance to it and you begin to notice it more. If there is accompanying hearing loss, as your hearing loss progressively gets worse, you hear environmental noises more softly and the tinnitus becomes more dominant. The tinnitus is typically not actually increasing in volume, your hearing is getting worse (not due to the tinnitus). Think of it like a scale, as one side goes down (your hearing) the other side goes up (tinnitus) except it's not an actual shift in volume of tinnitus on a measurable scale, it's more a perceptual shift. A hearing aid brings the sounds in the environment back into a more normal range (shifts the scale so that the hearing is higher than the tinnitus) thereby shifting the focus of your brain off the tinnitus, back to the sounds you are supposed to be hearing like speech, TV, music, birds, etc.

The Widex Mind products are the ones that I have heard the most about and uses a fractal sound as a calming program, not to mask out tinnitus but to help the wearer learn to consciously shift focus off the tinnitus and onto other, less annoying sounds. They do have it available in more than one technology level now, it used to only be available in their very high-end product.