If you have tinnitus — a buzzing, droning or ringing sound in your ears — you know how frustrating and disruptive it can be.
The good news is hearing aids can help. In fact, 86.7% of people found some relief with hearing aids, according to one study, co-authored by our own Director of Research Audiology, Harvey Abrams, Ph. D.
We advise all customers to wear the hearing aids they received for two weeks before we make adjustments. It takes time for your ears and brain to acclimate to hearing aids.
How hearing aids can help.
From conversations to music to the leaves rustling, hearing aids amplify sounds in the world, giving your ears and brain more auditory stimuli to react to. Hearing aids can alleviate the symptoms of tinnitus by distracting your ears and brain from the silence of hearing loss.
How we can help
For customers with access to Hearing Care* from our Audiology Team, we can:
- talk at Orientation about specific tips, tricks and strategies for dealing with tinnitus. Some are more obvious than others. That, plus our own expertise, tools and proprietary software, have helped thousands of customers.
- We offer counseling for tinnitus to customers who disclosed their tinnitus in their CEDRA assessment. (CEDRA is the risk assessment questionnaire you took prior to receiving hearing aids.)
- We can guide you through the Resound Relief app, which is more than just a sound generator. It’s a full tinnitus support app.
- We can also recommend sound generators, such as a white noise machines. They can be enormously useful for people with tinnitus.
If your tinnitus symptoms are extreme, and you’d be better suited to another solution, we’ll direct you there.
Note: There are many different causes of tinnitus. Some could be caused by something going on in the ears (or from other health issues) and hearing aids might not be the answer. While we cannot guarantee that our hearing aids will solve tinnitus, we have thousands of customers who say they helped. *Go to My Account to see if you have access to Hearing Care