Recently, I had the chance to be a guest on the Treble Health Podcast, hosted by audiologist and tinnitus specialist Dr. Ben Thompson, Au.D – founder of Treblehealth.com Ben runs the wonderful Treble Health youtube channel and offers tons of great content for tinnitus sufferers. In our wide ranging conversation, we touched on many interesting topics related to tinnitus and …
Tinnitus Reframing: A Simple Way to Stop Negative Thoughts
Negative thoughts and emotions are a big challenge for many tinnitus sufferers. Part the problem is that we are predisposed to think negatively about tinnitus for the simple reason that the only times we are actually thinking about it is when it’s bothering us. When you’re coping well or distracted from the sound by whatever it is you happen to …
Everything you need to know about CBD for Tinnitus
DISCLAIMER – I AM NOT A DOCTOR or a medical health professional. Always speak with your doctor before trying CBD or any other new drug, supplement, or treatment. In this video replay of my recent Facebook livestream, I discuss everything you need to know about using CBD as a coping tool for tinnitus and Meniere’s disease. Topics covered in the …
How to Use Foam Earplugs Correctly (featuring Eargasm)
(Click play above to watch the video. Press CC for captions.) When you live with tinnitus, it’s important to take steps to protect your hearing, as hearing loss (or further hearing loss) can dramatically worsen the ringing in your ears. It’s also the leading cause of tinnitus in the first place. Luckily, foam earplugs are a fantastic and inexpensive way …
Tinnitus: Change Your Response (My Interview on the Hear Me Out Podcast)
Last week, I was honored to be the first official guest on a new podcast called Hear Me Out. In this wide ranging interview, we discussed many important topics: The importance of hope for tinnitus sufferers How tinnitus clinicians can better serve their patients and how the wrong doctor can make tinnitus worse What it means to habituate and why …
Understanding Tinnitus: Interview with eCareDiary Radio
(Press play in the player above to listen to the interview) I was recently interviewed by eCareDiary for their Empowering Family Caregivers radio show and podcast. I hope you enjoy this short interview! Topics Covered: Tinnitus explanation, prevalence, and challenges How I found relief from the ringing my ears Tips for caregivers who are supporting a loved one suffering from …
A Tinnitus Sufferer’s Guide to Surviving the Dentist
When you live with tinnitus, a normal trip to the dentist can quickly become a living nightmare. For starters, dental work can be stressful all on its own. Even before I struggled with tinnitus this was always an issue for me. After a few bad experiences with a horrible dentist in my early twenties, I had severe anxiety at every …
Acceptance is Not the Answer to Tinnitus
Acceptance is the emotional outcome of habituation. When I talk to tinnitus sufferers, people often tell me, “If I could just accept my tinnitus, it wouldn’t be so bad.” I know exactly what they’re trying to say, but it’s not helpful to think about tinnitus in those terms, because severe tinnitus isn’t something you can just magically accept. To be …
Tinnitus Habituation: Why Spikes and Setbacks are Part of the Process
I talk a lot about habituation because I believe that it’s our best hope to find lasting relief from tinnitus. It’s not a cure, but it’s entirely possible to get to this place where it stops bothering us, a place where your brain can tune it out like it does all other meaningless background noise. I’ve also talked a lot …
The Fear Problem: How Doctors and Google Make Tinnitus Worse
Dr. Google is an utterly terrifying practitioner of diagnostic medicine. Got a headache? You must be dehydrated, or maybe you have a brain tumor. Stomach ache? Could be indigestion or the stomach flu. Or maybe you have an intestinal parasite. Maybe it’s one of the dozen other horrible things that turned up in your search results. Ebola. That’s it for …
