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headphonejames / acrn

Implementation of acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation tinnitus treatment protocol in javascript.
http://www.generalfuzz.net/acrn/
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Does this really work in long term? #4

Open ghost opened 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

I am curious, what are the experiences in long term (6 months)? Did this reduce the severity of your tinnitus? (I am asking everybody who uses it.)

Btw. I can help you in the programming if you need it.

peheje commented 4 years ago

It helped me when I had a ringing for about a week which was really annoying (as in depression). I used it for 1-2 weeks as I can remember. Might just have been an infection, only one anecdotal sample. We may never know.

I have had no ringing since.

ljl-covid commented 3 years ago

I find that this doesn't work in the long term but does manage to suppress the noise while it's running better than white noise or just about anything else I've tried can.

Granted, it's pretty annoying itself, but I still prefer it to the tinnitus, which for me is above 13kHz, perhaps around 15kHz (I use ACRN somewhere between those frequencies, lately 13.5kHz).

dagelf commented 1 year ago

I improved on this by ramping the frequency and volume changes a bit more gradually. Will post it to my repo.

I had an acute case that appeared after 3 late nights. After 2 days of not being able to stand it anymore, and reading about people talking about weeks and months, I probably made it worse by spending another 2 late nights studying the literature. In-between I made an app that fades in random pitches over random durations. Inbetween those tones I experienced euphoric silence for the first time in days, for moments. That made me freak out a lot less about it.

I also experimented with shifting between tones. 8500 - 9500 over a second, with volume shifting in and out, I think taught me to be able to control it - if it wasn't that it was the random tones.

The next 2 days I was able to mentally turn it off when I became aware of it, by doing whatever the sensation is you need to do to fly in your dreams, lest you fall, a kind of letting go and not trying. I think the worst thing to overcome was the shock every time you realize its gone and then it just reappears and you can't do anything about it.

It's day 8 now, and it's down from volume 5-7 (when outside noises are 10) (was literally debilitating and screaming unless I was hyper focusing on something else) to about volume 1-3 now (livable but still annoying). Might be an infection, food, stress.

Stop reading here if you're not dealing with this right now. I mean it.

The annoying thing is someone told me about it 2 weeks prior. I think it's possible that I had it all along but never noticed it at all, but them telling me triggered me noticing it - I literally just woke up one morning and had it. I'm leaning towards it being psychological, especially because I can turn it off at will, more often than not, for now. Problem is, what was one tone, is now 3 or 4. I can turn 2 of them off with some effort. Not sure what parts are me playing tones that are indistinguishable from it, training me to, and what parts are me just being aware of more. But if it can appear so quickly, I'm banking on it disappearing just as quickly. But not sure if I need to just forget about it, or if I need to do something about it. Sometimes the things we do, just make things worse.