It’s often unclear what’s triggering tinnitus (a ringing or buzzing in your ears). But one thing we know for certain is that if you have hearing loss your chance of developing tinnitus goes up. According to HLAA as much as 90 percent of people who experience tinnitus also have hearing loss.

Your age, lifestyle, and genetics can all take part in the development of hearing loss as you probably know. And while many people think of hearing loss as being obvious, the truth is that some minor hearing loss can go unnoticed. Even mild cases of hearing loss will raise your likelihood of tinnitus, making the situation even worse.

Hearing Aids Won’t Cure Tinnitus But They Can Help

Tinnitus has no cure. However, your symptoms can be minimized and your life can be improved by wearing hearing aids to treat your hearing loss and tinnitus. As a matter of fact, one study confirmed that as much as 60 percent of people suffering from tinnitus experienced relief when they used hearing aids, with 22 percent showing substantial relief.

A conventional hearing aid can basically hide the ringing or buzzing caused by tinnitus by improving your ability to hear outside sounds, which essentially drowns out the ringing. Luckily there are other, more sophisticated solutions beyond just conventional hearing aids to treat the symptoms associated with tinnitus.

Tinnitus Symptoms Will be Decreased by These Types of Specialty Hearing Aids

Hearing aids work by collecting natural sounds from the world around you and amplifying them to a level that allows you to hear. This simple technology is critical in teaching your hearing to receive certain stimulation by boosting sounds like the rattle of a ceiling fan or the hum of a dinner party.

You can enhance those amplification efforts by the combination of other strategies, like counseling, sound stimulation, and stress reduction for a more complete approach to treatment.

Some hearing aid makers even use the irregular rhythm of fractal tones to minimize the symptoms of tinnitus. The constant tone of tinnitus can be interrupted by the uneven tones of these inconsistent rhythms.

Blending the natural sounds you hear with your tinnitus sounds is the goal of other advanced hearing aid options. This approach will generally utilize a white noise signal that a hearing expert can adjust to guarantee correct calibration for your ear and your disorder.

Whether you use sound therapy, blending, or a white noise mechanism, all of these specialized devices have a common aim of distracting the user away from the buzzing or ringing of tinnitus.

It’s true that there isn’t any cure for tinnitus, but for at least some, hearing aids help reduce symptoms and improve your quality of life.

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References

• https://www.hearingloss.org/wp-content/uploads/HLAA_HearingLoss_Facts_Statistics.pdf?pdf=FactStats
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17956798
• https://www.ata.org/managing-your-tinnitus/treatment-options/hearing-aids
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197965