Tinnitus Treatments – There Is No Cure Yet

You are doing your normal every day activities and suddenly you hear this very loud ringing sound in your ears. Does this sound familiar? If it does, there is a good chance that you suffer from very serious tinnitus.

Ringing in the ears is the most typical symptom of tinnitus. However, the condition can appear also in other forms of sounds, such as whining, buzzing, or humming. Most of us experience some level of tinnitus symptoms at some point of our lives. Fluid draining and earwax are typical causes of mild symptoms of the condition.

More serious cases of tinnitus are usually caused by some other factors. Some of the most common ones include loss of hearing due to high age and exposure to extremely loud noises.

Currently there is no known tinnitus cure. Often the sufferer just has to learn how to live with the condition. It is common that the symptoms never totally disappear.

At the moment, the best tinnitus treatment options are those that allow the patient someway to take the sound out of their mind. Typically this can be done by playing white noise machine or music that helps the brain to cancel out the sound of tinnitus.

Even though this treatment does not actually cure tinnitus, it is helpful in tricking your brains to ignore the sound. A lot of people have found this effective. Especially during nights the method can be extremely helpful. Insomnia is one typical side effect of tinnitus and this treatment helps the sufferer to sleep over night.

There are no known medicines or medications that will directly and definitively cure tinnitus. There aren’t even medications that effectively treat tinnitus, but there are supplements and different forms of therapy that have proven effective in studies.

Relaxation techniques as well as certain natural compounds in the form of supplements have helped some patients, while others find relief in special ear drops and wax reduction treatments, all depending on the root cause of the issue depending on the person.

Fortunately, new studies are emerging about research being done in certain parts of the brain that control sound that may lead to a future cure, in rewiring the brain pathways in some areas to “fix” the tinnitus. This is a long way off from being one of the available tinnitus treatments though, and is not expected to be accessible to patients for a long time.

Hope is on the horizon. However, until then, the best solution available is staying healthy and trying to trick your mind into ignoring the awful ringing sound.