Dont give up on the hearing aids so soon. It might take time for your ears to adjust. I tried them awhile back and now I think I didnt give them enough time to have my ears adjust to them. Very expensive so give yourself time.

BeBee - DON'T GIVE UP! I purchased $6500 hearing aids with maskers last November and it took a few months to notice a difference with the tinnitus - helped immediately with hearing loss. Yes, I still have screaming days, but not as many as I did before the aids / maskers. Also, I now have 3-4 consecutive "quiet" days which never happened prior to the aids / maskers. Hang in there! Pat

Piebaker.. What kind of aid/maskers do you have??? bob

Bob, I been at this for over 15 years. I have had several different types of hearing aids.

Bob, it takes time my friend, for the TRT and masking, to take effect.

Trust me, my Tinnitus is as bad as yours. A year ago it got worse, after enjoying 15 years of habituation.

My hearing got worse, plus I was doing everything, I, should not have been doing, for someone who has Tinnitus (that includes smoking pot)

My habituation was so strong, my tinnitus would never bother me, I would actually forget about it, for years on by.

Seriously, 15 years, it never bothered me one bit.

Then one year ago, It woke me up, and knocked me out of bed.

It sounded like jet engines going off in my right ear.

I had to enter a psyche ward for one week, because nothing would put me to sleep.

Bob.TRT therapies, I had to do 15 years ago, and now I am doing them again, with ZEN therapy.

Plus everything else you can imagine. IF you have screaming Tinnitus like I do, or did, because I have improved over the last year, you have to have patience.

I know its not easy, but hearing aids by themselves will make tinnitus go away while youre wearing them, but thats for people who have a mild case of Tinnitus.

Screaming Tinnitus, will take at least a year or better, before you start to see significant results.

But, they will start helping you immediately, but just not exactly to the high expectations, that you have given to yourself.

You will start noticing that the sound of your tinnitus will start being less noticeable.

Maybe I don't have the right attitude but have always thought spending thousands of $$$$ for anything that might help my tinnitus would be a waste of money. I do hope i'm wrong but even after 12 years I just don't think TRT,hearing aids,neuromics,etc. are worth the money.

The problem is 50% say it works and the other 50% say it's a waste of money. I need better odds(much better!)than that for me to get very interested. At least my last ENT said hearing aids($6,000 for the pair)would do nothing to improve my tinnitus.

I know we are all different but so far the most I have spent on anything for my tinnitus was over 11 years ago when I spent $165 for the tinnitus distractor.

It worked and it lasted 10 years. Now all I use is less than $50 MP3 players. For the last 10 months all I have been using is a $20 Coby MP3 player that still uses AAA batteries. Right now I think the answer will be some kind of surgery. THAT I would spend the big bucks for!

BeeBee, First of all put the gun away. My wife hid my gun all those years ago and I still don't know what she did with it. Smart women. I'm sending you a personal message so please check for it.

I've been there bebee, where checking out seemed the best option.....it's very, very hard believe me I know. Even after a year 1/2 half with this I still feel so much despair sometimes BUT we have to have hope that something will work for us or that someone will find a "cure". I find that when something hasn't worked for me I go thru a hopeless phase and that is the absolute worst feeling, being hopeless. I don't know what to say because I know your despair....put the gun away....our luck the tinnitus will follow us to the grave, then what?

guys, don't worry about it, i won't "off myself".. I have my bride of 38 years to care for, and she would be lost without me. Even though I am not the same man I was 5 months ago.
I appreciate your concern. honestly I do.

I am just disgusted... Nothing that has helped others has made any difference in my case so far, and I grow weary. and the hopeless feeling grows. I probably should have went with my first impulse, and bought aids with maskers.
I will probably get my money back and try hearing aids with maskers built in... bob

"Won't off myself". Best news I will hear today. bebee, Thanks for saying that. Please read my PM to you and let's find a way for you to get some relief.

"Won't off myself". Best news I will hear today. bebee, Thanks for saying that. Please read my PM to you and let's find a way for you to get some relief.

"Won't off myself". Best news I will hear today. bebee, Thanks for saying that. Please read my PM to you and let's find a way for you to get some relief.

Gee thanks Daily Strength for the triple post. Why don't you guy's use some brains and fix this site once and for all? Let's hope this isn't a triple post. By the way have you ever heard of an "EDIT" feature?

What happened bebee? are you still trying the aids? Has your T gone back down? T hates change--it was probably reacting angrily to having that noise coming into your ears again.

I know that feeling of praying each night for death to come in your sleep. I did that for 6 months!! The next six I didn't do that anymore, but I continued to cry a lot and say, "I can't live like this." Even now at 14 months, I have days when I get really bummed about not having any peace and about how T has changed my life. :(

McMurdo.. I am doing ok today... Its a "moderate" T day, first one in a while.. I stopped wearing the new high tech aids, and use the old 10 year old clunker I got for free when my wife's father died.. I found it in a box of his old junk in a drawer.... Its noisier, and helps lower the perception of T better than my new ultra small, ultra quiet ,high tech $5,000 Oticons.. They go back, and I keep the old clunker... bob

Bebee, my audiologist told me today that hearing aids wouldn't work for me as my tinnitus is to high pitched, do you happen to know what range your tinnitus is? Do the old hearing aids give you relief?
Sue