Think the idea is not to consciously listen to Neuromonics at all or white noise .. the idea is to let play away in the background and do its job .. ive tried both with pretty much no affect on my Tinnitus at all.
apparantly your brain is still very active and listening out for noise while you are asleep... Micky

I've been listening to a custom made white noise/rain track for years while I sleep. iPod w/earbuds. Every night, all night. The only benefit I have gained is the ability to sleep.

I do TRT and my audiologist was very adamant that it will not work/help while you are sleeping.

Like McCartyJ, I also sleep with earbuds, listening to water noises, theta waves, and/or pink noise all night, every night to help me sleep.

Mc Murdo wrote ..
I do TRT and my audiologist was very adamant that it will not work/help while you are sleeping.

Mmm wonder who is right ? .. The guys at Neuromonics themselves told me to wear the unit at night ! i would think that wearing ear buds at night while you sleep , listening to your music is a form of TRT No !>
Micky

I used Neuromonics with success a few years ago. It has a feature to help you sleep. You put on the music and it runs for 30 minutes and turns off.

I think it is more designed for daytime use because it is trying to reprogram the subconscious mind . So it trains you to to not be upset by tinnitus, as it gradually lowers the mask and or the music level over time. It is important towards the end to hear both the tinnitus clearly and the music.

I doubt that it would do anything overnight because I think they would set up the machine to play all night and not stop, or would tell you to use it at night directly.

Doesn't seem like it could hurt either. If you started to wake up, you would hear the music your getting used to and not tinnitus and react badly perhaps.

The program works well intertwined with your daytime activities. You need to really committed to it. It takes a long time retrain you brain about something it has decided its afraid of.

Jack

Jack 36 wrote
I doubt that it would do anything overnight because I think they would set up the machine to play all night and not stop, or would tell you to use it at night directly.

Strange because the team at Neuromonics told me to use it over night if i could ... trouble is the Bang & Olufsen ear buds are very bulky and can be very painful lying on them .. so whats the difference between listening to Neuromonics or some digitaly downloaded special Tinntus music / sounds on an i /pod - or mp3 player.. think the main difference is around 4500 pounds / Dollars

I have high frequency hearing loss 12M khz, it was explained to me that the neuro works because it feeds your tinnitus sound back into your brain thereby allowing your brain to stop searching for that sound. Music on an ipod alone does not work for me.
Sue

suera i have about the same high frequency loss as you and Neuromonics has done zero for me .. hey ho ... suppose we are all different eh.. wish i had saved my hard earned cash .. thing is when your desperate for help you will try almost any thing regardless of cost

I found the neuromonics really helpful when my T was at a lesser level. Can't afford to be reassessed to change the sounds at the moment so have been useing the mp3 with white noise & water sounds during the day, which I find soothing. Oddly enough i have no problems sleeping. Now get a good(for me) 6-7 hrs a night, only after years of struggling.The white noise I play all night has contributed to that. Also possibly the 2 magnesium caps I take before bed.
My specialist also said to listen to it while sleeping so I guess theres two schools of thought around that one.
I've just recently started taking some herbs for anxiety & they have really helped me be in a calmer place about it all.
Thanks for everyones input.

I invested in neuromonics and it actually bothered my ears because my T is very reactive to noise and I have sound sensitivity. I am going in for a re evaluation to reprogram my neuromonics device. My audiologist said it is shown that there is no benefit of listening to neuro more than the suggested 2 hrs. up to a max of 4 hours and no more than that.

Hi Mickey,

The sounds I listen to at night are played loud enough to MASK my T, while the TRT must ALWAYS be played below my T (so I hear it), so they are not the same thing. I could not sleep if I heard my T at night; it is very shrill. Some days my T *IS* so loud it can't really be masked so I drug myself out to sleep. All I know is my audio was trained at a Jastreboff training and has been doing this for 20 years, so I trust her, though of course she could be wrong. The mind is a pretty amazing thing and there were those years where people listened to audio tapes in their sleep to learn stuff...

I do know some on here wear their TRT devices to bed; it likely can't hurt, but my audio insists it doesn't help. I know my night time masking is not the same as TRT, though.

Like Sug, those I know on Neuro say they were not told to listen to the device at night, only the hours they are told to listen to them during the day and absolutely no longer than that. They are very adamant (from what I've told by those on Neuromonics) that you don't go over your Neuromonis hours each day.

Oops! I meant "Micky" not Mickey"--sorry for my typo in your name. :(

Sugaboob wrote
I invested in neuromonics and it actually bothered my ears because my T is very reactive to noise and I have sound sensitivity. I am going in for a re evaluation to reprogram my neuromonics device

I have 2 friends who cannot wear their Neuromonic unit because its increases the Tinntus sound in their head /ears .. Neuromonics say they will refund monies up to 30 days if the patient is not happy with the unit , but this is hardly enough to evaluate the unit as Neuromonics say that you should see benefit after around 6 months or so .. while your Neuromonics unit is being worn it will remove the threat of Tinnitus, basically because Tinnitus is virtually masked .. i found when i wore mine i was stressing about taking the damn thing off, knowing that the Tinntus would return with a vengence

I asked my audiologist about wearing the Neuro device and she said there is no know benefit to wearing it past 4 hrs. regardless of when you listen to it.