Tinnitus is a ringing or buzzing in the ears. Amazingly a Reddit user shares their experience to momentarily relieve the buzzing the result is amazing.Tinnitus most commonly affects military veterans due to their close proximity to explosions. Those effected hear a constant buzzing of noise even in a silent room. Online a Reddit user shares their “cure” for tinnitus, even though it is more of a temporary relief system. Still, the results made me tear up seeing the reactions of relief.
After some further research, this is only a temporary solution, but free and simple nonetheless.
According to Motherboard: This particular solution is free and both experts deemed it pretty harmless. But there are plenty of unproven “cures” being hawked online that take advantage of people’s desperation. Though the Reddit technique could provide some short-term relief, Richard Tyler, a professor of otolaryngology at the University of Iowa and Dan Polley, a Harvard researcher and the director of the Lauer Tinnitus Research Center both recommended seeking out treatments that have been more rigorously studied. This includes music apps that can help retrain your brain to quiet the tinnitus signals, or hearing aids that can help cancel out the noise.
“It’s unlikely to have a negative consequence and if somebody’s happy doing this 10 times a day to get 10 minutes of relief then so be it,” Tyler says. “But to think it’s going to have some major long lasting effect is a misconception.”
