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Thanks Tony! I opened the app and thought the hearing test was interesting....I know I don't hear much below 50-60db through out the frequencies. My tinnitus is a little more complicated....I have a constant high pitch ringing that never lets up. I have worked with a Tinnitus specialist in Milwaukee that got me going on the sound generator...TINNITUS AID is the app...it's free for the basic mode. If I listen to sounds that mimic a river or brook stream it relaxes me after a half hour. I have learned to live with the high frequency ringing. About a year ago I started having a very low frequency hum that bothers me....something along the lines of a exhaust fan and it seems to get louder as the day goes on or if I go into a public place with much noise. It will actually become mind numbing for me. Its interesting because I retired several years ago and the low humming sound I now hear almost reminds me of my work environment...my office was located above an industrial compressor room...it sounds almost identical to that noise! I realize that tinnitus is a brain function that is trying to provide feedback due to the fact of my hearing loss....from reading these helpful blogs it is obvious that everyone may be dealing with something unique to themselves....it is good to read other peoples issues. If I try AUDIOCARDIO out I will report back. I just don't think a two week trial will cut it for me!

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Thank you for sharing this. My tinnitus sounded like crickets. I had it for years, but after getting a cochlear implant it went away except for now and then. I enjoyed the sounds of summer, so managed to put those tinnitus critters in the background most of the time. Work environment is the cause for many people due to noise that was not filtered and ears that were not protected. Keep us posted about the AudioCardio device. Two weeks is a very short time to try it. What is the cost of the device?

Reply to Scott K: Like auditory hallucinations, sometimes tinnitus "plays back" some sound you've heard...that day or decades ago. It might be possible that you're "hearing" your old office environment replayed. If I'm exposed to more sound than usual (pretty quiet here), I often "hear" some of that sound during the night. Perhaps it's possible that our ears never just "make up" sound, but always play back something we heard at some point in our lives. Of course, norms can't begin to understand all this!