Clinically accurate, patient-focused articles on tinnitus: what it is, why you have it, what the evidence supports, and how to live alongside it.
Tinnitus · PhiloPhy The Sound That Doesn’t Exist What tinnitus reveals about consciousness, medicine, and the limits of what can be fixed I hear a sound. It is high-pitched. Constant. Somewhere between a hiss and a tone. It has no source I can point to, no switch I can turn off, and no name that…
Tinnitus · Patient Education Why Fighting Your TinnitusMakes It Worse The brain amplifies what it monitors. Understanding this one principle changes everything about how tinnitus is managed and why most people are given the wrong advice. There is a particular kind of cruelty in the instruction most people with tinnitus receive. They are told,…
What Tinnitus Actually Is If you have tinnitus, there’s a reasonable chance you’ve already been told that there’s nothing wrong and there’s nothing to be done. And, to be honest with you, parts of that are true. But the way it’s usually said leaves people more frightened and more alone than before they asked. So…