Tinnitus Books

Most helpful, written in a smooth intelligent style, gives many tips for the sufferer in a non/medical type fashion. A terrific book...get this one!

I found this book helpful, understandable, and an easy read (without the medical jargon that other books often contain). The doctor discouraged me years ago saying, "Not much could be done for Tinnitus." This book offers much help and encouragement to victims of this condition.

It is a shame that this book is out of print. I found a copy through the Amazon Marketplace system and it was well worth the effort. Of all of the cognitve-behavioral material that I have read on Tinnitus, this is by far the kindest and the easiest to implement. This book has been of immeasurable help to me. I strongly recommend your efforts to find it any way you can.

Greetings from Turkey. I am an ENT specialist working at a university hospital. I bought this book a few months ago and I read it more or less completely. I think it's very usefull book for professionals who want to study tinnitus . It has very detailed information about mechanisms of tinnitus . I intensively suggest everybody who interests tinnitus.

Greetings from Turkey. I am an ENT specialist working at a university hospital. I bought this book 10 months ago and I read it completely. I think it's very usefull book for healht care professionals. It has very elaborate information about tinnitus epidemiology, mechanisms, evaluation and treatment approaches. I intensely offer everybody who interests tinnitus and attend the patient who suffer from tinnitus. Erdogan Okur

I read enough of this book to come to believe that the main recommendation is to be put on psych medications to lessen the problem.

This book was Excellent: Easy to read and understand, thorough, and easy to relate to. Not only do I recommend it to the individual that has tinnitus, but also to the family and friends of the tinnitus sufferer. Not only will they have a better understanding of what one goes through when they have tinnitus, but also what can be done to help that individual: Symptoms, medication, counseling, etc. After finishing the book, I felt more encouraged, and I think that most who read this will feel so as well. The author emphasized that the old adage of "nothing can be done" is absolutely not true. I have pulsatile tinnitus, and can attest to the fact that medication has indeed been of help in enabling me to sleep as well as having my tinnitus tone down and become less bothersome, without making me fell drugged.

No hype or black magic cures enclosed. Just hard hitting, learned from experience methods to reduce the impact of this terrible affliction. Probably the best work on Tinnitus. Hogan's co-author keeps this book updated which is a real plus. This book includes helpful advice regarding prescription medications that help the afflicted deal with this condition, advice that was "road tested" by the author - a real plus.

I ordered this book after reading so many excellent reviews! Well, I have suffered with tinnitus for 5 years and I have to say this has got to be one of the worst books I have ever read. Mr. Hogan gives you some strategies to use and then over and over recommends the reader buy his program for tinnitus reduction. I felt like this was one long sales pitch with some real information thrown in once in awhile to make it seem like it's a useful book. Another thing that drove me crazy was how poorly written the book was. There has to be at least 50 typos, including some very poorly composed sentences. Doesn't this guy have spell check or an editor?

One last thing, after I read the book I went in and reread the reviews and it seemed to me that a large percentage of reviewers were either fellow therapists or former students. Maybe he asked them for the glowing reviews to help sell the book. I have wasted my money, I hope you are smart enough to not waste yours.

After reading this book I now understand what's going on in my head and I have a plan to fix it. I am mixing TRT (listening to sounds 24/7, taking Ginko biloba and just started KLONOPIN) I am also trying to get rid of stress out of my life. And low and behold its Working!!!! The volume is down a good bit and the frequency is changing so I know something is working. Don't suffer get this book, show it to your Doctor.

If you do suffer from Tinnitus, I know what you are suffering it is the third most ghastly thing to have next to intractable pain and intractable dizzyness. I can offer to you that it *will* get better, this book will help you. Godspeed.

--B

The book is written in a convenient 'question and answer' style. I was initially doubtful the authors could pull it off, but the pacing and flow is very well done. The book doesn't promise any miracles, just covers the basics. Just about every treatment imaginable is given some attention. The authors mention what scientific information is known, then move on.

When I was first diagnosed with Tinnitus a month ago, I was thoroughly confused. The audiologist who confirmed the hearing loss was of the " deal with it" school. I needed more than that. My greatest source of help has been the American Tinnitus Association (ATA.org) and this is a book produced by them. If you are experiencing this phenomenon or if you have someone in your family who is, this book is a terrific source of information. It is done in a question and answer format and I can almost assure you that any question you might have is covered in this book in some fashion or another. And the reader is never made to feel that they are stupid for asking "that" question. It was very helpful to me.

My one quibble with Dr. Vernon's book is that the smorgasboard of questions to which he provides answers seems a bit arbitrary and haphazard. For example, how about answering the question about what the current leading theories of tinnitus causation are, or what (in Dr. Vernon's vast experience) is the best treatment strategy for someone who suffers from this condition? You must look elsewhere for that kind of information.

In fact, the lack of systematic exposition gives you the sense of a game of trivial pursuit as Dr. Vernon jumps from topic to topic. But it must be said that, for all that, one can learn a great deal from this pioneer in tinnitus treatment and research, and the tone of the book is positive and filled with warmth and an obvious and deep commitment to helping those with "ringing in the ears".

Having mild tinnitus and wanting to learn a little bit of how the future might make it worse, and what I could do to keep it from getting worse, I needed a good source of information. I found a lot of info on the web, but soon understood I needed info of a more reliable and unbiased kind. So I read this book "Tinnitus: Questions and Answers" and was very satisfied. It covers the topic of tinnitus both in depth and width, and it does so in an unbiased and easy to understand way.

Also; not having english as my native tounge, I found this book easy to read and easy to understand. It is well written and full og explanations.

Read it, and get well informed on tinnitus!
This advice is for common people as well as general physicians and ear-nose-throat doctors (!!!)

Stein Thomassen, Norway

My father is a tinnitus patient and I wanted to learn as much as possible about tinnitus without getting bogged down in depressing detail. This book was practically perfect for that. There is, as yet, no cure for tinnitus, but the authors remain optimistic. The question-and-answer format of the book makes it very readable for the layman and it seems to cover every possible aspect of living with tinnitus.

The Ringing Sound is not just for those experiencing unusual auditory sensations. It is a revealing and enlightening guide to an ancient, secretly guarded meditation technique known as the Sound Current. As an introduction to the Sound Current, the book unites physics with metaphysics in an exploration of the nature of all life as energy. Tapping into the Source of energy through the Sound Current is the exciting goal.

The book is a culmination of many years spent by the author studying a variety of spiritual paths ranging from Shamanism to yoga and marshal arts. Written in a clear, concise style, it is beautifully formatted with intriguing sidebar quotations which add literary beauty as well as meaning to the main text. The result for this reader was a joyful, ahaa feeling on practically every page. It is highly recommended for all who seek an accelerated journey along the spiritual path.

The book has a great title and a good but brief introduction to the topic, but falls short of the promise by padding a few good pages of information into book-length with "la-la" filler. I was bothered that the entire "what you hear" section was vague and hardly filled one page. For example, there was no mention that many folks hear chords, and no mention of the pitch, that very curiously for many is the older musical key of A (~425 Hz), might possibly be the source of our musical scale, and no mention that the sounds become stronger when one clinches one's teeth. Nonetheless, this book is the first entry into a field rarely separately discussed, and my hope is that we don't have to wait long for the "fully researched and revised edition".

The "Ringing Sound" is a most incredible book. The author has explained a difficult subject that is little known and less understood. He brings it out of darkness and into the light of understanding nicely. This subject matter touches everyone's life. At some point we all have heard the ringing and buzzing sound in our ears. I heard it almost all of my life but didn't know what it was. Now it is plesantly with me all the time.
Most people who hear it fear that there is something wrong with them. I am a health proffessional and I get clients with this ringing often, I suggest that they read Eric's book. I am very gratefull to have such a wonderfull resource.
The book is an introduction to the world of energy and is not designed as an exstended meditaiton program. It is for the general public and anyone who is begining to explore the world of energy and meditation.
Eric explains this normal phenomenon in a way that is both logical and mystical at the same time. This is an easy, must read, one to keep by the bedstand.

I had dismissed the constant ringing in my ears as a physical phenomenem and an annoyance that I was destined to live with for the rest of my life. But when a physicist explains to me in layman terms that this may be spiritual energy, the sounds take on an entirely different meaning. The author unselfishly shares the mystical secrets of sound current which have been hidden away for centuries. It is obvious that he has a direct connection with Source.

Finally, an all-inclusive book--from the discovery of a most brilliant neuroscientist--that explains the mysteries of the auditory system, tinnitus/hyperacusis/hearing loss and how it is possible to achieve permanent relief. Topics run the gamut from the processing of sounds within the brain to the treatment protocol including recovery results with statistics to prevention: Based on the Jastreboff Neurophysiological Model of Tinnitus.
Book even gives an unbiased overview of other tinnitus treatments. Incredibly Forthright! Extremely Informative! Easy-To-Read Format.
This is a book "not-to-miss" for everything one needs to know. And, most importantly, for the only correct treatment for permanent relief in the world.
The treatment, TRT, will be needed in a futuristic world in order for people to strengthen their auditory systems to tolerate the sound levels of their environment. TRT will be revolutionary. Book contains help; book contains hope. Book contains proof that no one need suffer anymore!

I read about 5 books on tinnitus and hyperacusis. This is, by far, the best. The only thing needed to treat tinnitus is to understand some methods, which are explained, and to purchase a $50 nature sound machine. My only complaint is that the author didn't provide a list of nature sound machines (academians don't endorse, I guess), and these are somewhat difficult to shop for.

Fast reading--took me about 4 hours. Easiest way to figure out how to treat tinnitus and hyperacusis. Not fully "cured", but treatment teached me how to live accommodate both tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Jastreboff's TRT:INM is essential reading for those of us who suffer from tinnitus and is approachable by even the layman.

It was encouraging to learn what factors may be in play in tinnitus emergence and how my own personality and conditioning may have contributed. Jastreboff's neurophysiological model of tinnitus explains the oto-neurological reorganization that takes place to intensify and make persistent the tinnitus percept. The plasticity of the related mechanisms offer encouragement for relief and recovery. His many documented successes with TRT are indisputable. However, there still are failures. Inadequate "TRT counselling"? In addition to counselling sessions on the neurophysiological model other therapies may be necessary -- psychotherapy, cognative behavioral therapy, distraction attention techniques, imaginary exercises and modifications of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.

I finished this text and followed it immediately with Kevin Hogan's "Tinnitus: Turning the Volume Down." It is an interesting contrast. Jastreboff frowns on the use of drugs and many other "modalities", banking almost exclusively on his neurophysiological model of tinnitus and conforming therapies. Hogan, who suffered and received significant relief takes a more pragmatic approach: If it works, he won't dismiss it. He does address the pros and cons of many approaches. And he is not against an approach, which uses many treatments concurrantly. He plays the percentages, hoping to increase the probability of success (1 - p1%*p2%*...*pn%). Hogan himself used a variety of meds and hypnosis to achieve habituation of reaction and perception of his own severe tinnitus.

Will TRT work for me?

Well- it did not tell me anything that I didn't already know. Helpful if you know nothing about tinnitus.

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The book is a complete resource for understanding tinnitus. What is even better, the book is written in a way that is factual, easy to read, and easy to understand.
The variety of treatments gave new answers and realistic approaches. The homeopathy section was very enlightening as well as the acupressure ideas.

The Tinnitus Handbook provides a very readable overview of the topic and some of the possible explanations and remedies. I especially liked the objective presentation of alternative medical treatments. The book could be improved by color illustrations of the middle and inner ear to make the physiological descriptions clearer. But, I suppose, that would have meant an increase in price. I highly recommend the book to those suffer from tinnitus and to those who live with those who suffer.

...I found some of the info in this book informative but as a sufferer of tinnitus I am quite knowledgable of this condition. I thought this book might give me some new info and insight into my condition. If you don't know much about tinnitus this may be a good book for you but much of the info in these pages is already out there online.

This book is very helpful in understanding the challenges of today's world. Intelligence is a vital requirement for three objectives: Knowing what your opponents are doing; deceiving your opponents about what you are doing; and using covert means to change or replace your opponents.

As Ambrose makes clear, Eisenhower was introduced to the world of intelligence by Winston Churchill and rapidly became fascinated with it. His chief intelligence officer Kenneth Strong, a British General, kept him remarkably informed throughout the Second World War. Ambrose argues, and he is almost certainly right, that only the combination of great intelligence about the Germans and the most successful deception plan in history made the invasion of France possible in 1944. He also notes that deception had also been brilliantly used in 1943 to convince the Germans that the allies were going to invade Sardinia or Greece rather than Sicily. The result was a reallocation of German forces to the wrong places, which weakened their forces in Sicily.

There are a lot of lessons in this book for our generation. Eisenhower valued technology and took risks to develop it. He knew how to undertake successful covert operations. For anyone who would understand the uses of intelligence in the modern world, this is a useful book.

Ike has always been underestimated as an American President. Occurring as he did, during an era that to history has been seen as boring, and between essential administrations like Truman and JFK, Eisenhower has seemed to disappear to America. Here is a book that finally tells the whole story about Eisenhowers defense team and its use of espionage and covert ops to stop and roll back communism the world over. Ike was a confrontationalist, not a détente' man. This book, by the very esteemed popular Historian Mr. Ambrose, helps to convey the wide range of activities. From the planning of the Bay of Pigs to the overthrow of the Iranian and Guatemala governments Ike brought America to pinnacle of Cold War politics, daring to confront the communists in the same manner they confronted the third world, namely armed intervention. This is a wonderful account and the only one that can be found detailing Ike's covert career from WWII to 1960.
Seth J. Frantzman