For years you’ve worked in the urban jungle, full of noise of all sorts. In quiet times, there is still white noise from various sources like the occasional passing car or L-train. Its been years since your last trip to the country or quiet suburbia. You finally decide to go camping in the wilderness. You take the road trip listening to the radio with the engine in the background and when you finally reach your destination, you turn off your vehicle’s engine expecting the silence of the wilderness but to your dismay, the noise is still there. You still hear a high-pitched whine or whistle. After half a day, the noise is still there. Its the same noise you hear when you suddenly come fact-to-face with a jackhammer in a nearby construction site. You have tinnitus, the ringing sound that you hear after hearing a loud noise or get slapped near the ears. But this tinnitus is persistent because it’s been quiet for several hours already. The next day, the noise is still there and you wish for tinnitus recovery because nature is waiting to be appreciated.

Tinnitus recovery is usually an easy road Silencil because tinnitus is usually a temporary condition. It goes away on its own from as little as a few minutes to several hours. Tinnitus is a symptom and not the real problem. It’s like sneezing if you’re allergic to pollen. Simply go indoors and the sneezing stops. Solve the real problem and you solve your persistent tinnitus. The normal, non-persistent type goes away in as short as a few minutes but the persistent form of tinnitus means that there is an underlying problem. Tinnitus is usually the symptom of noise-induced hearing loss but can be cause by other things such as:

• Loud noises
• Advancing age
• Earwax impaction
• Medicinal side-effects
• Middle ear infection etc…

While diagnosing the problem and looking for tinnitus recovery, you can keep your comfort or sanity by masking the tinnitus you weren’t aware of before you subjected yourself to quiet isolation. Like hiccups, tinnitus has many remedies. Some of them are unconventional, some of them are unproven, and some of them work for some but not for others:

• Hearing aids – compensate for the loss of hearing accompanying tinnitus Advancing age
• Maskers – devices that emit a sound that cancels out noises associated with tinnitus
• Listening to soft sound or music from a music player
• Grinding your teeth or turning your neck in different directions