I Tried Tapping for Tinnitus - Does it Work?

Skull tapping claims to provide instant relief for tinnitus. Audiologist and tinnitus expert Ben Thompson tries it, and explains the science of this surprising technique.

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[tedgoff]

Every time I try this, my tinnitus gets louder. After 2 rounds it went from about a 4 to about a 7.

[JANE-jefi]

Definitely I felt relief, from a 8 to a 6/7 after second round! It increased relief even further when I listened to the pink noise for a timed 3 hours over night.. and next morning - WOW! I actually woke up with near silence in my left ear!! First time in a year since tinitus started. It was a wonder feeling and I couldn’t believe how impactful the silence was. I’m very excited by finding your organisation and whilst the tinitus did creep back during the course of next day, it definitely felt less loud. I’m trying it again with pink noise for a few more days 🤞

[for-real-tho]

I'm 39 and my tinnitus started about 7 months ago. Strangely there are some days when it completely stops for a full day. I'm not sure why. On bad days I cannot make it stop and it's often very distracting. I've also noticed that the ringing is loudest when I wake up form an afternoon nap.

[DasKaddelchen]

This didn't change my high pitched tinnitus (>10 kHz) at all, but made my low frequency tinnitus (67 Hz) disappear for about 20 seconds. After 20 seconds it came back much louder but got to a normal level after about a minute.
We use a similar method in our hum-tone-hearer community cause a lot of the affected can't differentiate their low-frequency tinnitus from actual hum-tones or, more often, don't want to believe what they hear is not an actual sound.

[oddspadakins]

I did it 4 times. The level was around 6 prior to intervention. Then 4/5 after the 4th. With some variation. Then it got better as time went on and the variation became more on the low side3-4. Awesome.

[nigbiker]

It immediately halved my tinnitus fro 4 to a 2. Took about 3 mins to rebuild up to the 4 again. My issue seems to be related to neck and jaw tension. Massage, manipulation and white noise when asleep seem to be helping a lot. I was a 6/7 in volume a month ago. Oh, and I have cut out all alcohol most of my caffeine intake too!

[PureNaZa]

I had to quit nicotine and alcohol before it got better but sound therapy by far worked the most been a 3 months since it started im hoping it gets better and not just for a day. It did get better for me but not in volume just how much i pay attention to it. Which does lower it somehow but it gets loud if you give it too much attention, maybe soon it will lower, keep your mind strong as you fight it, we are all in this together. Love you all ❤ we got this

[JanetWilliams]

Worked for me. Wow! About a 6/7 before (left ear/right ear), down to about a 2-left / 3-right for about.... Wait. I can hear the overhead fan in the bedroom now, and the sound of distant early morning traffic on the highway about a mile away. Birds! I think I'll cry...

It's slowly coming back, but not to as loud as it was before. Maybe about a 4/5? I tried it on just one ear and it seems to work for both ears if I just do one. That's just wild.

THANK YOU, thank you!

[margwoskett]

Come to Canada Dr. Ben! Your videos have helped me sooo much...I'm seeing great Improvement in my tinnitus! Thank you!

[garymurphy]

Tried that for weeks b4 I found your channel and then I found out more about T did not work for me 😢

[oldcrow]

Occlusion affect if I cup my hands over my ears!

[whisperviz]

The only thing that work for me is sound theraphy.

I spent days finding the one that work for me.

[arnaudbonzon]

Can someone explain this? I did the tapping exercise, and it drastically changed the sound of my right ear tinnitus (the left one stayed unchanged). For 10 seconds, it felt like a small bomb exploding in my ear before it returned to "normal." Any opinions on what happened @treblehealth?

[dhc]

This is the BEST channel for the management of tinnitus!

[christinemanigian]

I was doing this when I first got my 24/7 tinnitus, desperately searching online how to resolve tinnitus. Not only did it make it worse, it made me feel like I whiplashed my head, got dizzy, made myself get a headache, back of head very sore, and my coworkers at work thought I had a serious mental problem doing that. I would not recommend as it DOES NOT HELP.☹️

[meat_loves_wasabi]

The method is effective for those short temporary moments when you get loud high pitch ringing in the ear.. for tinnitus this method doesn’t do anything for me

[Gorboduc]

Tried this for two days. Each time I did it the duration of silence got shorter, and the next day I woke up with the ringing louder, so I'm not gonna use it as a permanent thing.

[ariesheshelala]

did nothing for me, but i'm willing to keep trying

[pct]

I’m so lucky, I had tinnitus for 28 years, Covid jab made it much worse and took me 18 months to get used to it, now I have pulsatile tinnitus in one ear that I have to habituate to / and get checked out. I am starting to hate my brain.

[Toasty-pops]

Mine went from a 5 down to a 4 for about a minute then returned to normal 5 pretty quickly. Meh