Find Relief From Ringing, Buzzing, or Hissing in Your Ears
Tinnitus is the sensation of hearing ringing, buzzing, or hissing without an external sound. These sounds can interfere with sleep, concentration, and everyday conversations, making daily life more stressful and exhausting.
Our team provides personalized tinnitus care focused on identifying the cause, reducing symptoms, and helping you regain control of your hearing and quality of life.
Is Tinnitus Affecting Your Daily Life?
You’re Not Alone — And You Don’t Have to Just “Live With It”
Tinnitus can range from a mild background noise to a constant sound that disrupts focus, sleep, and communication. Stress, fatigue, and irritability are common when symptoms persist.
What Causes Tinnitus?
Tinnitus is typically a symptom of another issue, most commonly hearing loss. Other possible causes include:
- Exposure to loud noise
- Earwax buildup
- Age-related hearing loss
- Medication side effects
- Allergies or sinus issues
- Jaw or neck problems
- Circulatory or other medical conditions
How We Treat Tinnitus
After evaluating your hearing and medical history, we recommend customized treatment options that may include:
Hearing Aids
Amplify surrounding sounds and help mask tinnitus perception for many patients.
Sound Therapy
Generate gentle background noise that reduces the prominence of tinnitus.
Earwax Removal
Removing impacted earwax may restore hearing and reduce symptoms.
Counseling
Learn strategies to manage tinnitus and reduce stress related to symptoms.
Our Approach to Tinnitus Relief
We don’t just address symptoms — we create a management plan designed to help your brain gradually reduce awareness of tinnitus over time. This process, called habituation, can lead to lasting relief and improved daily comfort.
Our goal is to help you:
- Reduce tinnitus awareness
- Improve sleep and concentration
- Lower stress and frustration
- Restore quality of life
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to help you feel confident about your hearing care
We’ve compiled answers to the most common questions our clients ask to help you get a better understanding of how we can assist you.
What causes tinnitus?
Hearing Loss: Most people who have tinnitus also have some kind of hearing loss.
Loud Noise: Exposure to loud noise can cause permanent hearing loss and tinnitus. Continued exposure can make the tinnitus and hearing loss get worse.
Medicine: More than 200 medicines, including aspirin, can cause tinnitus. If you have tinnitus and you take medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist whether your medicine could be involved.
Other potential causes: Allergies, tumors, problems in the heart and blood vessels, jaws, and neck can cause tinnitus.
How will hearing experts treat my tinnitus?
Although there is no cure for tinnitus, audiologists, scientists and doctors have discovered several treatments that may give you some relief. Not every treatment works for everyone, so you may need to try several to find the ones that help.
Treatments can include:
Hearing Aids: Most people with tinnitus have some degree of hearing loss. Hearing aids create a dual benefit of enhancing hearing and masking or covering up the tinnitus. The majority of patients with tinnitus receive partial or complete relief from their tinnitus with the use of hearing aids.
Maskers: Tinnitus maskers are small electronic devices that look like hearing aids and are tuned to generate sound that masks or covers up the tinnitus. Like hearing aids, they may provide relief from the tinnitus, but will not enhance hearing and may interfere with understanding speech. Many types of devices, such as fans, radios and sound generators can be used as tinnitus maskers to help tinnitus sufferers to fall sleep or get back to sleep.
Medicine or Drug Therapy: Some tinnitus sufferers develop anxiety and other strong emotional responses to their tinnitus. Certain medicines may provide relief from these emotional reactions and provide some relief from the tinnitus. Other medicines and nutritional supplements have provided relief in some patients.
Counseling: People with tinnitus may experience anxiety, depression and other psychiatric problems. You may be referred to a psychiatrist our counselor as needed.
Relaxing: Learning how to relax is very helpful if the noise in your ears frustrates you. Stress makes tinnitus seem worse. By relaxing, you have a chance to rest and better deal with the sound.
What should I do if I have tinnitus?
The first step is to see an Audiologist for an evaluation. A careful history and audiometric testing will lead to the most likely causes and best treatment for your tinnitus. You may be referred to an ear, nose and throat specialist for an examination to complete the diagnosis.
What can I do to help myself?
Think about things that will help you cope. Many people find listening to music very helpful. Focusing on music might help you forget about your tinnitus for a while. It can also help to mask the sound. Other people like to listen to recorded nature sounds, like ocean waves, the wind, or even crickets.
Avoid anything that can make your tinnitus worse, such as smoking, alcohol and loud noise. If you are a construction worker, an airport worker, or a hunter, or if you are regularly exposed to loud noise at home or at work, wear ear plugs or special earmuffs to protect your hearing and keep your tinnitus from getting worse.
If it is hard for you to hear over your tinnitus, ask your friends and family to face you when they talk so you can see their faces. Seeing their expressions may help you understand them better. Ask people to speak louder, but not shout. Also, tell them they do not have to talk slowly, just more clearly.
