A well-known Isle of Wight Musician - whos journey with tinnitus started thirty years go to the week - has shared his story as part of Tinnitus Awareness Week
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Islander Rupert Brown was performing at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club when he nearly collapsed after experiencing his first serious hearing accident.
Rupert, who is now the man behind a revolutionary tinnitus app called T-Minus, says when his hearing ruptured he heard eight different “monstrous sounds”.
Tinnitus can occur through sudden or prolonged noise exposure, a sudden bereavement or an incident that is shocking or emotional.
It manifests itself by creating low or high pitch signals, hissing, buzzing, whirling sounds - in either both ears or one.
An estimated six million people in the UK (10% of the population) have tinnitus - and it affects people of all ages.
Rupert, who is from Ryde, says he "doesn’t regret" the long journey he has been on, unwittingly created his own sound therapy by using boogie boxes’ from the 1980s, which became the basis of his revolutionary app T-Minus.
Rupert told Isle of Wight Radio:
“I decided to make my own sound therapy pressed ‘play,’ ‘tape’, ‘record’, ‘pause’ on the boogie boxes and turned up the tone and the volume. What I didn’t realise, unwittingly, I was creating blue, pink and white noise and I bathed myself in those for a year when I was sleeping and set them below my own tinnitus volume - after a year those sounds quickly dissipated and became one sound.”
Users of the app have described it as “life-changing” and “magic”.
You can find out more about the T-Minus App here.
Listen to the full interview with Rupert here.
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