Currently, there is no treatment with recognised efficacy. Tinnitus tends to diminish over time through a process of distancing and habituation by the patient. Generally, people who have managed to get used to their tinnitus acknowledge that learning there was nothing to be done helped them a great deal…

Various methods can nonetheless be explored to relieve the distress:

1) Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) : this method requires a significant personal and financial investment and combines wearing a device that emits “white” sounds (hissing-like), psychological therapy and relaxation exercises.

​2) Sound therapy : avoiding silence or deliberate daily listening to white or personalised noise, with or without hearing aids.

​3) Cognitive behavioural therapy : its aim, over a few sessions and many relaxation exercises, is to allow the person to associate their tinnitus no longer with suffering but with something positive, thereby making it harmless.

​4) Other techniques : relaxation, sophrology, hypnosis, acupuncture, Qi Gong, eutony and the “Feldenkrais” method, etc.

​5) Discussion group focused on tinnitus : since September 2014, Fondation Audition Suisse has offered a discussion group dedicated to tinnitus. The group's activities only begin once there are enough registrations.

​Psychological support is also often recommended.

​Tinnitus is often associated with conditions such as: high blood pressure, metabolic or hormonal disorders, stress, anxiety, depression, etc.
These conditions must also be treated.

​Short video produced by RTS on this topic: I don't look ill but... I suffer from tinnitus