Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook

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Pub Date 06 Feb 2019 | Archive Date 15 Sep 2019

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Description

Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook is an excellent  resource for homes, clinics, and libraries.

Tinnitus is when people hear extra sounds like ringing or buzzing.

Hyperacusis is when people hear sounds extra loud or painful.

People with tinnitus-hyperacusis distress are still being told nothing can be done.

Something can be done.

Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook covers currently available international science-based approaches including self-help, guided self-help, professional treatments, clinical trials, and experimental research.

This book describes options and how to use them most effectively. For people in the hearing loss and Deaf communities, this includes coping tools that don't rely on sound or hearing to help lower any tinnitus or hyperacusis related distress.

There are chapters on noise damage (occupational and environmental), noise control, and hearing protection, including hyperacusis overprotection. Universal hearing healthcare is described as a way of significantly cutting overall healthcare costs.

This book gives people the current state of Hyper Ears World. The factual science-based info they need to be informed consumers about the tools they choose to use in their personal tinnitus-hyperacusis toolbox. To avoid defective products and scams. To find no to low cost tools including free mobile apps. To find the tools needed to cope better and have a better quality of life. 

For people with tinnitus or hyperacusis, knowledge is power.

Flesch Reading Ease = 66 


Reading level = age 14-15 and older

Length = 450 pages

Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Aud(C), RAud, is a Canadian author and educator. She won a 2013 Eric Hoffer Award in Non-Fiction Health for Tinnitus Treatment Toolbox (2010, rev. 2012).

She has the unique perspective of both having tinnitus-hyperacusis for over 30 years, and working as an audiologist specializing in tinnitus-hyperacusis evaluation, management, and prevention.

Her career spans hearing healthcare, health and safety education, hearing conservation, and authoring horror fiction and non-fiction noise and hearing health related articles, books, and educational materials.

Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook is an excellent  resource for homes, clinics, and libraries.

Tinnitus is when people hear extra sounds like ringing or buzzing.

Hyperacusis is when people hear...


Advance Praise

2019 International Book Awards Winning Finalist in Health: General

Recommended. Mayes believes in making informed decisions about techniques, products, and services, and this book makes it possible to sort through the options with ease and begin building a toolbox that is effective and empowering.
US Review of Books

This book is an essential resource for clients and professionals. Jan is an audiologist who has lived the experience of tinnitus and sound tolerance, developing useful strategies along the way. She is able to communicate her understanding of these complex issues in a way that any of us can understand. Charlotte Douglas Aud(D), Goodreads

A wonderful opportunity to get in-depth information about past, present, and potential of future developments about this topic. Andre Lafargue, Aud(C), Goodreads

This book is a must read for anyone with tinnitus or hyperacusis who has been told they have to learn to live with it. A. Van Maanen, Aud(C), ARC review

I cried, laughed, and loved Jan through the whole read...I'm not alone or crazy. I know there is a massive toolbox for me. G. Slater ARC review


2019 International Book Awards Winning Finalist in Health: General

Recommended. Mayes believes in making informed decisions about techniques, products, and services, and this book makes it possible to...


Available Editions

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ISBN 9781775270515
PRICE $24.99 (USD)

Average rating from 17 members


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This book is incredibly comprehensive; basically a lifetime's worth of hard work studying. It's a compilation of every fact of the matter, as well as personal insights. My father has a serious tinnitus problem (he calls it head-noise), and we have been looking for help for many years. This toolbox is really helpful.

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This book sounded good, however is very scientific and I don't feel is accessible for untrained self help. I have given this 4 stars as I think it's a fantastic research piece but too complex for me.

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Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook
by Jan L. Mayes

Having Tinnitus I thought this book would be helpful and informative. But, I found this is not your everyday reading material. It presented itself as a more scientific journal than an self help guide. It did offer some suggestions on dealing with the Tinnitus for sleeping, that can be useful. But overall this book is a difficult read for the average person.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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I'm 66 and I've been suffering from tinnitus since the age of 12.

I've found this book interesting for 2 reasons. It helps to differentiate the different kinds of tinnitus and to know what can be the causes of each of them, as well as how to relieve them, if not heal them completely.

I learned that my tinnitus is getting worse because of high blood pressure. When I don't have hypertension, my tinnitus is limited to a very bearable hiss. Otherwise, it's thunder in my ears and it's hellish. It's impossible to sleep when it seems that a drummer is playing his drums beside your ears.

I suggest that all oto-rhyno-laryngologists take a look at it. They could discover how to be more useful to their patients than they usually are at this time.

Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an eCopy of this excellent book.

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Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook by Jan L. Mayes – 4 Stars
Publisher: Jan L. Mayes
ISBN: 9781775270515

The author clearly states there is no magic cure for tinnitus in this book or anywhere. So, up front I continued on to read about all the ways to live with it and minimize its impact on my life of living with tinnitus for over 25 noticeable years so far. The book did not disappoint from the aspect of comprehensiveness and good advice. I really enjoyed the first half of the book that introduced a lot of personal attempts to overcome tinnitus and the straight and concise facts to live more enjoyable given tinnitus. The author provides an excellent toolbox to fight the lows, introducing most of the therapies available today which the reader could find self-research. Her introductions were very complete and included sound, mental, physical, and distraction techniques to help understand and address the noise we tinnitus suffers have to endure, along with readable scientific definitions, facts, additional research articles available. The second half of the book did become a bit overdone though with possibly everything one can search for on the Internet and a more merely listed rather than discussed.

What did I specifically take from this book’s toolbox? DISTRACTION techniques. I could not find any pure sound techniques that worked so far, but I did learn to associate the sounds I am hearing to a more pleasant event via imaging – I am practicing and can now sometimes turn one of the most annoying sounds, the continuous solid upper pitch into an other sound that sounds like the night insects I enjoyed back on top of the Appalachians. My low and pulsating motor humming sound is also no longer the neighbor warming up his truck, but a gentle wind working its way around barriers. Hey, I’ll take it!

I’d classify this nonfiction books as a reference document, as well as a readable guide to managing tinnitus. One can either play with the Internet and do their won research, or quickly learn most everything about tinnitus by reading the first half of the book. Missing though is an index, which could provide quick access to your pertinent questions. I’d like to see an index in the back to give the reader this advantage. Without an index, but because of the great information, I’ll be rating this 4-star. Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book.




Reviewer: Rich

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I was really excited to read this book because I suffer from tinnitus quite often and wanted to get some resources to deal with it. It is very informative and I am going to definitely take a lot of this advice into account. I would recommend this book for anyone suffering from tinnitus to find out some common causes and remedies.

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Thorough and readable Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook covers all the bases for anyone looking for information about this condition. It helps to explain the condition and what the treatment options are so that you know where to go to get help, what questions to ask, and what you can do to help yourself. I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from "hearing crickets" like I did for years!

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Tinnitus Toolbox by Jan L. Mayes is an owners manual for people suffering from Tinnitus. It provides facts and data on the latest research as well as treatment options. Tinnitus Toolbox is quite thorough and will give hope to an affliction which previously was hopeless.

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Having suffered from tinnitus since I was 7, I am somewhat used to it. I still wonder what silence sounds like and haven't given up hope of a cure in the future. It probably won't happen in my life time, but I still have hope. If ever I see anything having to do tinnitus and coping with it, I look in to it immediately. So, this book caught my eye and I had to take a peek. Covers a lot of territory...much of it I've already covered with various ENT's and GP's. Still it was a worth a read. It's pretty long and inclusive. I don;t think anyone will want to read it cover to cover in one or two sessions. I found it to be ore of a read at leisure and what interests one at any given moment. If you are new to tinnitus, you have my sympathy- there is no cure- only various coping suggestions. I can tell you that once you accept that fact, it gets easier to deal with it, mostly. Good book with lots in information.

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This book is an extensive review of coping/treatment strategies for sufferers of hyperacusis.
Tinnitus treatments are discussed but the focus seems to be on more severe disorders like hyperacusis. The author has done a great deal of work in her research but there are a few times in which she oversteps her reach (I believe she warned against Kava Kava but without the necessary caveats as to its general safety if the correct preparation/plant parts are used). If I had hyperacusis I doubt I could find a better book than this.

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