Living with tinnitus is easier with good information and people who get it. The Community screen brings tinnitus and hearing articles from trusted sources, a forum, the TinnitusMe blog, and a list of audiologists and hearing clinics near you that work with tinnitus.
Pooled across 83 studies, 14.4% of adults have tinnitus and 2.3% have it severely: more than 740 million adults worldwide.
Jarach et al., JAMA Neurol 2022New articles come in daily from tinnitus and hearing sources, are summarised in a sentence or two, tagged by topic, and only published if they are genuinely about tinnitus, hearing or noise. Miracle-cure marketing is filtered out.
The forum is a place to ask and answer with other people who have tinnitus. Every post can be reported. The blog carries longer pieces from TinnitusMe and is open to everyone at tinnitusme.com/blog.
The Practitioners tab lists audiologists and hearing clinics near you that name tinnitus in what they do, once your location has come in. They are listed from Google, are not part of TinnitusMe and cannot see anything you have logged.
The Community screen, from the button at the top of the app. It opens on Forum. The tabs are Practitioners (practitioners on TinnitusMe, anyone you share with, and nearby clinics), Articles, Forum and Blogs.
A one-time confirmation that you are 18 or over. After that, nothing for the articles, forum and blog. The nearby list needs location at city level and appears once your first location has come in. All of it is free.
Yes. Articles, the forum, the blog and the nearby list are part of the free app.
No. They come from Google and have no link to your account.
It needs your location, at city level. Once location is on, the list appears when your first location has come in, usually within a day.
