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medicines, devices and the things you reach for

Logging every dose is the kind of homework that makes people quit. In TinnitusMe a daily medicine, a device or a habit is added once, with the day it started, and the app compares your spike days before and since. The things you reach for when it gets loud, sound, quiet, a walk, are one tap, and the app's own sounds are noted for you.

why note what helps?

A Cochrane review of six trials and 610 patients found there is as yet insufficient evidence to say antidepressants improve tinnitus.

Baldo et al., Cochrane 2012

Set once, not every dose

Treatments live under Monitor: add a medicine, a device or a habit, its amount and frequency, and the start date, and stop it when you stop. For the as-needed ones and for reliefs, Quick Log takes one tap with the time set to now, and you can add the amount, how much it helped and any side effects.

What the treatment page shows

Your spike days a month while on it against before it started, the last four weeks, average loudness and duration before and since, which triggers moved up or down, and how it compares with your other treatments. If nothing was logged before it started, it says there is nothing to compare with. The Treatments page is part of Premium.

What Worked

Every medicine and relief gets one of four verdicts. The reason underneath is in the unit it was measured in: loudness against your spikes without it, hours where there are enough end times, or your own relief rating. It is deliberately cautious, because people reach for treatment on their louder spikes. It is your log read back to you, not a measure of the medicine.

Your doctor decides

TinnitusMe never suggests starting, stopping or changing a medicine. If something in your log lines up with a medicine you take, take it to your GP, audiologist or pharmacist. Never change a dose because of what an app shows.

Where it lives in the app

Monitor holds Treatments, where you add, link, stop or delete a medicine, device or habit. Reliefs is a page of the spike log, and Medicine and Relief are tiles in Quick Log on the Log tab. What Worked is in Insights.

What it needs from you

A start date for each daily treatment, once. As-needed medicines and reliefs are one tap when you use them, and the app's own sounds are noted for you. The Treatments page and What Worked are part of Premium; logging is free.

Questions

Do I have to log every dose?

No. A daily medicine is added once as a treatment with its start date. Log an as-needed medicine when you take it, if you want it compared.

Does the app tell me which medicine to take?

No. It shows how your own spikes went with what you used and leaves every medical decision to you and your doctor.

Is it Premium?

Logging a medicine or relief is free. The Treatments page and What Worked are part of Premium.

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