It is not known how many people suffer from tinnitus.
People suffering from tinnitus may receive treatment under normal service funding arrangements.
Support and hearing therapy available includes counselling, communication training/tactics, tinnitus therapy and help in coping with balance problems.
Simple problems such as tinnitus or the difficulties currently treated with grommets are also susceptible to that approach.
The level of facilities for tinnitus sufferers is for health authorities to decide, taking account of other claims on the resources available.
We are of course aware of who is most often affected by the illness known as tinnitus.
Apart from the savage irony of the tinnitus sounds in her head, she has heard nothing.
Often patients will complain of earache or tinnitus rather than admit to being deaf in an effort to be referred to the appropriate centre for hearing assessment.
