Why I Built This
About four years ago I developed tinnitus — a persistent, high-pitched ringing in both ears that never stopped. I did what everyone does: saw doctors, got told there was nothing to be done, and tried to adapt. When I came across on bimodal neuromodulation, I built myself a simple timer, bought a $30 TENS unit, and started doing daily sessions. It helped. I kept going.
But something kept nagging at me. I was reaching for anything — bimodal neuromodulation, vitamin E in the ear, hyperbaric chamber. Trying everything and understanding nothing. I truly felt like I was chasing a ghost.
So I started talking to Claude — describing my symptoms, my history, my patterns in detail. What came back stopped me cold: the most likely cause of my tinnitus wasn't COVID or noise damage. It was the arthritis in my cervical spine — the result of a car accident 30 years ago. Somatic tinnitus. Generated not by the ear, but by the neck. The kind that bimodal stimulation alone was never going to fix.
That conversation changed everything. Not because it diagnosed me — it didn't, and it can't — but because it gave me a framework to understand what I was actually dealing with. And it made me realize that most tinnitus sufferers are in the same position I was: trying treatments before they understand the source. Chasing solutions to a problem they haven't fully defined yet.
That's what this platform is built to change. A deep intake that identifies your tinnitus subtype. Tools that help you connect your symptoms to possible causes. A community of people who share your exact profile — and what's actually helped them. Coaching that guides you toward solutions matched to your condition, not a generic list of everything that's ever worked for anyone.
I started with a timer. I'm building the intelligence layer that tinnitus has never had.
Free — for as long as I can. Running a coach that absorbs your full history and gives real, personalized guidance isn't cheap. A paid tier may be coming if I can't support this with advertising. But right now it's free, and I want you to use it as much as humanly possible. The more you use it, the better it gets for everyone. Stop-Tinnitus!