Caution: This is kind of an ad but a lot of musicians may totally benefit from this device. | By Evan Kruegel, KUSA-TV | For years, Boulder musician Kathy Kucsan heard a high-pitched ringing no one else could. The constant noise, known as tinnitus, forced her to give up her passion and profession.
“I couldn’t listen to music. I just had to stop,” Kucsan said. “It scared me. There were a lot of late nights of freaking out literally because I thought, ‘OK, I’m going to hear this till I die.’”
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the ears or head when no external source exists. It affects more than 25 million American adults, according to the American Tinnitus Association, and roughly 10% of people globally. Symptoms vary from ringing and buzzing to clicking or hissing, and for many, the sound is relentless.
“If you just imagine a high-pitched ringing sound that won’t stop,” Kucsan said. “We’re having a conversation, but here’s the high-pitched ringing, and it’s distracting.”
Kucsan said she ignored the symptoms at first, thinking they would go away. But as a trained oboist, the condition made playing, and even listening to music unbearable.
“It was depressing, and it scared me,” she said.
After 15 years of symptoms, Kucsan turned to a newly approved device called Lenire (pronounced “Len-Ear”). In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the device for the treatment of tinnitus, the first such approval of its kind.
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