Widex Zen, Tinnitus Management

So thankful I found this app and wish I had it years ago. I’ve had tinnitus since a very young age (I think caused by many many ear infections damaging my ears?) and even though I lived with it all my life, there’s times it’s worse like when I’m sick or times when it’s almost unbearable because I can’t have one quiet moment. Sleepless nights with babies and all the anxieties of motherhood have made my tinnitus the tip of the iceberg when I’m exhausted with days of no sleep yet a racing mind keeping me up and on top of it all my ears seem to ring extra loud in these moments in the middle of the night. This apps sounds have helped me so much in these nights when a box fan won’t cut it. Turning on these sounds to make my mind focus on them instead of the endless thoughts and tinnitus has been incredibly helpful. Thank you for making this and please never remove it!!

The collection of audio tracks in this app is great. I listen to several but my favorite is Zen Dreams because of the bird that lives in it. I say “lives” because there is a slight echo that makes its calls sound so real. The first time I heard the bird I was at a mall and I looked around for it, thinking that it had gotten inside by mistake, that’s how real it sounds. I look forward to its impromptu visits. Some of the reviewers think that you need Widex hearing aids to use the app but that’s a misconception. The app is no different than other streaming apps so it can be used with any Bluetooth speaker or earbuds besides hearing aids. I use it also with a Bluetooth headband to help me go to sleep when my tinnitus is acting up.

This is really well done. It’s great to be able to put on a soothing background whether you have tinnitus or not. And if you do there are several backgrounds, so depending on how bad your tinnitus is, you can go with soothing or with white/pink noise. Mine comes and goes, so it’s great being able to pick what works best for the moment. These are a lot like the backgrounds in an app I sometimes use with sleep phones when I can’t get to sleep. This app would work really great for that, but I take the hearing aids out at night when I sleep. Maybe I’ll try the sleep options for a nap sometime. Anyway, it’s really a nice app with more options and much more flexible than having a Zen program added to the HA by the audiologist.