A former Royal Marine suffering tinnitus from an bomb blast so bad it was like a constant ‘fog horn’ in his head has found relief thanks to a new IPOD-based therapy.
Harris Tatakis stumbled upon the treatment after setting up a Google Alert for the debilitating condition after a decade of suffering and finding no relief.
The 39-year-old was even forced to learn to lip read when he developed severe ringing in his ears after he drove over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Afghanistan in 2007.
The explosion shattered his left leg, broke his right foot, ruptured both of his eardrums, caused brain damage and left him paralysed for two days.
Harri, from Cornwall, was relieved to discover Levo, a sound-based therapy played during sleep which targets the hearing centre of the brain to train it to get used to ringing or buzzing sounds.
He is believed to be the first UK veteran to benefit from the therapy which he says has allowed him ‘to function again as a human being’.
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