Recent content by Allan Mcmillan

Clicking noise occurs after acoustic trauma but usually goes away over time from my own personal experience. That's likely due to ear inflammation due to glutamate storm or something to due with the stapedius muscles or the tympanic membrane. Visual snow can be triggered by tinnitus from...

Energyflare here. I think I had temporary visual snow when I developed tinnitus for the first time. However, I got full blown visuals from HPPD one year after that. So yeah, I think it can go away if caused by tinnitus/HPPD but other pathologies seem to be irreversible.

Most ENTs are completely clueless about this condition and have basic textbook knowledge of the condition. I once walked into an ENT clinic when I had hearing distortions and he said it was anxiety because my audiogram is normal.

Do you have any of the physical symptoms that usually come with VS?

Same story here. My visual snow started around the same time as tinnitus. Got worse two weeks ago which gave me symptoms of nausea and fatigue along with depersonalization after being exposed to loud music for a whole night. The visual snow has calmed down a bit as my tinnitus improved but...

Yeah. I completely agree with that. They should be spending that money on research and cures for diseases not limited to just tinnitus. I wonder how many soldiers end up with tinnitus from fighting government proxy wars yet they still don't do anything about hearing loss. Even the ATA and BTA...

Don't believe so, most likely maladaptive plasticity the brain trying to fill up the gap in lost hearing due to sudden damage to hair cells by turning up central input. Fix the cochlear damage, the hyperacusis should improve.

When I first got tinnitus I emailed Julian Cowan Hill directly explaining the history of my condition and asked him if a recovery was possible. He ignored almost everything I said and tried to promote a Skype session for 50 pounds and when I told him I was a broke college student he stopped...

My advice is to get either prednisone or intratympanic demexathone injections ASAP. My idiotic ENT from onset decided to tell me that "there's no treatment" when steroids should have been the first line of defense. That honestly could have saved me and alot of other people.

There are studies that show that PRP can help heal perforated eardrums: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18954495 Was about to suggest the same thing

Are your eardrums still perforated?

I believe he is opening a clinic in Russia, not moving there.

Thanks, I don't think I will be going to Minbo's clinic due to how secretive he is in regards to his methodology. I do still however believe that PRP could potentially be beneficial in treating sensorineural hearing damage and because I live close to India, I can have PRP injections on a longer...

Going in February, Since Ill be in Thailand anyway and it's a relatively short flight. Might go for 4 shots (2 trips) in total. Also, we had a korean mule call into Minbo's office. He does PRP for about $300 a shot for PRP and usually administers one shot every 2 weeks and monitors results...

Loud noise exposure in the past 2 days (rehearsal). Tinnitus near silence today which scares me, Didn't expect silence to be this scary.