Recent content by bill 112

If you bought Jastrebroff’s book, don’t feel too upset or that you wasted money. It can still serve a purpose as toilet paper, something more akin to its actual value. TRT is from the 80s or even earlier. Think about that for a second. Boom, the second’s up. That’s right, the book and treatment...

I was not satisfied with my experience. One made me worse, the rest hadn’t a clue what they were even looking at. Not a good sign when you spot your ENT turning around to Google what hyperacusis is. Outer ear stuff is pretty much all they know in my experience, after that forget about it.

I had never used headphones in my life. One time when I did have to use them (hearing test), they blasted white noise (speech recognition test) and high frequencies (high frequency audiogram up to 16 kHz) which resulted in an immediate worsening with severe tinnitus and noxacusis. Do not put...

Not necessarily true, my uncle got tinnitus when he was 18, he’s 60 now, I think? Anyway, it’s no worse now than it was when he was 18. At least that’s what he tells me. He did have a bad spike that lasted months after his blood pressure skyrocketed but it has since gone back down. Other than...

Great! Can’t wait for absolutely nothing to come of it, as always. More money in drumming up attention than actually trying to achieve something. They’ll milk this for years to keep people busy and in a job. On a positive note, it’s at least nice to see this area being explored. I have been of...

Couldn’t agree more, ENTs, neurologists, doctors, you name it, know absolutely nothing about tinnitus/hyperacusis here, only what they read briefly in a textbook, and get extremely uncomfortable when you actually begin to lecture them on the subject. Most doctors don’t like the apprentice...

It is and it isn’t completely different. I’m not an expert. I’m going off of my brother’s experience who got grommets in years ago and my mate who ruptured his eardrum. They said they got an injection behind the ear, then stuff was poured in to make it numb, then taken out, so if that’s true...

Trust me, they can. It just takes a while. I don’t want to be graphic or anything but when they put that earwax softening stuff into my ears, my ear canals were completely blocked by what felt like an oily goo. All of it was removed by hand and the rest was removed with mild irrigation, not the...

The thing is they don’t actually HAVE to suction it out. It’s just the fastest, most effective way but not necessarily the only way. When I refused suction after that incident, all of a sudden anytime they needed to clear earwax they cleared it manually which, yes, took longer but was far better...

Suction increased my tinnitus drastically in late 2013. I had to get impacted wax out and NEVER again would I do it. I had no idea it was dangerous because “surely if the doctors tell you it’s safe, it’s safe, right?” If I get this treatment, they’re digging it out manually. No way would I let...

I hate any treatment that proves to be “effective” during the acute phase. How do they know it wasn’t just a natural reduction? When I first got tinnitus in 2011, it was a loud hiss that reduced to a barely audible hiss over the course of a year. When I got hyperacusis in 2014, my tinnitus was...

I’d like to see how this possibly helps hyperacusis/noxacusis too but, after reading through his response, I’m a little confused. He says he treated chronic sufferers successfully but then he also goes on to say that having tinnitus for a long time i.e. chronic tinnitus reduces likelihood of...

I get residual inhibition. My tinnitus screams when I wake up and then actually quietens and disappears when sound is introduced and then reappears in silence. So with that in mind, my brain must be getting the signal via damaged nerves but I have never been able to work out why the tinnitus...

The thing is though we’re not repairing them or “fixing” most of them, we’re bypassing them or creating new hair cells beside the damaged old hair cells whilst the damaged areas are still connected to the brain. To use the car analogy again what we’re expecting is that by putting new pistons in...

There’s been a nagging thought in my head about regeneration of the inner ear since I was exposed to this line of research and it’s this... The problem I have with it, and I’m hoping someone far more intelligent than I can explain it to me, is what happens to the damaged cells that are still...