Recent content by DirM

Since I have not logged in for a couple of years, I thought I would post here since I did "come back" after remembering Tinnitus Talk after seeing it in an old email. And why did I forget about this site? Since my tinnitus doesn't bother me (I've had it for six years). It is still around, about...

First, let's remember that ten years ago 59 million Americans contracted H1N1, 250,000 were hospitalized, and 12,000 died. Just in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States Remember how the market tanked, sports were cancelled, universities shuttered, toilet...

I originally took modafinil about a decade ago when I was doing super overseas traveling and frequent time zone adjusting and long before I had tinnitus brought on by TMJ. I continued it for the increased concentration and energy - like taking 10 cups of coffee - but stopped after about a year...

My T was supposedly caused by clenching plus bad orthodontics. The combination jammed my jaw up into its sockets, which are near the inner ears, causing T (so the theory goes). Over 2.5 years I have done bite plates at night plus 18 months of orthodontics to reset my bite relieve the stress...

So I saw this on an international plane trip this week and see now that it’s on Netflix. It’s an Indy movie that I’d put at 6/10 and was intrigued that the main character has “a thrumb in the (ear) drums” as Kevin Spacey says. Most movie tinnitus is dramatized after an explosion. There is a...

You have to self experiment since everyone is different. For example coffee makes some people spike and others not. Alcohol ditto. A beer makes mine go down quite a bit but many others spike. Since my tinnitus is related to TMJ I sometimes need something for jaw pain and I found the...

I thinks it’s safe to say T cuts across all personality types. However I think the same volume of T will affect some more than others. For example I loved loved loved silence and being alone (extreme introvert). T required a huge rewrite for me there - I am still introverted but I had to...

Val, most of us with pulsitile T don’t have serious conditions. In fact,a majority of us don’t even know for sure why we have it, or have at best, guesses. If you look at the stats a surprisingly high number of people have T, and I discovered two of my brother in laws have it once I started...

When my TMJ T started coffee/caffeine definitely raised it almost immediately, but after a year after night guards and braces lowered my T from a seven to a two, coffee has no effect at all.

I used to think ringing in the ears when you yawn was what everyone experienced I had it so long. I didn’t think about it and it only happened when I yawn. Then the T became all the time, and I found it was TMJ. So I would first see an ENT and if that checks out go get your jaw alignment...

Just as a counter point, I was put in braces to relieve my T, which has gone down because of them. The issue is not where your teeth are or the braces themselves, but how your jaw is aligned, especially how far the end of your jaw bone is coming into your head. Put your hand in front of your...

Do a search on my posts - your TMJ sounds a lot less severe than mine, but basically there are three areas to treat TMJ in general that also could relieve your T: 1. Relieve the joint - bite plates, stop clenching, soft diet, in severe cases braces, etc 2. Reduce pain/inflammation- ice, heat...

I have T caused by TMJ and the my TMJ doctor did this twice. I am pretty sure my TMJ is caused my inflammation around the joint which has improved in 18 months but not gone away (T has come down from a 7 to a 1, sometimes a 2). I believe the injection helps with the inflammation and I had one...

Josh, it is hard to say from a typed description, but I would say it was very high chance that it is TMD related. My advice on TMD treatments is: can it do any harm, and might it do good? In other words, a biteplate /night guard won't hurt anything, might as well try it. As you can see on this...

You have about 5 causes listed, but if it is TMJ related (like me), when you sleep your jaw relaxes, so loosens the ligaments and joints. As you go through the day your jaw is in constant use to talk, eat, emote (clenching when anxious or angry, and other facial expressions). Your jaw even...