Recent content by KingRoanoke

No, it wasn't hyperacusis. It was a bad reaction to my T. The sound of my T is loud and full of many different sounds, but it has a certain fullness to it. If I listen to it, it can feel painful. I really don't have a good way to describe it - but it feels like genuine pain. Of course this...

I've had T since 2008. It has absolutely crippled me in the past - the noise actually "felt" like pain. I have complained about this pain on this forum in the past several times. I now realize this was an extreme reaction to the T that is most likely explained by the Jastreboff feedback...

Calories, Several weeks ago I was in bad shape. I've had tinnitus for awhile, and for me it's up and down. However these past 3 weeks have been a consistently smooth ride on the tinnitus rollercoaster. When I'm doing bad, It's as if I have very different tinnitus then when I'm doing okay...

This was really nice to read. Thanks.

Do you think resiliency and innate willpower are a contributing factor for those that habituate? I read a book by Dr Richard Davidson, who is a Harvard-trained (yes, "Harvard-trained" sounds as obnoxious to type as it does to read) neuroscientist. In one of his books he talks about people...

I believe that meditation and relaxation exercises are beneficial for people, but if your distress is caused by painful tinnitus, it seems that these exercises actually create more distress. TRT says that your pain and discomfort from tinnitus is due to your automatic reaction. Conscious...

Not sure if you plan on giving us updates or if you're gonna do the no-forum thing that TRT recommends but good luck, either way. My thoughts are with you.

Transparency in the medical community in general. I mean, if something works - it will get adopted immediately. I don't really know the board members that well but I do keep up with the "Treatment and Research" part of the forum. I am just saying this as an outsider looking in, really. And...

I mean transparency in general. It just seems that if something like this really worked, it would be acknowledged as a working treatment and venerated universally in the medical community. Tinnitus is so common, after all.

I don't understand why Dr Wilden is given such a vast amount of benefit for the doubt on this forum. And the doubt is huge considering the transparency of the medical research. I mean, come on.

The direct to english machine translation from the PDF is surprisingly readable. Google never ceases to amaze me. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.skane.se/Public/HAB/5-Omoss/FoU/rapporter/fourapport-2009nr04.pdf&prev=search Probably still not worth the effort...

I am not on anything at the moment, but for what it's worth: I've been on Celexa, Prozac, and Lexapro, Cymbalta, Neurontin, and amitriptyline. None of these things have increased or decreased my T. Celexa really helped me for anxiety but with the caveat that I felt emotionally numb (couldn't...

I have not done TRT, but I believe the sound generators are a big part of the program to dampen the tinnitus signal. If you look at this: http://studentacademyofaudiology.com/sites/default/files/journal/JAAA_11_03_05.pdf it is a paper authored by the creator of TRT. And scroll to page 169 it...

A few months ago I was humbled when I spoke to a teenage girl who had T that didn't seem bothered by it. She may have had it very mild or maybe she had habituated it, I don't know. People of all ages get this, so don't focus too much on your age. And for what it's worth, you won't have to...

There is no consensus on what foods increase or decrease tinnitus. Dr Nagler says that Thai food increases his tinnitus - but he doesn't care as he has mostly habituated his T and so it isn't a problem to him. Thai food doesn't do anything for me. In fact, I have never encountered anything...