Recent content by Piney

You’re looking at it from the wrong angle. Tinnitus, a bad knee, slipped back disc, all are just a percentage the VA must pay out to a Veteran who signed a contract to enlist and allow the government to own their body. In return anything that is worn down or broken gets compensated and...

I agree.

Tinnitus setting in the brain is BS. I had had tinnitus for 5 years. I got a cochlear implant and my tinnitus is much better as a result. It takes time for the brain to adjust but it filters and adjusts to hearing sound again.

My tinnitus was doing well with CROS hearing aids, but I couldn’t hear over my tinnitus with my good ear. I have no hyperacusis except for a couple times at night. Yes, I occasionally take the implant off for a day and it’s too much; I have to put it back on.

For single-sided deafness, with one great ear, it is robotic, but close enough with certain frequencies. It will never be full original hearing but it definitely fills gaps since after surgery you’re most likely fully deaf. It does work for sure.

In my case a team of audiologists and a surgeon determined it by case of severeness and word discrimination, including how it affects your quality of life. I had a hard time hearing with my good ear over the tinnitus etc. It’s a tough decision but I had nothing to lose. When not using my...

These are excellent points.

Because 65 dB is extremely loud. The same as my shower fan. I measured my own tinnitus to it and it matched. So at 50 dB his is still loud.

A cochlear implant is considered for the patient when a hearing aid is no longer of value. If a hearing aid is useless and word recognition is very poor, you either stay deaf or choose to get a cochlear implant. Without restorative advances in medicine, there just aren't many choices.

Other doctors say tinnitus will be reduced by 75% due to a cochlear implant, and yes the hearing may be different or may become close to normal like before after a year. It’s all up in the air. @Gb3, you can get a cochlear implant with single-sided deafness with moderate to severe hearing loss...

"Dr. Santosh Kesari of the Saint John's Cancer Institute in the U.S., who had conducted clinical trials to treat recurrent glioblastoma of HLB Therapeutics, suggested its possible efficacy in tinnitus." Or does he? Maybe he has jars of it. Either way people will have to reach out to him.

How are people going to get access to the drug without contacting the doctor who has it?

If you have hearing loss on that side and tinnitus that bothers you enough; it wouldn’t be a question. You would already be ready in the parking lot for the shot. The choice is yours and the trial team alone.

They saw effectiveness in the first trial; that’s why they are on the second.

After exercise (increased blood flow) my tinnitus is worse. After coffee (decreased blood flow) my tinnitus is worse for hours. Not sure I believe any of this, but if they have an answer, more power to them.