Recent content by Steve721

The TRT theory is that silence enhances T because, among other things, the auditory system turns up the gain when a person is in a silent environment. The standard analogy is looking at a birthday cake with a single lit candle in an otherwise dark room--the candle seems very bright. Once you...

Noise levels in clubs can exceed 100db. Under the CDC guidelines, the safe exposure limit for sounds that loud is 15 minutes. Regardless of whether or not you have tinnitus, if you exceed those exposure levels, you're risking permanent damage to your ears and hearing loss.

If a noise lasts less than one second (which I assume would be the case with a window being blown shut), the noise would have to exceed 130 db (which is the noise exposure you'd get from standing next to a jackhammer or pneumatic drill in operation) in order to damage your hearing. I can't...

If I'm understanding it correctly, the new research seems to imply a completely different approach than the one taken by Autifony, which I understand will regulate the Kv3 potassium channels. The new research talks about the need to make changes in a gatekeeping system in the brain "controlled...

If you don't really need hearing aids, you might consider these maskers, which I know some TRT clinicians use: https://generalhearing.com/professional/tinnitus-products/ They look very much like hearing aids and would, I assume, cost considerably less. I have hearing loss and use the Unitron...

I don't know if your aware of this, but the organization that runs this website (the Citizens Commission on Human Rights) was established by and is still run by the Church of Scientology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Commission_on_Human_Rights For various reasons, L. Ron Hubbard (who...

If I take 0.5 mg of Clonazepam when I go to bed and get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, my T is virtually gone. There's also a study showing that the drug can reduce T: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22626945 However I don't like taking that much Clonazepam at night...

Thanks very much for your response. So people on this forum (other than you and the other two people Valeri mentioned in her prior post) have had a significant, permanent reduction in their T as a result of using this drug? I apologize for restating my question, but I'm just trying to get...

I have the same question. I might consider taking this drug (if I can get someone to prescribe it for me) if there's a decent chance that it might permanently reduce my T. But most of the user reports in the other thread seem to indicate that the drug has, at best, a temporary effect.

It sounds like to me that the TRT specialist wants to you to mask your T in order to help you get over the period of initial anxiety that almost everyone who has problems with T goes through--if you can't hear your T, you can't continually check for it, which is making you freak out...

I think it would be great if you could find another psychiatrist who would be easier to work with. If you're having problems coming off of an antidepressant, it might be because you're feeling the full-blown effects of a depression that the antidepressant was treating or at least reducing.

If you don't mind my asking, what antidepressants were you taking, what was the dosage, and what did your doctor have to say about all of this?

When my Tinnitus became intrusive, my psychiatrist prescribed clonazepam .5 twice daily. After about a month my anxiety was greatly reduced, so I talked to my doctor and stopped taking it during the day and had no problem dropping the dosage. It's now almost four months later, and I still take...

If you're concerned about road noise, do you know what kind of car you'd be getting? My Lexus is very quiet; of course, you could also wear ear muffs or plugs when you're driving. When you have to go into noisy places, do you have any idea how much noise in db you'd be exposed to and for how...

Tinnitus: A Self-Management Guide for the Ringing in Your Ears by Jane L. Henry and Peter H. Wilson. This book is about applying cognitive behavior therapy technques to tinnitus, and I found some of their recommended coping strategies to be very helpful. I also bought a copy of Dr...