Recent content by Survivor234

To preface this, I had tinnitus before these problems and, while it was there, it was manageable or ignorable. I had more important problems anyways. Here’s the full timeline: One day, at night I suddenly hear a gurgling noise in my left ear. Horrified (I was asleep when it happened) I yelled...

I wouldn't be that pessimistic. The drugs will be released. Whether they work or not (as well as whether their outcomes are worth the price) is in the air but they will come out in the near future. Dr. Susan Shore's device will come out first but that doesn't mean the drugs won't either...

It becomes someone's business when you sit around being rude to other people. If you interact with others or participate in the same space as them, yeah it becomes their business. Don't want to mix your business with theirs? Then don't interact with them. Get rid of this entitled sense of...

Yeah. Melatonin has been shown to scientifically work to reduce severe or chronic tinnitus but we have absolutely no idea why it does.

It's kind of frustrating. We need a way to better image the ear. It seems to be that FX-322's effectiveness will be completely mitigated until we have a way to better understand what it is we're doing. I believe that one of Otonomy's drugs are supposed to repair or regenerate auditory nerves...

I think that it should work (and to some extent it has) but they don't know why it isn't working. Barring killing someone and cutting out their ear, there isn't really a way to determine why more ear hair cells aren't being generated or to even see the distribution of hair cells in the human ear...

Sure but I don't see why you think this means we can't care about potential cures for noise-induced tinnitus. Noise-induced tinnitus is the sort of tinnitus that most people have and which most typically becomes permanent.

@IntotheBlue03, you should also keep an eye on Johnson and Johnson's new drug. It looks like the big-wigs are starting to pay attention to us.

How is that different from regenerating hair cells?

Why doesn't it work at the base of the cochlea?

Why was there a reduction in word scores after 1-2 years?

Where?

Do you have any evidence of that?

That's just a problem with measurement rather than what it actually does. Word-in-noise scores was the metric the FDA wanted them to use for approval so they're using it. There is no reason to believe that it doesn't do exactly what it sets out to do which is activate progenitor hair cells in...

To be honest, based on what I understand, it won't even help people with tinnitus. If your tinnitus is caused by overexcited neurons and damaged hair cells, regrowing new ones won't fix those issues. Tinnitus is likely going to require multiple treatments which undoubtedly would make it a very...