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Forgive me, but why single out veterans? Why wouldn't any sensible person not be jaded about regenerative meds? It's 2021. How many years have scientists been working on the eradication of tinnitus? Still no cure. So of course a sensible person doesn't believe. But... humans may learn to fly and...

I like positivity. In fact, positivity has to be the cornerstone of how we cope with tinnitus. We have to on some level accept it. Perhaps not a friend but as part of our being. Resistance is futile and can cause mental illness. It took me a couple of years to come to better terms with mine...

As is the case with many discoveries. Accidental. Pure invention out of the blue is extremely rare. Invention is mostly derivative. Association of cause and effect and trial and error.

Or... the taking forever without a tangible time line is because of the ineffective rollout of the Lenire device which is a close cousin and bi-modal stimulation doesn't have the efficacy across the board and will never be viable. More cynicism? This device aka its development is her job...

You maybe have heard about Michael Boulton and what happened to him. There is a lot of conjecture what happened. Some believe his physiology was weakened by depriving himself of using headphones because he along with all others with a brain don't buy into the notion that headphones have...

If there is a takeaway in this thread, tinnitus or no tinnitus....just beat it:

Magnificient, Have you ever had a spike before? You went to quite a precaution to protect your hearing going to the movie...more than I would have and my ears are sensitive to sound. Why so many precautions? Previous spikes? Sound bother you? Your question is unanswerable. Nobody has a...

This is the first time I am quoting my own post. The fact that there is only one like on this post really shows how much humanity has been striped away by tinnitus or perhaps those here...many at least, never had much of any. Don't worry for those who feel indicted, God isn't punishing you for...

And Lane, based upon what you wrote above, that way we are all interconnected is through consciousness. Some scholars are re-examining consciousness which here-to-fore was thought to be ostensibly exclusive to each of us. Each of having a separate brain and consciousness. This theory however...

Thanks for your prolific thoughts linearb. Yes, I do somewhat believe in your wind and unwind parallel universe if all the matter is the same. People based upon their cognition and data set given identical circumstances will repeat the same good choices and bad choices. Changing the...

Hi linearb, I find you so insightful. Want to preface with that...and not sure if you asked the following rhetorically or not... You ask: Do you find it depressing and disheartening to live a life where you believe you have a such a lack of agency over your own state of mind? My reply: I...

I wonder about sleep and tinnitus, this interaction. I never had trouble sleeping until I contracted tinnitus four years ago. I always slept well. So I wonder about cause and effect. I presume it is the change in my brain that gives me tinnitus that also affects my sleeping. I too have wild...

Even if we have to steal one of the machines and use it 30 minutes a day into perpetuity, it maybe worth it to keep the noise off our doorstep. :) This made me think of something. I was cruising YouTube and there was this nice lady talking about her experience with Lenire which is now up and...

Miracle implying that it is a miracle of nature so positive that without it, this entire exercise wouldn't work. That kind of miracle. Thank goodness if introducing more hair cells that they reconnect to the brain. The opposite of a miracle? That evolution has provided humans without the...

More disinformation. Positive attitude isn't a choice. Positive attitude isn't the cause, its the effect. People can't choose to be positive. They come to being positive born out of success and confidence that once again they are in charge of their lives and the invader doesn't win...

Unsupported rubbish. A wive's tale you repeatedly promulgate on here like a broken record. Sorry you happend to wear headphones and got tinnitus. You should have blamed your shoes. You did wear shoes everyday didn't you? Or brushing your teeth.

My contrast, I give those a pass. They are merely ignorant. No nefarious intent. I find those insistent they are right like Michael Leigh more repugnant. They double down in face of copious backlash why they are wrong. I give everybody pretty much a full pass on this forum. There is mental...

FRF, We need to sort out a few things. You will never see anything published on loudspeaker design relative to tinnitus. Further you will never see any study correlating headphone design to tinnitus either. Because the sound source aka the messenger matters much much less than the message...

Nervousness is ameliorated by confidence and success. Your confidence has been shattered like is has with all of us in the early days. By successfully navigating the tricky relationship we have with tinnitus...each of our paths a bit different, your confidence will grow that you can 'live...

That's right. In fact, it begs the question where does 'acute' tinnitus come from? I will give you my Dr. of Audiology's take which to me is plausible. Bad tinnitus is a precipitous brain event of equal weighting. Big brain change = Big tinnitus onset. Small brain change = more common benign...

Jazzer is right about you Michael. You conflate negative people with people that disagree with you and in my opinion, you often give bad advice. You place people on ignore who tell you, you are wrong and why you are wrong. So you demonize people for not agreeing with you. Nobody wishes you...

You are conflating headphone use with loud sound. You are comparing a person screaming in your ear with one that is speaking normally. People even whisper sometimes. You may have heard about the person driving the car that ran over the dog. The car is never blamed.

Sorry about the correction but headphones did not cause your tinnitus. Abuse of headphones 'may' have caused your tinnitus. You don't know that either. Everyday our bodies change and cells mutate. You may have heard that old people far and away have worse hearing and more tinnitus than young...

I use headphones everyday. In the four years since contracting tinnitus, aggregate volume level of my tinnitus has reduced. You have no proof in-ear or over-the-ear headphones caused your tinnitus. People get tinnitus all the time without ever using headphones. Vast majority of headphone...

Sorry about that. You know what really causes spikes? Charting subjective tinnitus and drawing conclusions from it. Don't tell Matt. ;) PS. I am having a pretty low tinnitus today. Must be all that headphone listening. I will have to chart it to find out.

I really don't care if you respond. I asked you a couple of questions and you disrespected me by not providing any sort of response that a grade schooler could have responded to. That is the point. Your farcical bar charting of post party tinnitus is a joke. A waste of your and our time...

You can ignorantly pursue your pseudo science experiment. People will certainly let you. If you had been around a while longer you would have learned one of the impediments of solving tinnitus or applying any scientific method to understanding it better is inability to quantify a baseline and...

and clearer.

Actually, you are merely parroting my mantra on here. You just used more verbosity to make the same points I have made repeatedly. It should be a slow ascent from the abyss of injury. Too much sound is bad early or ever. Too much protection and you end up living in your parent's basement...

Sorry Matt, but I expected more cogent responses from you. Your so called scientific method is anything but for the reasons I mentioned. One of the big problems with solving tinnitus is the inability to do the very things you falsely ascribe as legitimate with your charting. Subjective...

Those you have helped? That's rich...lol. When you assign pitch values, do you use a tuning fork for reference? Is your make believe scale linear or logarithmic as with perception of tinnitus dB level? How about interaction between tinnitus level biasing perception of pitch? Could you find...

Don't be embarrassed bro. I don't want to disparage your thread or 'study' because I did make some great points along the way to provide broader perspective. :) Did you eat jalapeño's at the party? Please know, for some this can cause a reaction and elevate tinnitus. Of course this would...

Hey Matt, I wanted you to know I went grocery shopping the other day. I am collecting data on my exertion and wonder how it will affect my tinnitus. Details are a little fuzzy and a bit too early to judge. Honestly, I was in a bit of philosophical bind. Options were...risk having my...

Well then you are speaking well over the head of the community here in terms of making any sort of cogent point. If you do have a purpose for your thread, it escapes me....unless you plan to have this thread be an ongoing update of your tinnitus based upon your effort to quantify it which IMO...

Honestly Matt, I displayed no courage. I never backed off. I was never trying to argue in the pejorative sense. I really am completely unemotional about what is written here. I was sharing what I believed....which didn't line up with what you wrote. I don't have any animus toward you. I...

Honestly, I should have paid closer attention. My bad. And if you teach statistics, you could school me on it. You did the analysis. 4 months should be enough. 5 years of data. According your title you contracted tinnitus in 2015. That's five years I believe. Do you remember the early...

First, I am not trying to be argumentative. I merely stated what I believe and btw still believe it. There is no baseline. Baseline in an integration of all the data...not four data points. Baseline is a linear regression of the data....an aggregate. Snapshot in time ergo 4 days means...

What do we have? linearb said it best. To paraphrase... discourse of divergent opinion for the simple reason there is no cure, therefore there can be no agreement. Never let the sound we don't approve of ever drown out the best music in the universe. A perfect symphony:

You of all people Matt with your training know better than to compare 4 days after an 'event' relative to your 'baseline'. If you wanted a better indicator if your 'event' had any true effect on your 'baseline'...then you compare the four days you note to an entire year of data...not to what...

Great post by Bartoli. I like Matt and Gabriel's posts as well. A shout out to Bill Bauer with a bit of a twist. The tone of your posts doesn't bother me really. That is from a guy...me who likes to say it like it is. I have no doubt Bill is a good guy. In fact, I believe...really my...

Bartoli, Shows in your subtitle your tinnitus worsened in 2019. You have had it since 2009 and you seem pretty knowledgeable about it. Can you tell us what you believe to be the core of your tinnitus increase?

We are all speculating. :) No science doesn't have a great handle on. If you consider, what possibly could be more complicated? I suppose genetic mutation and interaction could be as complex contributing to something like neurological disorders...or the rarest of neurological disease... nerves...

If you think about it Matt, it all kind of fits. Our education and experience buttresses what we believe. Then throw in personality differences and sometimes little unanimity accrues. I wasn't being intemperate. I was responding in kind. The ultimate insult from a known troll JA which could...

Agree with Matt. There was a thread which I even thought to extreme a while ago. It had to do with going to a concert with precautionary hearing protection. Concerts of course are known for their loud sound exposure which can be hazardous to even healthy ears. To me, Eric Clapton the famous...

Agree very scary. The horror! But look at the bright side Daniel. You could be the next Polyanna!

Somewhat unknowable and clear synergy between tinnitus intensity and psychological status I believe. Chicken versus egg, which came first? My belief Sven, is tinnitus is mostly a physiological disorder from which your psychological disorder emanates. Your anxiety is a 'result' of your spike...

Bill, have you been hanging out with Michael? Do you artificially assign causation to anecdotal accounts with no proven correlation between tinnitus going up and down considering 'all influencing factors'? This is such a dangerous trap Bill and you should know better or at least acknowledge...

Think about it Matt. My post was an obvious attempt at humor. Tinnitus is a sound, circadian as in at a certain time and cuckoo, i.e. crazy reference as tinnitus drives us crazy. Humor. An attempt to lighten the subject....most complex of all...why does tinnitus elevate at a given time or...

I am too in the no sound enrichment camp. In fact, I am in the camp to move in the direction of more normal hearing, a broad exposure aka a normal sound exposure is in order, not a contrived sound signature or sound avoidance. Which leads me to ask, why do you sleep with ear plugs? Do you...

Only you would conflate a joke I made about a cochlea being a cuckoo clock to deriding people. You deride me with your comment. Go fuck yourself moron.

I agree with Matt. Bill, you are an over protector which limits life experience needlessly. Michael FWIW is the same way with his protectionist policies. If you think about it, this is somewhat projected in a person's personality as they write on the forum. There are conservative people...

To me, there is a great misconception to how we even think. We as humans have very limited free will. Ask a schizophrenic if he/she plans to recite Shakespeare at the local theater. The subconscious mind steers the ship. You ever hear of an 'impulsive person'? Perhaps you have. Basically...

Actually Freud on a combination of tainted CBD oil, mescaline and angel dust. Hey Matt... don't you just love this compelling mystery of the universe called tinnitus? No sound exists in the universe, only within our brains. Those pesky incomprehensible neurons.

Sorry to correct you but, a cochlea is a cuckoo clock, not a circadian clock. This is how tinnitus sounds from the black forest:

One must look deep within to determine why tinnitus flares. For example it could be a subconscious voice within your brain punishing you for a life of not doing enough to help your fellow man...the predicate being guilt. Or...as JohnAdams believes his occurs precisely at 1:30 - 3:30/4 almost...

Of course it would be for the greater good but this is swimming upstream of the most prevalent path which is individual pursuit of a cure or viable therapy. Reason is pretty simple. Its hard to coalesce research from different parties but moreover it defies the 'greed model' in a capitalistic...

I don't have many real spikes. I am sometimes surprised by the loudness of my tinnitus but honestly have pretty high confidence this volume fluctuation will once again subside. My tinnitus loudness is based upon brain waves due to deep sleep i.e. dream state. Things throughout the day don't...

And precisely why what your write should be discredited. You have no idea what you are talking about. Your 'risk-averse' approach maybe contributing to your tinnitus based upon sound avoidance. Nobody knows the best balance for each of us based upon genetics and/or damage. You have no idea if...

Mine hasn't changed much in three years I have had it since its onset. Cell degradation which is undeniable doesn't necessary correlate to tinnitus loudness. Opposite maybe true. Synchronized neurons in the brain stem may lose some level of ferocity and organization due to neurons dying, not...

And Matt, if you really drill down on your spike because its pretty clear you have had them before like many of us here do, it 'maybe completely unrelated to you attending the birthday party'....have nothing to do with it. Just like most can't figure out why their tinnitus spikes...can be...