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While there's always the possibility a supplement may help, it's unlikely. And you should always be careful taking supplements to begin with. While they may be helping ABC, they can be harming XYZ at the same time. They can certainly damage liver and kidney function too. Take antioxidant...

It's live. Their so-called "study" on their website is only accessible to people who have already paid for the product. 800 EUR for 10 USD worth of metal and rubber? As other have mentioned, if acupressure could cure tinnitus, everyone would be doing it and this forum wouldn't even need to...

Actually we do. Neuromod's Lenire may not work for everyone but it does work for most - to varying degrees - and even if it only lowers the tinnitus, that's substantial and real. Dr. Shore's device will be here in a year or two most likely. Meds like FX-322 and some other stuff are in the...

Yeah, if anyone ever tries to tell you tinnitus isn't a real problem you can point them to this. I wonder if he was doing any treatment - meds - or looked into potential treatments like Neuromod's Lenire. It'd be a damn shame if he didn't. And the most damnable part is that yeah, when you have...

Huh, there's a lot of specifics to this trial. Inclusion Criteria: Must report constant, subjective, preferably unilateral tinnitus without any active external or middle ear pathology. No greater than a mild hearing loss up to 6 kHz, and no greater than a moderate hearing loss at the tinnitus...

MRI horror stories? You mean actually getting a date for one or the actual scan itself? It's definitely claustrophobic. I'm a pretty big guy so when they first shot me inside they did it really fast and my shoulders were a bit pushed in and it freaked me out. After I knew what I was in for, I...

Just popped into to say I received the same email today myself. Even though I'm in Toronto, I'd relocate to Windsor or even Ann Arbor itself for a month or so to take part in this. Anyone know how long and what kind of commitment the participation for the trial is?

Seeing as the half-life of most benzos is quite short, it wouldn't be a problem so long as you have a week to get them out of your system. Point in fact, you should be doing your utmost to use them as little as possible. Beyond the addictive properties, the efficacy of them diminishes the more...

You can make it. For most tinnitus is short lived in the range of several months. Lots of people here have been suffering for years and even decades. You'll acclimate as your brain calms down. Likely, like most people, you'll have good and bad days. And you just have to hope that it resolves...

The upside of Tinnitus Talk is there are a lot of smart people here who do the actual research to help understand these accursed conditions and their ultimate resolution - one day. Sadly, most everyone who shows up here is ignorant, scared, confused, angry, depressed, anxious, etc. Like too many...

The fact that the company was started because the Chairman himself is a sufferer is the sort of thing that always gives me hope. For people like that it's not just about a buck, it's really about help suffering people. One more possible aid/cure coming down the pipe. Daddy like. :)

Loss of neuroplasticity and tinnitus are inextricably linked. The creation of new neuroplastiticy helps - helps a lot of neurological issues, not just tinnitus, so look at it as insurance against the common neurological problems that come with aging. It also takes time to create. It doesn't...

I hate Apple - and it's not like I like Google much more - but if an Android version of the app ain't gonna happen - and it seems doubtful it will by now - how old an Apple phone could it run on? So anyone interested in trying it could at least buy the oldest, cheapest Apple phone possible to...

I picked Dr. Shore's work because I believe it holds the most promise as a single effective solution for tinnitus. However I still hold, and will always maintain, that the cure for tinnitus for most will probably be multifaceted treatments involving chemicals and electrical equipment. I sure...

Yep, at the very least he should be able to rule out a bunch of stuff. But he was pretty amazing IMO of finding the problem after a couple of questions and looking at a CT scan. Feel free to ask away.

There's an old Hebrew saying I always cherish in times like these, 'Say not in grief, 'She is no more!' But live in thankfulness that she was.'

The research is out there through PubMed and other medical research sources. I have neither the time, nor inclination, to chase it all down to present it. Feel free to accept it or not, but it's factual. It's only in the last several years as more data has been collated on the subject that the...

It doesn't matter what the origin is. The condition itself is a neurological one, period. It's confusion in the brain that results in creating synaptic pathways that promote a self-reinforced negative feedback loop. The end result is the constant misfiring of the fusiform cells in the DCN. Most...

Hype train? No. Cautiously optimistic, yes. As I've stated on several occasions, tinnitus is a neurological condition that's generally predicated on a combination of hearing loss/damage, and/or neuromuscular inflammation due to CTL issues, and/or TMJ/trigeminal nerve issues. I don't know if...

You know tinnitus has been around forever, right? It's not something new that popped up in the electronic age, or even the industrial age. Martin Luther, of the Protestant Reformation, suffered terribly from tinnitus for ages before it resolved - though he blamed it on demons tormenting him, as...

Scorn heaped upon those stupid enough to believe it is well deserved. Life is hard enough without people subscribing to insane ideals with no basis in reality - religion, perfect example. There is zero connection between 5G and COVID-19 or tinnitus or any other goddamed thing else on this...

Heh, that actually had me thinking of the Spice Girls.

What do you really really want?!

The Pharmas are starting to finally clue into this. So it's in the better late than never category, but at least stuff is up and coming.

That's how my tinnitus is anyway. Seems to come and go - good and bad - in days or weeks at a time. It's generally a couple of good days followed by a couple of bad, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum. I'm a big believer in bimodal therapy however. It's good for lot's of stuff. Even if it doesn't cure me...

Yeppers. I think it happens to most people if you live long enough. Also depends on how you live and what you do as well. I've had 3 near death experiences in my 51 years. And I recall being calm as a Hindu cow about them as they unfolded. 'Huh. So this is how I go out. Never woulda thunk it.'...

Yeah, I'm agnostic. Is there a god(s)? Possibly, but in the same way we say 'Anything is possible' which means it's possible but very unlikely. Reincarnation exists however - though likely not as the Hindus imagine it. All your 'star stuff' just gets reused in other things. The Universe abhors...

It's not really ear damage so much as neck and brain damage you need to worry about. Most people with tinnitus suffer from somatosensory tinnitus which is any combination of neck/jaw/hearing damage. I personally know a guy who goes to my gym who got his tinnitus from a toolbox being dropped on...

Too bad. I used to live in Vancouver and most of my friends still live there. Would have been happy to fly out and do that and say hi to the old gang while I'm there. I plan on being on Europe this Fall for about 2 months - depending on how COVID-19 falls out - so if anything is coming up in...

Thanks for that list, Brightside. That's very encouraging. Hadn't really believed the chemistry route could be the way to go but it looks like I stand corrected. It should certainly help at any rate. I like the look of the FX-322 drug and will look into it later. Thanks also for the heads-up on...

Pretty much. Your mind creates and abolishes neural pathways all the time. They only decay away into nothingness when your brain realizes it doesn't need them anymore. That's part of why CBT can be effective for tinnitus sufferers as the training physically restructures your brain. There's a...

It's like everything else in this world, if you don't think it will help than it won't. You won't take it seriously, you won't make the required effort, so there won't be any benefit, or point in doing it for that matter. Fact is, however, it works. You don't get to be an athlete without...

You can't "catch" tinnitus. You either have it or you don't. Meanwhile stay away from loud sounds/music... forever. Or suffer forever.

Well first off it really depends on whether your tinnitus is somatosensory or not. Then, whether it's reactive or not. It's not just a lack of rest - which increases cortisol levels, which raises tinnitus - but a whole host of factors. This is the damnable thing about tinnitus, you can't pin it...

Any chance we could get this thread or paper itself pinned on top of the PT forum. Thanks.

So do I. For a condition like mine where the PT is due to deteriorating bone in the inner ear canal we won't know until the tinnitus resolves. For "classic" PT I doubt it. The damnable thing about PT is it's - in most cases at any rate - caused by a physical obstruction - collapsed vein, blood...

Next-gen hearing implants could overcome inner ear damage EPFL is developing next-generation soft hearing implants Working with clinicians from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, a team of EPFL researchers has developed a conformable electrode implant that will allow people...

I much prefer the term somatosensory tinnitus to somatic. Somatic tinnitus is a combination of hearing loss and/or damage and/or neck/spine problems and/or TMJ issues. Where you can have one or even two of these issues and it may not set off the tinnitus but then something occurs and that's the...

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2019003/article/00001-eng.htm This is - surprisingly - a new report on tinnitus in Canada - posted March 20, 2019. I haven't had a chance to go over it all in depth - the data - but what's there is rather interesting. "An estimated 37% of adult...

That's where people need to get active and get political. I plan to get meetings with our federal and provincial ministers of health sometime in the new year as Canada has an upcoming election this October and we'll have to see the shakeout for that first. After that I'd like to get a national...

It's not trying to replace the lost frequencies, it's confused by the loss. Everyone loses their hearing - along with their eyesight and everything else as time marches on - and most won't experience tinnitus. It doesn't know how to let go. It's the brain's way of saying something is wrong and...

Neuromodulation is the future. Bank on it. Tinnitus, for most people, is predicated on the straw that broke the camel's back. You could have a few issues and it's not enough to set it off but then that one thing happens and blammo! There's a direct correlation between loss of neuroplasticity and...

Like PT or just modifying my tinnitus? I definitely have somatosensory tinnitus so when I move my jaw or neck around - usually have to strain - it certainly modifies my tinnitus. I can only hear the PT when my BP from working out, exertion, stress, that sort of thing. Or when I'm lying down...

Needed to give this a bump for someone looking for it.

If you have pulsatile tinnitus, you should be seeing a neurologist to begin with, then a neurologist after that. A family doctor or an ENT is going to be of no help to you unless they've already checked for a bruit to see if your pulsatile tinnitus is objective - in which case, again, you'd need...

Dr. R practices at Toronto General Hospital. Another excellent neurotologist in Toronto is Dr. Maya Kurowia at Sunnybrook Hospital. If you're not from Ontario you'll never get to see them without a referral and it make take quite a while to do so - took 6 months to see Dr. R and a year to see Dr...

This has been a well known phenomenon for decades now for people with somatosensory tinnitus. Go to PubMed and do a search for lidocaine and tinnitus and you'll find dozens of papers on it. The patch would be applied to the back of the neck to numb the capitas and cervicis muscles. Every time I...

Hang in there kiddo. You know it waxes and wanes. Personally I'm really excited about Neuromod. I think this is a good way forward that's going to help a lot of people. Neuroplasticity repair will aid in all manner of cognitive disorders. Do you work out regularly? I do and find it really...

First off, if it goes up and down then it's not raised permanently. That's reactive tinnitus in a nutshell. Your baseline can't keep going up. It's like people who say their tinnitus is a 10 - but it gets worse in X, Y, Z situation. If it gets worse, it's not a 10. I have somatosensory tinnitus...

Do you mean brain fog? Do you have any dizziness as well? You may have developed SSCD if that's the case - I have it. Go read up on Semi Superior Canal Dehiscence. It can cause brain fog, dizziness, balance issues, loss of taste, tinnitus and pulsatile tinnitus, etc. If that sounds like you...

Go back to Emergency and tell them you're in serious distress and it's an emergency and you need to see an ENT immediately. If Emergency wants they can get you to seeing anyone on an emergency order within 48 - 72 hours. Better still, see if there's a Neurotologist (that's an ENT who specializes...

There's a type of tinnitus known as Typewriter Tinnitus you may want to look into. It's pretty rare - one or two people around here have had it. As for it changing? All the time. Loud days, quiet days, sometimes pure tone, sometimes really static-y, sometimes a dental drill in my head - my pitch...

Thanks to everyone for their hard work in putting this together so well. They're definitely coming at in the right way IMO so I'm sold. Anything involving neuroplasticity for tinnitus is necessary IMO. And his talking about how this helps in the decay of the neural pathways established by the...

The damnable thing is it can be caused by so many things. If you have a bone spur - osteophyte - impinging on a blood vessel in your neck that can cause PT. It doesn't take much to make it happen. Having neuromuscular issues - basically from the shoulders up - can cause all kinds of tension in...

Well I wasn't that far off, Greg. And I'd say that 15% really only applies to the first world with our loud cities, concerts, headphones, etc. And yeah, I meant of tinnitus sufferers for whom it's intrusive/disabling it's generally estimated at 1%-2% - which, as I said, is still a metric shit...

Thanks, Lane. Agreed 100%. Osteopathy. etc. There are all kinds of avenues to pursue here and I haven't heard you've pursued ANY of them apart from you got hurt, life sucks now, and you can't take it anymore. The road to recovery for any sort of trauma is hard work. And it is actual hard work...

Yeah, just go and and start reading medical papers on tinnitus. Those numbers aren't absolute fact but they're well substantiated and considered the ballpark for the condition itself and those who have intrusive/debilitating tinnitus. If 10% of humanity had really bad tinnitus it would get more...

Always good to hear from someone with first hand experience with it. Thanks for that Markku.

Have you seen a Neurosurgeon? Severe neck instability is common cause of tinnitus and correcting the problem via surgery generally eliminates the problem for the overwhelming majority of patients...

Well there's your problem right there, Verne. Obsessing only makes it worse. The brain is pretty amazing but it also has some very deep flaws in its design. One of the major ones is that it's too easy to become stuck in a self-reinforced negative feedback loop. That's an actual thing. That's...