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  1. SergioN

    Tinnitus Cured After Open Heart Surgery

    Hi @MrNobody89, did you find out any more detail about the type of anesthesia they used in your surgery? Or any other details about the steps done that can be related to your tinnitus switching off? I wish you the best. Kind regards.
  2. SergioN

    Hi Sean, did your spike about driving with only one window open subside? it happened something...

    Hi Sean, did your spike about driving with only one window open subside? it happened something similar to me....on a taxi...I felt something moving my earplugs or eardrums two times...i guess it was the resonance infrasounds.
  3. SergioN

    Do I Insert My Earplug Too Deep Inside the Ear Canal?

    Any thoughts about this last photo? I need your support...
  4. SergioN

    Do I Insert My Earplug Too Deep Inside the Ear Canal?

    What do you think about how I inserted the earplug there? Today, the right earplug moved into the ear canal easier than other times so it went in too deep and I really noticed some slight pain for a second or two. After that I tried to pull it a few millimeters out, to release the pressure...
  5. SergioN

    Do I Insert My Earplug Too Deep Inside the Ear Canal?

    Thanks for your replies and information. I really appreciate it. Kind regards.
  6. SergioN

    Do I Insert My Earplug Too Deep Inside the Ear Canal?

    Hi All, I'm having bad moments when inserting my foam earplugs because I'm suffering from hyperacusics and dermatitis and the noises of putting and removing make me nervous. Anyway, today I put in my earplugs to go outside (traffic) but two hours later I started to note some slight internal...
  7. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    Will FX-322 help with ear damage caused by barotrauma? I think my tinnitus worsened yesterday due to pressing my tragus too quick and too vehemently because one loud sound surprised me. It was a reflex movement. I'm regretting it and hoping it will improve in time. Thanks.
  8. SergioN

    Horrid Loud Ping Noise When Taking Earplugs Out — Created a Vacuum in Ear Canal?

    That loud bass 'buuuuuuu' only happens sometimes... especially if you touch them slowly and nervously. There must be like a resonant point where the bass sound is created and amplified due to the occlusion effect. If you move it quicker, it stops. I have used foam earplugs for years and I was...
  9. SergioN

    Horrid Loud Ping Noise When Taking Earplugs Out — Created a Vacuum in Ear Canal?

    AND WHAT about touching the earplug during those 5 seconds? These days I try to remove earplugs slowly... and today maybe I was more nervous or my hand vibrated but during those seconds that I grabbed the earplug, I felt a very amplified bass noise... like "buuuuuuu", probably due to the...
  10. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    Has any other candidate in the past arrived so far like this? Is this really a unique moment in the history of hearing? I hope so.
  11. SergioN

    Tinnitus and Prozac

    Paxil (Paroxetine) increased my tinnitus loudness after few days of taking it in low dose. I would stay away from ALL psychiatric drugs if it is not a life or death matter. I hope your tinnitus improves with time. Regards.
  12. SergioN

    Water Pop / Loud Noise When I Pressed the Tragus After Ear Syringing

    First of all, thanks for your response. I'm worried because I think I did not dry enough my ear after the syringing, so when I pressed the tragus quickly to protect from the external noise, I really made a loud noise. As I have hyperacusics, not sure if it was loud enough to damage inner ear...
  13. SergioN

    Water Pop / Loud Noise When I Pressed the Tragus After Ear Syringing

    Hi friends, I need your opinion: I went to ENT due to my ears itching of last days. I was afraid I had an infection or similar. ENT said it is dermatitis, but there was a lot of skin and non-compacted wax so he recommended to clean with water. Microsuction was discarded and manual tools would...
  14. SergioN

    I Hit My Head — Now My Tinnitus Feels Louder

    Hi again friends, Today I had a new awful event. This early morning, I went to throw some garbage into trash bin, I got down in a squat position, flexing knees, and when I got up, I hit my head with the pot's metallic corner. The trash bin was below the pot and I did not realize it. Pot is on...
  15. SergioN

    I Scratched My Left Ear with My Little Finger (Pinkie) — Now Tinnitus Louder and Itching Continues

    Thanks for your reply. I'm worried as I was asleep, I do not remember exactly what I did. I only remember it itched a lot, but I don't remember any high or loud sound, apart from my tinnitus. It's incredible how this condition has changed my whole person. I've been struggling for some months...
  16. SergioN

    I Scratched My Left Ear with My Little Finger (Pinkie) — Now Tinnitus Louder and Itching Continues

    Hi friends, For the last days I'm having some itching when inserting and removing my earplugs. I think my skin has irritated or has eczema. I was trying to make it better, using earplugs as little as possible. But tonight, something happened that triggered my anxiety. When I was asleep or...
  17. SergioN

    Could a Cracking Finger Next to Ear (1-2 cm) Have Caused Damage? Currently on Clonazepam Withdrawal

    Thanks all for your replies. They have been encouraging. I will continue with my clonazepam tapering and hoping the future will be better. I wish an improvement for all.
  18. SergioN

    Could a Cracking Finger Next to Ear (1-2 cm) Have Caused Damage? Currently on Clonazepam Withdrawal

    Thanks for all replies. And sorry for my poor english. I'm from Spain. Regards.
  19. SergioN

    Could a Cracking Finger Next to Ear (1-2 cm) Have Caused Damage? Currently on Clonazepam Withdrawal

    Thans for your reply. How long did you take Clonazepam? I took it 0.5 during 3 months ans started to have side effects and tinnitus worsening so thats why i decided to taper off. I also read about one year tappers, but i and my doctor thought that it has no much sense to toke it 3 months and...
  20. SergioN

    Could a Cracking Finger Next to Ear (1-2 cm) Have Caused Damage? Currently on Clonazepam Withdrawal

    Thans for your reply. I really appreciate it. But...maybe you do farther than 1-2cms. from ear. It has sense to do it like 20cms or so. If you do at such distance, it is like 10 dB less in intensity. The problem was that this happened to me when I was scratching the upper part of my external...
  21. SergioN

    Could a Cracking Finger Next to Ear (1-2 cm) Have Caused Damage? Currently on Clonazepam Withdrawal

    Hi all friends, Yesterday I lived a "traumatic" moment: I was in bed, without earplugs, on one side, and I went to scratch my external left ear due to a sudden itch. I usually do it carefully and slowly, but yesterday I had the bad luck that my finger bone made a "crack", as loud as a finger...
  22. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    But billions of dollars will be spent in regenerative drugs instead of nanotechnology. If drugs work, new companies will fight for those billions of dollars now in hands of current actors. Tell me if I am wrong. Or current industry will pay Frequency Therapeutics to voluntarily fail? It will be...
  23. SergioN

    What Should I Do About My Family? They Don't Understand What I'm Going Through

    I want to believe in other different option that has not been mentioned: (F) I can live these days with this torture but in the near-middle future, such torture will be LESS torture due to some degree of healing and habituation, even it will become not a torture anymore. Besides, there is hope...
  24. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    And Otonomy products, right?
  25. SergioN

    Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) 2019 Conference

    Thanks a ton @Hazel!
  26. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    My pending concerns are: - How does the drug know which supporting cells need a hair cell and which do not? Because there will be damaged zones and healthy zones. - What about if there are not enough supporting cells? You get a hair cell but you lose a supporting cell? - Supporting cells are...
  27. SergioN

    Otonomy OTO-313 — Treatment of Tinnitus

    Chronic tinnitus = suffering it for more than 6-9-12 months...it depends on which literature you choose. Acute = less than that.
  28. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    We need both to have success and to be in every ENT clinic. Each one will fit better to different people, like paracetamol and ibuprofen...but not ototoxic please!
  29. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    Oh, the last statement almost made me cry. I think we are living a historical moment for hearing medicine.
  30. SergioN

    Questions for Those Who Got Tinnitus from an SSRI (Lexapro, Zoloft, Luvox, Prozac, Paxil, etc.)?

    Paroxetine, 5 days on 10mg , then tinnitus aggravated a lot, then I tappered off during 7 more days due to fear of aggravating tinnitus with withdrawal......and tinnitus continued getting worse that week and weeks after. So Paroxetine destroyed me. I'm currently stuck in 0.5 Clonazepam at nights...
  31. SergioN

    Frequency Therapeutics — Hearing Loss Regeneration

    Hi All, One concern I have about FX-322 and these types of of progenitor targeted drugs is that if the drug stimulates progenitor cells to create new ones and differentiate... And inner ear has progenitor cells... How does the drug "know" where the damage is? Maybe it stimulates zones that...