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The fact that you are "fine" with tinnitus has nonetheless not enabled you to refrain from displaying the characteristics of an obnoxious sixth grader.

@gameover, My God, I’m so flattered that you said you missed me. Some observations: Look at what happened, though—I dared to point out some limitations in @Michael Leigh's TRT, and this outraged and incensed his Cult Followers (should I have expected any other reaction?). I had a terrible...

Do you want to know how utterly unprofessional and dishonest Ben Thompson is? My ENT doctor informed me that a lifetime of migraines has likely exhausted my brain to the point where the so-called TRT "therapy" would not be beneficial, no matter how sincerely and diligently I tried. It would be...

No @Michael Leigh and @Jammer, I am posting simply to notify you that you are absolutely not worth any serious attention. You have both toxified this site to a veritably disgusting degree. Shame on you both.

If @Michael Leigh is the best that Tinnitus Talk has to offer, then you will not hear from me again. I can't stand the so very sad retrograde intellectual pollution you all wallow in. I'm out.

To @gameover: The supporters of @Michael Leigh remind me of those Old-Time Orthodox Marxists (such as Jean-Paul Sartre) who, with prodigiously stupefyingly stubbornness, refused to be critical of Stalin's Regime even after the incontrovertibly damning evidence from the publication of...

Give me total silence or give me death.

to gameover: A T Spike is the North Vietnamese Army and I am the French Army at Dien Bien Phu; I am routed, overwhelmed. and demoralized.

To Lurius: Every year I dread the summer (and I used to love it) because the heat also seriously aggravates my T; no idea why - I hate it.

To @Luman: Your latest commentary reminds me of how during Hitler's last days in the Bunker he was giving orders for the movement of Divisions that no longer existed.

Jesus, @gameover - did you really "apprehend" that trucker guy and then go into his truck and turn it off? There have been so many shooting around where I am that I just might take a risk in doing this. On the other hand, with this condition, I might pay for a West Side Gangbanger to unload the...

When I have a tinnitus spike, CBT in its effectiveness is equivalent to expecting to put out a forest fire with a garden hose. It's incredible how recent neurological / genetic studies have rendered Jastreboff's theories (which have not changed in 22 years) as obsolete as a B/W TV Set. Did you...

I just turned 69. I frankly don't have much time left insofar as waiting for an effective treatment is concerned. The last time I saw my ENT Doctor, I asked him when an effective treatment would be available, and (I kid you not) he actually shouted, "In about 100 years!" and left the room.

You are correct: his face alone is enough to make anyone seriously question the import contained within the 649 videos he has posted on YouTube (and interestingly, very few have garnered any significant number of views.) Notice that he apparently does not dare to make an appearance on Tinnitus...

@Michael Leigh is the Go-To-Person for all the advice necessary for (what is to me) a mammoth but (as far as he is concerned) readily achievable Act of Orwellian Doublethink. All you have to do is be in thrall to his beyond-tiresome, Charles-Dickens-Schoolmasterish, empirically disprovable...

Is this a marginalized, relatively trivial matter that most people with tinnitus don't care about? 1) Over 750,000 American Vets are so impaired by this that our Veterans Administration pays out over $2 billion annually for disability (and it is the #1 Medical Condition that afflicts Service...

To @gameover: I also have absolutely never encountered anything like this, that feels as if your body is encased in this relentless anguish that leaves me so short of breath (and before this, I could easily do a 3 mile hike and drive 100 miles in 1 day). It is also like being injected with a...

To @Luman: But, what about Trump's grotesquely stupid recommendation during the start of COVID-19 that we drink bleach? Or, that he apparently approved of feces being smeared on the walls of the Capitol Building. Once again, even if you are right, the Iron Wheels Of Judicial Power are going to...

SAY WHAT - RIDDLE ME THAT, as Robin would say to Batman. Much kudos regarding your courage in confronting what, to me, was an all-too-common, classic instance of gobbledygook masquerading as Legitimate Academic Discourse. Did they mean that transferring the funds earmarked for these pointless...

To @Luman: Your self-serving, alibi-ridden invective reminds me of the guy who is nabbed for drugs by undercover agents, and who complains that all sorts of other guys at the club where he was arrested were also doing this but were not charged. So, how does that alter the character and...

I had formerly posted this in regard to another ludicrous CBT study: "The Impact of Tinnitus on Working Memory Capacity" from the International Journal of Audiology: Perhaps a study should be done on "The Impact of Having a Pit Bull With His Fangs Imbedded in Your Neck When You Are Trying To...

Is this a marginalized, relatively trivial matter that most people with tinnitus don't care about? 1) Over 750,000 American Vets are so impaired by this that our Veterans Administration pays out over $2 billion annually for disability (and it is the #1 Medical Condition that afflicts Service...

As of yesterday I counted only 17 clinics in the entire US that were carrying Lenire (and none were in Illinois). This bears all of the characteristics of going the way of every one of those other now defunct "treatments" (SoundCure, Neuromonics, The Levo System, Desyncra). How do they expect...

There is only One Important Question: Will Auricle finally place @Michael Leigh (and everything he recommends and stands for) in The Dustbin of History?

That has been precisely my concern, since he went from posting frequently to total silence.

Buddhist fable about achieving habituation (will this help anyone?): "An inquisitive python wanders into a carpenter's shop. The carpenter screams and dashes out, dropping a hand saw on the floor in his haste. The python, curious, slithers up to the saw. One of the saw's teeth snags onto the...

From the writer Chris Hedges: "No functioning Democracy would have vomited up a figure like Donald Trump as President."

Sorry @ErikaS, but far too many posters on Tinnitus Talk (and elsewhere) have done what I most assuredly prefer not to describe too fully without the slightest intervention from an alleged Supreme Being. I recall the defensive, blank, open-mouthed reactions from people who claimed to be devout...

To @gameover: I was an English major. When, for example, I read in "Moby Dick" that the White Whale represented the pitiless indifference of the Universe, understanding this was only of academic interest so that I could answer such questions on an Exam. Now, after over 9 years of this...

To @Brian Newman, @BrysonKingMe and @volterra: Excellent point about how "There is no convincing these people" - it only underscores the heartbreaking degree to which tinnitus will drive sufferers to imagine that even a chock-full-of-pseudoscience character such as Michael Leigh can (as some...

To @Brian Newman and @BrysonKingMe: This sums up @Michael Leigh: "A Poster Named Michael Leigh; When Faced With The Likes Of Just Me; Was Wrongly Contentious, And Oh So Sententious, To Such An Ignoble Degree."

Two recurrent problems with @PDodge's success story: 1) A chronically itchy ass would drive me to insanity nearly as much as tinnitus has; 2) Various prescription lotions and steroids are available to alleviate this condition. I swear that I do not go tendentiously looking for such...

It is inexcusably irresponsible on your part to assume that whatever was published (in such a universally respected paper as the Tribune) is by definition in the business of getting "clicks", a "local rag", et. al. Did it ever occur to you that during that time (as it does now) the Tribune had...

Some of you savvy observers of this should attempt to pin University of Michigan down about: 1) Will a new team of researchers continue where Dr. Shore left off? 2) When on Earth is my Audiology Group going to call me about having this available? (Please recall that our Chicago Tribune on...

Excellent visualizations, @Fightthearmy, @Damocles, @Guywithapug, @Joe Cuber, and @fernbed. Every ENT Doctor should be ordered to thoroughly consider these images in fathoming the pitiless reality of this condition. One of my all-time favorite posters was @Bam; he characterized this as "A...

After over 9 years I still regard the idea of habituation/acceptance as being equivalent to "accomodating" myself to what those demented hilldwellers did to Ned Beatty in "Deliverance." I can only imagine a CBT therapist replying, "Well, if you refuse to reroute your receptive, cognitive...

This nonetheless does not change the fact that, after spending $6,000.00 on that useless Desyncra, if my wife learned that I dropped another $4,000.00+ on what has been for the great majority of posters no more than a Toys"R"Us gizmo, she just might impale my Jugular Vein with a steak knife.

To gameover: "snakes" perfectly exemplifies the shockingly, unscrupulous motivations induced by a For-Profit system operating on pure greed.

If Dr. Shore's Device that, let's say, yields real improvement, is released next year, will it render Lenire as obsolete as a B & W TV Set?

I give Lenire 1 year before they go out of business from exorbinant costs vs. zero results. So far they only have two outlets in Indiana.

How can Lenire expect that anyone has $4,000.00 + just laying around (with no insurance coverage) to allocate for such negligible results?

As you probably know, Ramsey Lewis lived in Chicago and had his own program every Sunday from Noon to 2 PM on the College of Dupage's radio station (WDCB 90.9FM). I would make it a special point to listen; other than our one classical station, it was the only artistically rewarding program on...

What would help me more? Visiting an Astrologer or getting Lenire? I know for sure that an Astrologer would not charge $4,000.00.

Holy Smokes! Lenire is now available in increasing numbers throughout the USA!

To TomK: The most valuable feature of this Forum is that Lenire has already been reported by many to be no more effective than a placebo.

Every week our New York Times has a report regarding lack of funding and the consequent, unprecedentedly deplorable decline in every aspect of the NHS's standard of care (which was, I believe, one of the reasons for the protest regarding the $125 million spent on that Royal Coronation)...

What has tinnitus done to me? There is a great sentence from James Joyce in his short story "A Painful Case": "He felt that he had been outcast from life's feast." So, would a CBT therapist say: "Look, in a prison in Thailand an inmate is forced to get in the fetal position while the guards...

I sometimes wonder, though, what new advice a CBT consultant would have since, out of the sheer necessity for survival, each one of us has had to energetically construct to some degree his/her own CBT methodology just to be able to leave through the goddamn front door in the morning.

Thanks ever so much for this suggestion. Can you believe it? How foolish of me not to have checked online and found that there are 9 therapists relatively nearby who claim to be practitioners of CBT. Perhaps I will try one. I have always regarded psychotherapy as akin (in its scientific...

We now have (according to a number of YouTube postings) the official association of the trifecta of stooges: Jastreboff, Ben Thompson, and Julian Cowan Hill. Are you aware that in three videos Hill has actually stated that, if you write the word "HATE" on a piece of white tape and affix it to...

You are entirely correct about how the application of CBT to catastrophic tinnitus (think about Gaby Olthuis and Kent Taylor, among so many other tragic instances) is equivalent to trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose. A great sentence from James Joyce in his short story "A...

Can anyone please explain why TRT is still being cited as a viable option when it is practised by virtually no one in the Chicagoland Area, which is the third largest city in the US? Want a good laugh? When out of curiousity I checked to see if it was, for example, available in another...

In the spirit of Swift's "Modest Proposal", I am considering parking the car in the garage with the door closed and running the ignition for precisely how long it would take for the carbon monoxide to kill off enough of my brain cells (but no more) such that I would be permanently stupefied into...

My humblest apologies for even daring to question @Michael Leigh's advice, especially in regard to his earlier recommendation that we all take Magnesium citrate. I mentioned this to my wife, who (since she was a Surgical Tech for 34 years) alerted me that it was used to completely void a...

Nothing will prevent me from reporting the truth. NOTHING.

Sorry Capt'n, but I just can't swallow whatever delusional Kool-Aid you have imbibed regarding @Michael Leigh. My earnest apologies, but I just can't demolish my concept of the rational make myself into a Jim-Jones like cult follower, which (I can demonstrate) is what is required to be even...

I was briefly on Zoloft, and it gave me paranoid hallucinations (my metabolism could not absorb it, and it backed up in my system). I saw shadow-like figures at the periphery of my vision. I felt like Catherine Deneuve in Polanski's "Repulsion" when she was going insane all alone in that...

The culprit who is responsible for keeping this frankly idiotic argument alive is (who would have guessed it) none other than @Michael Leigh. With unfathomable, pig-headed arrogance and truly childish stubborness (I recall how @Ben Winders told him to "grow up") he refuses to alter his position...

I feel precisely the same about CBT. I would, however, still be very appreciative if you would please describe in slightly more detail what this "CBT Counseling" consisted of and why it felt insulting. I am interested in why it has been such a failure for so many.

To Hardwell: thanks for a description that so concientiously avoids vulgar or juvenile language; you and ML are such assets to this site.