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@terry b Sorry for very slow response - not a regular here anymore. Sore point. The dentist who removed mine advertised as an 'expert' in amalgam removal and said he used a throat sponge on his website. In reality he didn't and I nearly backed out but had travelled a long way and just wanted it...

That's great, thanks very much! ... Edit to add interesting quote from the introduction: It seems there might be other reports to track down, unfortunately from before everything was on the internet.

I guess it is possible that the results of the study were down to placebo effect, since this was not controlled for. I know the placebo effect can do very powerful things. Although it does seem pretty unlikely that it could make a serious case of tinnitus just disappear - if it could then we'd...

OK, thanks for your trouble replying. From what you say it doesn't seem worth trying this out. I always resisted using benzos after the things I read about them and have never doubted that decision. I'm not worried about any danger of accidental overdose with barbs, but would only want to spend...

Hi @linearb, I'm a bit of a dunce when it comes to pharmacology / how drugs work in the body, etc., and I have a lot of respect for your knowledge/experience in this field. Would you be willing to expand a little bit on why you think this, without getting too technical? Let's hypothetically...

Hey, just wanted to add my congratulations. This is great news and you certainly earned this improvement. Thanks also for all the hugely valuable info you have shared. It made my day popping back in here and reading that you got such a huge reduction. :beeranimation:

I wondered whether a possible hint was given in this passage from the second of the links posted by ATEOS: "On the other hand, within some important brain networks, such as the neuronal networks that normally fire together when the brain is at rest, which is sometimes called the ‘default mode’...

@linearb cheers.... interesting stuff.

Have you seen the inside of these labs? Apologies if I sound challenging, I just can't tell from your comment whether you are speaking from experience or conjecture? Also, were there problems with your friend's Suvorexant? Thanks for info.

@erniej I think many doctors have a habit of doing that - not taking the possible negative consequences into account when prescribing. Doesn't help you to know this of course. The best gp I ever had was the one (the only one) who used to suggest waiting things out rather than prescribing...

I did it but was a little confused by Q8. I don't own a smartphone (only a windows tablet) but the survey insisted I tick a box on Q8, even though the question text seemed to say otherwise. Maybe just me being dumb.

Just as a point of interest, it would be easy to defend the OP's idea by reference to utilitarian moral philosophy. Utilitarians attempt to balance out the sum totals of the positive and negative consequences (crudely, the pleasure and suffering) of an action caused to all who are affected by...

I can definitely feel my tinnitus as well as hear it - some days more than others. I agree with the comments that distraction is better than masking. I also spent a lot of time reading in quiet rooms while getting used to my new level of tinnitus. As you suggest, I think this helped me get used...

Just to clarify one more time in case it is necessary, I am definitely not saying that Wilden is the real deal or that LLLT is gonna solve anyone's tinnitus. @RaZaH & @just1morething you both express doubts about Wilden. Personally speaking I feel no urge to argue with how you guys expressed...

This is what I have been thinking. Putting aside the attempt to link Wilden and Shemesh, two separate contributors to this thread have: (a) accused Wilden of saying things he does not say, incorrectly using quotation marks in the process; (b) not acknowledged when (a) is pointed out to them; (c)...

Hi Mike, I didn't see anywhere where Wilden proclaimed a "cure". He does call it a treatment, but that is a much less extreme claim. I haven't read every page on his website though. Do you have a link by any chance that shows him making this claim?

Yes, I had four done in one session because I was travelling quite a way. If I had the option again I would probably split that up into two visits though. I then had one mercury filling left in a tooth that needed pulling - I waited quite a few months for that 'cos I felt so wiped out after...

My condolences Glynis. I am sorry to hear about this.

That sounds a strange set of circumstances - hard to understand what happened exactly although I don't doubt it at all. I've read that voltages can be created between amalgam fillings and other metals in the mouth (eg. stainless steel in a bridge). Saliva acts as an electrolyte, effectively...

Psoriatic arthritis, depression, fatigue, mercury is ototoxic... a better question might be why anyone allows that stuff into their mouth in the first place. ;) How about you - any specific issue?

I had 4 mercury fillings removed last summer. The drilling to get them out (cut into sections) was over surprisingly quickly, but preparing the teeth for white fillings took much more drilling and did start to freak me out a bit. I had a spike that lasted a bit longer than a week if I remember...

Do you have a reference for this please? Obviously there is spontaneous recovery in many cases of tinnitus, eg. when someone has it the day after a concert. But it is a different thing if someone has it for, say, three months and then it goes. Are you claiming 85% remission in cases that have...

Many laws are difficult to enforce, eg. those against domestic abuse. They are still worth having as they move society in the right direction. I'd have thought established venues who wish to retain a license would comply as they do with anti-smoking legislation (UK). The passage from the TT...

Hi Abby, while it might be possible that the prednisone had some ototoxic effect, on the balance of what I've read on the topic it seems as though taking it was a chance worth taking - so please try not to go down the path of guilt/regret. In your position I would certainly have no hesitation...

In case it helps... I had a big increase in 2013 and that happened over a few days. The evening of the noise exposure I noticed that my tinnitus was louder, but it then seemed to increase further over the next few days. This was possibly anxiety related in me, but I think sometimes the effects...

It is p'raps worth noting that some countries have done this, eg. the Netherlands:

Some idiot might take that as an invitation to actually blast a siren into your ear. There was a video posted here last year of some people doing exactly that to folks and filming the reactions and thinking it was hilarious. Never give humanity in general the benefit of the doubt. ;)

That is incredibly sad. Kind of makes me ashamed of being human. Well done for making the argument, but sadly many people are just not able to face reality. This video below landed in my inbox yesterday - it makes the point that what happened to the snake and the dolphin is completely in...

That is what I think I read in a few places too (when I was reading about this stuff a couple of years ago). Although, I believe it is an open question whether the tinnitus would improve if there really was a way to successfully treat hearing loss. I got the impression that the pathological...

@LeQuack & @bill 112 sorry to hear that you are having a hard time at the moment. I think I know some of what you guys feel from my own experiences, and to say it isn't a good feeling is an understatement of epic proportions. What you are going through may well still turn out to be temporary...

Yes, with olive oil if I remember correctly.

You might find it an aid to habituation as you won't be listening to your tinnitus much for a while. ;)

I had a bad experience. The gp insisted it was 'irrigation' rather than syringing because it used a little machine to pump water gently into my ear. Caused me a lot of discomfort and louder tinnitus and was part of a chain of events that put my ear health in freefall. Sorry to disagree with...

I agree with the ordering. Definitely get the manual removal over the others if you can. If the ear canal is not completely blocked then I would just use olive oil and this will get it moving. If it is completely blocked (meaning you have muffled hearing) then olive oil on its own might not...

Personally, I don't want to disagree in a big way because I think we both have some valid points and that it is all about balance - what I called above "being reasonable about our own experience". However I will make these observations: The website you link to is advertising TRT services...

@Ed209 I agree with much of what you write, but I think you are insisting on a level of certainty that is not possible for everybody. We are not all the same genetically and there also seems to be evidence that previous damage predisposes to further damage (as well as temporary increases of...

Yes, of course it is vague because the article highlights that absolute certainty about what is dangerous does not exist. The official guidelines might not be 100% accurate in every case, with differences in biology and previous damage possibly influencing what is safe. Noise damage can be...

Absolutely, I agree with what you say here. Although we sometimes become heated in discussing these things it is not about animosity - it is about trying to clarify murky waters as best we can. We have to be willing to learn from each other in order to do this. If several people say everyday...

@Ed209 I think Telis was inviting you to comment on the content of the New York Times article that he posted. I am curious myself whether you would be willing to say this: ...to this lady from the article:

There was this posted in its own thread recently as well: The article seems to suggest a couple of relevant possibilities. One is that damage to hearing takes place more often than we realise, but is hidden because "natural plasticity can compensate for inner ear damage to bring sound...

Not the "same thing" at all. Telis said they were everyday noises, he definitely did not say they were not a problem for someone with damaged ears. It does not work to fudge the distinction because he clarified for you: "Those types of noises mentioned bother me as well." N.B. This is not just...

I've thought a few times that I may have mild autistic traits. I don't see it as an insult. But I don't think rebelling against this stuff makes it a valid diagnosis for you. Everything you said just suggests to me that you see things more clearly than most other people do. If she is not able to...

I know what you mean. I was actually on a computer science degree for a few weeks back in 1987. I switched pretty quick to environmental science, but really was having too much fun going out and discovering things like drugs and girls to do much work, so I was kicked out before I got far. Went...

Hi Eric, I've seen this idea before but I have a different perspective on it. I imagine what you say will be true for a few people since different folks can react to things differently. But what I've seen people actually say has mostly been that they found Tinnitus Talk helpful. I remember...

Hi @Louise77, sorry to hear you are having these problems. The NHS is basically rubbish for these kinds of issues, unfortunately. If it helps, I got an appointment with an ENT & audiologist through pretty quickly (2 days) when I admitted to my GP that I was having suicidal feelings after my...

For what it is worth, I thought Zorro was trying to be helpful, was a bit insensitive and self-righteous in how he went about it, and then failed to accept feedback on that when I waded in. It got a bit blown out of proportion. Being insensitive is easy - I've done it in support before and it...

Thanks very much @Gosia. It is quite difficult entering a situation like this as I did not wish to misrepresent you at all, and it is great to know that I did not do that. Please do let us know about the spike. @Zorro!, perhaps at some point in the future you could look again at what happened...

Issues about how support is given have been raised in this thread and I hope that is valuable in some way. However clearly there is little point us getting too argumentative. I had a quick flip through the thread and I couldn't find anyone saying that. P'raps I missed it? Like Gosia and...

"Hyper-preoccupation?" That sounds impressive. Except that before the event Gosia simply asked for opinions and experiences, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Here is the "hyper-preoccupation" in action: --- Yes, most of us have had spikes. Most of us know that they go down again...

Hey, Zorro, you're clearly trying to help, and that is great. But I don't think it is accurate to say the feedback you gave is "objective". Surely it is a subjective opinion just like any other? Moreover, your subjective opinion contradicts the OP about the content of her own experience. This...

These days I get spikes all the time from little stuff like riding in the car or being out walking when it is a little windy. I think it is unlikely that I am getting hearing damage when I get these spikes, but the spikes are real elevations of my t volume that can last several days. They are...

I've done three degrees and they were all a bit like that. It isn't just about the joy of discovery and expanding your mind, it is also an endurance test to see whether you can keep on thinking and producing a reasonable standard of work under pressure. Towards the end of all of my degrees it...

Hey, @Carlos, I think your mind is just throwing those images and fantasies at you because you are unhappy. They are not thought out solutions or in any way the best thing to have happen. I went through a period once of having a recurring visualisation of lying on a conveyor belt travelling...

Congratulations on the birth! I believe you should be fine using Ibuprofen short term.

Hi @Kay86, first up it is really important to say do not have any worry at all about asking questions - that is exactly what the forum is here for! Nobody here has any problem with you asking questions or seeking clarification. We all know how upsetting tinnitus, and ear problems generally, can...

I agree wholeheartedly with what LadyDi says with one small exception that I have once (out of several times trying) managed to shift a wax blockage using only olive oil. It did take about a week. Now I try to remember to put some olive oil in every few weeks to keep things moving. This really...

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)

With hindsight, I agree! I did read a few books before beginning and the one I followed the most closely was John Pagano's one on psoriasis. The idea of the Herxheimer reaction is quite big - where the candida start dying off in your gut, but your gut is leaky so the toxins get into your...

Those two sentences reminded me of a wonderful book from a few years ago called "The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress" by the philosopher Peter Singer. I just looked it up and the whole text is available free online now. It is a great, stimulating read (although I've...

If you are planning an extreme diet for candida then please be careful and plan it well. I've been down this route and spent six+ months feeling fairly terrible while my health problems got worse rather than better. I kept thinking 'It's OK, it's just the Herxheimer die-off reaction.' But really...