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An interesting argument and I agree with a lot of what you say (though not everything). Interestingly, the BTA a long time ago had a discussion about the 10 priorities for the research they were prepared to fund, in which I and a significant number of others strongly argued the case for stem...

Hi, I managed to habituate to tinnitus quite some time ago. It wasn't easy and took quite some time. However, I would say absolutely the most important thing for me was to take careful steps to avoid loud noise exposure as much as possible. Being in quiet environments and avoiding anywhere such...

Look at it this way - in terms of deciding whether to try Lenire you are in a much better position than the people three years ago who had to decide whether to spend a lot of money and effort on the device based on no data at all. You now have a large number of reviews in the User Reviews...

So you said: But here's some (apparent) news for you. Tinnitus is a subjective condition which means there is no objective measure of whether a patient's tinnitus has got better or worse, the only way you know is by asking the patient how they feel and believing what they say. There is no...

The clue really is in my previous post which said: So if you wish to enquire further I would read through the user reviews thread (now many pages long) in which people who bought Lenire give their feedback. It's particularly worth focusing on the later sections of that thread as several users...

Yes, some of us were extremely sceptical about the Lenire device from the very beginning and questioned whether Tinnitus Talk giving it such prominence (pinned threads etc) was really a good idea. To be fair to Tinnitus Talk, most of the pushing of this was from a Director who's since left...

£190 for some mindfulness therapy you could quite easily get online - that is if you are that keen and really think you would find it helpful - is daylight robbery. Avoid.

I'd be very, very cautious about what you do from now on. You say that: That initial hyperacusis was a warning sign to make major changes in your lifestyle regarding noise exposure. Unfortunately, you read your slow if irregular progress from that point as an opportunity to go back to normal...

Sorry to hear of your tinnitus onset. I think you have been given good advice regarding the cause of your tinnitus. Stress can make tinnitus worse but it is very unusual for stress to cause tinnitus on its own without any other causes. Therefore it is much more likely that your use of headphones...

Sorry to hear of your bad experience with MRIs. You're right about the dangers and the frequent lack of warnings regarding the decibel levels. I would definitely recommend anyone having an MRI to ensure they have double hearing protection of ear muffs over ear plugs - simply going with the...

I wouldn't claim to know what the cause of your tinnitus was. Stress on its own can very often make pre-existing tinnitus worse - but the immediate cause is usually another reason - ear infection / ototoxic reaction / loud noise exposure etc. It may be that your doctor is right and that neck...

In general there is quite a lot of truth to this, though it does crucially depend on the cause. With some common causes of tinnitus such as ear infections or loud noise exposure, the sooner treatment is started (e.g. with antibiotics or steroids etc depending on the cause) the likelier it is...

First of all sorry to hear of your tinnitus due to MRI. They can be crazily loud, I had one a couple of months ago and with double protection of muffs and earplugs managed to get through it but wouldn't have wanted it to be much longer. Secondly, I'm sad but not remotely surprised to hear of...

I had the AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday. No impact on my tinnitus at all. No noticeable side effects apart from slight headache that evening which had gone by today.

I had the AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday. No impact on my tinnitus at all. No noticeable side effects apart from slight headache that evening which had gone by today.

This is what I wrote about what was to become Lenire in December 2018 (when it was still calling itself MuteButton Two): December 2018: "The folk on here drinking the Kool-aid don't want to hear about it and will shout down anyone with a degree of skepticism. Clearly a lot of the hype is being...

I can completely empathise with your situation as this is how I felt nine years ago. I have now fully habituated to tinnitus, no longer suffer from hyperacusis. But it did take time and in my case I think time and extreme caution around loud noise were the things which helped far more than any...

But if you speak to NHS workers as I have done, you'll realise that they don't particularly want or need your sympathy. What they do want and need is for the general public to follow the lockdown rules, wear face-masks, follow social distancing. What they don't want is for members of the general...

It's what that nurse said - having had quite a lot of contact with NHS workers recently, most of them incredibly stressed and overworked from the coronavirus pandemic, I can assure you they have absolute zero tolerance for individuals such as yourself moaning about lockdown restrictions (much...

You do seem to be misremembering what you actually said so let me remind you. From the context you make it pretty clear that you think this misuse is deliberate. I'm glad you are pro-choice but your past comments make clear that far from just having concerns about vaccines you very much buy...

That did make me laugh. I'm not remotely slandering you (it would be libel not slander incidentally as slander implies spoken defamation). Reading back through all your long posts (sigh!) is to read a whole tissue of conspiracy theories - the COVID-19 tests are being deliberately misused, the...

All the people you quote have hugely downplayed the significance and impact of COVID-19 - that makes them COVID-19 deniers in much the same way as Climate-Change deniers might say "OK maybe climate change is happening a bit but it's very limited and it's not manmade. Over 100,000 UK citizens...

No you didn't. So just to repeat what I actually said - a graduate or postgraduate level of education is a big advantage when searching for academic information and when evaluating academic information. And I explained exactly why I said it - because an academic degree is three years of training...

Reading comprehension is fairly basic here. Maybe you could reread what I actually wrote: And here, in terms of searching for specialist information, reading and evaluating academic information, then yes I would absolutely say that a graduate level of education is a big advantage, as it gives...

Asking questions is perfectly fine - it's what most human beings do. It's the process by which we search for information and evaluate the information we find that is crucial. Certainly, a graduate or post-graduate level of education at a reputable university is a big advantage in this regard...

As someone living in the UK, witnessing the death of 100,000 of my fellow citizens with COVID-19, I have to stress that it's not about what one person "believes", but their level of expertise in the particular field they are discussing and their overall level of education and understanding of...

I've taken Paracetamol on and off over the years with absolutely no impact on my tinnitus. It's possible that if you take the maximum prescribed dose of it every day over several months then you may have some limited impact but I doubt very much that a less significant dose for the times you...

This is a really interesting point and I think it's worth analysing why this is the case. Some clinicians no doubt worry about patients picking up wrong or misleading information on discussion forums. But many, I suspect, also fear that the patient may actually pick up considerably more helpful...

This seems like a promising idea - well done on setting it up. What I would most like to learn about is what the organisations you have mentioned have contributed and will contribute to biomedical research into tinnitus. Not Mindfulness research. Not CBT research. Not TRT research. Not...

The UK has recorded today the highest death toll from COVID-19 - over 1500 people. The actual death toll from COVID-19 in the UK now tops over 100,000, as for a long period last year thousands of people died from COVID-19 who weren't able to get a COVID-19 test. Their deaths are not therefore...

That's good news, in which case the ATA is in sharp contrast to the BTA, whose research fund has funded little other than mindfulness studies over the past few years.

Interesting to know. The fact that someone is driven to stealing Prednisone from their place of work to treat their acoustic shock because they know they won't be able to get it on prescription is truly an indictment of tinnitus treatment in the UK - and a contrast to many countries where it is...

I'd just like to say I think it is really awful that you are in the position of having to buy Prednisone illegally from stores rather than being able to get a prescription for it from A&E, where you could get advice about correct dosage etc. Are you based in the UK? The difficulty of obtaining...

Being British I am certainly more aware of what tinnitus research the BTA has been funding or failing to fund over the past decade. These include many CBT or MCBT (mindfulness CBT) studies - most duplicating previous research - and several studies on aspects of white noise maskers and other...

Completely agree with you @Lucifer. One of the lessons of COVID-19 is that venues - clubs, bars, restaurants - may complain about new health and safety rules but if that is the only way they can stay in business they'll make sure they comply. And the COVID-19 health and safety restrictions are...

I agree with a lot of what you say. The key thing to realise is that the focus on "tinnitus distress" instead of loudness or curative research hasn't come about by accident. It's happened because both the CBT and "tinnitus masking" industries have very influential lobbyists at the heart of the...

I completely agree Tanni, but I shouldn't take it to heart. The guy to whom you are referring is just an idiot. As well as the incredible insensitivity he's shown towards those who have suffered from COVID-19, he's just completely wrong about the facts as well as the latest large-scale study...

Quote from The Benefits of Mindfulness by Marks: Now we know what the BTA will be wasting its research funds on over the next couple of years. Definitely beats curative research.

Someone who has been directly affected by either cancer or COVID-19, either as a patient or close relative of a patient, is going to have a much better understanding of the nature and impact of the illness than someone who has just looked at a bunch of statistics. I would have thought that was...

So just to clarify Bill. I find your belief that you understand the impact of COVID-19 so much better than the people on here who have been directly affected by it laughable. I find a lot of your language, especially the stupid "plague" references juvenile COVID-19 isn't "the flu". It's a...

Bill Bauer's views on Covid are understandably deeply insulting to those who have suffered the bad effects of Covid themselves or seen its impact on friends or relatives. But the thing to realise is that Bill has absolutely no personal experience or understanding of Covid himself and has simply...

I've never bothered with the flu vaccine, partly because it only seems to be around 40-60% effective, but I will probably take a COVID-19 vaccine, as it is reported as being around 90% effective. Am not likely, however, to be someone who will be able to get it particularly early. Would be...

I agree - far too many of these sociological studies duplicating pre-existing research in many cases. The reason there are so many of these studies is that they are relatively easy to organise and they often get funding from organisations such as the ATA and BTA. There are several interesting...

All over now. The only outstanding question is whether Trump's final presidential pardons will include one for his interior decorator for crimes against good taste...

Regardless of ones political beliefs it really is sad that such misogynistic rhetoric and racist slurs are being given (limited) publicity on this website. They say nothing about the person being described but everything about the person saying them ...

I completely agree that it is difficult to give good quality tinnitus counselling unless you have tinnitus yourself. However, I've met quite a number of hearing therapists/audiologists myself and only one of them had tinnitus herself. I don't find this particularly surprising as most of them had...

I've been avoiding contributing to this thread as I live in the UK, but wow the level of frankly poisonous, racist and libellous allegations in this post and a couple of others really should make the Mods think about how beneficial this whole thread is to our tinnitus community... the nastiness...

I certainly agree with you Michael on CBT. The majority of CBT therapists have very limited knowledge of tinnitus and hyperacusis and all too often will give advice which is actively damaging. The BTA - which still refuses to describe tinnitus as a health condition (preferring the term symptom...

I think this is an important point and I think a good argument for giving these therapies a go. However, the counter-argument is that you can get information from these therapies in particular which can be damaging for those with severe tinnitus and hyperacusis. This is even more the case with...

UK death rate ten per cent higher than normal for this time of year as a result of COVID-19: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54785358 Sadly we do still have our share of Covid-deniers in the UK who still insist, despite all the evidence, that it's nothing more than a bad cold...

I'd be pretty cautious about CBT for tinnitus and hyperacusis as well. It very much depends on the CBT counselling you get but often a large part of much of the CBT "treatment" for hyperacusis and for tinnitus involves trying to persuade the patient that their fear of loud noise exposure is...

Love Elizabeth Bowen, though not read any for a while. The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day my personal favourites.

Hi, in terms of being in the early stages of tinnitus as a result of acoustic shock: 1. I'd be careful about any kind of white noise sound exposure through headphones and white noise generators at this stage. Your ears are going to be very sensitive and there is a danger that your tinnitus...

Headphones are a definite no, especially as you are so early into having hyperacusis, but even later on probably not a good idea. I'd be very, very careful with speakers as well. Volume and duration both matter, so even if you are only listening to something at a high rather than an extremely...

Interesting to have Neuromod's own research on Lenire's efficacy. Perhaps unsurprisingly they appear to deliver some impressive looking figures eg: "86.2% of treatment compliant participants reported an improvement in tinnitus symptom severity after 12 weeks of treatment;" These figures stand...

It seems very odd to prescribe someone with hearing aids if they don't have any significant hearing impairment - potentially that could easily make tinnitus worse as noises will be unnecessarily amplified. Are you definitely getting hearing aids or just white noise generators, which look a lot...

It really all depends what you mean by "healing" and what caused your hearing problems and tinnitus in the first place. Something like an ear infection can be treated and potentially hearing will improve again, though this treatment may not solve the tinnitus. Similarly with ototoxic medication...

Ultimately it has to be your decision whether to take these. I have taken antibiotics in the past with no impact on my tinnitus, it's several years ago now so don't remember which one was prescribed but it may well have been one of the ones you listed. Usually with these medications they list...

I would be definitely extremely cautious about what you do from now on. It's important to remember that both tinnitus and hyperacusis can get worse as well as better and that continued exposure to loud noise is the thing which is most likely to make them worse. In terms of your professional...

Your ears are showing all the symptoms of a classic acoustic trauma. It may well have been listening to headphones that triggered it, or it may have been some other noise you weren't particularly aware of at the time. What it means is that for the time being you have to treat your ears with the...