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Actor Burt Reynolds had long-lasting hyperacusis after being struck on the jaw during a movie fight scene.

Go to the NEWS section in Google, and type in "tinnitus." You'll find many recent news articles in which hearing professionals claim that hearing loss, tinnitus, and sound sensitivity are dramatically increasing, especially in kids. Hyperacusis is also now frequently mentioned.

RaZaH, Have you noticed any changes with sound sensitivity?

I don't think vitamin D tests can read that high.:) If you are thinking about a magnesium test, have a look at this: http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-level.html

I don't know where you fall, but a lot of people on this forum are walking laboratories. Their tinnitus probably has no idea what's happening or what's coming next.

Wow... RaZaH, I do know someone who flushed all his supplements down the toilet. He got so fed up with his ears that he said, "The heck with it." He even threw away his earplugs and started ignoring his diet. Instead of buying vitamins, he took friends out to eat. And he got vastly better in a...

However, it sounds like a forced *deficiency* of magnesium surely does something.

RaZAH, If the above articles are correct, your experience may be demonstrating what many have claimed--that lack of magnesium can play a large role in tinnitus. Maybe this experience has unmasked a contributor to your tinnitus? Again, if these articles are accurate, they explain the wide...

Good move, refusing the loud tests. Already you're smarter than the audiologist.

You fooled me. I thought you were going to say that after reading the above articles, you'd increase your magnesium intake to quickly balance things out. Keep us posted on what happens. With the amount of vitamin D you've been taking, flushing it out of your system should only take a couple of...

RaZaH, See articles above. Is it possible that by taking heroic dosages of vitamin d, one might be forcing a magnesium deficiency, which could affect the ears? "...Magnesium and Vitamin D should be taken together in order to avoid vitamin D side effects and to maximize absorption of both...

Two Articles: 1. Ringing in the Ears after Taking Vitamin D: http://www.easy-immune-health.com/ringing-in-the-ears-after-taking-vitamin-d2.html 2. Take Magnesium and Vitamin D Together to Avoid Side Effects: http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.html

Actually, that's true. People with central gain problems (in which severe tinnitus and hyperacusis come and go) will tell you that when the gain is turned way up, they can hear everything that's going on in their hearing system--including an orchestra of tinnitus going all over the place from...

RaZaH, How long have you been taking it?

So, 30,000 IU?

RaZaH, How many IU have you been taking, and for how long?

Thank you.

The approach in video #2 is interesting. Vitamins D3 and B12 are often suggested to multiple sclerosis patients for rebuilding the damaged myelin sheath around nerves (which usually takes time). Yet this person claims he had relatively quick relief. Possibly, the dosage of vitamin D3 his doctor...

Can anyone see what brand of vitamin D3 is in the second video? (He shows the bottle at the 4:00 minute mark.)

Unfortunately, this appears to be true. I would respond by saying that we each have to find our own cure... However, even the authors of these threads often come back later to report that their "cure" has taken flight. In the meantime, scores of people on the forum have already run out and...

I once read a magazine editorial written by a doctor. He said he had five patients who were profoundly deaf from air bag detonations. The irony was that all happened during minor fender-benders in parking lots. It's easy to see how a person with tinnitus or hyperacusis (whose big day out might...

For some, the "normal" sound-exposure approach works great. For others, it can be disastrous. Many hearing professionals recommend exposure to normal daily sounds like a "one-size-fits all" hat. But this warning should be added: "Because everyone is different, there's really no way of knowing...

Vitamin B 12 Sheathes Ear Nerves From Prevention's Book "Healing with Vitamins" When it comes to nerves, vitamin B 12 plays a special role. The body needs this nutrient to manufacture myelin, the fatty sheathe that wraps around nerve fibers, insulating them and allowing them to conduct their...

I was thinking that also.

Are you still taking all the exact same additional supplements you were taking before when you got such good results, such as the same brand of ginkgo?

The kind of T you've described in the past often worsens or spikes with sound exposure. I was wondering if that's been the case for you, and if that has changed since taking the saffron. In other words, is there any change in your ability to handle loud sounds without worsening T, or a general...

RaZaH, Is there any difference with the effects of sound exposure?

Marie, The people behind "The Secret" might suggest that you not have tinnitus in mind while you are creating your vision board.

Joseph, Can you please explain? Thanks.

If it's a trait, about the same odds as any other that might occur on both sides of the body.

What was the effect?

Great post, Bill. If the above is true, doesn't this create a similar question, which is, "Why do some people lose synapses from loud sound while others don't?"

The author claims to have taken it for just one week (at least that's how I read it):

Bill, I had a hunch you were going to say that... I know a number of people who fit that profile, and who have absolutely no tinnitus--even after decades of noise exposure (I can hear their guns and machinery miles away). Over the years, I've developed an idea that these people are *loaded*...

Bill, would you please do a favor and find out about your uncle's food intake? Thanks.

There is another reason that "Negative Thinking" is associated with tinnitus. And it's difficult to treat with counseling. On this forum are two repeating themes: 1. A good number of people come here after their tinnitus worsens. So they are dealing with what they now consider a degenerative...

I wasn't suggesting that *no* damage is present. I was pointing to the idea that there may be other factors--besides permanent damage--at work. Either that or the damage isn't so permanent as generally thought.

Bill, With all due respect to Charles Liberman's work, it seems there may be additional factors at work. There are famous musicians who've stood in front of blasting speakers for 50 years, and they are not all bed-ridden with hyperacusis. And there are people from noisy vocations who've spent...

It could be difficult to know for sure where ear pain is originating, or being triggered from.

Did your MRI show anything wrong with your hearing apparatus, or suggest that it, too, is working as it should? As amazing as the technology seems, an MRI is still a crude instrument--especially when compared to your perceptions.

Persian Saffron is supposed to be the highest grade.

Saffron & Macular Degeration http://www.naturalnews.com/039150_saffron_macular_degeneration_cure.html The Australian human study was conducted by Sydney University Professor of Neurology Jonathan Stone... ...The whole study was six months long, so each side of the 25 double blind subjects...

Look on Wikipedia. Apparently, the more red strands, the stronger.

Saffron ingredient shows promise for fighting MS http://www.emaxhealth.com/1020/saffron-ingredient-shows-promise-fighting-ms

Yes... We think we're totally asleep, but our hearing is watching our back. It's cranked up and listening intently for the footfall of a tiger.

I once heard an explanation of this. It came from a totally different field of study. It said that when animals go to sleep, the brain turns up its volume to listen for predators. (If a person has tinnitus, it's going to turn that up too.) Here's a good example: Is there anyone here who's old...

Bill, To what do you attribute such great improvement? If we strictly subscribe to Liberman's theory, how could you have improved so greatly that first time?

That's a good idea. I once got stranded in a remote area in the winter. I got rescued by a gigantic old wrecker with no back window, and no muffler.

Meter readings aside, there are other factors in play when you ride in a car: In most cars, passengers often have to raise their voices above highway noise, a fan, and a radio, to converse. In addition, bumps and potholes create quick booming spikes that are even louder yet. A decibel meter...

It's like when an old car starts balking--it's probably due to a combination of factors. Fixing one thing might be an improvement, but it's not like new. People often comment that finding a cure for tinnitus will be difficult, because there are so many different causes. Taking that further...

Yes, it's interesting that so many drug trials want tinnitus less than a year old--a time frame in which the condition would most likely improve anyway. That's similar to the TRT claim of 18 to 24 months for improvement of hyperacusis. It often gets better during that time all by itself. That's...

Or as a result of advances that will renovate the body in general. It will take such a giant leap. Today's Big Pharma is not very good at "cures." Think back (way back). When was the last time they cured anything? They still haven't found a cure for the common cold.

Why do you think that is?

Do you have to keep taking it to maintain the effect?

It is. Yet there's no telling how much of the worsening is from actual damage, as opposed to how much might be from reversible inflammation, swelling, irritation, and resulting hyperactivity--in combination with increased gain.

Scientists appear to have *plenty* of money for exotic studies on mice and tissue in dishes. Maybe they just don't want 10,000 people parading through their offices--and all the work it entails. Or maybe they still don't have anything viable to offer people. With mouse studies, you can keep...

The hope comes from looking at people who *were* like you and came out of it. No one knows how it happens or what takes place. But it can and does happen.

Oh, believe me, I know. I think Bill is doing a great job of figuring this out himself. And he’s in the best position to do that—after all, he fixed himself before. I will just add some reassurance: Bill, some people have gone through bouts of hyperacusis multiple times. In your case, the...

No, I don't subscribe to that theory. But I wish I had done that research. It sounds as though it's worth a swimming pool, or at least a new car.

I guess you don't subscribe to heightened glucocorticoid sensitivity in tinnitus in terms of an abnormally strong glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated HPA-axis feedback (despite a normal mineralocorticoid receptor (MR)-mediated tone) and lower tolerance for sound loudness with suppressed...