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Dear Tony, Since the trial we planned cannot be funded, and we are trying instead for a small pilot, if you feel you would like a refund, so to speak, we could arrange it I think. You can keep the radio clip of course. Just email and let me know. All the best, Kirsten.

Hello all, As you all know, the Indiegogo campaign didn't succeed. However, it is still a starting point and Ian still hopes to move forward and do a pilot trial and is working towards that end. Discussions are taking place and when I know the result of them, I will let you know. All the best...

Hi Raindance, Well, there's nothing I can do about the name, but at the end of the day, it's whether it works or not that's important. I'm not sure why you think I stand to make money out of this. I wrote the materials, for which I've already been paid. The only stake I have in the project's...

Hi Jss, I'm a medical/science writer and I helped them with the written materials. What will happen if they don't raise enough? There are a few options - of course it will depend on how much is raised in the end. A decision will be made at that point and I will inform everyone. What is clear is...

Thanks Aleks. Let's hope this works or provides some answers. And I hope that if it doesn't, you can still end up finding something that will help. Best of luck to you to, Kirsten.

Dear Aleks, I understand your skepticism given the amazing array of things that don't work very well in the field. I guess you have to go with your gut feeling as to whether this is a genuine attempt to find an answer. I can only say that I think they're genuine because I've met them and seen...

Dear everyone, Ian spent a while working on this document, which goes into detail about the rationale, and the references illustrate what has been done and what hasn't experimentally - probably the part on complete temporary suppression is what you most want to know. tinAway itself has not been...

Dear Zimichael, Yes - there is experimental work and observations to back up the different facets that it's based on. We spoke already about the group doing full suppression (but only temporary) with the sorts of sounds tinAway is capable of producing, but no one's been experimented on with...

Dear All, I spoke to Ian today who said he really has explored all the options. That there are no waivers to allow access (in cases like these) and you can't accept money for access to an unregistered drug, i.e., you can't buy spots on a trial. Ian said the guy who advised him is ex-FDA and...

Dear all, Ian and Tony don't have a choice about registering w FDA. It's the FDA which decides what is a medical device, what requires which sort of approval process. People have been pinged for this in the past...

Dear Everyone, I'll put your questions to Ian - he's been writing an FAQ for you. But you have some interesting suggestions. I can't speak for Ian, so as I said when I've spoken to him about them I'll get back to you. All the best, Kirsten.

Hello, That would be a list of papers on 1. suppression, 2.ASA model of hearing, 3.up and down regulation of the EP pathway. I can compile you a list over the weekend and get it to you on Monday if that's OK as (it's Friday evening here now) - I think my sunglasses are in my hair somewhere ....

Hi SoulStation, I only have a bit from time to time in my left ear (well, that's what it seems like). My sister, mother-in-law and several friends do, though I think no way near as desperate as yours sounds. My sister would be interested in trying it when it's available. If we can get the trial...

Dear dboy, Here's a link to some of the FDA regulations of medical devices (it's they who decide if your device is medical or not and how you may test it). http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidance/howtomarketyourdevice/investigationaldeviceexemptionide/default.htm The trial...

Ah. Joke I didn't get. Didn't know the name, feel silly.

Dear Raindance74, That's very helpful, thank you very much! I'll look him up now! Thanks again, Kirsten.

Dear Everyone, Ian suggests giving you an FAQ which we can send as a file or put in a post. We hope it will be some help. If there's anything else I'll try to keep replying to new questions but please keep in mind there's only 1 of me (and atm. I have 4 sick kids on my hands). Dear...

Dear RaZaH, I would have to get Ian to reply to what you suggest. I'm pretty sure he wants to go by the book though. I can understand how frustrating it is - he's frustrated too. He might be on later today so I'll ask him to might reply. All the best Kirsten

Dear RaZaH, I would have to get Ian to reply to what you suggest. I'm pretty sure he wants to go by the book though. I can understand how frustrating it is - he's frustrated too. He might be on later today so I'll ask him to might reply. All the best Kirsten

Ok before I go, Markku, I'm not an expert on masking but I understood it to be different to suppression - in masking, the tinnitus is drowned out, in suppression, the tinnitus sound isn't 'heard' anymore ' Of this number, 22 (64.7%) experienced suppression'. That's what we want to do and make...

Sorry, pushed reply accidentally. I have a child lying on my lap! Anyway this irrelevant neural code is mismatched to an auditory object - a pure tone, for instance. Suppression, Ian thinks, occurs when the external sound from a device is tuned so that it generates neural code which is a better...

Dear all, What the invention is based on is a set of observations, experiments and theory of previous groups. Putting all the different pieces together to build a theory for how tinnitus might happen is what Ian did. That certain sounds can produce tinnitus suppression has been shown (eg Franz...

Dear atheedgeofscience, tinAway does not work like any of the products you mention and it does not aim to reduce symptoms. It aims to get rid of them - i.e., turn the tinnitus off, completely, permanently. It is not aiming to do the same thing as either Oasis or ACRN - it works according to a...

Dear HaZaZar and attheedgeofscience, I know what you suggest would of course be great - it's the natural thing to think of. But Ian looked into this and it's unlawful. The rules for running a clinical trial with an investigational medical device are pretty much the same in the USA as in...

Dear Zimichael, http://turnofftinnitus.com/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tinaway-a-potential-cure-for-chronic-tinnitus All the best, Kirsten

Dear Raindance74, It's true that there's a huge placebo effect in tinnitus trials. But that's a reduction in tinnitus symptoms which is not what tinAway is designed to do - the aim here is to STOP it COMPLETELY and you just can't fake that, or get it by placebo effect (at least to my...

My pleasure. Absolutely - whatever works!

Dear t-man, If people are skeptical - and they should be! - the only way to find out if they are right that it's all a sham is to test it. It will be pretty obvious if tinAway doesn't work because we're not aiming to reduce tinnitus or soothe symptoms - but get rid of it - so you hear zero...

Thank you so much, Andersss! Ian is in the car on the way to the hospital, but when he's back he'll jump online. Grace, tinAway is not about trying to match the tinnitus sound, but it makes a sound which produces a pattern which closely enough matches the neural code of the irrelevant firing...

Hi Grace, It is very confusing. It took me ages to get my head around what was supposed to going on. Can I get Ian (Dr Dixon to answer your question? He's the expert.

Hi Tom, Sorry, I forgot to answer the bit about the FDA. When you have a device whose purpose is medical, you must register it, there's no choice, and you have to play by the FDA rules (which are the law of course). And you can't just try it on people outside of a clinical trial setting. My...

Hi Tom, No problem. This trial we are trial to fund will be the first one. However trials in suppression have been done before back in the 90s with small groups of patients. These researchers found that they could generate sounds that could produce suppression, but the problem was it wasn't...

We have a very detailed site with general tinnitus info and which gives the in depth information on the new model, as well as reviewing present treatments (turnofftinnitus). (The site still won't let me put links in) If you would like to find out more about the clinical trial and campaign...

Dear Tomytl, I just saw your post, sorry to not reply sooner. tinAway IS real - I'm working with the inventors, who are a team of biomedical and software engineers. During his PhD on tinnitus, Dr. Dixon (one of the inventors) arrived at a new model for how tinnitus arises. The potential cure is...