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How long do you think it will take until we have indication of meaningful treatment for cochlear tinnitus? Cochlear tinnitus refers to a tinnitus generated by aberrant activity in the inner ear, which is propagated through the cochlear nerve and the central auditory pathway. Here is my belief...

I would need some good advice. I have used an SSRI (Escitalopram) on and off for many years with good effect, but my tinnitus has also worsened over the years. Could the SSRI be the one to blame? Because of a recent worsening, I restarted the Escitalopram 10 days ago and it is a mess. I started...

Quite amazing results. What are your thoughts? Integrative Treatment for Tinnitus Combining Repeated Facial and Auriculotemporal Nerve Blocks With Stimulation of Auditory and Non-auditory Nerves

Autophagy: A Novel Horizon for Hair Cell Protection From time to time I read on the forums that extended fasting (dry or water) helped people to improve or even cure severe tinnitus. Among others @Telis reported grate improvement. This study suggests there might be a link between Autophagy and...

I have done 3 or 4 rounds of 72-hour water only fasting. My quite bad tinnitus gets significantly better at day 2-3 and stays so for another 1-2 days. In fact, so good that I have moments where I do not think about my tinnitus for 30 minutes or more. For me that is a great improvement. 1-2 days...

Here is the link. I did not even have the energy to read it. Nature: Patients with tinnitus use more primary healthcare compared to people without tinnitus I find it hard to understand the point of this study. It just adds to the stigma that tinnitus is a psychological problem. It is NOT only...

My reactive tinnitus and hyperacusis is a little bit more challenging at the moment. I have no pain involved but my tinnitus reacts to a lot of every day sounds. I'm trying to overcome it. Last time around I had great success treating this with SSRI and Widex Zen sound generators. I think it is...

There are quite some activity around treating tinnitus with electrical stimulation. First out and already on the market we have Lenire that sends electrical stimulation via the tongue: Lenire — Bimodal Stimulation Treatment by Neuromod Then we have Susan Shore and the University of Michigan...

It struck me that even though I've had tinnitus for a long time, I haven't really tried to change my diet. It seems that quite some people had good success with their tinnitus by changing what they are eating. Here is what I am thinking. 2 times a day, drink fresh: Chill Turmeric Black...

This is a very recent study using Neuropuncture for tinnitus. Neuropuncture, an Effective Treatment Method for Patients with Subjective Tinnitus Accompanied with Hearing Loss: Case Reports It seems quite successful. I like he fact that it's not only the needles but also the electric...

I can see there is a lot of us with tinnitus that flare up from every day sounds. I am planing to try sound enrichment while sleeping. The plan is to use a Sonos 4-5 meters from bed at minimum level, barely audible. My tinnitus is high frequency cicadas like or high frequency electric buzzing...

My tinnitus has been progressively worse during the summer. I could not understand why until I realized that our house has been swarmed by cicadas and crickets this summer. I also sleep with open window with cicadas just outside. I have high frequency cicadas, electric buzzing like tinnitus...

Hyperacusis is a very wide term and has got a lot of subcategories. I would call my tinnitus reactive tinnitus but I understand there is no such term. Is reactive hyperacusis a better term? How do you perceive your hyperacusis?

In fact I would say that it makes me happy without a reason! What wine do you like the most? Always loved a good Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Xavier is a rally good winemaker. https://www.xaviervignon.com/en/ They also have a really good every day Côtes-du-Rhône. I can also really recommend this...

Oh I just so strongly disagree with this... It's like saying the paralyzation of spinal cord damage is not a disease but just a symptom of nerve damage. Or eye glaucoma that could lead to blindness is not a disease but just a symptom of damage to the central nerve in eye. For many years it...

I know that much of the research suggest that tinnitus is only related to hair cell damage in the first few weeks and then gets to the brain because of lost nerve input. Despite that I very much perceive my tinnitus to be some sort of cell damage in my inner ear. My best guess would be that I...

I never used masking sounds except in my early days. In the beginning I used a home cooked TRT. I got help from an audiologist to set my WGNs and I got CBT therapy. On top of that SSRI. That finely gave me my life back to normal after years of suffering. Looking back I would believe that SSRI...

How do you perceive you Tinnitus? Mine originates clearly from my left side inner ear. For most times it sounds like small fast electrical shortcuts or cross-talks. It is often said in this forum that the inner ear can not generate any sound on its own, it´s a brain thing. I am not sure about...

The term reactive tinnitus is often something said to be made up here on the forums. I can not see why it is not a accepted term. This is how I see it: Hyperacusis: Pain or big discomfort with loud noises. You could have it with and without tinnitus. Reactive tinnitus: When your tinnitus try...

Just curios to know how you set your white noise generator or other masking sound if you use them on a regular basis? To me it's not possible to mask completely. I used to set it quite loud but recently I lowered it so that I just can hear it and it's far from competing with my tinnitus.

@kmohoruk This is how i do it. Do not know if I dare to recommend it. Personally i am quite sure that massive earwax had a lot to do to trigger my T in the first place. I never want to risk ear wax to build up again. Here is how i do: Every time after daily shower i use cotton buds/pins...

Inspired by @David S's thread, please complete the survey here: http://j.mp/rateyourtinnitus Just curios how you would rate your T. I have 6 questions for you witch i hope give a god picture. I do not focus on the sound it self but the reaction. Did I miss any good question? Is any of them...

Like @attheedgeofscience i like numbers. Would just like to point out how much money involved here. This is basically the reason for way the big pharmas can´t stay out of putting a lot of money in hearing disorders. This is possibly one of the few unexplored areas were you could earn an endless...

Even tough it is a lot of pain out there I believe it is reasonable to have faith in 2015. It has never before been so much research around the ears, not to mention all the studies that are going on. During the year we will know so much more about completely new approaches. 1. Genvec, gene...

Dear Dr. Nagler, Believe you said that TRT did not do anything for you during the first year. Then after 15 month over a few weeks things started to improve rapidly. Can you explain a little more what happened? Did you go from being quite focused on the T and withe noise to just not being aware...

Here is an quite old TRT sudies conducted in Sweden with a quite good outcome. http://www.skane.se/Public/HAB/5-Omoss/FoU/rapporter/fourapport-2009nr04.pdf @Dr. Nagler have you read it? Would be interesting to have you comment about it. Hope you can translate it part by part with Googl...

The only thing that actually matters is you awareness of your T, or not even that..... if you are aware of it, will it interfere with you life and create negative thinking/emotions/anxiety. I would say that on a good day witch i have most of now, i am aware of me T 80-60% of the time but it...

Just tried to check my withe nose generator (hearing aid). I seams that the withe noise it transmits goes from 35-70db. Dose anybody know what it actually is? My audiologist says that you can´t hurt your ears even if you turn up them to max for days but isn't 70 db quite high?

I had some problems to give up Sobril (a light benzo). I used Sobril 5-6 month from onset. Then I started with a masker Widex Zen. I am using it with whitenoise. I like the noise, it is soft and you can adjust it in 11 levels. I have it 4 steps down from max. I can still hear my T clearly trough...

It is often said that around 20% of the population got some mild T and 1-2% got it severe. That adds up to around 70 million sever sufferers around the world. That also means that it should be around 1 million new severe sufferers per year or almost 3000 per day. If this should be true, (which...

Had my T for about 8 1/2 month. Just thought that I should write a quick update. First a few words in general about T. I would categorize T in the fowling parameters. Tinnitus typ: 1. You can only hear you T in I quite room or if you plug your ears 2. Most daily sounds would mask your T. It...

Dear Dr. Nagler, I am a little curious about one thing. Can you explain what happened after 15 month of TRT. How did you know when to stop? After how long time could you feel any difference? Did your improvement come week by week or more like half a year at a time? Best Regards, David

Dear Dr. Nagler, You mention the following to be essential to free yourself from T suffering. Strategy Determination Flexibility Insight Would you mind just shortly to express your meaning of each of them?

This one goes out to all my fellow friends that still suffers from T Especially all of you that are aware of your T 24/365. 5 month ago a lost some high frequency hearing. Instead a laser beamed alien moved in at 13000Hz. As a bonus the alien is reactive and can easily be heard over any...

Dear Dr. Nagler, Had a quite bad day but then I was reading you post about Dreams that really cheered me up! https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/dream.4263/ Time after time you teach us how to get our minds to focus on the right things. Just want to send big hugs in your direction. Reading...

Here is a comparison of different benzos (from a Scandinavian University hospital). Believe all of us want to face those out but in the beginning they could be your only way to cope. For the first 4-5 weeks I was on 50mg Zolfot 25mg Sobril 7,5mg Zopiclone Now I managed to get down to 50mg...

My T seems to be quite reactive. When I try white noise my T goes up quite drastically after some hours. Anybody with experience with this? Is TRT the right way to go anyway?

My T seems to be very reactive to sounds. Actually when there is silence it is quite low (like small ringing bells in a sequence) but it goes up a lot once I hear a lot of high tones like music. It sounds a little broken but it don´t hurt. Any tips how to deal better with this in daily life or...

Dear all, First thanks for listing to my story and hopefully giving me some advice. About 5 weeks ago a developed a (pulsate) tinnitus. Only on my left ear. The tinnitus sound like pilings/or rings in a quite stable stream. It is about a second between the pilings. It does not seem to be plus...