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    Next-Gen Hearing Implants Could Overcome Inner Ear Damage

    Next-gen hearing implants could overcome inner ear damage EPFL is developing next-generation soft hearing implants Working with clinicians from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, a team of EPFL researchers has developed a conformable electrode implant that will allow people...
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    37% of Adult Canadians Have Experienced Tinnitus in the Past Year

    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2019003/article/00001-eng.htm This is - surprisingly - a new report on tinnitus in Canada - posted March 20, 2019. I haven't had a chance to go over it all in depth - the data - but what's there is rather interesting. "An estimated 37% of adult...
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    Significant Bone Loss in Inner Ear...

    That, it turns out, looks to be the source of my pulsatile tinnitus. The tale so far... A year ago tinnitus starts with an infection from abscess tooth. This turns into a bad acute sinusitis infection. Intracranial pressure through the roof, CSF pressure the same, blood pressure spiking over...
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    Tinnitus Appears to Me More Multifacted the More We Know

    There appears to be a venous anomaly in my left cerebellum that needs to be investigated and may be the source of my pulsatile tinnitus. So, I started doing some research and the findings in these 2 papers were quite edifying to say the least,. It appears that the DCN may not be quite the...
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    Anyone Know of Any Pulsatile Tinnitus Specialists in Canada?

    Preferably Ontario, and a neurologist at that. The one I'm seeing is nice but she only deals with stroke patients and had never even heard of microvascular compression syndrome or somatic pulsatile tinnitus until I gave her the medical papers on them. She wants to refer me to a specialist but...
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    The Marshall Protocol

    https://mpkb.org/home/patients/protocol_overview It's a strict regimen but some tinnitus sufferers have stated it's cured them.
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    Roseroot May Have Potential as Alternative Treatment for Depression

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/291596.php While this isn't a treatment for tinnitus per se, it is for depression, which, let's face it, goes hand in hand with tinnitus. So for everyone worried about side-effects and addiction of mainstream meds there's this, and now it's clinically...
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    A Good Pulsatile Tinnitus Paper to Bring to Specialists: Imaging and Differential Diagnosis

    Pulsatile Tinnitus Imaging and Differential Diagnosis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3719451/pdf/Dtsch_Arztebl_Int-110-0451.pdf That's an excellent paper to print out and bring to your specialists. It includes a good case study of how things can be missed as well as a checklist...
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    How Quickly Did You Start Habituating to Tinnitus?

    While mine only started a month ago and I'm due to see all the specialists couple of weeks, in the event of bad news - not surgically fixable or stress related or it's going to hang around for a while - I want to be prepared because the alternative is unthinkable. And seeing as tens of...
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    Tinnitus Volume and Muscle Interaction Is...?

    I've seen some people mention it but can't find what kind of tinnitus it applies to. If I overextend my head to the left or right - putting a lot of force on my mastoid it makes the tinnitus way louder. Same with thing with yawning. Or stretching in bed. Anything that really engages the ears...
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    Howdy Folks...

    New here and new T sufferer. Mine started about a month back related to an abscessed right rear molar. Unfortunately my dentist wasn't around and the guy I saw proscribed me ibuprofen 600mg for the pain - should have just pulled the damn tooth without the freezing - even though I told him I had...