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  1. carlover

    My Tinnitus Temporarily Reduced by 80% a Few Days Into a Bad Cold — I Wonder Why?

    Hi all. I have not posted for a good while so here is the thing. Normally I know when I have a cold coming on as my tinnitus starts to get high a day or so before. Guess it's Eustachian tube clogging up. Anyway, I got hit with a bad cold a couple of weeks ago, the sore throat was like razor...
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    Pink Noise's Positive Effects on Sleep

    Hi all, A new article today from the Daily Mail about sleep and pink noise. I cannot find the article online but here is one from a while ago. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4807990/Could-pink-noise-help-sleep-like-baby.html I do have a CD and player from way back. I never...
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    Seeking Balance / Rock Steady — Joey Remenyi

    Hi all, Found this, no comment to make. Just putting it out there. https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/
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    'Driven Mad by Tinnitus' — Plumber Commits Suicide After Killing Ex-Girlfriend and Attacking Her Son

    Horrendous, awful http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4044732/Murder-inquiry-two-members-family-die-seriously-injured-separate-incidents.html
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    Chinese Medicine

    If you have a go make sure you go to people who really know what they are doing. Acumedic mentioned here in Camden London are well known and supply practitioners with books, supplies, extra training etc...
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    Article: The Sound That Comes From Nowhere

    http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/the-sound-that-comes-from-nowhere/424932/
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    Remembering an Old Poster on the RNID Forum

    Hi all just read Markku's lovely Christmass greeting and it reminded me of someone. On the old RNID forum was a fella who called himself Portsmouth..after his football team PortsmouthFC My heart used to go out to him , he had been completely deaf since birth but had loud Tinnitus. That means...
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    Ex-Guitarist from The Damned and Eddie and the Hotrods

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2987344/My-tinnitus-bad-click-light-switch-agony.html
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    Thank God for My Hearing Aids

    Hi all What a night ,lost my hearing aids (now found) usually wear them in bed to knock some of the T out. Boy oh boy id forgotten how loud my ears can get.Telling you ten out of ten noise ,I honestly do not know how i would cope without the aids.it took me back to 2010 when an ear infection...
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    Roger Taylor of Group Queen Cure His Tinnitus

    Ill quote this from a helpline worker on the RNID. Forum. Not enough Info really but thought id put it up,Pete Queen's Roger Taylor mentally trained himself to beat Tinnitus. The 'Radio Ga Ga' drummer has lived a loud life as a member of one of the biggest rock bands on the planet and it had...
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    This doesnt add up but its good.

    Hi all went to a "do" last night, noisy but not excessively so ,but deffo noisey. Now usually when I wake up in the mornings the noise is bad,bad, bad and feelings of pressure,This morning (well late morning!!) like my ears have been anaethetised ,noise low and hardly any pressure, to rest my...
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    Anti-Viral Medication for Meniere's Disease/Tinnitus?

    What do you think.Looking at forums re eustachian tube dysfuntion and Tinnitus.This lady cant remember how/why had been told Zovirax TABLETS was all over the net re meniers desease and sufferers getting real benefit.She took the 5 daycourse and has got massive relief. Zovirax is used for the...
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    Spiritual Connection Anyone?

    Have a look at this: http://board.1111angels.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17338 I had heard this sort of thing before, that the ringing is the spirit world wanting to connect with you. Tell you what, the people on that forum seem to welcome and covet this horrible noise and boy how I would like...
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    5-HTP for Tinnitus & Hyperacusis?

    Hi all, If you google - 5 HTP tinnitus - a lot of stuff, it's a natural food supplement, the precursor to Tryptophan. Anyone tried this stuff? Bit reluctant, want to but could have side effects. 5-HTP on Amazon.com
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    Lisinopril Causing or Making Tinnitus Worse?

    Yes, Lisinopril. You know I always thought breaking my nose badly caused my tinnitus but around the same time (I think, as it's 25 years ago) I started 10mg Lisinopril every other day (should take it every day but I hate drugs) If you look at the side effect sheet there's no mention of...
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    Chat to an Audiologist

    With an NHS audiologist today.On talking to her she reckoned 80% of her patients with High Freq loss have tinnitus................so what about the other 20% ?????? why ,why why havent these got It????? If only we knew.:(
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    Detinnitiser

    http://www.detinnitiser.com/index.html Im going to have a chat with the guy.
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    Frustration

    Hi all Realised the other day I had a follow up at the Tinnitus clinic ,neurotology dept of the royal national ear nose and throat hospital London.Thought about cancelling (more waste of time) but went. I told them once again about my gut feeling that my eustachion tubes were not working...
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    Do You Get What I Get? Intolerable Pressure...

    Hi all Anyone get this. I have my hearing aids and they take the edge off my T. I have the Acoustic CR neuromodulation in my ears for 6 hrs a day.(has not helped just use it as a masker) Now,when I have just my ears "naked " to the world with nothing In them or no noise in the...
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    Sound Cancelling Headphones

    Hows this for an alternative. A poster on a british T forum I frequent called Di Oz, swears by sound cancelling headphones ,she wears them a few hours a day . When she puts them on the T dissapears and over the months it seems to be softening It as well. Ive followed her posts for months and...
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    High Frequency Hearing Loss and Tinnitus

    Hi all ,a simple question for a simple mind ie me:confused: If you have slight to moderate High Frequency Hearing loss does that AUTOMATICALLY mean that you will have Tinnitus to go with it? I cant really see a definitive answer on the web,what say anyone? In the Uk I believe Drs would say...
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    Somatic Tinnitus

    Sums mine up nicely, jaw movement, head movement, pressing temple bone changes the tinnitus a lot. I do have TMJ, arthritis and inflammation though.
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    Anyone with Big Brains Help out a Lady on Another Forum

    Hi all This from another forum ,any thoughts for her please,Pete ok so having recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia i was prescribed lyrica pregabalin by my GP. reluctant to take this without first googling it-i opened a can of worms. it seems that on the one hand it has been said that...
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    Eustachian Tube

    Hi all. I think its time to admit to myself that to think I have Eust .Tube problems is just a security blanket. That feels easier because you think there has to be an answer to that and to admit your full ,pressure feelings are part of an inner ear problem is somehow "The End" But reality...
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    Chi Kung (Qigong) / Tai Chi for Treating Tinnitus

    Hi all, Having tried near enough everything, I truly believe I'm sitting on the answer. Considering I used to teach this stuff, it's about time I knuckled down and did this wonderful Chinese exercise every day for 6 months. I really believe it could defeat the horrible noise. Here's a good...