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Sorry guys for the delay in my response, I run a very busy business. My ears settled back 1-2 days after the exacerbation. My noise trauma caused 4 symptoms: 1. tinnitus, 2. abnormal "tinny" hearing, 3. hyperacusis, and 4. a pressure-like discomfort felt deep inside the ears. Well, the...

Another update..... Today my ears are definitely the worst they have ever been in terms of tinnitus volume, discomfort, and hearing distortion (although that could just be the tinnitus volume on top of my hearing). This could be a coincidence as the severity does drift around but Sunday evenings...

Thanks. Putting LEDs together is very simple DC circuitry. Unlike most DC devices you need to give them a set current rather than a particular voltage. An LED driver has terminals for your AC input and positive/negative terminals for the DC output to the LED. Most will have another couple of...

Within the box are two LED constant current drivers and a flashing circuit. It looks more complicated than it is in reality, I broke the screw connectors off the flasher (whoops) and had to open it up and solder directly to the circuit board: With LEDs you need a constant current driver, for...

I'm trialling it with a 10sec on/10sec off cycle at the moment. I've got one 940nm and one 850nm chip (who knows what is best!) and I turn the headset around half way through. The duration of the session is limited by comfort levels. Note that these are very high output chips, they consume...

For anyone interested, I attached each LED chip to a heatsink: I drilled a hole in a cheap pair of earmuffs: And attached the heatsink to the earmuff: The finished unit (note that the electronics box didn't need to be that big, it's just what I had available):

Sorry, I've been sick with a cold. These chips are around US$150 each. I just built a headset with a chip on each side and heatsink. I added a flasher circuit so that I can have them cycle on and off at whatever frequency. They put out a lot of IR! You instantly feel a huge amount of heat, not...

This is what I'm going for: http://docs-asia.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/11b1/0900766b811b1e33.pdf I'm getting one each of the highest output 90deg angle units in 940 and 850nm. These produce around 26 and 21 watts actual radiant intensity output. The reason that I'm going DIY is not to save...

I'm not worried about power consumption, I mean a LED chip being sold with an efficiency of 7% is not a good reflection on its quality.

The LED arrays are additive to some extent because the radiation field from each chip overlaps to a large extent. I decided against the Ebay Chinese ones though because they are very low efficiency (and of questionable wavelength too no doubt). I'm going to try some quality high output ones in...

If anyone is interested in DIY you can get high output IR (eg 850 or 940nm) LED chips such as this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1w-3W-5W-10W-20W-30w-50W-100W-940nm-Infrared-IR-High-Power-LED-Light-Lamp-DIY-/261898554043?var=&hash=item3cfa5ecabb:m:mvLk0nMum89PMJt6ENXUemg Add a LED driver and a...

Thanks, I thought they looked a bit suspicious with the claimed power output, particularly when they also claim the battery lasts for hours. I looked up the stats on another similar unit and the pulse width was listed as 100ns, so in truth very short!

@Bobby B What do you think of these relatively cheap higher powered devices such as: http://www.pulselaserrelief.com.au/shop/PulsedLowLevelLaserTherapy This one has a 25W output and you can get it with a probe set but none are made for in-ear use.

I don't mean a full 10+W on the cochlea alone at close range, I mean externally applied like Bobby B described. How are you going to apply your LLLT direct to the cochlea as you describe? Have you ever looked in someone's ear at the eardrum? The external ear canal is not straight, and it can be...

I agree we need to look at higher powered sources (like 10 or 20W). Partly from the above article showing low tissue penetration when you are talking centimetres of tissue, but also from my own experience. I am an eye surgeon and I am familiar with using lasers on tissue on a daily basis...

I'm thinking it might be better to go more powerful, I'll see what I can find.

I agree and had been thinking of a DIY unit myself. I think the diodes sitting in the opening of the ear canal should function similar to the professional units. I also agree that it's so cheap and easy that it's not worth debating whether LLLT works or not, just go DIY and have a go.

I seriously hope this is true. It seems to be helping me at 200mg 3 times a day! It's strange because I was told something very different. Bear in mind that I am a medical specialist and was enquiring through their doctors' enquiry department, so you'd think I'd get an accurate response. It was...

I'm up to 200mg three times a day so far.

I have the same plan as you, hopefully use it for a little while and then stop and maybe it will have a lasting effect. I have noise induced tinnitus and I've been on retigabine for 6 days now. I'd say the tinnitus is "less annoying" but it seems to be from a combination of the loudness going...

We will see, the proof will be if you can still buy them in a few months....

They may not know if it's not been publically announced yet. I have in the past found out about cessation of medication production well before it's general knowledge.

I'm trying to help everyone by giving them a heads up rather than depress you all. Particularly those of you who are on larger doses and want to ramp down at the end of treatment.... you might want to make sure you have a supply of the lower dose tablets soon. I enquired with GSK in Australia...

From the horse's mouth, GSK.

Bugger, GSK is going to stop production of retigabine. I started 2 days ago and just starting to feel it's helping.....

I find Serc (Betahistine) in a low dose (8mg twice a day) great for feelings of loss of balance.

I've had tinnitus quite bad for 4 months now. I could accept it being present during the day time, it's like living in a world with speakers everywhere playing an annoying tune, not pleasant but liveable. The two big fears I have are: 1. Not sleeping. And trust me, this is a volume issue. I can...

Thanks everyone for your help. Dave.... likewise, I feel for you too. It's frustrating that on some bad decisions there's no second chance. Sadly the general population don't understand the problem tinnitus can be, most people seem to think it's a bit trivial. If I stepped on a land mine in...

It makes no difference to my tinnitus.

I got admit that with my fan plus under-pillow speaker it's still a struggle to sleep. I just ordered one of these bluetooth headband speakers: http://www.sleepsolutions.com.au/breeze-sleepphones-headband-sleep-headphones-with-bluetooth

Thanks Lymebite for the advice, I'll give them a call

Yeah, I did wonder about that because when you plug the ears you hear the tinnitus way more and therefore concentrate on it way more.

The frequency of this tinnitus is very high, it's extremely annoying. But then, I haven't experienced other frequencies so I'm not sure what the worst would be. Last night I was up to at least 4am with it despite my under the pillow speaker and a fan blasting.

Near Lismore, Northern NSW Thanks Glynis, currently my only chance of getting any sleep at all is with some noise at night to mask the tinnitus, even then I'm getting little sleep. Hi Bobby, it was Cambodia. I was kind of put on the spot ("your turn to shoot") and would never do something...

I've been using a fan next to the bed and a speaker (beach noise) under the pillow. That way I've got both ears entertained no matter which side I sleep on (y)

It was around an hour with some AK47 as well.... sigh. I'm now protecting my ears with plugs for driving etc etc, but all probably a bit late. I'll look into the phototherapy, thanks for your advice. Cheers, Steve

Has anyone sourced Retigabine from an online international pharmacy? Here in Australia it is not imported. I can get a script no problem but I think many of the online pharmacies are probably dodgy. If anyone knows of a genuine company I could deal with I'd love to know! Cheers, Steve

Hello, I'm Steve from Australia... I did some hugely unwise unprotected shooting on holiday in Asia in January and I'm now stuck with very high pitched tinnitus in both ears and some hyperacusis too. It has actually got worse a couple of weeks ago I think because I took a noisy aeroplane flight...