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Me too. I suspect I have some chronic inflammatory condition. Pollen counts and weather conditions somewhat modulate my tinnitus. That convinces me that it's not entirely "in my brain" due to missing signal input.

So, I saw a review on Amazon where a product reviewer claimed that after doing long demonstrations with a Van Der Graaff generator nearby, it helped his tinnitus. There's other people that report that being around one for a period of time gives them headaches. So it may be actually doing...

To be honest I never had much hope for this one. Didn't we determine tinnitus was a brain problem rather than an ear problem over 10 years ago?

My opinion is that if it takes the lives of 8000 monkeys to find an effective treatment for tinnitus, it's worth it. I'd also gladly undergo a procedure with a 65% mortality rate. A 35% chance of having a decent life and being able to go out again is better than 0%.

As tempted as I am to dismiss the concept of this as a bunch of baloney, I have occasionally had a lower tone in my left ear, perhaps 2 kHz or so. I can consistently make it go away by pressing my tragus into my eardrum.

Mirtazapine made my tinnitus worse like every other serotonin drugs I've tried, and I've tried a lot of them. Seroquel helped me sleep, and actually had a positive effect on my tinnitus, but I had to quit because I started developing tardive dyskinesia, which at the time was essentially...

It's natural for us to want the noise to go away, but what I got out of it was "We can't really do anything to directly reduce the noise, but if we make it so you don't care if the noise is there, we've solved the problem". And moreso, it seems like the feedback loop - noise = reaction to...

I'd be interested to know what was actually in those as opposed to Oxytocin bought from a pharmacy.

My first response was to freak out at this since I'm trying to get a 3080 FE. But thinking about it more, I'm skeptical that correlation equals causation and I don't think it would induce tinnitus unless it was about to happen anyway. Having said that I will comment that "coil whine" with high...

I've tried Abilify. It's one of the few medications that didn't affect my tinnitus negatively but it didn't affect it positively either. I had to stop because it made me feel agitated and uneasy.

I do think there's a link between spring allergies and tinnitus. Mine is always worse in the spring, it's worse this spring than every, and for the first time I've been having other allergy symptoms - gagging, congestion, etc that get worse if I spend time outdoors, and others have reported a...

Neuromod seems to be neither encouraging nor discouraging U.S. citizens from traveling to them. The potential issue of importing an unapproved medical device into the U.S. has been discussed, but it seems customs and the airport people are more concerned about bombs and cocaine than something...

I've had this happen twice in the past few weeks. I'm dealing with a month long worsening in general. I think it is related to spring allergy season. Sleeping makes my nose really congested to the point I'm gagging in the morning (and sometimes have gagging fits during the day too).

My theory on this all is that restoring hearing isn't going to be enough to immediately knock out tinnitus. Maybe it will take some time for the brain to reset. Maybe the brain will need an extra bump to reset, possibly Lenire (didn't the best responders to this have normal hearing) or the...

A fair summary would seem to be that Hubert Lim developed something that was reasonably effective but didn't feel like they would be able to create and commercialize an actual hardware device, so he left to work with the people that already had a commercialized hardware device: Lenire, and...

Have we made any progress on this? Back in 2009 I saw an ENT who was convinced that rtms was just on the verge of being approved for tinnitus as soon as they got done getting the protocell right and he anticipated being able to offer it to me in his office.

So is it a fair summary of a situation that Dr. Lim felt building his own commercial device would be too big of barrier, so he joined up with the Neuro of people since they already had a similar device, and we're hoping that the result is a revision to the Lenire device that makes it actually work?

I get it where my hearing will fade down to almost nothing in my left ear (and tinnitus will spike) over a period of several seconds, then everything is back to normal within a minute or two. Anyone else experience this or any idea why it occurs? My neurototologist doesn't seem to concerned so...

I don't know what I was injected with, some steroid or combination thereof so it could have been dexamesathone, and it was towards the middle, C4 if I recall correctly. For me the positive effect lasted less than 3.8 months, more like two or so.

It's an epidural spinal injection- it's a pretty standard treatment for arm and neck pain due to spinal issues along with physical therapy before resorting to more invasive procedures; I don't remember the doctor that did mine and it's not important because any orthopedic center does them. The...

Possibly because spine doctors and ENTs don't talk to each other and since it's not accepted medical practice it's not covered by insurance It's also possible they're concerned about radiation exposure if the procedure is done repeatedly? It's not the nicest feeling but the only thing I...

This makes sense to me: 1) After getting a cervical injection my tinnitus went down to almost nothing and stayed there for a month 2) I have back issues causing pain in my arm, and when that pain flares up so does my tinnitus 3) My ENT has a patient that found someone to do a cervical injection...

Given a lot of people have a drop-off in hearing at their tinnitus frequency, are they better candidates for the Lenire device or can the Shore device work if it's somewhat close? *My tinnitus is around 10 kHz, I have some hearing up to around 8-9 kHz or so.

I've worked for a health insurance company for 15 years. It's not really correct that "hearing issues aren't covered by insurance". Hearing aids themselves are generally a contract exclusion but insurance covers audiograms, medication, or surgery if needed. It's similar in that insurance won't...

I've had MRIs (to rule out acoustic neuroma) and for my back and spine issues. Wearing the provided hearing protection, they did not worsen my tinnitus.

I've noticed that my tinnitus seems to be at its worst during the days I have headaches or back / neck / arm pain (I have MRI confirmed radiculopathy and neck herniation - I've refused offered surgery because of reports of anesthesia and antibiotics permanently worsening tinnitus). Does this...

I was disappointed to read these reports too. However I still believe this device will work for most people, because that's what they've been saying until now, and that they will eventually sell the device to anyone with money, because that's what companies do. (Or else you'll be able to find an...