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@Hazel, this is fantastic news! Dr. Polley is an awesome addition to the team. The Polley Lab is in enormous pool of talent, experience, and resources, which should help make wise and informed decisions on awarding grants.

Hi @LulaLula, I'm sorry you had a bad experience during the second session. I never experienced eye twitching after any of the 20 sessions I had. If there was any fullness, it receded after a little while. I'd give it another few days at least. I'm also a very anxious person, and I've found...

My wife lost her sense of smell for several months after a COVID-19 infection, but it eventually returned. I’d encourage you not to get discouraged if it takes some time. One thing that helped her was olfactory retraining. The Mayo Clinic has a helpful article about it here: Olfactory...

Putting partisan considerations aside, if the FDA undergoes any major structural changes, I would expect delays. What will happen to the review teams? Will they lose or gain members in the process? New members will need to be hired and brought up to speed. Will there be new regulatory policies...

I didn’t experience any complications. My tinnitus is highly reactive, so I had a temporary spike after each session because of the noise in the chamber. However, this subsided by the end of each day. You’re right that a pure oxygen environment can be potentially dangerous if you’re not...

I did 10 HBOT sessions after each of my two COVID-19 infections. In both cases, I experienced hearing loss and developed tinnitus the first time, which worsened after the second infection. The HBOT did help a little with my hearing, which I was grateful for, but unfortunately, it didn’t help my...

It appears that the electrode never enters the cochlea, which would prevent any residual hearing loss. It seems similar to the stimulation method that Dr. Carlson used in his initial trial here: https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-022-03271-4

That's right; in all three cases, it was paired with a cochlear implant. The part that seems relevant to our community is this: It seems from this that they had some plan to implant a cochlear implant that only provides extra-cochlear stimulation. I'm curious to see what, if anything, comes of...

I've sent an email to each of the seven authors of this paper to see what progress, if any, has been made since then and if they're planning any further trials. I'll post if/when I receive responses from any of them.

@Hazel, it's remarkable what you and @Markku have done and are doing. Thanks for your tireless work and commitment to this cause and this community.

Because you don't know what's going to happen yet, your mind is fixating on the worst possible outcome. This feeds the spiral of panic and despair, making the experience of the sound even harder and further fueling the cycle. Give yourself space to breathe, and remain open to the possibility of...

→ Non-penetrating round window electrode stimulation for tinnitus therapy followed by cochlear implantation Whatever happened with this? They had a functional device that seemed safe and effective, one that could be implanted with a CI and that worked in a similar way to the device that Dr...

That’s a great question, and one I’ve been grappling with myself. According to the work of Carlson, Djalilian, Olze, and others, this treatment approach appears to be effective—and it’s the one that gives me the most hope for some form of future relief. Interestingly, not everyone with SSNHL...

→ Intratympanic Lidocaine as a Potent Remedy for Tinnitus in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial This research was published this month. What I've read here and elsewhere suggests that tinnitus switches from being ear-centered to brain-centered at some...