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    Parasym — tVNS Device

    It spiked mine, too, at first, but then it settled down and by the time I finished the 90 days of treatment it was an overall dramatic reduction of tinnitus symptoms for me.
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    Parasym — tVNS Device

    The Parasym treatment that I did included their accompanying sound file. I believe that Parasym states that both the vagus nerve stimulation and the sound therapy are required for effective treatment.
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    Parasym — tVNS Device

    I'm in the U.S., so I couldn't buy the Parasym device directly but I had an acquaintance in Australia buy it and hand it off to a family member who was vacationing in Australia at the time. I did a three month course of treatment from about December 1 to the end of February and I believe it...
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    Notched Music Therapy (DIY, AudioNotch, etc.)

    An audiologist told me recently that people with single tone tinnitus are always deaf at their specific frequency. Accordingly, one can only determine their frequency by elimination (i.e., approaching the frequency from both above and below and determining the frequency by the absence of hearing...
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    Notched Music Therapy (DIY, AudioNotch, etc.)

    I've been attempting to find my frequency and I'm stumbling over one huge hurdle: My frequency seems to be way higher than the frequency above which I can no longer hear. I can hear frequencies up to about 11kHz but very little at frequencies above that. If I crank the volume, I can discern...
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    Glutathione

    Update: I had my third Glutathione IV treatment a few days after the above posting. 1200 mg. No change detected.
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    Reporting back, I can say that other than brief reduction of tinnitus volume during most of the hyperbaric treatments, I've not experienced any relief from the HBOT. It's possible that post-HBOT healing will continue and I'll see a reduction in symptoms over the new few months, I don't know...
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    Glutathione

    I've had two Glutathione IV's in an attempt to reduce my tinnitus, with no effect thus far. The first was 600 mg and the second, four days later, was 1200 mg. I'll probably have a third one this week. I have friends who had Glutathione therapy for neuropathy and they report that it took a few...
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    The only change I've found thus far is the perception that the T is lessened during the HBOT, as I described in more detail a couple of posts earlier in this thread. Right now, my ears are a little congested from the daily dives. I'm looking forward to being finished with the HBOT tomorrow so...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Following up on my previous post... My physician agreed to begin a glutathione IV regimen today. I'll give it a few sessions and report further details. Anecdotally, there are two disparate opinions on glutathione versus NAC. The neurologist I mentioned in the previous post uses glutathione IV...
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    I just finished a 10-day regimen of prednisone yesterday. Unfortunately, it was begun 11 days after exposure. I know that some treatment protocols are based upon the belief that after seven days, steroid treatment has little chance of success. As it turns out, the prednisone and the HBOT were...
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    Six days later... I have now had eight HBOT sessions, as described in my previous post. The closest can come to saying that they're helping is that I think they may be making the tinnitus sound more quiet, but primarily during the session. The pattern seems to be that the T is less noticeable...
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    First Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Tinnitus

    I understand the need for clinical guidelines to be written conservatively to ensure that their recommendations are firmly based in sound science, but it's an unfortunate reality that the elapsed time from research to clinical practice is typically 20 years or more, no matter the medical...
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    How Many "CURES" Have You Tried?

    My T is just over two weeks old. I am currently trying: A variety of supplements (NAC, glutathione, green tea, omega-3 fish oil, CoQ10, benfontiamine, turmeric, sulforaphane, B12, etc.) Prednisone from my ENT HBOT (thus far, five 90-minute dives to 2 ATM on 100% O2) Acupuncture Thus far, I...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Since NAC is a precursor to glutathione, would there be any benefit to taking glutathione instead? It's possible that some of the complications with NAC are as a result of poor conversion to glutathione. This would be similar to folic acid building up to harmful levels in people who have the...
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    This is my first post, so please bear with me. It's a bit lengthy. (And, first, a thank you to all of you who have posted about your experience with HBOT. It's been a help to me in choosing a course of action.) In summary, I suffered T on 10/30/2014, after an acute acoustic trauma and began...