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I've not purposely mistated anything. I'm only pointing out the tone of your comments which seem to overridingly say "don't come to forums like these, don't ask questions of your peers, don't educate yourself (unless you educate your self through me) , ..." I find the tone of much of what you...

I think introverts are much more likely to join a forum like this, so it won't surprise me if the tally indicates most responders are introverts.

Why concern myself with such stuff??? Because it could be the clue that solves the problem! That is exactly why everyone should be interested in such things. It's talk and conversation. It's how humans learn. Sharing ideas, putting heads together. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but your...

all I absolutely agree with that. To know that you're receiving substandard healthcare, however, you have to educate yourself, and ask a lot of questions (of yourself, of doctors, of friends, neighbors ... and that includes internet neighbors). Unfortunately, there is a bias in the world...

I think that you make a few very big assumptions with that statement: 1) That people who ask questions on web sites blindly follow the advice they get (in other words that they ARE etupid), and 2) that the people who give their solicited advice are stupid (in other words that their advice is...

There just are not many doctors that I have run into (and I have seen over 60 in the past 3.5 years) who listen and do research on a patient's behalf. If they don't know the answer to something within 30 seconds, they are done thinking. And god forbid you try to fully explain what is going...

The idea is just to keep on a downward trend if you want to withdraw from the stuff without side effects or difficulty. There is evidence that every time you return to taking benzos, or increase your dosage significantly for long periods of time, the harder it is to withdraw. I am certain that...

A point well made. However, in light of the study that suggests LLLT can stimulate stem cells, do you think LLLT or Fruit Loops is more worthy of research funds? :rolleyes: mick

Just so I don't create a world of rebels with my comments... There are times where you have to suppress challenges for the greater good of a community. If you 're in the military, which is an organization where the community good almost always take precedence over the individual, I advise...

We are in agreement with respect to our assessment of the probability of LLLT as practiced so far being helpful for tinnitus. I don't want people to accept my assessment without thinking about it on their own, I don't want people with opposing views to mine to not express them because they...

I've thought of a better and shorter way to say what I have been trying to say. "Condemn the fraudsters, not the the technology." I think the number of people who read this thread who are going to be sucked in by LLLT fraud is very, very small at this point. If they are vulnerable to LLLT...

I believe the burden of proof in on the person making the claim. It is very easy to prove that something is not 100% anything. All one has to do is show one exception or one bit of doubt, and that is what I see myself as having done. Its very hard to prove something to a probabilty of 1, and...

You should be able to cut your pills into something smaller than half. I was cutting 0.5 mg pills of Xanax into eighths. And even at that dose (0.0625 mg) I experienced some withdrawal symptoms on stopping. But that was Xanax, not Clonzepam. Fortunately those symptoms only lasted for a couple...

Now I getting this - it is more about Wilden than LLLT. Okay - I get that.

Because I like stirring the pot sometimes .. if an alleged scammer truly believes that what he is providing is helpful, is he/she truly a scammer? To be a scammer, one has to have fraud as an intent. I agree that scammers exploit the lack of facts and uncertainty in the world along with the...

I have not read every post in this thread, so I apologize if this statement has already been made - it is such an obvious assertion that I would not doubt that it has been made. The argument that the proof that LLLT does not work is that a study clearly proving it does work has not been done...

Dr. Nagler, I'm confused by your certainty that LLLT does not help T while you at the same time seem to say nothing is proven until a well designed double blind study proves it. Have I missed something? Is there such a study? Again, my opinion based on what I have read and seen is that LLLT...

While I am not an advocate for LLLT for tinnitus, this provides some support for the concept. There appears to be some evidence that low-power laser light can stimulate stem cells. I have not yet read the journal article listed as a reference for the below article. As I always say, each...

I appreciate the idea of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). As an engineer, I try to practice that in anything I design. Unfortunately, the idea that if LLLT worked, then by now there ought to be at least one reliable and independently verifiable study to support it is not a KISS propopsition. It...

I'm pretty sure the ototoxic label is reserved for medications that can cause permanent hearing loss/damage. The ototoxicity may depend on dosage and duration, however. That is to say, the drug may be labeled as ototoxic in the prescribing info, or in someone's list of ototoxic drugs, but that...

From The Buffalo News The University at Buffalo is participating in a study of an implantable device that helps retrain the part of the brain involved in hearing. Researchers are searching for a new treatment for tinnitus, a condition that causes ringing in the ears. UB is one of four...

From Ivanhoe Medical News (http://ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=33074) Reported April 4, 2014 Stopping Tinnitus in its Tracks--In-Depth Doctor's Interview Dr. Sven Vanneste, Associate Professor at UTD, talks about a new surgery that is stopping tinnitus in its tracks. So, how...

This is an interesting article on depression and antidepressants that I just stumbled upon. It basically challenges the effectiveness of antidepressants and much of the recent theories on depression. For many, tinnitus causes depression which may in fact exacerbate tinnitus. Nothing here that...

@Penelope, my thoughts are simply this: its your body and you know more about what happens within it than anyone else in the world. If you believe that there is a connection between your excessive self pleasuring and your tinnitus, then I believe you. That's not to say that I think that...

Very few medications are harmless. If they were they would not come with the long list of written warnings in the prescribing pamphlets (that's all the information that your doctor should discuss with you but does not). As kevinb points out, you can die from taking aspirin. Taking...

I don't want to upset the applecart for someone if their drug regimen is working for them, but let me throw this bit of information out there. It's not new, and I unfortunately cannot point to a study that backs it up (at least I can't do it without spending the time to find such studies again...

',to I think crowdsourcing is as apt find a solution to tinnitus as medical research. I am 100% for it. It's a bit of a shame that researchers don't tap into crowdsourcing more often. Hopefully they will someday recognize the value of it, and learn to harness it. I know this is a bit...

I'm with you on this RaZaH. I think in general benzos are bad medicine in the sense that most doctors who prescribe them do not know what they are doing. I think the stories in this topic alone make that clear. Benzos have their place, and can be used one's benefit, but the patient needs to...

This use to happen to me all the time when I was a kid, except in my case it was two black shadows standing right next to my bed looking down at me. One was that of a short person, and one was that of a tall person. I couldn't move either, but I think it was more out fear than sleep paralysis...

Welcome! I'm all ears and would love to hear what is really happening in the medical/psychological community re: tinnitus. If you care to give a couple paragraph primer on MBSTR, I'd love to see that as well. Looking forward to your posts. mick

I'd put my money on AM-101. My reasoning is simply that the dexamethasone & lidocaine treatment that Shea does has been around for a long time yet I hear few endorsements of it from doctors or otherwise. That doesn't mean that AM-101 is a slam dunk, but I believe its the odd-on fav when...

The Fisher Wallace tDCS stimulator might be the thing to try. It uses a 15kHz carrier wave (I'm not sure what that means exactly), and it supposedly does penetrate to deeper brain areas via neuronal networks (I read that somewhere but cannot find the reference right now). More info here...

The Godfather: "Leave the gun. Take the canolli." - Clemenza after his henchmen whack Carlo in the car. They had stopped to buy some canolli for desert that night before stopping in the middle of no where and shooting Carlo. Supposedly the "take the canolli" line was not scripted. Its...

I'm a little bit wary of the Shea Clinic treatment, but only for a simple reason: Its been around forever, and few doctors ever mention it. If it were a reliably successful treatment, I'd think doctors would mention it to their patients often. There are some posts on this forum from someone...

JohnG, I don't think it is unreasonable to still be hopeful about recovering some lost hearing after 2 months. Most ENTs say to give it at least 6 months. At this point in time, you don't know if your T is the result of a recent loss of hearing (correct?). You may in fact not have any new...

I think the simple answer to your comment is that people are physically different, and the volume or intensity of T varies from person to person for physical and biological reasons . The phrase "coming to terms" suggest the degree of discomfort or life disruption a person experiences from T is...

The crackling noise is not uncommon with tinnitus onset. It is likely due to swelling/inflamation of the eustachian tube(s), or extra thick mucous present in the tube. The swelling, inflammation, or mucous may be related to the cause of your T, or it can be another reaction to the cause of...

I don't have a definitive answer for you, but my strong suspicion is that your metal clip would not be a problem with VNS. I believe the issue with electro-magnet stimulation is that the metal can either be heated up by current flowing through it, or pulled out of place my magnetic forces...

MeWiseMagic, Since the effectiveness of this treatment is somewhat hit or miss (or at least that's my sense of things after reading much of what is posted here), I was wondering if you might post some info about yourself for those of us who might consider the treatment. My idea is if the...

I think there is no question that T can cause depression and anxiety. Also, there is a belief among mental health professionals that anxiety can cause somatic T. I personally, while not a mental health pro, am not sure that I believe that. There is way to much guessing that goes on where...

Just an opinion from a fellow tinnitus sufferer - I doubt that your T is a symptom of your anxiety. I think anxiety can increase T volume both from a strictly perception viewpoint (i.e., perceived volume increase but no actual increase), and a real volume increase that is physiologically based...

@Per, Just to let you know, while I was at the Mayo Clinic last week I asked if they do high frequency hearing tests above 8000 Hz, and they said they do. They do them routinely for people who are taking ototoxic medications, and would probably do one on request. I did not have one while I...

Per, I think it is a good sign. I wish you many more to come. mick

Actually I find the lower frequency sound harder to mask, though I must admit that there is something about it that makes it so much more annoying so maybe masking just isn't sufficient. I really grates on me. I can't really put my finger on why it is so annoying. The sound became much...

I just had another MRI the day before yesterday. I wore ear plugs and the left one fell out a little. Even with that, the noise was not bad at all. There is a lot of whirring and clicking. Mine was about 25 mins. I just did my best to lay there with my eye closed and think pleasant...

I've had several MRIs. None have ever been loud; there is a lot of noise - mostly clicking - but by no means loud. In most cases I in fact fall asleep while in there. Maybe it depends on the machine.

Tenna, Sorry to hear you're getting the "anxiety/depression causes everything" runaround. I've been through that. If you don't believe your ailments are depression related, and particularly if you think the cause and effect is the reverse (medical problems are actually causing depression)...

I tend to agree that the often accepted relationship between T and hearing loss is not ironclad. I've asked more than one hearing specialist if hearing loss causes T, or if perhaps the T simply masks sounds that appear as hearing lost (the person can't distinguish between the ringing or the...

I certainly hope the stuff you're doing will help, Per. Keep us informed. I'm game for trying anything safe, and the kind of things an osteopath does generally seem safe to me. If you don't mind sharing the kind of insight or corrective actions the somatic T researcher has to offer, I'm sure...

I'm headed to the Mayo Clinic later this month. It is not really for anything T related, but since my doctor mentioned to them that I had tinnitus in his referral info, they have evidently set up a hearing test me. I'll ask if they will do a high freq test. I already had a high frequency...

@ResonanceCEO, Could you elaborate on what "passes through the ear canal" means? I would assume this still means going through the ear drum. Is that correct? mick

The new tinnitus is slightly better today. The low freq sound volume has backed off a little, but still dominates the high frequency old tinnitus. If I had to choose between the really high frequency T and the low freq T, I'd take the high freq stuff any day. The low frequency T is much more...

The hearing loss is better, but the T is awful. The lower frequency sound is now the dominant sound in my right ear and it has reached a maddening level. In fact right now I cannot even hear my regular T in my left ear. I talked to my primary care doc again and he agreed the prednisone would...

Alright, I managed to nail down one of the new frequencies. It is the frequency that is second loudest, and I can only hear it in my right ear, whereas I hear my regular T frequency in both ears. This new sound is considerably lower pitched - around 3200 Hz as opposed to 13400 for my regular T...

The pain is significantly better than yesterday. The T is interesting. I've just been playing around trying to objectively measure it as best as I can with the AudioNotch Tuner. Interestingly, with my headphones on I measure my loudest T frequency at the same frequency and volume as before...

Unfortunately, I just exchanged a e-mail with my primary care doctor, and he is against the idea of using steroids. Not sure what to do now. He said that they in fact my be dangerous for me at the moment because they suppress the immune system.

Thanks for the push Hudson. I called the ENT nurse practitioner that I saw yesterday, and she seemed to think that prednisone was worth a try. I expected some resistance to the idea, but there was none.

I like the prednisone idea @yonkapin, but I will sit on it until Monday (that's what I'm sure my regular doc will say). @LadyDi: I have been taking the Augmenten with food, and it has made me a bit queasy, but nothing too bad. It passes in about 30 minutes or so.

The pain is much better today, but the ringing is worse than ever. My old T was nothing compared to this.