None yet but 1 mg 3x a day if I want. I guess I'll start at 0.5 mg once a day and keep increasing until I get a positive response or it sucks too bad.
Back to my original question, can I do 0.5 3x a day for a week as a trial run to see what it does for me, then stop without a taper and clean up so that the NIH can get a clean apples to apples comparison as to how whatever happened to me affects people over time?
My condition is currently severe enough that it doesn't make life worth it for its own sake about 80% of the time. The only reason that I bother staying on this plain of existence with this ridiculous condition is for my family. It's the loudest thing I hear 99% of the time, never gets masked, fluctuating endless cascades of various piercing shrieks and squeals, and I don't know all the sounds I try not to focus my attention to it... and then there are rare hours when it is loud, still unmaskable, but a steady sound which I could get accustomed to, but that is what passes for a rare good hour or two. I've been on this ride for more than 3 years so it's not going to get better. If it got "worse," whatever that means, I'd still stay around for my family. I don't mind pain, I'm not afraid of it, it is like my shadow, a part of me that I can never leave behind.
So my attitude after trying everything else, having been clinically certified as not depressed, not anxious, not stressed, not suffering from any mental illness aside from bearing endless experience of pain, why not try this to see if it lightens my load?
Again my doctor didn't think it would be too hard to taper if I want to.
I know that I am the aberrant one on Tinnitus Talk, but I don't do fear, it's not in my psychological makeup. My stress/fear response got all burned to the ground working for years in war zones and more years running international disaster response operations. I should have already been dead a dozen times over, bullets have missed me, bombs hit the next building over, the mobs weren't quite able chop me with their machetes, I survived all through some bravery and luck; I am living on bonus time now. So could it get worse? Hard to imagine, but if it did it all that would happen is that I'd adjust my maximal threshold for pain. In either case my pain dial can only of up to 10 (all apologies to spinal tap), no matter what that 10 might be.