Oh look, another angry rant by me. Maybe you all are annoyed by them and want me to stop being so negative. Well, when the attitude of tinnitus sufferers and the medical/scientific community changes, then I too will change in affect.
Right now, there is a culture of acceptance going around. This idea that "we can't do anything so come to terms with it and live a good life with it there and no effort to try and rectify the problem". I'm honestly at the point where I would rather live in sheer misery everyday (I already do over different issues) than "accept" or "surrender" to this goddamn ringing. The brain is not doing you any favors by generating the noise. One paper I read suggested it is the brain trying to stop the loss of grey matter in the auditory cortex to apoptosis (cell death). Since these neurons are useless in the event of hearing loss, they should be allowed to die, your auditory cortex less functional, and your hearing ability forever impaired.
If anything, this shows how your brain is ruining your life to save one small cluster of cells at the expense of shrinking other, more critical areas of thinking. And no doctors care. PCPs/GPs do not care, nor do ENTs, audiologists, psychiatrists, therapists, neurologists, dentists, etc. These are all people who seek nothing more than to profit off your pain. Don't believe me? Then why is an intake session (which means they establish to basics of your tinnitus but can't gaurentee spotting cause and no purposed treatment) $300-500? Why are doctors so quick to prescribe a $3000 pair of hearing aids that will come out of pocket and barely improve quality of life?
I'm honestly getting to the point of taking raw electrically charged wires, not electrodes, and applying them to the area of my skull associated with the auditory cortex. Maybe the zapping will destroy neurons the brain needs and hopefully cannot repair or replace so the noise is lose forever. I go off high alert, my defenses go down, and in the event of an attack I am less prepared and more likely to die. Does this sound insane? Maybe, but so is that idea that brain areas related to judgment, emotional processing, tonotopical processing, and memory are compromised for one goddamn sound.
I may have the cure for cancer buried in my brain, but I would rather die prematurely and deprive thousands of people of that cure. I personally would like to induce tinnitus in various doctors and researchers, then when they complain tell them to get over themselves, throw a bottle of SSRIs at them, or a $3000 pair of hearing aids that will improve life quality by 5-10%.
Tinnitus destroys the brain, research has shown this. And NO, it does NOT show what MAY happen in tinnitus patients, is shows what IS happening in tinnitus patients. There may be variability in hyperactive parts of the brain, but until we are willing to take a pillow and smother those hyperactive areas until they either cool down and choose to give up any compensatory functions or simply die because they aren't being used. I don't care anymore.
Right now, there is a culture of acceptance going around. This idea that "we can't do anything so come to terms with it and live a good life with it there and no effort to try and rectify the problem". I'm honestly at the point where I would rather live in sheer misery everyday (I already do over different issues) than "accept" or "surrender" to this goddamn ringing. The brain is not doing you any favors by generating the noise. One paper I read suggested it is the brain trying to stop the loss of grey matter in the auditory cortex to apoptosis (cell death). Since these neurons are useless in the event of hearing loss, they should be allowed to die, your auditory cortex less functional, and your hearing ability forever impaired.
If anything, this shows how your brain is ruining your life to save one small cluster of cells at the expense of shrinking other, more critical areas of thinking. And no doctors care. PCPs/GPs do not care, nor do ENTs, audiologists, psychiatrists, therapists, neurologists, dentists, etc. These are all people who seek nothing more than to profit off your pain. Don't believe me? Then why is an intake session (which means they establish to basics of your tinnitus but can't gaurentee spotting cause and no purposed treatment) $300-500? Why are doctors so quick to prescribe a $3000 pair of hearing aids that will come out of pocket and barely improve quality of life?
I'm honestly getting to the point of taking raw electrically charged wires, not electrodes, and applying them to the area of my skull associated with the auditory cortex. Maybe the zapping will destroy neurons the brain needs and hopefully cannot repair or replace so the noise is lose forever. I go off high alert, my defenses go down, and in the event of an attack I am less prepared and more likely to die. Does this sound insane? Maybe, but so is that idea that brain areas related to judgment, emotional processing, tonotopical processing, and memory are compromised for one goddamn sound.
I may have the cure for cancer buried in my brain, but I would rather die prematurely and deprive thousands of people of that cure. I personally would like to induce tinnitus in various doctors and researchers, then when they complain tell them to get over themselves, throw a bottle of SSRIs at them, or a $3000 pair of hearing aids that will improve life quality by 5-10%.
Tinnitus destroys the brain, research has shown this. And NO, it does NOT show what MAY happen in tinnitus patients, is shows what IS happening in tinnitus patients. There may be variability in hyperactive parts of the brain, but until we are willing to take a pillow and smother those hyperactive areas until they either cool down and choose to give up any compensatory functions or simply die because they aren't being used. I don't care anymore.
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