@Tenna,
I just recently had a Skype session with a Swedish T center that focused only on the somatic aspect of the condition, before the first therapy session and assessment I had to fill out a quite vast form were the aim was to define my T condition as somatic T or anything else. Cause what is somatic T really? You'll find different views on this all over the place I guess. However, after I had filled in the form quests and returned it back to them they came back to me with a session data on Skype. We discussed many aspects of T of course and in context of my own somatic T she wanted me to preform some tasks until the next session in January, one of the tasks was to write myself an honest letter about my life and what it contains. My challenges, toughs about the future etc. The T therapy was more about ME trying to explore deep stuff from the past and try to manage them. Well, my next somatic T therapy sessions by Skype is going to be mid January 2014, so I guess I will know more about that then.
I've been to to different hearings labs and my hearings is good, no severe hearing loss at all, I do however have a bad case of H that Im trying to battle as we speak. The white-noise generator that I picked up last Thursday lasted for ONE day before it broke down, so no I'm forced to wait for another series of months to receive a new calibrated set. I was actually learning to like it.
Well, when it comes to "somatic T" we are moving into a landscape where no ENT or GP would follow us, so I guess were quite alone as patients in that case, however there are some bright minds working strategically to develop treatment concept for those of us who think we have somatic T. I'm for one refuse to accept that T is T, thats been categories as bull a long time ago now so we must find a treatment method that caters for each and individually T type and character. If mental stress or trauma is the cause of the T then it must be treated differently than with acoustics shock T. It's amazing medical people don't get this and are treating this thing as ONE condition with no variation in T character and types.
If stress and constant mental pressure has created severe T&H then it should be a fair chance of it going away as well! Meaning, taking the same route out as it came in. Some mean it's all about somatic re-training and mental relaxation strategies. I had a chat with a very informative former T sufferer in London about this and he had severe somatic T for 4 years and changing T for an additional amount of years, I think it was 9 in all. He managed trough knowledge and training to take control over his T and now hes totally free from it. ALL ENTs said he would have it for life. Well, sod off to them. What worries me is that some people on the forum have been stating they have somatic T but for ages! Like 23 years. That scares me. Are they over stressed and struck by severe mental trauma year in and year out without the ability to get well?
One things for sure tough, theres no difference in T volume with somatic T versus acoustic shock T. I got mine acute and loud the 17th of June 2013 and it hasn't stopped or mellowed down for a single second! I'm supposed to be in the middle of the habituating period now but nothings happening, the T is raving mad loud all the time. If taking 100 Valium and 200 Xanax will shock my limbic system back to normal status I'm willing to give it a go. If its a matter of hyperactive electrical activity in the audio cortex, some chemist should cook a medication that could slow that wild nerve activity down once and for all! When I press my cheek out, open my mouth, bite, and do different facial expressions with the facial muscles the T changes volume and pitch. So theres is obviously something going on in context of nerves, tension and muscle activity. Some people that leans towards somatic T as a plausible cause of T&H say that the high pitched T is the sound of tensions in the face, neck, back, head etc.
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