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Bam said:
I went for a hearing test today and I asked the audiologist who was wearing a hearing aid if he has T. 'No,' he replied. 'Very few people in my experience do.'

Really?!? I said, somewhat f***ing surprised by this revelation.

...... 'Yes,' said Mike, cheerily, ' only about 5% of the people with hearing loss we see have any tinnitus.'

WTF?!!
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So Why Us ???
 
#5,432
Hazel said:
We are all pro-cure here too, including those of us who see merit in management strategies like CBT and mindfulness - I'm one of those, as it has helped me personally and many others too. I find the division of the community into different "camps" a bit tiresome. Sure, there are different perspectives, but not so radically different that there's not enough common ground. We all want a cure. Sadly, when real opportunities to contribute to a cure present themselves (such as the Danny Boy fund), it's only a minority that jump on board :(



In my experience this is not much different from the tinnitus community either. Again, those of us who see merit in management strategies only see them as valuable in so far as they help to tide us over until we have a cure. Similarly, the tinnitus researchers that I spoke to at the BTA Conference who focus on management view this as an "interim" strategy only.



I don't believe there has been any censorship on this forum wrt to openly discussing 'dark' topics (or are you referring to other places outside this forum?). MPP is actually a prime example of that. I believe @Markku 's comment above makes that clear - he's the founder and key moderator after all.
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Very good to know that there is virtually freedom of speech Hazel - other than on matters of etiquette, of course, which I quite understand.
Suffering as we obviously do, it's not surprising that we can be a pretty fraught bunch.
(......er.....I've been quite a good boy lately...) x
 
#5,434
Markku said:
Here's more about his research that this fundraiser is trying to cover:

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/posts/375987/

And you can donate here:

https://www.givecampus.com/schools/GeorgetownUniversity/support-tinnitus-research
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Georgetown University is a Jesuit administered school. Just imagine how much the Jesuits could donate if they would just behave themselves.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42271040/...its-settle-northwest-sex-abuse-cases-million/
Their goal is only $50,000. They could have funded this 3320 times over.
$166 million. FLUSH. welcome to earth. Please feel free to delete this post if it is inappropriate. I just felt the need to point this out.
 
#5,435
Jazzer said:
Very good to know that there is virtually freedom of speech Hazel - other than on matters of etiquette, of course, which I quite understand.
Suffering as we obviously do, it's not surprising that we can be a pretty fraught bunch.
(......er.....I've been quite a good boy lately...) x
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Jazzer, who said you could come out of the naughty corner?
 
#5,437
Jazzer said:
So Why Us ???
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We are uniquely cursed it seems. I have no reason to mistrust this guy so how the merry fuck can 20% of the entire population have it?......Tinnitus is like the Wild West and I'm afraid we're just bhison roaming around, lost as shit and being targeted by every cowboy, prospector and gun slinger out there.
 
#5,439
JohnAdams said:
Georgetown University is a Jesuit administered school. Just imagine how much the Jesuits could donate if they would just behave themselves.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42271040/...its-settle-northwest-sex-abuse-cases-million/
Their goal is only $50,000. They could have funded this 3320 times over.
$166 million. FLUSH. welcome to earth. Please feel free to delete this post if it is inappropriate. I just felt the need to point this out.
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I donated to Michigan a while back and then recently received an email saying they were the first public university to raise '5 billion'.

I promptly responded asking for my £50 back and for Susan Shore to hurry the f*** up and stop dicking us all around.
 
#5,440
MPP is poppin' today! So much activity from different users.

@Bam you gotta get a picture my friend! Preferably one with you and the Cat Ears!:p
 
#5,441
Okay, I know a good treatment. Take bear mace and stick it down your pants and let it rip on your junk. I think that the pain signals from the sensitive epithelial cells down there will override the perception of tinnitus in some cases.
 
#5,443
Hazel said:
We are all pro-cure here too, including those of us who see merit in management strategies like CBT and mindfulness - I'm one of those, as it has helped me personally and many others too. I find the division of the community into different "camps" a bit tiresome.
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I think many people here (including myself) value CBT and mindfulness as possible helpful strategies, if tinnitus is not too severe for that. And the definition of severity in this regard will vary person by person.

It's the continuous funding and "stringing along" of TRT and CBT management strategies; and their presentation as a fully satisfactory cure that I and others are so vehemently against. It's a whole paradigm.

I think we're basically on the same page.
 
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