I am confident based on many experiment with cochlear implants that atleast some people and most likely the majority will get reduction of tinnitus from hair cell regeneration. There probably will be few exceptions though.
Well I have a hypothesis that fixing the actual anomalous areas of the brain will not just fix tinnitus but the other symptoms like Visual Snow and depersionalization. For instance, one of the biggest areas involved in VS is tihe Thalamus. Overactivity in the Thalamus can lead to VS. In tinnitus, one of the big areas is the Subthalamic Nucleus, that leaks into the thalamus. So correcting hyperactivity in the DCN and Subthalamic Nucleus will most likely reduce/eliminate tinnitus, visual snow, and other related issues with the brain.
This is correct. But signals still come out of the DCN. By reducing those signals the tinnitus still reduces. I haven't done too much research on brain centralization but I have to wonder what the relationship between fixing the DCN and reducing tinnitus is. Even long after centralization, why does reducing DCN activity reduce tinnitus if they're seemingly no longer related?
I think you can do something about floaters right now if you wanted. I forget the name but there's a surgery that drains the eye fluid and replaces it with transparent fluid. It gets rid of floaters but has some side effects.
that would make floaters a physical problem, not a neurological one.
Yeah me too. I have two black floaters I see rarely but for me it's the very faint visual field of static that sucks. The rare moments I dont have tinnitus the field goes as well.
That's really interesting. This helps establish the case for there being a link. I'm 95% sure there is, but for some reason the medical community seems to not care about researching this.
Yeah. I read somewhere that 61% of tinnitus sufferers have VS.
You're right it probably is. At least it can be treated with current technology but it still sucks.
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