Yeah I wouldn't take it! - if you read however they can place it to get the exact frequencies that are lost. So not only help deafness, but totally clean up any frequency loss. Hope they speed this one up. By all means buy some and test out on some mice mind...
The acoustic trauma WAS fresh but it completely destroyed the hair cells. It regrew. So its not focused on say, nerve regeneration where they can reform incorrectly over months of sound deprivation - so the fact it was new, I would say in this case doesn't matter. Hair gone. Hair regrows, being the key focus. Which is already a miracle. Its not for quick tinnitus / noise damage prevention ( I hate those where they have this wonder drug but you need to take in 48 hours from noise damage - as if that will help anyone)
Certainly maybe quicker than stem cell work... I will try and contact the guy and get an update. But it is exciting, more so for the totally deaf out there.
But was just an FYI given the drug is available for any Scientists or people that know their chemistry. Its pretty exciting. Ok 10 years... but ive had mine over 10 years and recently added another +10 decibels to an already horrific noise level of right ear T. As our hearing gets worse with age (im 36) so will the T... so if this works, and can stop my T from getting worse with further frequency loss with aging, great. As I can not mask my tinnitus, its there even by a motorway, loud tube train, like many of you im sure. Its not the "only in a quiet room" one. I wish it was. I dread to think of the noise when im 56 or 66....
I warn everyone with Tinnitus - NEVER let the dentist use the high frequency cleaning tool. Sound goes through the bone right to cochlear - it must have wiped out all the half hairs I had left in there. I now have a dentist drill noise on top of a 5000 hertz multi tone, multi changing, nasty nasty ****er
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that paper was the best thing this year.
