My question is about how many americans have 24/7 tinnitus, not including fleeting T, and not including tinnitus that lasts only 5 minutes ( which is intermitent T).These figures are from the American Tinnitus Association ...
20% of the population of the US has tinnitus. That's roughly 60 million Americans.
For 80% of the 60 million (or 48 million) their tinnitus is not bothersome.
Of the 12 million Americans with bothersome tinnitus, 25% (or 3 million Americans) are to some degree or other debilitated by their tinnitus.
Dr. Stephen Nagler
Imo, that number is the number of seriously debilitated people.100,000-200,000 find the Tinnitus bothersome.
My question is about how many americans have 24/7 tinnitus, not including fleeting T, and not including tinnitus that lasts only 5 minutes ( which is intermitent T).
Were those numbers including the only 24/7 kind of T or ALL types of T like fleeting, etc.
My question is about how many americans have 24/7 tinnitus, not including fleeting T, and not including tinnitus that lasts only 5 minutes ( which is intermitent T).
Were those numbers including the only 24/7 kind of T or ALL types of T like fleeting, etc.
Nevertheless, habituated or debilitated 60 million is a HUGE number and what's even more ridiculous is that there is no cure no relief.
Dr Jastreboff, Dr Nagler, and others in their speciality do an invaluable service helping people to cope with what they cannot change.
If you would be willing to pay for my trip to Atlanta and my treatment I assure you I would be there in a flash!
If I could not have afforded it, I would have begged, borrowed, or stolen the money. It was not a matter of luck; it was a matter of priorities.
But why wait another moment...? TRT and Dr. Nagler is right at hand. Why not let the suffering stop once and for all...?
Yes it was all in your reaction, which was obviously spectacular considering the characteristics of your tinnitus.I think it is. Considering I was once nearly bed-ridden and thinking of suicide to now being able to function normally 90% of the time.
Grace, I do not know the answer to that question.
But here's the only important take-away.
There are loads of people (like me) with 24/7 loud screaming truly debilitating tinnitus who have moved from the group of 3 million to the group of 48 million, while their tinnitus itself has not changed in the least.
And if I can do it, anybody can do it. All that is necessary is Strategy, Determination, Flexibility, and Insight. My own strategy was TRT, but that's a highly personal choice. There are lots of ways to get there.
Moreover lest you think that I was an ideal candidate or something like that, here's something you might find to be of interest. Dr. Jastreboff and I have become good friends over the years. We had lunch together a couple of weeks ago, and I asked him if he remembered way back in 1994-5 when I first went to his clinic in Baltimore. He said he absolutely remembered. I was a physician, a surgeon no-less. and after speaking with me for an hour or so, he felt I was the worst possible candidate imaginable for TRT. That's what stuck in his mind.
So whatever the strategy, I am here to tell you that it can be done. It most definitely can be done.
Dr. Stephen Nagler
If someone has tinnitus for only 5 mins a week I don't think they would bother being on this web-board.Chronic Tinnitus is defined as T lasting 5 minutes or more every week.
Would it not be nice to have T that only lasted for 5 minutes a week and then vanished?
Persistent, 24/7 T is a ball-park of it's own.
Chronic Tinnitus is defined as T lasting 5 minutes or more every week.
All there seems to be are estimates @valeriDr Nagler what's the estimate for tinnitus world wide, if you know?
One question which has been puzzling me for a while: we are all agreed that a very large number of people worldwide are affected by T and find their quality of life diminished by it to some degree. Why is it that the companies at the forefront of research into treatment are generally very small companies with no more than 10 or a dozen employees. I recall a post from @attheedgeofscience in which he listed these companies and the numbers employed by each.
Given the size of the potential market for any drug which would help to alleviate T, why do the big drug companies appear to show very little interest in financing research into T?
If 50M Americans really had T that runs 24/7 then this message board would likely be one of the most popular forums in the world.
You can easily poll around your community and ask 1:5 or 1:6 people if they have T. Odds are you'll find maybe 1:50 or 1:100.