I didn't mention the Regain anecdote as a passing wishful thinking comment, there's a specific reason I brought him up again.
The whole point behind this thread was to hypothesize that an acoustic shock causes a physical injury that does not heal naturally and leads to the underlying spectrum of H symptom severity, and no matter how much the hypothetical damage, or inflammation resulting from it calms down and appears to improve over time, in the end H sufferers generally get over confident and get hurt again and again until they learn to be really careful and hold the inflammation down at all costs, because that damage still exists. I suggest to read the whole thread if you haven't, because its very specific in what its about.
I know that lots of H sufferers generally relapse, learn to be careful, or might even be able to start going to clubs again with ear plugs etc. but I seriously doubt they're cured, not with the typical usual line of offerings and suggestions from ENT's like ginko, magnesium, curcumin+pepper, TRT or any of the other drugs they offer like prednisone, lyrica, neurontin, every type of benzo , xanax, etc. Even just silence and rest. I've tried most of these and see regularly others trying all sorts of drugs. They either just didn't work for me (apart from silence and rest, very occasional prednisone when in real pain) or they had some effect but caused other very negative effects. I know some things work for some people at some level though which is good.
The above supplements and drugs are not cures though, they only alleviate symptoms. Regain was a whole different thing, it proposed to regenerate hair cells and, I believe, please correct me otherwise, reconnect synapses of any hair cells that it did regenerate and I know this anecdote gets thrown around a lot it and can get pretty tiring to hear about, but the only time Ive ever heard of a H sufferer being offered something on a whole different level that could potentially cure the actual acoustic shock damage in his ear was in that anecdote. That's why I think its so significant if its true and is why I'd be interested to know what 'level' of cured he considered himself to be, because it would start to throw some weight behind the theory that something gets physically broken during an acoustic shock that needs proper physical repair.
Regain might have failed because it didn't meet its exact endpoints or whatever but that doesn't mean it didn't fix anyone's hearing and if this guy did go back to touring, and I'm not talking about touring whilst being very careful, wearing earplugs, minor setbacks here and there etc. I'm talking about full on sound levels again plus the confidence that Regain worked and that he knows he's fully recovered then that would be a totally different thing to any kind of recovery I've ever experienced or heard about.
Of course you could suffer a brand new acoustic shock, just like you could suffer a brand new broken leg. That's a very difficult distinction to make though between being either a) appearing to be cured or being actually cured but left susceptible to re-injury, and then relapsing, vs. b) genuinely being cured and suffering a completely independent fresh incident of ear damage. I think I'd know the difference between what I've considered cured to date vs what I believe being truly cured would feel like though.
The whole point behind this thread was to hypothesize that an acoustic shock causes a physical injury that does not heal naturally and leads to the underlying spectrum of H symptom severity, and no matter how much the hypothetical damage, or inflammation resulting from it calms down and appears to improve over time, in the end H sufferers generally get over confident and get hurt again and again until they learn to be really careful and hold the inflammation down at all costs, because that damage still exists. I suggest to read the whole thread if you haven't, because its very specific in what its about.
I know that lots of H sufferers generally relapse, learn to be careful, or might even be able to start going to clubs again with ear plugs etc. but I seriously doubt they're cured, not with the typical usual line of offerings and suggestions from ENT's like ginko, magnesium, curcumin+pepper, TRT or any of the other drugs they offer like prednisone, lyrica, neurontin, every type of benzo , xanax, etc. Even just silence and rest. I've tried most of these and see regularly others trying all sorts of drugs. They either just didn't work for me (apart from silence and rest, very occasional prednisone when in real pain) or they had some effect but caused other very negative effects. I know some things work for some people at some level though which is good.
The above supplements and drugs are not cures though, they only alleviate symptoms. Regain was a whole different thing, it proposed to regenerate hair cells and, I believe, please correct me otherwise, reconnect synapses of any hair cells that it did regenerate and I know this anecdote gets thrown around a lot it and can get pretty tiring to hear about, but the only time Ive ever heard of a H sufferer being offered something on a whole different level that could potentially cure the actual acoustic shock damage in his ear was in that anecdote. That's why I think its so significant if its true and is why I'd be interested to know what 'level' of cured he considered himself to be, because it would start to throw some weight behind the theory that something gets physically broken during an acoustic shock that needs proper physical repair.
Regain might have failed because it didn't meet its exact endpoints or whatever but that doesn't mean it didn't fix anyone's hearing and if this guy did go back to touring, and I'm not talking about touring whilst being very careful, wearing earplugs, minor setbacks here and there etc. I'm talking about full on sound levels again plus the confidence that Regain worked and that he knows he's fully recovered then that would be a totally different thing to any kind of recovery I've ever experienced or heard about.
Of course you could suffer a brand new acoustic shock, just like you could suffer a brand new broken leg. That's a very difficult distinction to make though between being either a) appearing to be cured or being actually cured but left susceptible to re-injury, and then relapsing, vs. b) genuinely being cured and suffering a completely independent fresh incident of ear damage. I think I'd know the difference between what I've considered cured to date vs what I believe being truly cured would feel like though.