Solsaem Clinic (Dr. Minbo Shim) Experience

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@JohnAdams,

I am curious if you know which antibiotic and what dosage? If I am not mistaken, some antibiotics are known ototoxins; I imagine Shim would be aware of this and purposefully maneuver to avoid potential for ototoxicity?

You have not seen your scars or wounds because they are layered in dressings?

Also, local anesthetic surely was administered to the pelvic extraction site? You had 6 extractions, you had anesthetic that frequently in one area? How many days did you have between each extraction? Did Shim use the same entry hole? I imagine with a syringe like that, the site of entry would be large enough to trace? Though, can you keep extracting from the marrow in the same location that many times? Maybe he had to move the site of entry for this reason?
 
@JohnAdams,

You have experienced fleeting tinnitus for a long time, it becoming shorter is the opposite of what I have experienced with healing. Although, in the very high frequencies, I have noticed some shorter occurrences; fleeting, fleeting tinnitus. I wonder in which register you are experiencing these sensations, and if they correlate to areas effected by damage and/or healing?

Every time I experience fleeting tinnitus, it correlates with a subtly improved perception of audible texture. Since this is obviously entirely subjective, do you notice any such correlation?
 
@JohnAdams,

You have experienced fleeting tinnitus for a long time, it becoming shorter is the opposite of what I have experienced with healing. Although, in the very high frequencies, I have noticed some shorter occurrences; fleeting, fleeting tinnitus. I wonder in which register you are experiencing these sensations, and if they correlate to areas effected by damage and/or healing?

Every time I experience fleeting tinnitus, it correlates with a subtly improved perception of audible texture. Since this is obviously entirely subjective, do you notice any such correlation?
Yes. The fleeting tinnitus pitch is the same or nearly the same as my base tinnitus tones around 6.5 khz.
 
You have not seen your scars or wounds because they are layered in dressings?
No because they are right over my butt and I cant see that part of my body without looking in the mirror, which I havent. My wife took the stitches out for me. There were separate entry holes, because there were 6 stitches. Yes he numbed the extraction site but it still hurt going into the bone. When the procedure was happening I was always laying on my stomach and never saw anything.
 
I doubt PRP for tinnitus or hearing loss ever gets to the FDA clinical trial phase. There would need to be a control group at some point that receives a placebo. Is it really safe to inject someone's eardrum with saline multiple times? Who is going to sign up for that?
For PRP studies, no treatment is a control group. The audiogram is your measure of success. Search PubMed for PRP, it's most popular for osteoarthritis, cartilage damages, tendons and ligaments at the moment.
 
Totally. Well, all my favourite athletes are getting this done to their knees and other bodyparts... why not the ear? There must be some sort of logical reason why not.
 
Is anyone actually doing PRP injections into the ear as a study?
Totally. Well, all my favourite athletes are getting this done to their knees and other bodyparts... why not the ear? There must be some sort of logical reason why not.
The biggest reason is that PRP has the highest rate of success in boosting areas that have a natural response for repair. I.E. our knee cartilage CAN heal (but usually doesn't that well). A torn ligament CAN repair (but usually not very well). I'm not saying it won't repair the ear...just that there is a lot of low hanging fruit for PRP at the moment.
 
The biggest reason is that PRP has the highest rate of success in boosting areas that have a natural response for repair. I.E. our knee cartilage CAN heal (but usually doesn't that well). A torn ligament CAN repair (but usually not very well). I'm not saying it won't repair the ear...just that there is a lot of low hanging fruit for PRP at the moment.
It's also been shown to cure anosmia.
 
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I'll definitely share some of the more important insights. Sorry I can't just post the whole thing.
 
"A neurite or neuronal process refers to any projection from the cell body of a neuron. This projection can be either an axon or a dendrite."

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"The development of a neurite requires a complex interplay of both extracellular and intracellular signals. At every given point along a developing neurite, there are receptors detecting both positive and negative growth cues from every direction in the surrounding space."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurite
 
I'll consider it. I just took a picture and they aren't even totally healed up yet. May I ask why you are so interested?

Because there are many of us here considering PRP, and I would like to know as thoroughly as possible what we would be getting in to; this includes the wounds and potentially permanent scarring.

Did you by chance inquire to Shim about the blood drawn platelets? You said that he took a lot of blood, did he combine platelets extracted from the blood with the platelets retrieved from the marrow? Is it simply that the marrow platelets are somehow more potent than the blood derived platelets and have more likeliness of efficacy?
 
@JohnAdams,

Maybe you would consider getting your wife to take a picture of your puncture wounds and then upload it?
Let me try to answer this without pictures of anyone's ass. I'm an operating room nurse. I've participated in hundreds of iliac crest bone marrow aspirations. We do ours with a Jamshidi needle. It's a large hollow needle that's driven into the bone. Google it, there will be plenty of pictures. Once placed the stylet is removed and a syringe is used to aspirate the marrow. There are no large incisions. It's basically a puncture wound. John probably had a single nylon stitch to close each one. These are no significant scars. There is an infection risk as there is with all invasive procedures. There will be discomfort afterward.
 
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