Solsaem Clinic (Dr. Minbo Shim) Experience

[Daniel Lion]

I did get a 4 mg dosepac refilled today (21 tablets).

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Am I wrong, but 4 mg sounds really wimpy.

I've been trying to dig up more local info about Dr. Mimbo Shim 심민보 (always reminds me of mumbo jumbo) and the clinic 솔샘이비인후과. He's been pretty active on Naver.

(Use Google Chrome to translate).

He's written 140 blog posts here which are pretty brief.

He's answered 630 help question here.

Then in another blog with 86 more detailed posts here with plenty of audiograms and the last was written today so it's current.

I've actually read a lot of interesting and informative stuff after going through all this and it has helped me understand him a bit better.

My biggest question so far is what the heck is Ant Study Academy on top of his clinic and do they really just study ants?

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Koreans, Taiwanese and Japanese will have their kids study after school into the early evening. It's normal, weekends too. Probably an after school study center.

 

[Daniel Lion]

I've been trying to dig up more local info about Dr. Mimbo Shim 심민보 (always reminds me of mumbo jumbo) and the clinic 솔샘이비인후과. He's been pretty active on Naver.

(Use Google Chrome to translate).

He's written 140 blog posts here which are pretty brief.

He's answered 630 help question here.

Then in another blog with 86 more detailed posts here with plenty of audiograms and the last was written today so it's current.

I've actually read a lot of interesting and informative stuff after going through all this and it has helped me understand him a bit better.

My biggest question so far is what the heck is Ant Study Academy on top of his clinic and do they really just study ants?

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What did you understand better?

What was your impression of the audiograms, before and after?

 

[Ray552]

Found this video. It's recent. I'm assuming he's talking about PRP in it.

 

[just1morething]

Am I wrong, but 4 mg sounds really wimpy.

I think it's the lowest tapered dose pack. My gosh my static in my head is terrible today. Maybe I will try sleeping without a pillow or try gabapentin/clonazepam combo. I need some relief! I wonder if it could be neck muscle related? Or ETD?

@Daniel Lion, do you have wings? I thought you could personally fly some clonazepam over to me and avoid customs? I have trouble getting it from Dr.'s over here.

 

[Flamingo1]

Sadly, I think it's pretty obvious he killed himself. He was very active on here and in a lot of pain because of noxacusis. Then, poof, he is gone.

That's a pretty grim statement.

 

[grate_biff]

That's a pretty grim statement.

It´s pretty realistic. He would never just leave the forum. He also attempted suicide some time before he disappeared. As I remember it he was saved by some "divine intervention" by someone who could sense what he was about to do.

As I said, he was very active and very much in pain. You got something better?

 

[Adrian 34]

It´s pretty realistic. He would never just leave the forum. He also attempted suicide some time before he disappeared. As I remember it he was saved by some "divine intervention" by someone who could sense what he was about to do.

As I said, he was very active and very much in pain. You got something better?

@bill 112 (I know him, his real name is Stephen King, lives in Ireland) is still alive and active on Facebook.

He updated not long ago that his tinnitus and hyperacusis are much better. He has a baby with his new fiancée too.

@Flamingo1 @grate_biff

 

[grate_biff]

@bill 112 (I know him, his real name is Stephen King, lives in Ireland) is still alive and active on Facebook.

He updated not long ago that his tinnitus and hyperacusis are much better. He has a baby with his new fiancée too.

@Flamingo1 @grate_biff

That is very good news. Very strange of him to just leave this forum with everything that went on with him.

Guess I´ll have to be more careful about my assumptions then.

Please tell him to come on here and tell us how he got better as I struggle very similar symptoms as him.
I would also like to know why he suddenly left this forum almost two years ago.

 

[Elliott.S]

It´s pretty realistic. He would never just leave the forum. He also attempted suicide some time before he disappeared. As I remember it he was saved by some "divine intervention" by someone who could sense what he was about to do.

As I said, he was very active and very much in pain. You got something better?

I don't know the guy, but I have something better: he is doing better, he reached for some help and got some decent help.

 

[grate_biff]

he reached for some help and got some decent help.

Do you know what kind of help?

Did he visit Dr. Shim?

 

[Elliott.S]

Do you know what kind of help?

Did he visit Dr. Shim?

I have no idea.

I'm just assuming not every person commits suicide when facing tremendous issues and that good stuff can also happen.

Thing is: good stuff did happen. End of the story.

 

[lucy_snow]

I've been trying to dig up more local info about Dr. Mimbo Shim 심민보 (always reminds me of mumbo jumbo) and the clinic 솔샘이비인후과. He's been pretty active on Naver.

(Use Google Chrome to translate).

He's written 140 blog posts here which are pretty brief.

He's answered 630 help question here.

Then in another blog with 86 more detailed posts here with plenty of audiograms and the last was written today so it's current.

I've actually read a lot of interesting and informative stuff after going through all this and it has helped me understand him a bit better.

My biggest question so far is what the heck is Ant Study Academy on top of his clinic and do they really just study ants?

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And what do you think about Dr. Minbo Shim now? After all your findings.

 

[Arseny]

It´s pretty realistic. He would never just leave the forum. He also attempted suicide some time before he disappeared. As I remember it he was saved by some "divine intervention" by someone who could sense what he was about to do.

As I said, he was very active and very much in pain. You got something better?

He said to me that he was struggling with job opportunities in USA and was planning on going to Europe.

It's possible that he just moved or has other stuff going on.

 

[grate_biff]

I have no idea.

I'm just assuming not every person commits suicide when facing tremendous issues and that good stuff can also happen.

Thing is: good stuff did happen. End of the story.

Sorry. I´m finding it hard to.

You join a forum.
Tell everybody how bad you feel.
Looking for support.
Admits attempted suicide.
Then you find a way to get better.
Don´t bother telling.
Leave the forum.

To add, this is part of his last post:

I'm just too depressed to do anything, I've just given up on myself and I think this is the reason she wants to leave, that I've just given up on life.

I´m sure I´m not the only one who thought he offed himself. Glad he didn´t. Not happy he didn´t bother to let us know how/that he got better!

 

[just1morething]

I still think it is very odd Dr. Shim didn't attend the recent TRI meeting with his supposedly breakthrough hearing loss/tinnitus treatments when it was so close to him.

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...nbo-shim-experience.33543/page-42#post-440991

 

[Elliott.S]

Then you find a way to get better.
Don´t bother telling.
Leave the forum.

Well unfortunately, I guess it's a very human reaction. People need help when they're down, but as soon as they're back up, they're gone.

This is part of why the Internet is full of sad stories. People express themselves when something's going wrong, they hardly do when everything's fine.

That's not something we should judge though, I believe everyone's dealing with their sh** the best they can.

 

[grate_biff]

Well unfortunately, I guess it's a very human reaction. People need help when they're down, but as soon as they're back up, they're gone.

This is part of why the Internet is full of sad stories. People express themselves when something's going wrong, they hardly do when everything's fine.

That's not something we should judge though, I believe everyone's dealing with their sh** the best they can.

Everything you say is true...

But I hear he is active on Facebook?

I don´t know. It just seems strange to me, and I know if I was to better my condition, I would feel extremely anxious to tell about it. I would probably never stop either, as I know how a terrible condition tinnitus and hyperacusis is, and I would try my best to try and inform/help others.

I feel like I owe this forum a lot, especially to be up to date on research and not to feel so alone with this shit.

 

[GlennAz]

My biggest question so far is what the heck is Ant Study Academy on top of his clinic and do they really just study ants?

Any study??? That's a very good question.

When my better half and I were at Dr Shim's, for the first two weeks of April, there was no sign that said Ant Study Academy. Neither one of us saw one. I remember looking up and down the streets for stores in English. No English in Dr Shim's area. Maybe an exception was the McDonald's, but the menu was in Korean.

Yes, Daniel is accurate. Children in Korean get long days of schooling. We have American friends there that have a 3 year old daughter. After school, then she's in cooking class (man, I hope the teachers watch her close).

 

[just1morething]

My gosh my static in my head is terrible today.

I seem really quiet now. I took diazepam plus gabapentin. I even rode one of my quiet motorcycles with no change in tinnitus. Sometimes I think it is partly related to stress. But I usually wake up very loud and that can be quite disturbing and debilitating.

I found one hearing aid in the trash. I might upgrade to the Clara model by Audicus. They seem nice to deal with. I like having a remote control for the programs and the volume.

 

[another sean]

Found this video. It's recent. I'm assuming he's talking about PRP in it.

You can turn on Auto Generated Korean subtitles and then you turn on Auto Translate into English. It will help a lot to get the gist of what he's saying.

 

[just1morething]

You can turn on Auto Generated Korean subtitles and then you turn on Auto Translate into English. It will help a lot to get the gist of what he's saying.

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Can you just print it out for us in English? Is it this video? I can't seem to change the subtitles to English. Okay I figured it out.

 

[john paul]

I still can't believe anyone is taking this man or this thread seriously.

Funniest thread ever.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Can you just print it out for us in English? Is it this video? I can't seem to change the subtitles to English. Okay I figured it out.

I just watched and read, can't really pause on my kid's tablet, so watched a few times...

I didn't really gleam anything from this... did you?

 

[just1morething]

I didn't really gleam anything from this... did you?

Not really.

 

[another sean]

And what do you think about Dr. Minbo Shim now? After all your findings.

What did you understand better?

What was your impression of the audiograms, before and after?

My impression of him is positive. I dont sense he is scamming people. My impression of him is that he is genuinely trying to help people and to cure tinnitus. It's what I see in his online activity and coincides with both members here experience with him. He's taken a proven regenerative protocol, PRP, which you can find in numerous papers and is already used around the world in sports medicine successfully, and applying it locally to human ears.

He's not perfect though, but nit picking at everything including his personality would be disservice to the good he is doing in my mind.

There was the mentioning of the 2014 study he did which to my knowledge he has not released. When I put that together with the post by @Ed209 showing that he admitted that his treatment wasn't providing significant improvement, to me doesn't mean he failed as @Ed209 described, it means he had mild success and realized that increasing the duration of treatment would give better results. "No significant improvement" doesn't mean no improvement. I have no problem with that.

But perhaps why he didn't release the 2014 study was because he was using the shorter protocol and the results weren't impressive or as great as they are now with the longer treatment period so I can understand why someone wouldn't want to release unimpressive results. I get that.

What people fail to realize is the word 'practice' in medical practice. Doctors practice medicine. They are not perfect and that includes Dr. Minbo Shim. So I don't mind if he has to alter his treatment to improve upon it. That's what someone trying to perfect something does. A scammer wouldn't care. A scammer wouldn't admit to anything bad at all. Nada. Zero. It would be roses and daisies. But Dr. Minbo Shim does caution people who are not good candidates. And that's one thing I found about him, he's upfront with a lot of stuff that he could have omitted.

And here were have 2 members of this board who have gone to see him. @JohnAdams has had great success with it, so much so that he went back a second time fix another acoustic trauma. Like what more do you need? And @GlennAz, he hasn't had the same success as @JohnAdams but he also was not a good candidate for it to begin with, nevertheless, he is sensing some changes, albeit small ones. But again, he was never a good candidate to begin with so that seems to be expected.

I followed members of this board closely who went to StemCell21 and I am comparing that treatment to this and I find this one much more appealing. One major reason is safety. The cause of cancer/tumors is, from my understanding, eliminated or negligible. Also, I knew years ago that localized injections were more effective than IV based ones from a report from another members StemCell21 experience. So Dr. Minbo Shim is offering a safer, cheaper effective, localized protocol which to me is great. StemCell21 is over $30,000+.

Now it would be "nice" if @JohnAdams could ask Dr. Minbo Shim to speak to us about his protocol but if he can't, I don't see that as enough reason to vilify him. Maybe he's busy? Maybe he sees us as a bunch of crazy ass Westerners after reading through this thread ready to crucify him because we're crazy? On top of that, I would ask myself, what would my ENT do? He wouldn't do shit and Dr. Minbo Shim doesn't have to either. But it would be "nice". Hell, it would be nice if Dr. Minbo Shim got on a plane and came to my house and did the PRP treatment while I played Grand Theft Auto.

I get it. People want Minbo Shim to come on here to be sold that it works, and in a way entertained. I know I would. Heck, I wish @JohnAdams would vlog during his entire Korea trip and PRP sessions and become a YouTube sensation. But instead we are left with boring NCBI papers and other clinical trials indicating PRP can regenerate hearing and two US members overall positive experience indicating that this is a working treatment in varying degrees. If there are side effects or if a doctor can come here and explain to us why this protocol makes no sense at all, that would be great. My point is there is data elsewhere without the need to grill him here on Tinnitus Talk. If he doesn't want to divulge the finer details of his protocol, that's OK. Most doctors wouldn't. He took the risk and spent the time figuring this out. That's his secret sauce. Literally. He wants to profit from it and that's a pretty normal behavior. He isn't Mother Theresa but he's sure as hell doing more than most. And profiting from it doesn't mean his treatment doesn't work. And guarding the finer details of his treatment shows even more so, to me anyways, that it actually does work and why he's guarding some of it. And why would he get a patent if it didn't work? Scammers don't need no patent, homie. Again, the papers showing PRP's effectiveness is enough for me. I don't need to know how to make Minbo Shim Fancy Sauce. I just want to know that it works and its complications, and so far it has for @JohnAdams and both members had zero complications. Like what else do people want to know? It worked. The younger you are, the better it will work. Minbo Shim has made that very clear. That's it. Otherwise wait and see how Frequency Therapeutics turns out.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Not really.

Actually upon more objective reflection, the translation was awful. He talked about the applications and protocol and importance of timing and locations. The translation was awful.

I would prefer, for myself, a random tidbit that's more scientific and makes more specific and direct statements about the theory and application. JohnAdams is gifted at explaining the science and theory, Shim is not. Could be language, could be many things. I did glean, and further attests to JohnAdams and GlennAz feelings that the doctor is intelligent and gifted. I got that impression too.
Enough said.

I am impressed that you found hearing aids in the trash. Nice pickings.

 

[GlennS]

And here were have 2 members of this board who have gone to see him. @JohnAdams has had great success with it, so much so that he went back a second time fix another acoustic trauma. Like what more do you need?

Quite a bit more than just one testimonial. For one thing, JohnAdam's tinnitus is pretty recent. That's very different from someone who has been suffering for many years.

 

[just1morething]

I am impressed that you found hearing aids in the trash. Nice pickings.

Actually I only found my left one. My right one is missing and my chances of finding it are slim. I'm hoping Audicus gives me a free right HA (their discontinued model) if I buy their newer receiver in canal model. It has a thin wire replacing the clear tube so it is even less noticeable and it is supposed to be superior in quality.

I don't have a good opinion on Dr. Shim as I am not qualified to give one. I do hope John and Glenn have positive results to report back to us at some point in time.

 

[GregCA]

I get it. People want Minbo Shim to come on here to be sold that it works, and in a way entertained.

Personally, I don't care for that.

Instead, I'd like him to drive a clinical trial showing safety and efficacy of his method, and publish his findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

 

[another sean]

Personally, I don't care for that.

Instead, I'd like him to drive a clinical trial showing safety and efficacy of his method, and publish his findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

And how much would something like cost?