Tinnitus Increases the Risk of Getting Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

[Star64]

Jazzer and myself have been communicating by email for two years. We are close in age. I also have Parkinson's caused by (either or all) tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, severe mouth nerve pain, abdominal aortic aneurysm, severe vascular vein and artery problems, kidney disease, optic nerve and eye diseases, hypertension, heart medications or/and too much radiation from CT exams.

My medication for Parkinson's completely controls it. Dave - Jazzer has started with the same medication and it should have control for him too. Don't worry buddy @Jazzer. Focus on good past memories.

You are another special kind compassionate member on this forum Greg, you are always willing to help others even when you are in so much pain yourself.

Sometimes life just sucks

I also know you have a loving wife and will be getting lots of hugs, but I am sending some your way too

 

[Eloy Resendez Jr]

This is definitely the kinda of post that makes me want to leave this site. Really didn't need to see this today.

Let's face it, yeah it might be informative, but there's bugger all we can do about getting AD and PD, so why would we want to know about our increased risk.

We all know we're royally f*#ked. We just try to get through it.

@Steph1710, ha, ha, ha....That's why I love reading your post. Your are so right! We've got enough heavy crap to deal with.

How about we deal with the crap that's in front of us for now and worry about that other stuff later.

 

[Steph1710]

You should definitely leave this site if reality bothers you and you want to live a fantasy tale of "everything's going to be fine". Or join the ATA and BTA. LOL

Bloody hell ajc! You went in! When I read your reply to my mates, we absolutely cracked up laughing!

Savage mate. Savage.

 

[Steph1710]

@Steph1710, ha, ha, ha....That's why I love reading your post. Your are so right! We've got enough heavy crap to deal with.

Aww cheers buddy

 

[bobvann]

Moocho Love to Dave & Greg. I agree with Glenn, one's nervous system is constantly being bombarded. I do feel muscles on my body vibrate because of the tinnitus. Not a stretch to see how this can progress. But hey, it's only a benign sound that WE amplify with our reaction...

 

[Jazzer]

I would like to add just one thing to this subject.

With tinnitus we know that neurones are firing day and night - hence the constant sounds.

It is hardly surprising that we can wake up in the morning feeling tired to begin with.
(Melatonin is a great help to me - just 2 mg. I now wake up quite well rested.)

For the past six years I have been seeking the best accommodation to tinnitus that I can find.

I know that acceptance is the crucial factor.
As I wake to noise each day, I say to myself:

"I accept this moment - just as it is."
(And I mean it.)

I say this however noisy it is.
When I get up I slip into a lovely hot bath to do my meditation.
I stop any conscious breathing and ask my tummy to breath for me.
I just become an observer to the breath.
As I exhale I just think the word
'deeper - deeper - deeper' as I drift into a meditational doze.
I find 'stillness' every day.
Then I'm ready to get going.

I now have two unpleasant conditions to cope with.
Tinnitus in the foreground,
Parkinson's in the background.
I do not battle either of them.
They are just facts of life.
On most days I can detach them from emotional content.

Dave x

 

[tommyd87]

This study has been broken down on multiple sources and as a result, the conclusion(s) reached have been considered to be incredibly inconclusive. In fact the theory that multiple people have put forward is that they simply do not have the data to definitively come out with the conclusion that they reached.

Therefore while the claim could be valid and it is probable that some people who have tinnitus might have these conditions too, the medical research doesn't confidently confirm the claimed causal effect.

Even the statistical evidence doesn't positively support this claim as being more likely to be true than not true. Therefore although the results show a positive correlation and connection, you can take this to be even less reliable than some of those voting opinion polls done.

 

[weab00]

My guess is that the people whose body is prone to getting tinnitus are also prone to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. So the event of getting tinnitus hasn't actually changed one's probability of getting those two other diseases.

Doesn't really matter when you apply that to real life. Clearly all of us were prone to tinnitus, therefore meaning that we are also more at risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's.

 

[tommyd87]

Doesn't really matter when you apply that to real life. Clearly all of us were prone to tinnitus, therefore meaning that we are also more at risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's.

I don't necessarily think this link is proven as conclusively as some claim it is.

 

[Bill Bauer]

therefore meaning that we are also more at risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's.

Not necessarily:

This study has been broken down on multiple sources and as a result, the conclusion(s) reached have been considered to be incredibly inconclusive. In fact the theory that multiple people have put forward is that they simply do not have the data to definitively come out with the conclusion that they reached.

Therefore while the claim could be valid and it is probable that some people who have tinnitus might have these conditions too, the medical research doesn't confidently confirm the claimed causal effect.

Even the statistical evidence doesn't positively support this claim as being more likely to be true than not true. Therefore although the results show a positive correlation and connection, you can take this to be even less reliable than some of those voting opinion polls done.