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Topic: Future Help for Tinnitus Sufferers? |
Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2016 10:48 pm |
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That does look promising! For those that haven't seen this, download the video link there: http://health.learninginfo.org/tinnitus.htm
I do it every day or so, or whenever the ringing really gets on my nerves, and it does help for a while. |
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Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 3:57 am
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Each and every one of these therapies only works on a percentage of sufferers. That magnetic pulse thing has been around for a while. Helps a few lucky individuals.
There is no cure, and the general consensus is that there never will be one. Only sporadic, usually temporary relief for a fortunate few, from a bunch of experimental therapies that rarely pan out.
I was accepted to be part of a clinical trial at the University of Buffalo.
It involved implanting an electrode and wrapping it around the Vagus Nerve in the neck.
Electrical signals from a battery operated implanted device stimulate the Vagus Nerve while you listen to various sounds for 4 hours a day on a computer program.For months..
It is supposed to help the brain "relearn" how it processes sound, and "filter out" tinnitus signals. It was/is the Rolls Royce of funded tinnitus therapies.. It was simply too invasive having an electrode implanted in the main nerve to the brain, and I backed out of the study. From what I have read on various Tinnitus forums, it was another in a big long line of flops. I was in contact with a Tinnitus forum member that had it done at the University of Ohio, and it failed miserably.. After a year there was no change in his tinnitus intensity.. I think he was going to have the implants surgically removed. Many people that had the procedure were disappointed.
I dunno, perhaps there will be a truly effective therapy that helps all or most tinnitus sufferers one day, but I have my doubts.. At least I doubt that I personally will ever see it. For now, the best "therapy" is simply called "habituation".. Thats about where I am today.. After some time;[ a LOT of time!!], your brain kind of stops monitoring the invasive tinnitus signals, and no longer considers it a threat, and your limbic system "powers down" releasing you from the horrific anxiety, and feeling of doom and panic.. I sometimes go many hours without "hearing" my Tinnitus.. Then all of a sudden, I will realize its still blaring away, louder than anything else in my world, but I simply go about my day, and forget about it again for hours, until again I realize its there, hear it as loud as ever, and then move on again, forget about it... etc etc, rinse and repeat...
WEAR HEARING PROTECTION ... ALWAYS!!!!
You do NOT want tinnitus, it a life changer in a very bad way.. I am doing better than I was when I first got it on 7/10/11, but it took 4 years to achieve some level of habituation to the point where I look and act ia somewhat functional manner.. Please, please do not play in bands without hearing protection at all times... You do not want what I have... bob
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 4:07 am
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I agree Bob. Living with it is living; living is living with it.
It's like an hallucination; the brain remembers where it came from the realizes it's not a threat.
Hallucinations are something you allow to happen rather than fighting them. The same goes for tinnitus.
The occiput thumping changes the pattern temporarily, changes ones focus, alters the pattern of perception.
Good that there are all kinds of alternative therapy besides wasting money on medications with unintended effects.
Even the genus of tinnitus isn't known; mine didn't come about from loud sounds or being in bands, but from another kind of event. |
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Jess Tolbirt
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White Bluff, Tn.
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 6:09 am
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| i always thought i got it from the jet engines i worked on in the navy back in the 70's,, then just the other day i thought about my grandmother complaining about how loud the ringing in her ears was...she has never been around noises in her life so maybe that blows a hole in my personal theory.. |
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John Booth
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Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 7:00 am
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My doctor advised cutting salt out of my diet.
He says the salt causes the inner ear to retain water which causes ringing
Caffeine does this too.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 7:57 am
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| Good to learn that about caffeine. A compelling argument for cutting down. |
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Barry Blackwood
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