I came upon this forum accidentally while investigating some goofball called Tim Seaton who appears to be running a scam on tinnitus suffers-- simply out of curiosity since I once had tinnitus.
I am 65. In excellent condition physically. I am saddened that so many people have suffered with this malady while there seems to be only random solutions but FOR ME Acupuncture really did work. About 8 or 9 years ago I got Tinnitus and it started keeping me up at night. That was the only time it bothered me. Not one to EVER use hokey solutions like acupuncture, complaints to my wife resulted in pressure to try acupuncture and, grudgingly, I tried it after Googling what seemed endless scams and not being willing to try them. I went 3 times over 3 weeks. Each time the practitioner used successively larger diameter needles. About 3 days after the last treatment it just went away. I had one recurrence since but it went away on its own after a few days.
Suggestion for the folks who run this forum:
1) gather data on the success stores and publish it on the forum(place on top page banner!)
2) categorize it: numbers and percent of people with success for each type, age of people if available, general health and well being of person, time since last occurrence, % effectiveness of people who appear to have actually tried a treatment
3) list out the confirmed or highly likely scams
Doing this will greatly help folks who land here and focus them to a cure for THEM.
Note that from the few minutes of reading on this forum I have done it appears there is no ONE cure, but for different "types" of people there are cures. Gathering this data could also focus a Phd student to do a truly focussed study and find the critical variables that can lead to overall success with medical credentials that doctors trust and can recommend.
