Recent content by Balmy

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    Share Your Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine Experience: Any Impact on Your Tinnitus or Hyperacusis?

    I got the Moderna vaccine. My first shot was February 5th and my second shot was March 4th. Both times I had side effects of flu-like symptoms but they were far worse from the second shot. Both times my tinnitus also spiked along with the symptoms but also went back to baseline as the other...
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    Can Stelara (Ustekinumab) Be Ototoxic and Cause Tinnitus to Spike?

    Going through a bad tinnitus spike at the moment. I've been taking Stelara for Crohn's disease since September but noticed the spike well after I was already on it for a while. Can Stelara or drugs like it be ototoxic? Would it be normal for ototoxicity to take so long to kick in?
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    University of Minnesota Tinnitus Research with Acoustic and Body Stimulation

    Yes, I'm sure sadly. It's so bizarre. They literally cured someone who had tinnitus from birth! How can you possibly abandon that? Is there any other record of a person who was cured from chronic tinnitus? I understand @kelpiemsp is one person and we don't know how it went for others in the...
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    Tinnitus and Diuretics — Can Diuretics Help Lessen Tinnitus Symptoms?

    Anyone here have a bad experience with diuretics? I believe they can be ototoxic but I'm not sure if that applies to all of them.
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    Hough Ear Institute's Hair Cell Regeneration Project

    I thought phase 1 was completed in 2015 and the hurdle forward was funding?
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    Overview: Promising Future Treatments for Tinnitus and Hearing Loss

    Hello, all. This is my first post here after lurking a lot this summer. I just had some questions about my specific case and potential future treatment options. Here's the rundown on my situation: - My tinnitus started in 2012, with spikes in 2015 and 2020. To this day I don't know exactly...
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    Hough Ear Institute's Hair Cell Regeneration Project

    I was able to find a comment from Justin De Moss from April 20th in this Hough thread claiming they got Fast Track status.
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    Hough Ear Institute's Hair Cell Regeneration Project

    Was it ever reported anywhere that they received Fast Track status? And assuming they really did, is that a guarantee to skip phase 3?
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    University of Minnesota Tinnitus Research with Acoustic and Body Stimulation

    @kelpiemsp was part of a trial for the University of Minnesota's bimodal device. Unfortunately the man who was leading the development for the device left the project to work for Neuromod. As far as I know at this time the Minnesota device is no longer being worked on. Which is really...