Recent content by IYIiKe

Still waiting for the day they do tests on the rats that have tinnitus symptoms longer than a week.

Get your ear checked out, the one with pressure issues. You are lucky it disappears -- mine hasn't left.

Once a week for ten weeks likely means someone local still taking about 2-4 hours of leave a week or going without work for that time, making the commitment in time/money and effort for a 50% chance to receive an experimental drug.

I think you need to look at the practical side. Tinnitus Quest had just recently had William Shatner endorse it. Companies like Auricle, like it or not, do not target the moderate/severe sufferers. They're simply too small of a market. They get a marketing bump and probably by now have at least...

That’s because most people recover naturally. It’s a lazy research design. In the case of Dr. Djalilian, it’s selective patient criteria meant to obscure the fact that the treatment doesn’t actually work. You could have people inhale their own breath, and just as many would show improvement as...

All of these studies focus on fresh onset. How ridiculous. As if everyone will have immediate access to an emergency room after a noise event, and the right treatments will just happen to be available. It comes across as lazy research design. There really should be ethics committee discussions...

Also, there are studies on residual hearing outcomes after cochlear implant procedures. If you can show improvement following implantation, that evidence already speaks for itself. In essence, the placebo effect has already been accounted for.

There are many such electrical devices currently in the pre-trial or trial phase. The Billy Mays of tinnitus treatment, Dr. Djailian, has a device in development. I am not enthusiastic about it, as I view him as a less effective copycat of existing tinnitus treatments and more interested in...

I'm missing "the so what" part.

Ah yes, and the department will just move on seamlessly, as hundreds take “resignation,” programs and benefits are cut, and those who can find employment elsewhere, usually the most qualified, do so. Human Resources, supporting agencies, and other parts of the system being in complete disarray...

Drastically understated, to the tune of a cost of 4.5 trillion? I cannot wait to hear the jokes about which million or billion dollar programs are going to be tossed onto the funeral pyre in the name of tax cuts. Maybe there will be a statement about the estate tax, even though it does not...

The FDA is cutting staff and losing reputable researchers left and right. The top vaccine researcher just resigned because the head of the agency literally believes in discredited pseudoscience and is pushing the FDA to adopt it. The person in charge is an anti-vaxxer and the kind of person who...

It is sad that this is receiving funding.

I really wish there were more research on this. There could be potential consequences for those who experience these attacks frequently, which might lead to a better understanding of tinnitus.

Anyone who believes RFK Jr. is a positive influence on HHS or that gutting NIH research, including limiting the G&A rate of university grants that support labs of all kinds, bodes well for tinnitus research is not only wrong but severely misinformed. Or maybe they have a brain worm. I invite...