Recent content by Joeseph Stope

@AfroSnowman, and in the same theme, those of us who have been here a while remember how the great excitement about Lenire and then FX-322 melted into crushing disappointment. The message boards leading up to those collapses were filled with a constant buzz of manically optimistic comments and...

Doctor, make me young again. What's that expression they use? "Curb your enthusiasm," or something like that. Thirty years of research, and now after the final dress rehearsal, the premiere night performance has been announced. I can hardly wait for curtain-up time, and I am as fixated as the...

Just curious, is there really no way for people who have completed their treatment with Lenire to put it up on eBay or Amazon and sell it second-hand? Excuse my ignorance. I realize, of course, that you would need an audiologist who is well-versed in Lenire to calculate the necessary...

Do you recall the lively discussion with Tom Cync, who managed to emerge from the depths of tinnitus and hyperacusis by somehow “weathering it out” and trying to get used to loud noise? https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/im-fine-%E2%80%94-tinnitus-is-basically-not-a-thing-anymore.55510/...

This looks like a goldmine. For those of us who are not very scientific, the overall picture is beginning to emerge. Very often the source of our tinnitus and hearing loss lies in the cochlea, but it can also reside in the brain, or in both the cochlea and brain together. In the search for a...

I lived in the States around 1989, in Washington, D.C. One of the scariest events I remember was when the gay community held “AIDS Action Week” and spread out a quilt on the Mall behind the White House. It must have covered at least one square kilometer. Each quilt piece had embroidery, a photo...

My deepest sympathies go to the Kirk family, and I want to extend them to all of the United States. Am I a Biden supporter? I suppose I am, or perhaps I was, although I am not American. For me, America has always been that wonderful land of optimism and good humor, where people were open and...

In the case of early-onset tinnitus patients, I can easily understand the difficulty of wrestling with a changed auditory world of constant ringing, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That would naturally involve a psychological factor—the panic of trying to find a therapy or medicine...

Ha! Quite amusing, but it is not enough to go on. By the looks of things, Donald seems to like big blonde women—there’s Ivanka and his previous wife. I must confess that I also find big blonde women attractive, so I cannot cast the first stone. In my view, the real question is: how could Donald...

@Luman, ummm… I think the world is entering a dangerous stage right now, and from various angles. You can pick and choose which one feels the most immediate or the most dangerous. Climate change? The hottest summer on record. I will never be a movie star now, Hollywood has burned out. Security...

Many thanks for taking the time and effort to explain things. It lifts our spirits to have a member who is on top of their game in auditory matters.

Show me the data! And I say that with some embarrassment, as I learned today that Trump is lambasting the Europeans—for what? For buying cheap Russian oil. No surprise there. My guess is it is probably the Hungarians or the Slovakians, since they are often eager to please Putin regardless of...

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/09/03/trumps-persistent-idiocy-has-hugely-diminished-americas-standing-in-world-affairs/ Trump's persistent idiocy has hugely diminished America's standing in world affairs US president confuses anxiety and obsequiousness he produces in other world...

Bowled over by your scholarship in this specialized area of medicine. I recall one post from @Nick47, not so far back, I believe from this year, where he mentioned that some form of delivery method, specifically injection, had fallen into disrepute. Was it the intra-tympanic delivery or the...

Image-wise, it looks like Trump has dropped a clanger. He imposes his 50% tariff on India, allegedly because they are buying Russian oil and gas. China then steps in to take up the slack and supports India with a favorable trade deal. Who wins, who loses? I suppose the market will tell. China’s...