Recent content by LivingGhost371

The problem with benzos, aside from their addictive potential, is that your body develops tolerance with continued use. One day, X becomes ineffective because your body adapts to X as the new normal, so you need X plus Y. Eventually, that combination becomes ineffective, so you need X plus Y...

Haven’t we been saying for at least the past 15 years that tinnitus is in the brain, not the ear?

I will mention this without adding any opinion. A neurotologist I was seeing noted on his website that the intravenous Lidocaine test might help determine whether nerve section could be effective. However, he never mentioned this possibility to me directly during any of our appointments. For...

Yes, it most definitely helped my reaction to it, and it may have even lowered the volume slightly.

Abilify did nothing for my depression. As I posted earlier, it just made me feel restless and edgy. Seroquel did help my depression a lot. After a few weeks, I got over the sedating effect and was able to function on it.

Have there been any reports of the non-mRNA Novavax vaccine causing issues?

It seems like all of these studies are the same. They claim a 20 percent improvement, but then nothing ever comes of it—neither commercial treatments nor further research to refine and improve outcomes.

Me too. I suspect I have some chronic inflammatory condition. Pollen counts and weather conditions somewhat modulate my tinnitus. That convinces me that it's not entirely "in my brain" due to missing signal input.

So, I saw a review on Amazon where a product reviewer claimed that after doing long demonstrations with a Van Der Graaff generator nearby, it helped his tinnitus. There's other people that report that being around one for a period of time gives them headaches. So it may be actually doing...

To be honest I never had much hope for this one. Didn't we determine tinnitus was a brain problem rather than an ear problem over 10 years ago?

My opinion is that if it takes the lives of 8000 monkeys to find an effective treatment for tinnitus, it's worth it. I'd also gladly undergo a procedure with a 65% mortality rate. A 35% chance of having a decent life and being able to go out again is better than 0%.

As tempted as I am to dismiss the concept of this as a bunch of baloney, I have occasionally had a lower tone in my left ear, perhaps 2 kHz or so. I can consistently make it go away by pressing my tragus into my eardrum.

Mirtazapine made my tinnitus worse like every other serotonin drugs I've tried, and I've tried a lot of them. Seroquel helped me sleep, and actually had a positive effect on my tinnitus, but I had to quit because I started developing tardive dyskinesia, which at the time was essentially...

It's natural for us to want the noise to go away, but what I got out of it was "We can't really do anything to directly reduce the noise, but if we make it so you don't care if the noise is there, we've solved the problem". And moreso, it seems like the feedback loop - noise = reaction to...

I'd be interested to know what was actually in those as opposed to Oxytocin bought from a pharmacy.