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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.

My first response was to freak out at this since I'm trying to get a 3080 FE. But thinking about it more, I'm skeptical that correlation equals causation and I don't think it would induce tinnitus unless it was about to happen anyway. Having said that I will comment that "coil whine" with high...

I've tried Abilify. It's one of the few medications that didn't affect my tinnitus negatively but it didn't affect it positively either. I had to stop because it made me feel agitated and uneasy.

I do think there's a link between spring allergies and tinnitus. Mine is always worse in the spring, it's worse this spring than every, and for the first time I've been having other allergy symptoms - gagging, congestion, etc that get worse if I spend time outdoors, and others have reported a...

Neuromod seems to be neither encouraging nor discouraging U.S. citizens from traveling to them. The potential issue of importing an unapproved medical device into the U.S. has been discussed, but it seems customs and the airport people are more concerned about bombs and cocaine than something...

I've had this happen twice in the past few weeks. I'm dealing with a month long worsening in general. I think it is related to spring allergy season. Sleeping makes my nose really congested to the point I'm gagging in the morning (and sometimes have gagging fits during the day too).

My theory on this all is that restoring hearing isn't going to be enough to immediately knock out tinnitus. Maybe it will take some time for the brain to reset. Maybe the brain will need an extra bump to reset, possibly Lenire (didn't the best responders to this have normal hearing) or the...