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Sometimes when I feel congested, I get a small hand towel and run it under the tap with really hot water. Then fold it into a square and put it to your nose and breathe in. The steam sometimes helps loosen up stuff and you can just blow it out afterwards.

Uff, that's such sad news. I hope you have the necessary support to cope through this.

There are a lot of researchers working on tinnitus. Having read sooo many research articles, I can say that progress IS being made, but just not much traction. It's not an easy problem to say the least. Mostly because its a brain based symptom, and there aren't a lot of therapies that target the...

Could it be the sodium? Sodium is basically salt and some people say salt makes theirs worse.

I want to illustrate the significance of this study. Kuwaja and Schaettes recent paper in the last 5 years or so illustrated that tinnitus can occur with a normal audiogram. Kuwaja demonstrated loss of synaptic ribbon (which represents synapse between cochlear nerve and inner hair cells) with...

Talking to a guy who runs a lab and has contact with Kilgard, unofficial word is about 40% of patients respond to VNS. I didn't ask too much but I'm not sure whether thats in terms of improvement of tinnitus volume or the dreaded tinnitus handicap score/inventory. Either way, this is promising...

Click, I didn't take it aggressively, don't worry! What you wrote makes a lot of sense. I guess, i'm just scared of bringing it up with my parents and seeing their reaction. I got an earful in the beginning when I wanted to take a day off. They would think of me as being really weak for not...

Thank you for the replies. Click, I'm glad i'm not the only one with all these suicidal thoughts. It really is tempting in the beginning isn't it. The thing is, I can't really talk to my family about it. No parent would want to hear about it. I really hope you are right that this feeling isn't...

I know this board is full of positive people and I didn't want to bring the whole atmosphere down. I'm just really struggling at the moment. For the past week I've been really considering ways to kill myself. From jumping off a building, to getting a gun to ODing on the benzo's on my desk. I...

1.When did your T start? (Some people know a specific date, while others seem to have had it forever.) - first noticed it 20/aug/2012 2.Do you have any idea where it came from? - accumulation of hearing damage (though i dont go to loud places as often as other people) - viral upper respiratory...

How do they know what part of the thalamus to ablate? TCD theory by llinas and their research group is a proposed theory, it helps explain percept but not fully. I forgot the reason why. Still, sounds expensive but if it turns out to work I wouldn't mind having my thalamus ablated, if you know...

Hi Click. I am coping, day to day kind of thing. Mornings are the worst, that buzzing static sound. I am kind of going crazy. I'm still not emotionally accepting that its forever and that I have it. I keep thinking about the past and how happy I would be just to have that silence again. All...

Hi Fish, good to hear the trial worked for you! I wish they were running it in my country too. Maybe I should travel to Poland or something haha. When you say T in your right ear decreased, how much did it go down? Was it a LOT, or just barely noticeable? I am nearly reaching the 3 month mark...

Twenty-six tinnitus patients (17 males, 9 females) participated in this experiment at the multidisciplinary TRI tinnitus clinic of the Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium I don't know how to pm, but i don't want to post the paper up here (copyright stuff i guess)

Hi Click and Cookie, thanks for your replies. I'm just taking it day by day at the moment. Some days I cope better, other days I feel like breaking down and crying. Cookie, that sounds like heaven. There's nothing else in the world I want more at the moment than to just be able to rest my head...