Recent content by P.T. James

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    TENS for Somatosensory Pulsatile Tinnitus

    I know this might sound ridiculous, but mine started a couple months after I got a new pair of reading glasses. Trigger points behind the ears? Reminds me of an old Steve Martin movie.
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    TENS for Somatosensory Pulsatile Tinnitus

    Thanks for your input, Jeremy. I wish my neuro-otologist would be as analytical, but he wrote me off as having a migraine (with no headaches) and prescribed nortryptaline, which I probably won't take. The desensitize/deactivate idea sounds a bit scary. If the problem is a compromised DCN, or...
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    TENS for Somatosensory Pulsatile Tinnitus

    I was thinking of just doing the TENS, without the sounds, and hoping for some luck. But there are so many variables that I'm lost. I suppose I could clothes-pin the pads to my auricles and try a mild dose, of maybe three one-hour sessions per day, for a month. Any thoughts?
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    TENS for Somatosensory Pulsatile Tinnitus

    Hello. I am a new member, with SSPT for almost a year now. Multiple tests and several medications have been fruitless. I've read about the P-stim clinical trial of years ago and have unsuccessfully sought out a clinic in Northern California. I asked Doctor Levine if he thought TENS might work...