Recent content by WilRic

I've had exactly the same experience with my neurologist, who I was lucky to find. I've also recently seen one of the world's leading neurosurgeons and he wasn't freaked out by the high dose I'm taking on the basis that it seems to be working without any issues (at the moment). I totally agree...

If you go to 1:24, he talks about addiction not being the real problem but 'habituation' (which I take to mean tolerance of the positive effects). You then have to taper down because it's just not working anymore. I think that's what you mean by tolerance, but it is slightly important to...

Some people will build a tolerance to various aspects of the drug, but that's not the same thing as addiction (see, for example, this concise paper). I'm glad Dr. De Ridder made that point. The "benzos are poison" refrain you constantly hear is a major bugbear of mine in relation to tinnitus...

That's correct. It was double-blinded. The electrical impulses were close to the sensation threshold, so both the control and active groups found it difficult to tell if they were getting the somatosensory input. See here. If you stick an electrode on the back of your neck and are told that the...

Is the position Auricle has taken really that surprising? Surely this thread self-evidently proves their point (and may have contributed to their decision). I'm not being critical of anyone at all, but given how keenly interested people are in the device, anything they say will be raked over...

I propose Auricle Contiki Tours for those of us outside of the US. (This is only half a joke; when the device launches, some nonprofit project like that might be a good idea. Get certain audiologists who are close to hotels on board, etc. I imagine it will cost a bomb, but I doubt American...

Hear, hear. He's done a few Q&As with almost the same panelists a few times, and it's all very low effort. See here. Maybe it's just me, but whenever Hashir speaks in these things, I sense the others (like Richard Salvi) ignore him.

That is good news. It may indicate that she is focusing exclusively on Auricle in some capacity. She also might have just retired. In either case, I think people should still be hopeful. Most commercialisation of research projects fails at junctures that already look good for Auricle. They've...

There should be more positive reviews. Truly reducing tinnitus isn't like getting slightly whiter shirts in your laundry. If Lenire worked, a lot more people would be singing its praises. I hate how much positive media attention it's getting. I wish a journalist would realize that this is...

Obviously, I was kidding, but I entirely agree. The community should let the TRI know that we (or at least a sizeable portion of tinnitus sufferers) very much disapprove of Jastreboff's involvement. I don't know if some kind of petition would be appropriate, but anything to ram home the point...

There is a symposium on 12 June, "Tinnitus and Physical Links." Of particular interest would be Robin Guillard's discussion of his study regarding REM sleep impairment and tinnitus modulation. It's widely reported that sleep seems to play a profound role in tinnitus in a lot of people (e.g...

Pulsed Radio Frequency is a treatment for neuropathic pain. A special needle is shoved into you near the subject nerve and a pulsed radio frequency signal is generated at the tip at various frequencies. The idea is that, over time, the modulation of the radio frequency signal has various...

Don't be so hasty to assume that tinnitus is compatible with common sense! A different paper suggests that the trick might be to accumulate sleep pressure (i.e. get very, very tired) so that by the time you nod off your brain has to jump straight into heaps of slow wave activity. They do that to...

If you fall into a subgroup type described in this paper, the problem may be that short naps rarely evoke REM sleep. There is an idea that the connection between sleep and tinnitus is often backwards. It's not (just) that tinnitus gives us bad sleep, it's that a problem with sleep phases can...

Thanks so much for taking the time to correct that. My tinnitus must have been affecting my brain more than I thought not to realise there was no such thing as 11/10 mathematically... Thank you also for correcting my subjective experience of tinnitus loudness and reminding me that I've "only"...