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Contrast that is very pessimistic attitude for someone who is just a month in. There has been many stories about people getting rid of their H over time. @Michael Leigh is very knowledgeable on this subject.

So I hear the term 'noise induced tinnitus' brought up many times but I'm still not totally sure what it means. Here's what I think it means: It's someone whose tinnitus starts after a loud sound (like an explosion) but still has normal hearing according to an audiogram (therefore you can't...

Keeping Things Simple with Tinnitus People have often told me the onset of their tinnitus felt like riding an emotional roller-coaster, because no two days ever felt the same. I agree with this analogy as I think back to my own experience 27 years ago. The sudden impact of severe tinnitus and...

So I've done some quick searches on Google and apparently cannabidiol (CBD) is a Kv2/7.3 channel opener too. A paper published in February 2022 reads that: Now I'm not a neuroscientist by any means, I'm just copying some interesting remarks from the study so I have no idea about how its...

Having teeth pulled isn't always that simple. There are potential long term complications regarding damaged nerves, bone loss, movement/shifting of your other teeth, how your bite/TMJ works, etc. TMJD from a damaged bite can even cause or exacerbate hyperacusis or TTTS-like symptoms...

Foam ear plugs. Patience.

I have been reading this forum for days and still cannot seem to determine whether earplugs are recommended, or NOT recommended for hyperacusis and noxacusis. I have 4 kids. Number 2 and 3 (ages 9 and 12) fight like hell, and number 4 is a toddler going through a squealing and tantrum stage...

Hi @OnlyUP. I am pleased that you have found some of my posts helpful. @Coffeebean, successfully treated his tinnitus and hyperacusis with self-help and I wish he visited this forum more often, as I think he would be able to help a lot of people. You have had noise-induced tinnitus for quite...

I went to the GP today and turns out I have no ear infection. Maybe some people on here are right about incompetent medical professionals... Good news is that I was referred to an ENT! I stopped using earbuds/earphones about a month ago and I don't think I will ever go back to them again. The...

Some users will shoot me dead, but I consider the current formulation of FX-322 to be like an attempt at a small cure. I think the difference between a treatment and cure is that a treatment is intended on covering up a problem. Now of course, a great treatment can actually be better than a...

Yeah hyperacusis definitely makes things worse in those areas, when we stress and tense up. I'm currently living under someone and the noise makes me cringe a lot, in turn I tense right up making my face and jaw etc worse. I'm interested in hearing what your treatment protocol is, I do also...

The most common cause of tinnitus is exposure to loud noise and is also known as noise induced tinnitus. It can be brought on by sudden exposure to loud sound as you have described in your post, or develop more slowly by regularly using headphones, headsets, earbuds and Airpods for long...

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant. It is available on prescription under the brand name Epidiolex as an anti-epilepticum. Some people on Tinnitus Talk have reported improvements in their tinnitus and hyperacusis after taking CBD in one form or...

Personally, I tried to keep my ears in silence as much as possible, and it did work for me. Having said this, some people say their hyperacusis got worse after they tried that "silence" approach. So there might be some risk in terms of H when one tries to use silence to treat T. I guess you can...

Sorry for a late reply but my thoughts are that we simply have to wait for this case study and the upcoming bigger study I guess. One thing that I do wonder though is which type of pain this has effect on. Is it just for the lingering pain one can get after too much noise or will it also help...

@lapidus I'll try to answer your questions; of course, with tinnitus and hyperacusis little is known for certain. Hopefully, this will change in the near future. TRT works specifically on your reaction to tinnitus and hyperacusis. Your emotions. In TRT, the goal is to retrain your brain to...

Seems to work for acute pain: "For five days after the first stellate ganglion block, the stabbing sensation disappeared. “That night, I noticed people were clanging things and I wasn’t having pain,” says Charlotte. “It was amazing.” " But maybe not for the lingering pain if thats what is meant...

Not so much going in different direction, but acting as compliments to each other. Some drugs like PIPE-505 do both synapses and OHC (don’t ask me how, I still don’t know lol) I firmly believe that most of us will need both to fully repair our cochleas. It’s hard to package all of cochlear...

Section V. Sound Therapy and Beyond This section was all about new approaches to sound therapy, including bimodal stimulation. I can be brief about the first talk, from Jodi Sasaki-Miraglia (AuD) about stress and sound therapy. She talked a lot about the effects of stress on the body. She...

I have had a few conversations with a neuro researcher who is a friend of a friend. Of course, he doesn’t have an answer as to how to cure my tinnitus but has given me lots of ideas and different avenues of therapies that might help. More than anything he has been a sounding board for me and...

The problem I have with this is how it fits into the overall hyperacusis prognosis/recovery process. If indeed hyperacusis is the result of an increase in type 2 synaptic ribbons (in response to a decrease in type 1 synaptic ribbons), how would that explain some people's hyperacusis improving in...

@Kriszti Thank you for your question which I will try to answer. I live in Brighton and moved here in 2014. I was born and bred in London and got tinnitus 24 years ago. The majority of my time that I have had tinnitus I lived in London. If you read my posts and there are many, you will see...

I want to preface this by saying that I do not intend to minimise or downplay others’ suffering. There are lots of people on here with cases far worse than mine is and I am all too aware of this. Also what worked for me may potentially not help you at all or in a worst case scenario make your...

Thanks for your input, Michael. I was scheduled to have my wisdom teeth removed a week from now after I realized one of my tinnitus tones (a buzzing, slightly obnoxious) is likely as a result of my bottom right wisdom tooth coming in. My reasons for believing this are firstly that I felt sharp...

I'm just trying to answer a bit with conjecture. I believe that the PRP being prepared a unique way is most of what is going on here. The patent describes viscosity that is moving slowly and able to touch anatomy for longer amounts of time. Also, I believe he uses some stem cell as well as...

Yeah, that's a really good question. Rereading the paper just now - I think a key point that it mentions is that: "This proposed increase of hair cell to afferent signalling is just one of many changes that may result from acoustic trauma." Then it goes on to point out that there is also ATP...

Thanks Michael. Actually, I read your advice 'to do nothing' several weeks ago and took it to heart. I stopped my notch therapy, and stopped using the sounds from 'HushTinnitus.com' And I have resolved to only attempt TRT after 6 months, as you suggest. I also stopped using headphones. I did...

Wow! @Michael Leigh Thank you so much for your advice. You obviously did a lot of research on this and know what you're talking about. I really appreciate it!! I've read about half of the article you suggested I read, but I decided to take a break (it's a lot to read and I'm that much of a...

Hello, all. This is my first post here after lurking a lot this summer. I just had some questions about my specific case and potential future treatment options. Here's the rundown on my situation: - My tinnitus started in 2012, with spikes in 2015 and 2020. To this day I don't know exactly...

HI @JustCallMeZee You have had tinnitus and hyperacusis for quite some time and you should have habituated and hyperacusis improved or cured by now. Sometimes specialist treatment is required under the care of a Hearing Therapist or Audiologist, that practices treatment and management of...

Six month update The tinnitus volume has not diminished and I don't see any signs of this happening so far. In fact, in the last month I developed a new metallic tone in both ears. Or maybe it is one of the old tones which got louder. Now this tone is probably the most intrusive of all. I can...

Hyperacusis is treatable and curable in many instances with or without specialist treatment. It can improve significantly over time without treatment but there is no guarantee. If it is severe then specialist treatment with a Hearing Therapist/Audiologist should be sought. If hyperacusis...

Hi @Susan98 You have had hyperacusis for quite a while. You haven't mentioned tinnitus but I will assume that you have habituated and it's no longer troubling you? Hyperacusis can get better on its own without treatment but there is no guarantee. Sometimes specialist treatment is required...

OK, I'm back as promised with a longer report on the conference. My Key Takeaways In no particular order, here are some interesting new things I learned during the conference. Keep in mind that there were many parallel sessions, so one had to pick and choose what to attend; hence, this does...

Have you ruled out Neuralgia? "Geniculate neuralgia is a condition that is caused by a small nerve (the nervus intermedius) being compressed by a blood vessel. Geniculate neuralgia results in severe, deep ear pain which is usually sharp—often described as an "ice pick in the ear"—but may also...

I wanted to start a new thread specifically on Stem Cell Secretome (SCS). It is a Stem Cell-based regenerative treatment, but without the cells themselves (using their secreted factors instead). Cell Secretome: Basic Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities for CNS Disorders: The term secretome...

All of the three (i.e. hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis) are kind of "niche" matters in medicine. Society is dealing with far more basic issues which makes it harder for niche stuff to get people's attention. As an example, the opioid epidemic in the US claimed around 17,000 lives in...

I'm in a similar boat. I have tinnitus and H in both ears, but my H is significantly worse in my right ear. In fact, I'd say my left ear is at a point now where I could have close to a normal life if the right ear was the same. I also have a misaligned bite and definitely have necks issues from...

@Damien Cavanagh You have recently acquired tinnitus and most probably it was caused by "exposure" to loud noise/sounds and has nothing to do with Pulsatile tinnitus although you may believe this. It is entirely up to you which way you wish to go but since you quoted my post, I have replied...

This is a tough question. My understanding is that the sensitisation is the result of ATP "leakage" because ATP is required for upregulation of P2x receptors. One of my long-standing questions with this theory is: what does one mean by ATP leakage? Does it mean an overflow of ATP from the OHCs...

Now this is what I like to see. Great article @Lisa88. Although we haven't had much extraordinary results from stem cell treatments on hearing loss, I think it's one of the biggest paths to take for reconnecting the damaged spiral ganglions of the auditory nerve back to the neurons in the...

Hi Michael, During that time you had h you also had issues with constant pain?

HI @Srebint I once had very severe hyperacusis. So severe when in conversation with someone I had to ask can they please lower their voice as my ears hurt so much. That was 22 years ago. My hyperacusis was treated by wearing white noise generators, as part of TRT and it was completely cured in...

@Zimichael You misunderstood me a little. Didn't mean you should shut yourself off from the world to deal with your hyperacusis fora month, meant that you should aim to get the best possible result from Retigabine before adding any other drugs to the mix. Drug-induced silence, in other words...

Michael, can hyperacusis go away on its own? This is really upsetting to me as well aside from the tinnitus. I can’t think about not spending time with family and friends because of this. Why is this happening :(

As others have said, it's very simple. A treatment works whether you want it to or not. If that's not the case, then way too much of it is a placebo effect. To be fair, placebos are real things that give your body and mind a little bit of energy and feel-good chemicals. One of the reasons why...

It's important to distinguish between two aspects when it comes to cost: The cost of 'discovering' a new experimental approach that may silence tinnitus; The cost of bringing such a discovery to the market. Tinnitus Quest is focusing on #1, where a few million or even less can go a long way...

I am interested in your study proposal. Combining detailed modeling with clinical data has a lot of potential and it seems you try to be clear about what is supporting a theory and what is proving a theory. As you have mentioned, this seems helpful for other areas as well and I hope the next...

Thanks so much! You've enlightened me for sure. Yeah, it's really interesting because it sort of seems like current research is going in two directions: 1) hair cell regeneration and 2) nerve/synapse repair and that most companies are focusing on one of the two. Without being able to see...

Thanks very much for the report. The Levo System was, I believe, the last of these touted "Sound Therapies." "Come to the presentation" is one of the oldest, manipulative sales tactics; I recall Alec Baldwin's comment in "Glengarry Glen Ross": "A guy doesn't walk onto the lot unless he wants to...

@RudyL90 I have had very severe hyperacusis that was so bad when people spoke to me my ears hurt. Please read he post below on hyperacusis, as I see it. Hyperacusis, As I See It. Some members have asked for my opinion on hyperacusis as they are finding it increasingly difficult to live with...

@Blue28 21 years ago when I first got tinnitus I had my ears syringed using the old fashsioned method. This is using a metal canister filled with warm water and is squirted into the ears under presssure. Not done today because of the potential risks involved:tinnitus and ear damage. Fortunately...

@Alue I believe overprotecting the ears can be damaging psychologically and physically for some people with tinnitus, and especially if hyperacusis is present. One should try to prevent this happening for I see it too often in tinnitus forums, where some members are becoming paranoid over...

@Nathalie Trying not to worry about it is the right approach. You haven't had tinnitus and hyperacusis long. Understandably you are concerned but to help reassure you, please read the following post below that I recently wrote. Although it addresses hyperacusis, the same advice applies to...

Thanks michael i will read this when i get off work. I Will try to limit my earplug use but i think i will carry on using them for my commute has i have been subject to multiple setbacks and spikes from not wearing them

Thank you for your kind comments @orbiter12 Please read the post below and I believe will give you the full picture on how detrimental earplugs can be to one's auditory system when used incorrectly and such a person has tinnitus and hyperacusis. There is really nothing more I can say on this...

Interesting, this is the first time that I've read about the type 2 afferents being involved in tinnitus. I suppose that if that connection receives greater attention within the pharmaceutical/scientific community, it would significantly speed up the development of a drug or therapy that would...

With respect. Your quote on my post can be very misleading for some people and I thank you putting clarity on the matter. Many people that have noise induced tinnitus have it severe and also have hyperacusis. You have said your tinnitus isn't severe and you never had hyperacusis. Please read my...

Great article. I ordered a sound system that is about to arrive soon. Living with H is awful :(