Best Guess on When Tinnitus Will Be Cured?

Someone could at least come up with a high tech masker that actually works....

 

Cure.....no, not in our lifetime. Many years away.

An effective way or ways of suppressing the distress caused by tinnitus loudness.....already exists....somewhat.

An effective way of suppressing the actual pathways and signals in the brain that is causing the tinnitus loudness.....yes, not 100% but enough to give some relief.

 

I think a "cure", i.e. a correction, will be found when the medical community focuses more on the cerebral aspects of the condition as opposed to myopically thinking tinnitus is merely an ear problem. The brain and nervous system have a hell of a lot to do with it. That much is clear. So when they find and isolate the neural pathways that are involved, and develop the ability to re-grow them, that's when a fix will become a reality.

 

A cure?
They aren't even sure about all the possible causes yet...
How can anyone cure something that is not even understood?
For instance, hypothyroidism is a relatively simple condition that has been studied for more than two centuries. No cure yet, just replacement therapy, tests for individual efficacy and continuous adjustment of dosage based on patient response throughout an entire lifetime.

For T, maybe a safe, temporary symptomatic relief will be available in 8-10 years. A cure, when we're all stardust.

 

I think the cure for most tinnitus lies in GABA / glutamate system.

 

Probably a good 25-40 years I'd imagine. From a futurist perspective there will be much bigger things happening by then so a cure to Tinnitus should be easy pease. Habituation is all we have for now.

 

And yet here we are? So, whatever happen with that promise, did they come out with something yet?

 

I should add that a cure to tinnitus might be found accidentally by researchers working on a different problem. Not unlike the way that researchers experimenting with cardiovascular medication stumbled onto Viagra. (Not that I think a pill is a "cure"; I was just using it as an example.)

 

When will our brain understand our brain?
Probably not in my lifetime.

 

"Habituation" is a myth.

 

At the point of death, Habituation is achieved. (We hope?)

 

In 2014, @Kathi posted this:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/back-again-is-habituation-a-myth.4211/

Last month, she posted this:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...nd-let-my-tinnitus-family-know-im-okay.13434/

I could say something somewhat similar, over a longer period of time, with more ups and downs. However, my own anecdote is more complicated and less compelling, because it's all tied up with a history of very severe anxiety problems which predated tinnitus and made it more challenging than it might have been otherwise. However, my much simpler and more positive experience with my very "severe" visual snow, has convinced me that my brain is quite capable of completely ignoring irritating sensory stimulation.

 

The old saying goes that as of this world, only two things are certain: death and taxes. I am not entirely sure that tinnitus ends with death, however.

 

Habituation is not a myth, so I would disagree with you there. It just cannot be classified in any binary state, but many people can describe periods of habituation including myself.

I would add the caveat that loudness makes it a lot harder to adapt, but nontheless impossible.

 

If tinnitus is a component of bad Karma, then yes, we will carry it with us, into the next realm. A sad prospect indeed. }:-(

 

Right now they have been successful in stopping tinnitus in rats with electrical vagus nerve stimulation and tone therapy in combonation. It can be googled. I think I read it @ nih.gov. it's very promising. Even if it reduces it to comfortable levels, that would be a God send. The government is taking this issue seriously now due to the fact a lot of soliders and citizens are suffering from tinnitus.

 

That won't happen.

 

Don't tell a Buddhist that! };-)

 

What makes you say that?
So this is eternal?

 

absolute nonsense.

 

You wish.

 

Lol,that being said,when u die ,ur spirit will leave the material world. The body is material. It a case ur soul is in. Pray to God for his grace to heal ur tinnitus. If he doesnt, he doesn,t. GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS BY WHAT YOU DO , HE ANSWERS PRAYERS BY GRACE ONLY. GRACE IS GOD'S FREE AND UNMERITED FAVOR. READ JOB, THAT WILL EXPLAIN IT. SORRY FOR THE CAPS. IT WAS IN CAPS SO I KEPT WRITING LOL

 

Lol the mind of God is a mystery to us. He has his reasons. But remember this, everything that happens to us effects other people, this must be taken into consideration. This is called the butterfly,aka chaos effect. Think about it. What we may think is a harmless prayer may change other people's lives.

 

Yea, it won't lol. I don't believe that I am being cursed by something or someone because I did them wrong. That would be stupid, if someone has THAT much power, why would they cross my path in the first place? It's like, if I had this much influence over people, I'd be sitting on a throne lol

 

You know, I have thought the same thing since benzo's work on GABA which lowers quite a bit of people's tinnitus, however should not be long term. The thing I was thinking was that if GABA relaxes your nervous system while glutamate excites it, then would something that lowers glutamate also work with those people that experience reduction with GABA drugs? I think though, there are other ways to tackle it, such as the potassium channel openers or NMDA antagonists. Is there one cure for all? I doubt it. The sad thing is it takes years for drugs to be approved so the drugs they are working on now, if they are good, will takes years to the market. Hopefully within 10 years, we will see some kind of FDA drug for tinnitus. However, I don't know if that will happen and that is too long of a wait for some people.

 

Can't agree with that and I have an open mind about a lot of things. I find it too hard to believe that as complex as life is that it just "evolve" to complex beings or created in the first place without a designer. Life must come from life. We see no evidence of life on any other planet and yet they are probably roughly around the same age as earth. In addition, how can science explain consciousness?

 

Where's the work that said they cured Tinnitus in rats? I would be interested to know how they measured it. You can't exactly ask a rat how his T is doing on a 1-10 scale.

 

I have read that they watch their behaviours and see overhyped neurons in their brain like they do to detect epilepsy in human brain.