Can Tinnitus Be Cured? What Is Going to End Up Being the Cure?

I know how exciting it is to see all of this research and possible treatments on the horizon, but do you think a real treatment/cure is on the horizon? Or are we just so desperate that we force ourselves to believe? Even though I have been doing much better since my T onset, I feel like I can speak for all of us when I say that silence would be incredible! Thanks!

 

Thanks a lot @Markku. I must've skimmed over this thread. Fingers crossed on this end as well.

 

AM101

How a jab in your ear could banish tinnitus for good? | Mail Online

So there might very well NOT be a window?
Or it might be 5 years?

Hope!


EDIT: Wait.. 2009!?

 

I wish I could react with Like, Optimistic, Hug and Smile and Creepy Evil Smile all at once!

Yeyey don't get your hopes up blablabla, sometimes I need a reason to be optimistic even if it doesn't lead to anything.

But 100% realistically, rationally, and non-wishful-thinking: This might work for people who have had T for a long time? I got it after noise which seems to be what it's primarily aiming to help.

 

I wonder if we can invest? If I get cured AND rich, Tinnitus would be the best thing that ever happened to me

 

Imagine AM101 works very well and most of us get relief from noise induced tinnitus, would you be more prompt to go to loud places and listen to crazy volume music ?

Or would you keep the same lifestyle and take care of your hearing ?

 

I would not be so scared to go to louder places anymore but if I would ever again go to a club or concert I would still be wearing ear plugs.And I would only go, if my tinnitus was completely cured.. What I wonder is if the Hyperacusis would go with the tinnitus

 

No but I never really liked that anyways so it's no loss. And that's why it's so bitter that I got it too. I went to ONE of those busses, it was enough.

I've never even been to a concert.

 

It said somewhere that AM101 will also protect from future T, so let's hope it's not like we're goung to ruin what it (maybe )does for after 1 year

 

Ma

Maybe that was exactly our problem. We never went much to loud stuff like parties,clubs or concerts before and then one time was enough for us. Other people in our age go clubbing at least once a week and never experience tinnitus..

 

Maybe... If I was more involved in that culture I'd also know that you NEED ear plugs on these busses

Here's the bus where I got T

 

I wonder how this is even allowed, the bus is just so little space and if it is packed with speakers and the music is played with 110 db ( which it probably is..) no wonder it ruins your ears. Even with ear plugs it's probably dangerous as hell ... Btw I thought that they hand out foam plugs in Scandinavia?

 

My story is similar. I've never been any loud concerts or anything, except one time and that was enough to cause my T...

I think my hearing was better than average before my T. Maybe that's the reason my hearing was damaged so easily.

 

Maybe i've been to 100 or more concerts but wore earplugs every time, i've seen plenty of amazing bands live but from the first concert i went to in the late 90's, most of the time i thought was it was painfully loud ... the mix was horrible, couldn't hear a damn thing... the earplugs rendered the shows OK but never like WOW this is crystal clear sound (ok maybe the gossip sounded pretty good )

But i'm quite bitter that maybe 90% never wear earplugs and still don't get tinnitus, that's quite puzzling. Usually it's people who make fun at you when you have earplugs who don't have it lol !


If AM101 works, i don't think i'll be going too much to concerts anymore, they are always too loud and i don't see that changing... in switzerland though it's 93db max, that's quite good imo

 

I went a concert once that maybe woul've given me T, but they handed out foam ear plugs.¨

So I've been to ONCE concert, only because I got free tickets, and it sucked balls. (skrillex lol)

I've seen both Louis CK and Ricky Gervais live tough, I enjoy stand up live more than music live

 

But that's a good thing I must admit - here really NOONE ever wears earplugs to concerts or in clubs, as stupid as it sounds but when I went to the concert I didn't even know that foamies would be an option because no one uses them and I never saw someone using them, I basically didn't know they existed. And of course they are never handed out..

 

Was your tinnitus noise induced?
You are right, there are people who go to concerts all the time and never get tinnitus I wonder how that works.mostly the same ones that listen to their iPod on highest volume all day long.

 

yes i think so, i'm a musician and an old amp "farted" in my left ear when i was EQing it in April 2013, i was just next to it, before i had 1 barotrauma from being sucked up in a wave while surfing and had a loud feedback from a rehearsal around 2010, both didn't cause permanent tinnitus but this last one is lasting quite long ...

what about yours ?

 

I've recently read an article that stated more than 40% of combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from noise induced tinnitus and it is one of the main problems that our veterans suffer from. The pentagon puts in more than a billion dollars worth of research each year to find a treatment for it.

It's good to know the government is backing up tinnitus research. It tends to be a trigger of PTSD fora lot of veterans who suffer from it.

 

If the iraq war leads to a tinnitus cure... Thank you Mr Bush haha

 

yes as I said, one time concert with bad acoustic (sounded really bad) and only tissue paper in my ears and that was it.... the Tinnitus never stopped since then.

 

That Thomas Meyer guy seems like a real good dude, glad he is heading the AM-101 thing and it's awesome that he's made an effort to communicate with us. Really hope the post-acute trials are successful.

 

Well I think I have found out what the 200 t researchers mean when they say they will find a cure in the near future. If the distant future is 100 to 1000 years.
Then the neear future could be 12 to 60 years

 

One day....some easy fix will appear....just not today.<G

The politicians need to work with the scientists to come up with the cause....environmental, mechanical, pharmaceutical, etc., and out law it before the populations are over run with tinnitus sufferers.

Actually overrun with treatments that are either brought about by good or bad intentions...but don't do anything more than drain the wallet.

 

Neurological conditions -- and that is what chronic tinnitus is, a brain disorder, not an ear disorder -- are hard to treat and hard to cure. Just look at how long they have been working on the same for Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, etc.

I think we soon will have better treatments that will help us turn down the volume, make us notice our tinnitus less, etc. But I think a complete cure is a long ways off. Not only because we are dealing with the brain but because of the complications Dan mentions above: politics, approval process, limited interest, limited research funding. Just my opinion.

That is why I choose to spend my time and energy focusing on managing my tinnitus -- and already there are many things that can help us -- rather than getting all worked up about when we will see a cure.