Hi, I am Lina

Hello to everyone in this forum!

Firstly, I found this forum way too informative and I would like to congratulate all of the creators and participants for the courage and persistence they show.

Now regarding the introducing part...My name is Lina and I am a 25 year old Biologist from Greece. My tinnitus started approximately 4 years ago, the next day after a rehearsal in a music studio. The truth is that in my case, tinnitus was a gradual phenomenon, that started since I was 10-11 and listened music loudly on my headphones .

Well, as the majority of people who experience this, I was really freaked out at first, and as a result, I visited 3 different doctors in order to get a solution to my problem. The diagnoses didn't include hearing loss , and that is something for which I consider myself lucky. After 5-6 months, the tinnitus symptoms were alleviated in a manner where I didn't pay attention to the buzzing sound anymore. I finished my studies, did a lot of exercise, went out with friends ,found new hobbies, and all of those contributed to my tinnitus management. Of course I stopped listening to loud music, and started wearing high quality earplugs whenever I went to concerts or participated in my own concerts.

Now I guess that I am experiencing a spike, because my tinnitus slightly changed its sound level. Considering my past week's schedule, I can tell that this is mostly provoked by a lack of sleep. Especially in the morning my ears seem clogged up and I hear the buzzing quite intensely. Do you think that this can be something else than just a simple spike?

Thanks in advance to all of you
Hopefully the biological and medical advancements will lead to a permanent cure for tinnitus

 

Welcome Lina,

Sorry to see you here, but still glad to meet you There have been some medical breakthroughs recently. But tinnitus research could always use another biologist so who knows, maybe it's something you'll be interested in researching down the line

 

It is nice meeting you too

Is any of the medical breakthroughs you mention efficient? I only read about stem cells and Neuromodulation, and among the others I think that the latter consists of the most proponents.

I didn't mention it in the first place, but indeed tinnitus was a catalyst for my future orientation and as a result, I am going towards to the field of Neurobiology for a Master and hopefully afterwards for a PhD.

 

Good news Yes, well, Auris Medical apparently came up with a ketamine derivative (AM-101), that reduces tinnitus a little. Personally I think they're way off.

I'm a former engineer, now physics student with a long time interest in neurology/neurobiology, a mate of mine went on to study neuroscience at McGill, I was always envious of him Since I'm a physics major I jumped on LLLT research and have noticed something I'm not willing to divulge yet. On the side I do some entrepreneuring.
I have reserved a lab for study this Juli and bought private equipment for some private research. Should my treatments fail then I'll probably just scrap the data and focus on the brain-stem evoked signal technology for easy objective diagnostics of tinnitus.

Then there are two molecular biologists here, and some more people, with which I have seriously started thinking about stem cell treatments. I think everyone finds it increasingly interesting, especially since we have someone here who has done a stemcell treatment and it has worked exceedingly well.
However, we don't have access to a biological lab, and someone that does, and could perhaps point us to some second hand equipment, or some agent suppliers, would be very, very, very dear to us all
We generally also find it helpful to share papers, I for example only have subscriptions to all ScienceDirect journals at home (Elsevier, Nature..). If you had a subscription to the bulk of biology journals, that'be great

So, if you're interested in tinnitus professionally, you've come to the right place. First one to cure tinnitus gets the prize

 

If a cure is ever found, it will probably be a tinnitus sufferer that finds it.