Announcement Introducing Knowledge Base

It's still very much a work in progress.

In short the Knowledge Base aims to gather a few important topics regarding tinnitus into one place.

Members won't be able to create new threads there (replying to the existing threads is up for consideration), as the material posted there is meant to be sort of "static", and each article will be maintained by our forum staff.

KB is a concise, special section of information where one can find answers to frequently asked questions, so to speak. Plus tips and advice.


Do you have any suggestions for articles/topics that we should cover?

And what do you think about the idea itself?


Thanks,
Markku

 

Its a great idea. I liked the other one too about having a section on things you can do in the very early days. That could really save someone having to suffer.

 

Excellent idea.

At the start I wish I'd known about the different drugs that can help or worsen T - not necessarily factual stuff as we can look that up on the net - but personal experiences of the drugs and whether they lowered T & also the side effects. My GP was hopeless and you feel completely lost.

Also what we tests we might want to ask for - such as the Tympanometry test (which I didn't have) and perhaps also treatments... things like the oxygen therapy that Louise is doing.

Food and drink that spike T would have been incredibly useful.

But most of all I'd like to have been able to see a great long list of people who were off the rails at the start (like I was) and got back on them - not necessarily better but able to cope.

It really is difficult to find things in the forum - I often try to find something I remember reading and can't.

 

Good points.

We just must get something together for what can be tried in those first weeks, days even, to stop this thing. It can be done if you jump on it. I know steroid injections can help if you do it quick (there was a recent post on that). Also the HBO (the German nbr 1 therapy in the first 3 months). And Joe I think it was made a post about something they do regularly in Japan in the first few days of someone getting T and it is very, very sucessful. I remember Joe saying it just shows what you can do if you catch it early enough. I knew I had T the next day after that band I watched and if I'd had the information then who knows where I might be today....

 

Just seen Markkus post on Shuffles thread about the Knowledge Base. Markku I think it should be restricted to staff only for the updates. Maybe also with something that a person could post a question to the staff on after they've read something.
I've just had a look at the Base. I like it but could there be a really clearly marked thread for NEW T people to read for the most proven therapies to do quickly after the onset? Im thinking more of acoustic trauma with this. With some of the stuff you only have a window of opportunity of a matter of DAYS to get the treatment after acoustic trauma.

 

PS. Thanks for the masking tracks, I'll be looking into those tomorrow.

 

I understand your feelings on this Markku. Hope the stress has subsided