Moderate Alcohol Consumption Has Protective Effect on Hearing

Some good news

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438380/

 

I'm new to this, but I believe an occasional glass of wine will help tinnitus.

I want to share something else. I read about this man who was cured of his tinnitus by wearing a cervical collar. He had tinnitus for 20 years and was told there was nothing he could do.

My tinnitus is coming from the neck, cervicogenic, so I decided to try it. I put the cervical collar on for about 8 hours yesterday and my tinnitus was gone.

Unfortunately, this morning it came back, but now it is reduced by about 50% (2:45 p.m.) I plan to keep on trying it and hope to improve even more. I know my tinnitus was caused by bad posture and sitting by a computer for long periods of time.

 

Hi @Tata, have you improved more?

 

@Tata How did you find out that your tinnitus was coming from the neck

 

Well that's great news for me haha

 

I don't understand how certain beers have different effects for me. Some beers lowers T, others heightens it, overall it feels like mild alcohol consumption treats T.

 

When I had a little alcohol months after my T began, my T had switched ears(!)

 

I feel it has to do with GABA pathways. When I took Trobalt it also influences the GABA and gives a mellowed and relaxed view on life. You have more trust and confidence things are ok. Similar to Alcohol. So these pathways influence emotional responding and stress and we all know these are interlinked with Tinnitus awareness.

 

I'd like someone who had T and H to like me, get in touch. I'm in category 4 of Jastreboff, any noise increases my tinnitus and it does not return to the level it was before. I do not see anyone like that on the forum, everyone says there are good and bad days. I only have the bad days and it gets worse and worse.
Sincerely,

Tamara

 

When I have enough, I don't hear it, or, it goes both ears.

 

I have more bad days than good but I have found if I have a couple of drinks and listen to music or watch TV for a couple hours T quite often goes away and even some times not come back for another day which helps me get some sleep because with T it is hard to get to sleep.

 

Has anyone found anything else that helps with the noise? I notice when I drink corona it gets louder.

 

This is still not working for us guys?

 

Yeah,..I've convinced myself to believe that too and also that some good quality chocolate just has to be good for T.....

 

Bill, ...I knew that T could be unpredictable but that might just be one for the record books!...

 

I don't find this very compelling. I will give them credit for separating out former drinkers into their own cohort, since that's often a problem with these kind of studies -- but the difference they're showing between abstainers and moderate drinkers is less than 2.1db, and the moderate drinker group has 5 times as many people in it.

Even if these numbers held up 100% for much larger sample groups, 2db doesn't strike me as a compelling reason to have 1-2 drinks a day. Personally, I do like to drink about that much, but I'm not kidding myself -- alcohol is a dose dependent carcinogen, and purported cardiovascular benefits are controversial, in some cases relying on questionable data (for instance, treating former drinkers as non-drinkers).

 

One or two glasses of wine knocks my tinnitus on the head for hours. Has done right from first onset.