MuteButton

0 words about how it works....

 

@Jahhsoul

This is one of those methods that mixes sound therapy with some nervous system stimulation. They usually looks for increasing neuroplasticity to amplify sound therapy effects. There is another similar device (SaluSTIM). I have not heard of any great user reviews.

 

Kind of hesitant to bump up this thread - like many here I am extremely skeptical about Mutebutton - but it seems the company is setting up a trial in Dublin: http://tinnitustrials.ie/

Not sure whether to sign up for it or not. On one hand I'm curious in a trainwreck sort of way. On the other hand I'm not sure I can be arsed.

 

@IreneO ive applied but probably won't get in I've only had for 10 weeks

 

@Cillian Worth trying, I guess!

 

@IreneO are you Irish ?

 

Anyone believe Mutebutton would benefit someone with mild T?

Has anyone tried Mutebutton?

 

I've had T for two years now. I think I might give it a go!

 

I applied for the clinical trial and have just received a PFO e-mail stating that I failed to meet their (undisclosed) criteria. Hmmm. Maybe they don't want people with actual post-habituation tinnitus messing up their figures?

 

When is the trial commencing

 

It's commencing as we speak Debs,although it's an extremely hard trial to get into,almost everyone I know myself included who applied for the trial have been refused for reasons that weren't made clear.

 

I've applied two weeks ago and still haven't received an email back.. I wonder what that means?

 

They promise a response in two weeks. I got one after a month. As far as I know, no-one from this forum who applied has been accepted. Not that that means you won't be, although it's impossible to say given that they haven't disclosed their criteria.

 

They're very strict for some reason and very obscure with their responses from personal experience with them.I have the phone number for St.James hospital in Dublin if you'd like to try and call for more information.

 

I hope that this is not a scam trial! A legalized scam...

 

There are two studies listed on clinicaltrials.gov with the keyword MuteButton. You might be able to get some sense of the inclusion criteria from these studies though inclusion criteria could also be different for this trial.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resu...try3=&locn=&gndr=&rcv_s=&rcv_e=&lup_s=&lup_e=

What I find interesting is that the studies were in 2012-2013 but they were not included in clinicaltrials.gov until 2015.

 

From your experience with people you know, are they just not receiving emails back or are they being emailed that they are not being accepted? I'm curious.. The email I received said they'll reply within two weeks if I got through and they haven't in 2 1/2 weeks now..

 

Hmm, we'll see anyway!

 

From the people I've spoken to and including myself for that matter we all received an email back saying no without even asking us questions to see if we meet inclusion/exclusion criteria.

 

LoL I just had to quote this from the first page of the thread... oh how true...

 

They already created the device amd some add for it. Why do they wait 2018 to release it for the God's sake?

 

I think this is the report (abstract) of the study, released today : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ner.12452/full
as the Neuromod Devices company (owner of the Mute Button device) is mentioned.

Abstract
Objectives
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of an external auditory stimulus. It is widely believed that tinnitus, in patients with associated hearing loss, is a neurological phenomenon primarily affecting the central auditory structures. However, there is growing evidence for the involvement of the somatosensory system in this form of tinnitus. For this reason it has been suggested that the condition may be amenable to bi-modal stimulation of the auditory and somatosensory systems. We conducted a pilot study to investigate the feasibility and safety of a device that delivers simultaneous auditory and somatosensory stimulation to treat the symptoms of chronic tinnitus.

Methods
A cohort of 54 patients used the stimulation device for 10 weeks. Auditory stimulation was delivered via headphones and somatosensory stimulation was delivered via electrical stimulation of the tongue. Patient usage, logged by the device, was used to classify patients as compliant or noncompliant. Safety was assessed by reported adverse events and changes in tinnitus outcome measures. Response to treatment was assessed using tinnitus outcome measures: Minimum Masking Level (MML), Tinnitus Loudness Matching (TLM), and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI).

Results
The device was well tolerated by patients and no adverse events or serious difficulties using the device were reported. Overall, 68% of patients met the defined compliance threshold. Compliant patients (N = 30) demonstrated statistically significant improvements in mean outcome measures after 10 weeks of treatment: THI (−11.7 pts, p < 0.001), TLM (−7.5dB, p < 0.001), and MML (−9.7dB, p < 0.001). The noncompliant group (N = 14) demonstrated no statistical improvements.

Conclusion
This study demonstrates the feasibility and safety of a new bi-modal stimulation device and supports the potential efficacy of this new treatment for tinnitus.

 

I bet this device is likely to be similar in cost to Neuromonics.. Eg. Over $5k

 

Yes it's mutebutton:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ner.12452/full
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02426671?term=mutebutton&rank=2

Multimodal Stimulation
A combined auditory-somatosensory stimulator was employed in this study (mutebutton@™ model MB2011, Neuromod Devices Ltd., Dublin, Ireland).

 

Does this clinical trial now mean the device is back for purchase?

 

I was called for the initial interview to see if I was suited for the clinical trial of said mutebutton ,they informed me a week later that I was not suited no reason allthough mine was noise induced left ear hissing 24/7 ,I spoke to someone much older than me I'm 44 healthy otherwise she is in her sixties and bought the unit for €2,500 and said it made no difference so I wouldn't be expecting too much ,but wishing I could get some silence.....

 

Silence?? What is that?????

 

2018 mutebutton, version 2. Is it going to be worth waiting for, or just another flop? I aint holding my breath on that one.

 

I remember silence or do I? I was so used to it I never paid any attention to it.

 

Treatment is advancing! I believe we'll be able to drastically cure Tinnitus before 2025, I've read so much research and things like this and it just feels like we are so close to defeating T!!!