What Kind of Role Does the Pharmaceutical Industry Have in the Cure of Tinnitus?

Hello everybody

What kind of role does the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Cure of Tinnitus?

It is not a secret that the Pharmaceutical Industry want make money as much as they can.
But i think they can make much money with us. There are so many T sufferers out there.
If every Pill costs for example 50 Euros/Dollars is this not enough for them?

i heard cancer is cureable but they do not want to release the cure because it brings more money with lifetime sufferers.. Do they have not already enough money?

good day

 

Practically no role at the moment. Unfortunatelly it is the opposite - many drugs can cause T as a side effect. Big pharma is shifting it's focus to hearing disorders though, which is a good thing.

 

if drugs can cause tinnitus - than there must be a antidote...

 

Sorry if I sound like a die-hard cynic; but big pharma has zero interest in finding cures. I don't think the T market is big enough to motivate them.

 

heard something about 1.000.000.000 sufferers worldwide...
that is not enough?

 

Yes, there are millions (maybe even billions) of suffers, but T has a very wide range of suffering. Most of us on this site just happen to be in the severe range -- that number is comparatively small. Add to that the fact that T is not life threatening and then include it is unseen and quite subjective and it becomes very difficult to recruit big pharma.

Don't give up hope, there is a lot of R&D (real R&D) going on right now...

Mark

 

are you from new england?
i am a patriots fan in austria. i saw the super bowl and it was great

 

I claim no team (except maybe my hometown San Diego Chargers); but I'm glad the patriots won

 

the underlying mechanisms of tinnitus are still poorly understood, and things can probably go wrong at multiple stages in the auditory pathway, which probably makes it difficult to target with a universal method to silence it.

there are some good sounding theories around but no real way to manipulate T.

It would be a huge market no doubt, but walking around in a field with a needle at night trying to find a balloon to pop probably is too much of a long shot consuming lots of $$ for the pharma industry.

 

I agree with @Luca, I haven't seen a single 'functional' definition of T detailing all the etiologies, pathways, including all the dynamics and interactions of each the bio-mechanisms in the auditory system. Until they have something like that I don't think anyone can come up with a solution. It's impossible to solve a problem failing a concise problem definition.