What We Are Willing to Endure to Heal

Take a look at this article found today from the Maastricht University.

Link: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/portal/files/27840393/v6119.pdf

Or attached file:

 

“The impact on patients varies from a not-bothersome form (in 24% of the cases) to a form in which tinnitus plagues a patient all day long (17%) (Axelsson and Ringdahl, 1989).

Tinnitus-related societal costs in The Netherlands are estimated to add up to 6.8 billion euro per year. From these costs, health care costs of tinnitus were 1.9 billion euro, the rest is mainly related to productivity losses. The tinnitus-related health care costs account for 2.3% of the total Dutch healthcare expenditure (Maes et al., 2013).

Approximately 40% of the patients expressed that they were willing to undergo invasive neuromodulatory treatments such as DBS. For example, the risk of deafness and death were accepted as side effects by respectively 33% and 19% of the patients, when only a 50% tinnitus remission is expected.

A quarter of the patients is willing to pay more than 20 times their monthly income for treatment if complete tinnitus elimination is given in prospect. “​

Wow.

 

Tinnitus must be the illness with perhaps the highest revenue for the one that finds a cure/treatment for it.

 

@Frédéric
A series of massive curcumin enemas?

 

20 times?? I'd pay 2000 times. I consider myself a very responsible person but I'd take out loans from every bank in the world and pay anything. I'd gladly work for as many years as it took to pay it back.

 

Ugh.

 

6 bone marrow extractions from the iliac crests, 72 injections of PRP, bone marrow, and a couple other things right up in the eardrum?

 

WHAT.

@JohnAdams

That's a lot.

 

Kill or cure. Someone offers you a treatment and it's guaranteed to either cure your tinnitus or kill you stone dead, with a 50/50 chance. Would you take it? I'd snap their hand off.

 

I'll be honest, nope . Maybe for my other conditions but not this one, noise or no noise, I have family who wouldn't want me to risk my life this way. To each their own and all that

 

If a company invented a pill tomorrow which would either kill you or cure you, with the odds at 95 % for cure and 5 % for death, the FDA wouldn't let you take that pill. They'd force you to eat sh*t for another two decades.

 

Probably yes. It's one thing saying you would in a theoretical scenario like this and another actually doing it when presented with the option in real life. But for me personally I'd probably risk it. I'm so tired and fed up with this condition. The only thing keeping me from eating a bullet right now is the hope of something coming in the coming 5-10 years. Because if I were really convinced that this is for life, which would mean another 40-50 years for me, I'd just put myself out misery right away.

 

There would be a 100% chance of no longer having to listen to T.