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Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by beanders »

detritus wrote: post #25
adampk wrote: post #6

Does anyone know if this can finally be a treatment for tinnitus? I would love to hear silence again.

I've got pretty bad - although not constant - tinnitus in my left ear after a particularly loud NYE too late in life. What I find interesting though, is that I distinctly remember as a young kid living in the countryside that I found it impossible to hear absolute silence. I distinctly remember sitting on a bale of hay on a bright summer's day with not even a breeze and the quieter I perceived things, the louder a 'T…

Wow, I thought I was the only one with the TV thing! I remember it as young as 4-5, but no one knew what I was talking about. I’ve had constant minor tinnitus since then, so I can’t help but feeling like there’s a CRT near my head that has been running since the early nineties.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by civilized »

kradeelav wrote: post #48
civilized wrote: post #46

We recently learned that my daughter is completely deaf in one ear. She is a very happy healthy girl otherwise, but it makes me sad to know that currently we have no therapy and she could live her whole life like this. But maybe there will be something for her in a few years.

Hey there - speaking as somebody who was born profoundly deaf but has been hearing 30+ years later thanks to the use of a cochlear implant (CI) and auditory-verbal training, and almost always at the point that people off the street don't realize that I have it ... there's options out there, she doesn't have to live with that constraint. Would highly encourage you to look into the technology there at bare minimum. (Th…

Thank you so much! I am very interested in CI. Currently we're waiting for our appointments with the ENT but I hear so much good about it, I'm hoping we can move this forward as soon as possible. I will definitely be in touch.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by vemv »

Earlier this week I started feeling hearing discomfort for certain textures of sounds - namely those metallic or screeching.

I don't feel pain or ringing but those sounds definitely irritate me in a disproportionate way.

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

(I have a specialist appointment in the way but I'm quite anxious in the meantime)

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by samstave »

lr4444lr wrote: post #4

Disclosure: I own FREQ stock. The failure of the prior trial was suspected, and I believe it, due to a refractory response by overdosing the inner ear with too frequent administrations of the drug, and then testing for effect too soon. I bet even those candidates of the phase IIa trial though would, if checked on now, show some improvement. Animal research has shown that natural cochlear hair cell regeneration and re…

I have increasing;y bad tinnitus. Will this help with that?

I hear a permanent and constant low-volume very high pitch "squeal" in my ears at all times,

I was never a big loud music listener, and I have always brought ear-plugs to loud events - and have had no big ear-rupturing moments (such as a gun firing close to my head without protection etc...

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by biellls »

samstave wrote: post #54
lr4444lr wrote: post #4

Disclosure: I own FREQ stock. The failure of the prior trial was suspected, and I believe it, due to a refractory response by overdosing the inner ear with too frequent administrations of the drug, and then testing for effect too soon. I bet even those candidates of the phase IIa trial though would, if checked on now, show some improvement. Animal research has shown that natural cochlear hair cell regeneration and re…

I have increasing;y bad tinnitus. Will this help with that? I hear a permanent and constant low-volume very high pitch "squeal" in my ears at all times, I was never a big loud music listener, and I have always brought ear-plugs to loud events - and have had no big ear-rupturing moments (such as a gun firing close to my head without protection etc...

I would be interested to know that too. I imagine it would depend on the kind of tinnitus as it can be independent on hearing loss.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by loceng »

DantesKite wrote: post #16

For anybody suffering with tinnitus I highly recommend the protocol William Shatner went through. You can train your brain so it’s not noticeable any more. Like wearing pants, it fades into the background.

Berard Auditory Integration Training and the Tomatis Method are also worth looking into depending on what's going on; a book called "Hearing Equals Behaviour: Updated and Expanded" goes into detail on the above treatments.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by derekp7 »

neals wrote: post #28
DantesKite wrote: post #16

For anybody suffering with tinnitus I highly recommend the protocol William Shatner went through. You can train your brain so it’s not noticeable any more. Like wearing pants, it fades into the background.

Thanks, now I feel my pants

Reminds me of the Aware of Tongue Peanuts cartoon strip from way back when.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by depressionalt »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #34

I really hope this could also help revert tinnitus. This is a life wrecking condition that currently has no cure (suicide attempts 9% for women with severe tinnitus and 5.5% for men).

Can people please stop posting this in every tinnitus thread? It’s an actual trigger that makes tinnitus worse for others. There’s nothing useful brought upon by falsely correlating suicidal and tinnitus, and in fact it creates some major negative externalities by making folks have massive tinnitus flare ups or even trigger suicidal ideation.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by kaybe »

smooc wrote: post #36
detritus wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got pretty bad - although not constant - tinnitus in my left ear after a particularly loud NYE too late in life. What I find interesting though, is that I distinctly remember as a young kid living in the countryside that I found it impossible to hear absolute silence. I distinctly remember sitting on a bale of hay on a bright summer's day with not even a breeze and the quieter I perceived things, the louder a 'T…

O that's interesting. I was able to do the same (tv, refrigerator, etc). I also lived country side and I have hearing loss (35db) and tinnitus (sometimes? moderate?) in my left ear, but seemingly due to a virus infection. I have never encountered someone else that was able to hear whether a tv was on or not. At what distance could you do that?

Some of them used to make noise. Ours stopped for a while when you gave it a whack from above.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by aaaaaaaaaaab »

detritus wrote: post #25
adampk wrote: post #6

Does anyone know if this can finally be a treatment for tinnitus? I would love to hear silence again.

I've got pretty bad - although not constant - tinnitus in my left ear after a particularly loud NYE too late in life. What I find interesting though, is that I distinctly remember as a young kid living in the countryside that I found it impossible to hear absolute silence. I distinctly remember sitting on a bale of hay on a bright summer's day with not even a breeze and the quieter I perceived things, the louder a 'T…

I had the same experience when visiting an anechoic chamber. I think the explanation is that without external stimuli, your brain cranks up the input gain to the max, at which point you begin to hear the ambient "neural noise" from your auditory circuitry. People taking DMT or ayahuasca also often experience an extremely high-pitched sound as the drug kicks in, which also suggests a neurological basis for the phenomenon.
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