good stuff, mate. it's been 8 goddamn years since my right ear ngiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings all the time. I'm fine with waiting for another or two 8 years, but please, show some result. pretty please with cherry on top.
Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
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Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#12Cue all the top comments about why this isn’t news, or how we’re no closer to a cure. I’ve just accepted that there won’t be a cure anytime soon, and come to terms with it. Would love to be proven wrong, but I think they’ll find a cure for tinnitus when they can cure baldness and cancer.
I don't think that's a very good comparison. Cancer strikes at the very heart of what we are (a bunch of cells which are expected to cooperate and sometimes don't). Compared with that, tinnitus seems pretty hackable.
Baldness seems like a good comparison, though, given how hearing involves hair in the inner ear. Cancer is thousands of different disorders so it’s unlikely there will ever be a single cure; making hair grow where we want it is a simpler task.
Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that's a very good comparison. Cancer strikes at the very heart of what we are (a bunch of cells which are expected to cooperate and sometimes don't). Compared with that, tinnitus seems pretty hackable.
Baldness seems like a good comparison, though, given how hearing involves hair in the inner ear. Cancer is thousands of different disorders so it’s unlikely there will ever be a single cure; making hair grow where we want it is a simpler task.
It's cilia, not hair, growing from the hair cells in the inner ear.
Other than that nitpick, sure.
Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#14Cue all the top comments about why this isn’t news, or how we’re no closer to a cure. I’ve just accepted that there won’t be a cure anytime soon, and come to terms with it. Would love to be proven wrong, but I think they’ll find a cure for tinnitus when they can cure baldness and cancer.
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Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#15Cue all the top comments about why this isn’t news, or how we’re no closer to a cure. I’ve just accepted that there won’t be a cure anytime soon, and come to terms with it. Would love to be proven wrong, but I think they’ll find a cure for tinnitus when they can cure baldness and cancer.
Diseases without the possibility of animal testing are going to take a long time.
You could study auditory nerve regeneration in animals, it would just be difficult to determine whether or not it cures any tinnitus that they have.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> we can cure many many forms of cancer We can try. Sometimes the cancer doesn't come back, and sometimes it does, and in no case do we understand why. This is not what most people mean by "cure".
Earnest curiosity - when someone is cured of cancer, and it comes back, is that different from me being cured of the flu and then catching the flu again later? Obviously it's different sorts of malady, but is it that the same cancer comes back, or is it just that if you had kidney cancer once, it's likely you might get it again? Or do we just not know enough about cancer to say/it varies on the sort of cancer? It's n…
You don't typically catch cancer riding the bus.
Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#18Can't wait. With me it is ups-and-downs, at times it's great for months at a stretch and sometimes it is so bad I can't listen to music (or play). There are many different forms of tinnitus and usually some mechanism or cure operates only on a fraction of all cases so I'm hoping that this is as broad as possible. Note to younger self: stay away from loud concerts.
Sorry to hear. You’re not alone and I’m constantly surprised to learn how many people I know are dealing with hearing concerns once I started talking about mine more.
My note to younger self is similar: get great earplugs and use them diligently.
Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#19Cue all the top comments about why this isn’t news, or how we’re no closer to a cure. I’ve just accepted that there won’t be a cure anytime soon, and come to terms with it. Would love to be proven wrong, but I think they’ll find a cure for tinnitus when they can cure baldness and cancer.
Diseases without the possibility of animal testing are going to take a long time.
You could probably be possible to create an animal model by destroying some hearing cells/sensors in the ear.
As for creating a device to detect what the animal "hears", similar to how there's some research that used fmri with machine learning to "see dreams",it might be possible to do that for animal hearing.
Re: Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
#20Can't wait. With me it is ups-and-downs, at times it's great for months at a stretch and sometimes it is so bad I can't listen to music (or play). There are many different forms of tinnitus and usually some mechanism or cure operates only on a fraction of all cases so I'm hoping that this is as broad as possible. Note to younger self: stay away from loud concerts.
Have you been on antibiotics since you had it? If so, did it make it any worse?
I have a slight case of tinnitus and need to do a 2 week round of neomycin. Doctor says it shouldn't make it worse since it's a short course, but I'm still concerned/anxious about it.