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Any hope to treat tinnitus? :-\
There with you:( ... and actually, scheduled to get that "Lenire" device in a couple of weeks. Hope works
The results are very promising, but it's sure taking its time getting approved.
I don’t think there is clinical level evidence for it, but there’s this thing called Trauma Releasing Exercise which apparently some people swear by. The idea is that you do extremely taxing, high neuromuscular-recruitment static holds etc - til the point of total muscle control loss that turns into widespread trembling. I would speculate that if a big part of feeling bad is getting stuck in a state where tension bec…
Just 9 patients. :-(
It is quite normal to start with small groups for economic reasons. If the first results look promising, you can scale up. If they are a wash, you haven't spent too much money on chasing yet another placebo.
Why not use EMDR instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...
Purely anecdotal, but EMDR was not helpful for me. I’d heard many good things about it and had high hopes, but found it somewhat counterproductive. I think this somewhat depends on the nature of the trauma leading to the PTSD (e.g. a one time major event vs. complex trauma over an extended period). I was dealing with the latter.
Why not use EMDR instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...
It may work, but there's essentially no evidence in the medical literature that it does.
see e.g. Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103017
State of the science: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (2024) https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.23012
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There with you:( ... and actually, scheduled to get that "Lenire" device in a couple of weeks. Hope works
It seems like a more effective bimodal stimulation device is winding its way through the FDA: https://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/1d0it8b/comment/l... The results are very promising, but it's sure taking its time getting approved.
I don't know how I feel about this. The nature of PTSD is that you have a true memory, that the event happened. Imagine if I tell you, 9/11 was real and it happened, but from now you will never feel any feeling about it. What exactly did we accomplish here? The bombings in Gaza are real, but from now on, you will feel nothing about it. You see? It reads like a dystopia. There's an obsession with erasing the past and…
Even the sensationalist headline talks "merely" about "erasing" PTSD: the stress disorder -- NOT the memories.
Until full processing and integration (which can take years, decades!), traumatic memories are LIVE and unprocessed memories; they are re-experienced as if it was happening NOW; again and again (see e.g.: fMRI studies show that they activate brain regions responsible to process the present, in stark contrast to normal memory recall). This is not comparable to "being reminded about a past event and having strong feelings about it". That is the goal. Not erasure as if nothing ever happened.