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Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by charleshn »

y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #47

This is pretty cool, but unfortunately I have somatic tinnitus, so this doesn't work as well. The frequency/tone is very dynamic with my version of tinnitus and I can even change it by moving or massaging my neck (especially at the base of my skull) in certain ways. The good news is that also means there are brief windows of time where I have zero tinnitus because my neck and muscles are in a position to temporarily…

I can relate.

I had tinnitus for over 10 years. My tinnitus was not the usual ringing type, it was some sort of humming, low frequency noise. The frequency was not constant, it could vary. It could sometimes stop for 5-10 minutes, e.g. after a hot bath.

Went to see many specialists, tried everything, to no avail.

One day I started experiencing recurrent tension and light pain in my neck and shoulder blades, so I started doing some neck and shoulder blades stretches several times a day.

After a few weeks, the pain was gone, and I realised the tinnitus had stopped. This was maybe 2 years ago (I am still doing those exercises multiple times a day).

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by pfortuny »

Aurornis wrote: post #25
tombert wrote: post #6

I've had tinnitus in my left ear for about six months now. I was hoping it was the result of an earwax impaction or something, but after having several specialists look at my ears, test my hearing, and getting an MRI to check for tumors, the overwhelming medical consensus of the cause appears to be "I dunno", and at this point I have given up on it being temporary. About 95% of the time, I can fairly easily just tune…

Once the major (though exceedingly rare) problems have been ruled out, the best course of action is to start learning to live with it. It’s not what anyone wants to hear, but it’s the pragmatic approach that works best from everything I’ve seen. The people who become involved in tinnitus forums, support groups, and chasing experimental treatments think they’re helping themselves but they’re really only bringing it to…

Meditation, despite being a common trope, has helped me accept it too.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by manoDev »

tombert wrote: post #59
manoDev wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel you. Here’s things you can try (in this order): - Cut stimulant use (coffee, energy drinks) and alcohol - Drink plenty of water - Check blood pressure - Talk to a dentist and check if you grind teeth or suffer from jaw stiffness - Supplement Magnesium (chelated/glycinate, 300mg/day) I’m ignoring issues of the ear canal (wax, secretions) since you mentioned it. Studies point to tinnitus being either caused by c…

I don't drink alcohol at all and haven't for quite awhile, and my blood pressure is pretty low and hasn't changed significantly. I did try cutting out caffeine entirely for several months (and the tinnitus actually started when I wasn't haven't any caffeine at all). I do very slightly grind my teeth in my sleep, but in this particular case the problem is basically solved (at least at the dental level) because I have…

Yeah, caffeine is not the cause per se - the thing is it has both vasoconstriction and vasodilation effects at different times, so it can mess with blood vessels in the inner ear. It totally makes sense if you get tinnitus when you cut caffeine after your body is used to it.

Magnesium plays a part on vasodilation regulation as well, and many people are silently deficient on it. It’s hard to detect deficiency w/ blood samples, because the body works hard to keep blood concentration stable. You will know you do if you get muscle cramps or twitches.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by mrblah »

tombert wrote: post #6

I've had tinnitus in my left ear for about six months now. I was hoping it was the result of an earwax impaction or something, but after having several specialists look at my ears, test my hearing, and getting an MRI to check for tumors, the overwhelming medical consensus of the cause appears to be "I dunno", and at this point I have given up on it being temporary. About 95% of the time, I can fairly easily just tune…

this is anecdotal and not medical advice, but i reduced my tinnitus symptoms by ~90% by taking therapeutic doses (1200-1800mg/day) of benfotiamine (fat soluble form of vitamin b1) over the course of a month and a half.

i was taking it for unrelated nerve pain and was very surprised that my sense of smell and hearing also remarkably improved, to the point where i needed to reduce the long standing 'known' audio levels of all my various listening gadgets a few clicks. the ringing was a little worse for the first couple weeks, but then reduced a couple more weeks, then almost completely stopped 1 day.

from what i gather, high doses of the fat soluble form of vitamin b1 can repair nerves and is used as first line therapy in some countries for neuropathy, chronic pain and even alzheimers.

i'm sure it won't help everyone, i can't even find any solid research on tinnitus and benfotiamine, but putting this out in the ether since it is a cheap and relatively safe thing to try, i was completely surprised by this nice off-label side effect (it did help with my nerve pain as well). there is much more research based evidence on benfotiamine therapy for other nerve problems, and it follows that hearing and smell would also be affected, it's all nerves, good luck

edit * adding if you are taking high doses of benfotiamine, you should also be taking magnesium with it, i just took zma (zinc, magnesium and b6) at bedtime *

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by hollerith »

tptacek wrote: post #15
emil-lp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy an air purifier, like IKEA FÖRNUFTIG.

Air purifier white noise is the best . I don't know what it is about it.

Agreed (provided it is a sufficiently large air purifier like Austin Air's Healthmate).

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by conception »

janmo wrote: post #20

The only way to temporarely get rid of my tinnitus (completely gone or at least very reduced for up to 30 seconds) is to listen to this beep tone from 8 to 12 KHZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k apparently the phenomenon is called residual inhibition. If only there was a way to make this work permanently...

https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc?si=PoDNVQ4ox24_RW-l

Also works pretty great. If I need a few minutes of actual silence I use that. I think people using TENS and other therapies are basically stimulating the same nerves to treat it.

Re: Tinnitus Neuromodulator

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Post by bsimpson »

guilamu wrote: post #23
tombert wrote: post #6

I've had tinnitus in my left ear for about six months now. I was hoping it was the result of an earwax impaction or something, but after having several specialists look at my ears, test my hearing, and getting an MRI to check for tumors, the overwhelming medical consensus of the cause appears to be "I dunno", and at this point I have given up on it being temporary. About 95% of the time, I can fairly easily just tune…

A message of hope. I got mine in my 30's too. The first week I thought I was going crazy, and this was the end of my life. I was shocked, I couldn't go to work for a whole week. I then saw a doctor who said to me: "Man, I've got tinnitus since 20 years and I barely hear it anymore. The more you accept it, the more it'll fade." A decade later, my own experience is exactly this. I accepted it as one of the body malfunc…

I've always been someone who hears high pitched noises that "normal" people don't. I'm also in my 30s, and I'm sure those "teenage alarms" in Japan would work on me. I was the one who would walk up to a CRT and turn it off when everyone else thought it already was.

What helped me accept (and ignore) tinnitus was realizing that I had already grown accustomed to tolerating that sound indoors. When's it's something you have no agency over (like "it's an old house and the wires just make that sound sometimes"), you learn it's part of the environment.

Accepting it as part of the environment gets you past the "OMG my body is ruined forever" anxieties and back to normal life.

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