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Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by samstave »

jacquesm wrote: post #180
samstave wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Try masking sounds. Your brain has an amazingly capable AGC and absent other sound it can create sound out of just about nothing including sounds that aren't there. Playing very (-30 dB) soft white noise may be just enough to stop your brain from doing its thing and after a short while the white noise itself will fade into the background. This helped me tremendously when I had a nasty case of tinnitus myself (which l…

I do.

But, I also enjoy being in silence.

Silence arrested by tinnitus.

I would enjoy a more meditative state... yet, tinnitus.

(Yes, I have tried "meditating it away")

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Aside: I love you.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by moneywoes »

zackmorris wrote: post #72
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.

I had tinnitus in my left ear, but it turned out to be related to TMJ, and it resolved after I wore an advanced lightwire functional (ALF) appliance for maybe 3-6 months to move my jaw back into a forward position. I had braces and wore headgear as a kid at the height of some 1980s hysteria about overbites that left millions of people like me with class II malocclusion (baby face) and sleep apnea. I'm having trouble…

Any suggestions for someone with an overbite? I went to some orthos who recommended removing two premolars, others suggesting jaw surgery. in the end I went to elastics + invsialign though I can't seem but to feel that the elastics are doing nothing

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by ddingus »

l8rlump wrote: post #194
ddingus wrote: post #140

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Yup. Agreed. Maybe the 4khz range is what was emphasized on older audio gear. I am thinking about the great overall impact that gear delivered is intriguing to me.

I think I've read something about the brain being able to use harmonics of the frequencies in question to "reconstruct" what's lacking. IIRC this is how Waves MaxBass works. This could be an added effect of your tube gear, which will be generating more harmonic content.

Maybe!

Another thought I had is how filters differ from an organic lack of response. Filtering wide band audio introduces artifacts. Those can be heard on AM every day in the US in the stations using brick wall type 5Khz filters.

A wideband signal run through something with low response is different!

And the cutoff matters.

No matter what the gear, a 5khz cutoff is crappy. 8khz can be good, and 10 can be hard for many to tell given good gear and quality source audio.

Once, I was able to listen to a great jazz recording on a older tube stereo. 50's era gear.

Playing vinyl on it was a terrible experience for both the listener and the vinyl. A recording done on tape was kind of amazing! The device was mone, pretty sure was a Zenith, and it had a cool baffle system on the speaker. One "tuned it for the room" by pulling a knob in and out. That shaped the low and mid range.

Was better than I would expect for that overall bandwidth.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by wrycoder »

CyanDeparture wrote: post #195

I'm in the rare category here, but I've got around 50% hearing loss and I love it. I can't hear alarms, or dogs, or radios etc. It's fantastic for living in the city. I've tried a hearing aid and it's like... "this is awful". I just put one in for tv or the theater or parties and that's about it.

All us old geezers are good at being conveniently deaf.

And at turning off the aids, if the old bat starts chattering excessively.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by mixmastamyk »

hirvi74 wrote: post #173
124816 wrote: post #74

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There can be other causes besides noise exposure, like TMJ/teeth grinding which can affect the nerves.

I feel much better about getting a custom mouthguard for my bruxism now. Also, in case anyone is wondering, it was well worth the insane price for a piece of molded plastic.

Mouth guards for American football, customized by heating and biting them, are pretty cheap in my experience. Not sure how workable they are for other issues.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by egberts1 »

khnov wrote: post #192
luminaobscura wrote: post #139

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I lost one of my ears in a high fever episode when i was a child. I guess what you wrote means i shouldn't get my hopes up for these kind of treatments :(

I lost me left ear hearing capability when I was a child, never remember when, But don't know how. (I remember now that I had some fever) How did you know that your hearing loss was due to fever ?

On about hearing loss by bacterial infections, many medical journals covered this.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by egberts1 »

egberts1 wrote: post #200
khnov wrote: post #192

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I lost me left ear hearing capability when I was a child, never remember when, But don't know how. (I remember now that I had some fever) How did you know that your hearing loss was due to fever ?

Medical records

Mine, that is.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by zackmorris »

moneywoes wrote: post #202
zackmorris wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had tinnitus in my left ear, but it turned out to be related to TMJ, and it resolved after I wore an advanced lightwire functional (ALF) appliance for maybe 3-6 months to move my jaw back into a forward position. I had braces and wore headgear as a kid at the height of some 1980s hysteria about overbites that left millions of people like me with class II malocclusion (baby face) and sleep apnea. I'm having trouble…

Any suggestions for someone with an overbite? I went to some orthos who recommended removing two premolars, others suggesting jaw surgery. in the end I went to elastics + invsialign though I can't seem but to feel that the elastics are doing nothing

Just ask yourself: does the encouragement of such non-holistic practices as removing healthy teeth sound more like science or quackery?

To shed some light on what's going on here, I feel that the Herbst appliance is the best up through the late teenage years, but notice how info on it is behind a kind of industry blacklist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst_Appliance

As of this writing on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, the above Wikipedia entry is blank. That's what I mean about the programmer in me smelling so many code smells here that something doesn't add up.

IMHO what's going on is that the practice of orthodontics was created before things like dental implants went mainstream or were even thought feasible. So today, rather than headgear, it's better to just install the temporary anchorage devices (TAD) that I mentioned, then use a more consistently-applied force from bands or screws to move any tooth exactly where it needs to go. I feel that orthodontists who are reluctant to do this haven't kept up with the literature, or are afraid to do work outside of the niche they're comfortable in, indicating that their professional development work might have fallen behind.

In short, get a second opinion and/or find a better orthodontist.

But it sounds like you're on a good track. Just remember that you're moving roots (not teeth), so bigger teeth take longer because they have more. Also you're moving a lot of teeth, so each one has to move a millimeter, then the next, and so on. So molars may take an order of magnitude longer to move than smaller teeth.

I'll likely need one of these techniques to close my gaps, even though they're from new bone growth from the ALF instead of lost teeth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSjUiFeK6M0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJG2v5oLb8

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by zackmorris »

skybrian wrote: post #111
zackmorris wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had tinnitus in my left ear, but it turned out to be related to TMJ, and it resolved after I wore an advanced lightwire functional (ALF) appliance for maybe 3-6 months to move my jaw back into a forward position. I had braces and wore headgear as a kid at the height of some 1980s hysteria about overbites that left millions of people like me with class II malocclusion (baby face) and sleep apnea. I'm having trouble…

I'm curious, how was TMJ diagnosed?

Sorry, poor wording on my part, I meant something related to a bad bite (like TMJ). I had worn a joint on one side like a bad knee, but not the other. So the ALF realigned my bite by making room for the teeth to be where they wanted to be, so the joint could open back up. Good point though, my situation might be something unrelated, and I don't know if there's a correlation between TMJ and tinnitus.

Re: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

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Post by janeerie »

mparnisari wrote: post #193

This is great news but i wish there was a solution for congenital hearing loss. I'm starting to believe it will never happen and it makes me so sad.

So true. My son was born with severe hearing loss, and for 5 years we have heard treatment was on the horizon.

His hearing has now declined to the point where he needs a cochlear implant, and I worry that if we do that and a treatment is eventually developed, he might not benefit from it. However, I think it would be foolish to wait. Gene therapy seems like the only hope, and I don't think there have been great developments in that area.

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