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An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by earslap »

archsurface wrote: post #47

I had an interesting experience a few months ago. I seem to be incorrectly remembering it as percussive tinnitus - all I can find now is pulsatile tinnitus. Whatever it's called, it was a tapping in my ear at about 120 bps, only noticeable when going to sleep. It was possibly caused by a bike fall, very jarring to the body, no head contact, and disappeared after two or three weeks.

I had that in one ear for 2-3 years. By pulsatile tinnitus I assume you mean the loud "whooshing" sound that is in sync with your heart beat (hearing the blood flow basically). Doctors were pretty ignorant about the phenomenon, I gave up. It was not constant either, would go away for a few hours, start again for another few hours - repeat. One day, it stopped and never came back. Pretty mysterious.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by jijijijij »

hanniabu wrote: post #25
jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #19

35 year old male. I developed tinnitus in my left ear only after covid last December. It's been constant since December 21st, 2023. I have an amazingly huge level of empathy of anyone dealing with this - the first few days were some of the longest of my life. Through it all so far, it's amazing how little we seem to know about tinnitus - TL;DR my doctors have said we don't have any great answers for it. Thanks for po…

Same. I also ended up getting dry/itchy inner ear and was given a steroid oil to put in my ear and to my surprise it also helps out my tinnitus for a day or 2 after using it.

If steroids do help, maybe you could try to address inflammation?

Do you use cotton swabs to clean your ears?

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by instagib »

I have had several audiologists begin their speech of “as you may know tinnitus is from damage to the ear due to loud … “, well mine is from Covid.

I read about a study a few years ago that focused on shocking the tongue and its nice someone followed up on it. They described one year of relief post treatment.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201015173126.h...

Bimodal neuromodulation combining sound and tongue stimulation reduces tinnitus symptoms in a large randomized clinical study. Science Translational Medicine, 2020; 12 (564): eabb2830 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb2830

Mine is constant and loud. If people speak and pause it gets difficult to orient where we’re at with the fire alarm sound going on in the middle of speech. Soft spoken people I have to fill in the conversation with guesses to what they said.

Hearing aids help but you’re not supposed to sleep with them in. So when you manage to fall asleep then wake up, it can be hard to fall asleep again or impossible.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by instagib »

hooverd wrote: post #8
uptown wrote: post #3

Seems basic enough that this device should be available without the whole "go to a Lenire doctor" consultation, but I guess people gotta get paid.

Where's the superior Chinese knockoff version.

9V battery to the tongue?

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by jijijijij »

hypeatei wrote: post #9

Hmm, seems interesting but it's intended to take the "focus" off of the ringing rather than actually fix the underlying cause. Personally, having tinnitus for so long I don't even notice it anymore; it would be nice to experience complete "silence" again though.

Have you tried this trick of overloading your acoustic nerves temporarily? For both ears, close your ears with your index finger and than tap on the index fingers with your middle fingers - to make a loud pounding sound - a few times. As far as I know, these short peaks are not dangerous to the ear, but safely overload hearing sensitivity. You may gain a few (sometimes critical) moments of silent peace this way.

Re: An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus

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Post by throwaway63467 »

palla89 wrote: post #54
grugagag wrote: post #20

I have tinnitus only when I think about it. The rest of the time my brain just ignores it.

Am I the only one that hear tinnitus only when sleeping and if I yawn a LOT I can finally remove it?

Probably jaw related, you should have it checked. Can be a posture problem.
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