Does anyone remember the name of the medication that the military was supposedly using to cure Tinnitus? I saw some post back on QRV but cannot find the reference anywhere else.
Thanks.
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Yep crazy.....snake oil crazy....just like the viral video of tapping your ear....all that does is distract your brain for a few minutes. Tinnitus is inner ear damage, simple...and it sucks.
I've been to an audiologist and have measurable hearing loss. She explained that tinnitus was the brain filling in noise in a certain frequency range to compensate for hearing damage aka psychological, to some extent. The tapping and other physical methods likely work as neurological trigger points. It's a very odd condition.
Yes....your brain turns up its “gain” or signal sensitivity if anyone has ever used a guitar amplifier. So now the brain is looking for the signal that is suddenly gone due to hearing loss. Please don’t let any “doctor” give you Prozac or other drugs to calm you, helping coping with tinnitus....that only gets you hooked on the drugs.
You will never “get used to it” but realize that damage was done, and as long as you stay away from noise over 85db, it shouldn’t get worse. Use earplugs....earplugs and good muffs at the shooting range. Always have some foam earplugs in your pocket just in case...I will never own a convertible now.
That's a big negative on the SSRIs fren. Bad stuff there.
Guns and loud music did most of the damage. Hard to stay away from 85 db when you like loud music while driving. Not often as the good system is in my play car. I don't wear them on the motorcycle, instead opting for music in the helmet, which I try and keep low.
My hearing is OK up to about 2k, but then it rolls off on a steep slope, dropping about 10-12 db every doubling in frequency. The problem is there are parts of speech in the 1500-2500 Hz range which comprise speech - sounds like "ck" and "st". It makes it very hard to hear in loud environments like a bar.
I'm destined for hearing aids at some point. I'm trying not to get too old too quickly.
There is a university of Michigan device that has been in the works for a decade, hopefully that will be ready in a few years.
A similar company in Sweden called Neuromod has an electrode device as well, but the effectiveness rate was only around 30%, and you must travel there and it is $3,000.