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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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. So tinnitus is our brains trying to fill in “signal” from a hearing loss...that is now missing.
https://chchearing.org/nyc/tinnitus-specialist/hyperacusis-relief/
Our brains have plasticity which tries to adjust and hide the noise...it takes years, or decades. Some have had limited success with TRT....
Others have had success with “masking,” even masking hearing aids which covers up the noise with another noise. ENTs suck....they like tinnitus, gives them money since there isn’t a cure.
There are drugs being developed....but still a decade away.
They are working on drugs to make the inner ear cilia regenerate....will make people hear again, then the brain has its signal returned....and no tinnitus.
Others are working on devices to calm the brain’s sensitivity through electrode stimulus, and others to train your brain to ignore the sounds by helping the brain’s plasticity.
The snake oil tapping or “drumming technique” is a distraction.....you could stick a pin in your butt every 15 seconds and the pain would do at you as well.
The guy is pushing a technique that admits, “we are all different so that it is impossible to suggest a single form of treatment that will work in every case and for every person.”
As I said, your brain is trying to heal itself....by stopping the noise.....but it is still a hearing loss which is usually the problem...
So does the body regenerate from hearing loss, doctor?
Tinnitus has ZERO to do with ear drums ....
You like your straw man arguments....that tapping technique has been proven by many tinnitus sufferers not to work, but if it works for you...great. Placebos can be very convincing.