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Call Me Op, SP, et al. . . I accept your skepticism over a lack of reported cases of successful tinnitus outcomes treatment with TMJ - related treatments, but does it not seem interesting that a) a lot of people associate tinnitus with stressful episodes, and b) a large percentage (I recall Dr. Levine writing at least 1/3) can modulate their tinnitus through neck and jaw movements, suggesting some kind of somatic connection? Just like the connection between the sleep-wake cycle with tinnitus, this muscle/stress/somatic connection seems like such an obvious approach to explore. forget petscans GABA inhibitor tests; I would think just a good slug of some localized muscle relaxant could be a fair test.

starscm

SP said: "Close to 100% of people who do not have tinnitus can make their ears ring by clenching real hard. Seems to me that if you do have tinnitus, the fact that clenching can make it louder really doesn't mean much."

Hmm. That's an interesting observation. It does mean something, though: that there's more than one method to create the phenomenon of tinnitus. Of course, we know that already, right, with noise exposure, aspirin, etc. So the question is, not so much, why do we experience tinnitus, but why does it persist? (or for some of us, why does it come and go and come again?)

starscm