Just thought I could add someting here. I've had tinnitus for years but it has gotten worse of late. I had the baseline buzz but it was overlayed with a piercing pitch and occasional chirping which, if you were to hear it coming from outside would cause you to wince. I started taking magnesium, B-12, and niacin along with a multivitiamin. Right away, the high pitches and chirping went away and the volume was reduced. I can live with this level of noise.
T Treatments - Snake Oil or Useful?
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artms, what type of magnesium are you taking? I took magnesium citrate (hightly absorbable)which resulted in diarrhea after 4 days - but it really seemed to work for reducing the level of the T. I am currently also taking B-12. What dose of B-12 are you taking if you don't mind telling me. I am also taking B-5 and multivitamin. This seems to be helping.
Thanks for your input. Jodi |
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Posts: 1323 (12/13/05 5:53 PM) |
i've heard about er long zo chi wan being prescribed for oto problems in chinese medicine, i'm glad you have found efficacy with it. Let me ask you, what are the effects of the constituents inside the pills as written on the leaflet?
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Posts: 3 (12/15/05 6:38 PM) |
I have had T for only about 2 months but have spent many hours and a lot of money at doctors offices. The only thing that gives me any relief is Bio-Ear from Nature's Answer. If I put it on cotton and leave it in my ear for several hours, twice each day, I almost don't notice the ringing and sometimes it actually stops. (I only have it in one ear)
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Michael Abrams |
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Posts: 950 (12/15/05 9:24 PM) |
yos1 - I have added your vote. Thanks !
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Posts: 299 (12/19/05 5:06 AM) |
shouldn't Campral be added to the list.
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Posts: 950 (12/19/05 6:06 AM) |
Quote:It was added a while ago bigjeep. It's right above Charles Vald CD. |
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Posts: 8 (12/26/05 9:46 PM) |
You missed one.
The website indicates that what makes Tinnitus worse is a negative emotional response: the feeling of fear, despair and the words from a physician that nothing can be done. Unfortunately for me, it took me a long time to find the right resources. One of the best sites I have found is at www.noiserelief.com I have used the full audio spectrum sound 20 minute MP3 download available from a link from the site and played it 2-3 hours per day usually at night while relaxing or watching TV (for 4-5 months). I still use it occasionally if Im stressed and the noise is especially loud. I would highly recommend this product and the MP3 airplane cockpit sound each available for $10 from the site. The website indicates that: Delivering digitally produce white noise directly to the ear using headphones reduces the gain or sensitivity in certain areas of the brain, makes Tinnitus or ear noise less noticeable and avoids a negative emotional response. By playing the white noise (usually on an MP3 player) to partially cover up your ear noise using your MP3 player you avoid the negative emotional response. Over time usually 6- 18 months using this technique you will be able to Retrain the Brain to ignore the sound like someone who lives near a busy freeway simply tunes out a meaningless highway sound. |
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Michael Abrams |
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Posts: 950 (12/27/05 10:28 AM) |
I have added www.noiserelief.com to The List.
Thank you. |
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Posts: 19 (01/10/06 10:35 PM) |
One of the primary reason for failures of treatment has been that most T is at three levels - ear nerve and brain.
Brain mapping has shown why you can have T with the ear not involved. Of course there are treatable causes - excess salicyliates, hydrops, and other too. |
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Posts: 19 (01/10/06 11:16 PM) |
the reason cognitive therapy works is because you have a built in mechanism - if its a tiger you get ready to fight with "fighting chemicals."
for most persons Tinnitus is a bad, a tiger, etc. With cognitive Rx you learn that the T is not a bad and the "fighting chemicals" are reduced or cease. The reason biofeedback works is that much symptoms of T is due to anxiety reinforcement. Drop that and much symptoms cease. Evidence is that many police and firefirghters get T. But they tell old Sarge about it and he laughs and says, "hell we all get get . F'get about it" and so police rarely ever have symptoms of T. The have correct cognition and they don't have anxiety reinforcement. |
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Posts: 6096 (01/13/06 1:32 PM) |
ent consult wrote:
Evidence is that many police and firefirghters get T. But they tell old Sarge about it and he laughs and says, "hell we all get get . F'get about it" and so police rarely ever have symptoms of T. The have correct cognition and they don't have anxiety reinforcement. ................. What you are hinting at here is a response that goes well beyond cognition. It gets at the very high neuronal plasticity associated with tinnitus in the early stages - and the problems that can result. In other words, what you believe at the beginning of your experience has a much stronger influence than your beliefs later on. -Op |
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Posts: 48 (01/16/06 6:50 PM) |
After being away from the TSMB for awhile, I have another "treatment to add - ACUPUNCTURE. Here is the treatment plan I was prescribed today:
Each treatment $60 (length of treatemnt 30 - 45 minutes) Treatments per week: 2 - 3 Herbal supplements to enhance treatment - at least 3 Supplements are gingko, B complex and another Chinese herb Length of treatment: Unknown. Guarantee to eliminate T - (HA_HA_HA_HA) 80% probability of reducing level of T. Any one have anything better to report?  |
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Michael Abrams |
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Posts: 950 (01/17/06 10:03 AM) |
Thanks! It was there, somehow lost it on the initial post but it was still there on the voting post.
I have added accupuncture back to the list. Thanks and good luck !!! |
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Posts: 206 (01/21/06 8:26 PM) |
What is WRT ? Im lost
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Michael Abrams |
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Posts: 950 (01/21/06 9:56 PM) |
Back when WRT was mentioned (tongue-in-cheek) there was ALOT of discussion regarding TRT. It was meant in good spirit, and usually gets a mention now and then around here
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Posts: 1 (01/23/06 3:41 PM) |
You are taking a poll on treatments that may be working-what about what isn't? I have been on a steady dose of Ring Stop for three months. I will have a reduction of buzzes for about an hour or two every other week, but it always reverts back to "normal." I'm so tired of so called cures that don't reap anything but money in somebody's pocket. Does anyone have any recent news along the legit line of cures? Does anyone have any info about natrum salicylicum or salicylicum acidum?
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Michael Abrams |
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Posts: 950 (01/23/06 6:14 PM) |
Quote:Hello mountain slate  Actually, The List just lists as many treatments/cures etc that I have seen on the t-boards over the years. The fact that none have many votes "for", probably means that most (all) treatments on this list don't work for many people with tinnitus (at least the ones here that have tried them) Quote:Due to the nature of the beast, when the time comes that there is a cure, it may not be universal for all 'types' of tinnitus. Currently there are some discussions on the board here for possible treatments. As far as a 'cure', nothing yet. But I/we still hold hope !! |
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Posts: 3 (01/29/06 7:24 AM) |
Maybe I'm just new but, I don't understand why there is no thread here where people discuss the various therapies/supplements that have in fact helped them, and how much they have helped them. I thought this was supposed to be a board where people provided support and information to help each other but it seems like it's nothing but a bunch of people bitching about the lack of anything out there that works. Is it really the case that nothing works or is that just the tone of this board? I understand that different things help different people, but I'd just like to hear what people have to say about their own experiences with them. Perhaps there were more helpful threads in the past that I'd have to dig through the archives to find (which I don't have time to do), but if so that is regrettable. By the way I have had T all my life. I don't remember a time when I didn't have it. My mother also had it exactly like me so I think whatever it is that caused it was hereditary.
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Posts: 308 (02/03/06 6:22 AM) |
So we're not allowed to @#%$ about our T either now?
Ok let's see now. I can't sleep, I can't concentrate, I can't treat my T, I have a crap-house life, and on top of all this I can't even complain about my T? Quote: Is it really the case that nothing works or is that just the tone of this board? I would love for something to work. By god, if you find something, tell me. But the fact remains that nothing works. And plus, you do find ppl here talking about what helps them. So don't say that there isn't or a lack thereof. |
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