Any news on Tinnitus Research?
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I got severe tinnitus together with severe hyperacusis, with some tensor tympani syndrome 31 years ago after being mistreated by an ear specialist, it was an accident. Had no energy to go to court for justice. Besides, the doctor didn't put the accident down in the medical journal, so I wouldn't have had any chance anyway.
Went through all kind of treatment, but nothing really worked. Had a fine University degree, but couldn't work. How I did survive is beyond brain capacity to see. After 13 years I tried to get back, backed by nobody but half way succeeded, and still am at 50% (even though I'm not up to that level now due to a lot of other injuries and diseases). Pardon me, but when I got tinnitus in 1989, they said we'd have a cure that century. Then they said no, but before 2010. Then I stopped following research. So my question is simple: when is there a cure to tinnitus?
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glenn06752 Guest
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Hi Ken - last I knew there were a few drugs in the experimental stage. For the most part, all I hear from doctors are, there probably will never be a cure for tinnitus because the brain plays an integral part in the dynamics of tinnitus. I've suffered a half-century with mine and have given up on a cure. I am disappointed to say that I will die with tinnitus and once I've passed, that will be the one and only time the dentist drill will end in my ears.
Thanks for sharing your story. I wish you the best. God Bless you and all that suffer from this miserable nightmare.
Guest glenn06752
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In the 90ies they talked about cell transplants and until 2010 mostly about new nerve blocking medicine.
The brain plays a part alright, but it's not the brain that creates the sound, the ears do. The brain only interpret what the absence of sound sounds like. The problem is still inside the ears, often in the cochlea.
nesty Guest
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I remember in the early 90's tomorrows world or something like that, they had a machine with probes which you placed in your ear (not sure what it called) and they managed to cure tinnitus for about 2 minutes, then it returned in all patients.
Sadly, I do think it's about another 100 years for cure or anything worthwhile, as T isn't fatal, more research money gets pumped into the things, which does kill people.
We can only hope, something is discovered, when it is, it will probably be by accident like the discovering of Antibiotics!
eggbiscuit Guest
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Hi Ken,
As some one else posted on here, there's so many more money-making diseases that tinnitus gets no money thrown at it. Plus, with so many potential causes, it is hard to know where to focus research. Of course various research universities could do just that with government funding but I've yet to see it in this country.Another thing is that it is a $15,000 surgery for less than an hour's work on the part of some neuro-otology surgeon. I've tried many things, the vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, Ring Relief, lipoflavinoids, etc... didn't work. It wasn't until my doc gave me a serotonin drug that it improved but who wants to stay on that all your life. It still isn't perfect but it helps. Wet tissue stuck in your ear also helps because water blocks the sound waves from outside. You may not have that kind of tinnitus. Wishing you the best.