Researchers Find Tinnitus Cause and Treatment

Yahoo ^ | Wed, May 29, 2013 | By Vonda J. Sines

[Red Badger]

Retigabine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retigabine

[Red Badger]

Tinnitus RING LIST! Ping!.........................

[hadaclueonce]

Just as long as they do not run that annoying radio commercial again.

[posterchild]

This helped some people who suffer - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2792703/posts

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Good news but it is of no use to people who have it due to diabetes.

[Safrguns]

I think I would prefer to keep the ringing over epilepsy (jk)

[Red Badger]

More info:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2331701/Epilepsy-drug-help-prevent-TINNITUS-reduces-hyperactivity-cells-ear.html

[Kenny Bunk]

Retagabine? Get me some!

Tinnitus has turned me from the bad-tempered curmudgeon I have been since the age of 11, into a liberal-stalking FReeper!

Do I need to fake epilepsy in order to get this wonder drug? BTW, that "Quietus" product they advertise on my crystal set ain't worth a shiite.

[clintonh8r]

thanks!

[GBA]

I think it can be entertaining. It changes frequencies, volume/intensity and sometimes even the type of sound changes.

Occasionally, it goes away for a while and things will be quiet, then suddenly turns on. There can be several frequencies at the same time. Sometimes I like using a keyboard to figure out which notes are being sustained.

Sometimes I think it might be a spiritual language I haven't learned yet or that I'm pulling in one of the God channels on my mental receiver, but my decoder is out of cal or my beat frequency oscillator isn't stable or is off harmonic.

Weird, this thing called life. I can't hear, but everything sure is loud all the time, even when it's quiet.

[PowderMonkey]

Lost most of my hearing to things that go “BANG!” I suppose I’m lucky. I’ve grown so accustomed to the chirps and whistles as I try to sleep at night, that it’s become like sleeping the in the jungle. I just wish those danged voices would stop telling me to clean and load the guns.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I know what tinnitus is, and I’ve figured this out myself. Tinnitus is caused by a breakdown in the myelin sheath that covers the nerves. As a result, ‘traffic’ going through the nerves leaks out through the sheath and it is the sound of this ‘traffic’ or impulses or frequencies that is picked up by the ear canal and is heard as a ringing sound or high-khz radio frequency sound that is called tinnitus. Simple as that.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

ping to self to review the epilepsy drug info later.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_hearingtestaudiogram.php

[JoeProBono]

[miele man]

Thanks for posting this. Please add me to your ping list. I didn’t know you had one. Tnx.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Here's a much better online hearing test:

http://www.starkey.com/hearing-loss-and-treatment/identify-hearing-loss/Online-Hearing-Test

[BipolarBob]

I wanna double dose as soon as it’s on the market.

[Red Badger]

Sometimes my tinnitus sounds like Gregorian chants and sometimes it sounds like a round going overhead. Mot of the time it sounds like crickets on a summer night with a few frogs thrown in for good measure.........

[Lazamataz]

found that an epilepsy drug known as retigabine prevents tinnitus in animal models

Animals have models?

I guess they do.