VA Now Covers Cost of the Levo System for Tinnitus Treatment

www.prnewswire.com ^ | Feb 26, 2019, 08:38 ET | Otoharmonics Corporation

[Red Badger]

Tinnitus Ring List!.......................

[Red Badger]

Ring!......................

[Red Badger]

To All:

Hear (sic) is a link to EAR & HEARING, The Official Journal of the American Auditory Society.

It has a compilation of all recent studies on hearing and Auditory problems:

https://journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/pages/default.aspx

[Yo-Yo]

What?

I started getting severe tinnitus in my left ear about two years ago. About 10 years ago I was in a small private plane with a friend, and I adjusted my Bose noise-cancelling headset while he was on takeoff, and blew out my left ear.

The hearing eventually came back in my left ear, and was fine for years, but about two years ago I lost all high frequency hearing above 7K, and have a constant ringing in my ear.

The ringing has gotten worse now that we have adopted a Chihuahua puppy, and she just learned how to bark. It physically hurts my ear, so now I’ve taken to wearing a foam earplug in that ear.

I wish there was a cure for tinnitus, but I know that all of the ‘one simple tricks’ are snake oil.

[Clay Moore]

Has anyone tried this? Did it work?

[oh8eleven]

I haven't contacted my local VA yet, but I wonder if availability is based on the local office having trained staff? And if so, is the local staff required to take the training?
A few years ago, I contacted my VA regarding the Neuromonics Oasis device and they said they were under-staffed and couldn't have the time to send anyone to training. Morons.

[Red Badger]

The ringing has gotten worse now that we have adopted a Chihuahua puppy, and she just learned how to bark. It physically hurts my ear, so now I’ve taken to wearing a foam earplug in that ear.

We have a Chihuahua that is about 16 years old. She barks only when someone rings the doorbell....................

[Gay State Conservative]

Very interesting piece.I was just diagnosed as having moderate hearing loss by the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary,a very highly respected center for treatment of eye,ear,nose and throat disorders. The doctor recommended hearing aids but mentioned nothing about a remedy for the tinnitus.

If this treatment is effective I hope that vets who suffered ear and hearing damage due to service in the Middle East have full access to it.

[Red Badger]

Don’t know.....................

[Raycpa]

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Also please add to list

[Red Badger]

American Tinnitus Association:

https://www.ata.org/managing-your-tinnitus/tinnitus-patient-navigator

[GailA]

Even hearing aids that offer Tin. reduction are horrid.

My hearing was surgery damage. Inner Ear Perfusion for Meniere’s, Low Freq. but the Tin has been there for a long time, I have Meniere’s and that maybe part of it.

Hubby has High Freq Flight Deck hearing loss 20 yrs working the Flight Deck when at sea. VA covers his hearing aids. He turned down the Tin cancelling ones, the hiss white noise was so bad. Same for me.

[Red Badger]

Done!.................

[Red Badger]

Ours has a Hearing specialist that comes in maybe twice a month.....................

[OKSooner]

Thanks.

[oh8eleven]

He turned down the Tin cancelling ones, the hiss white noise was so bad.
I've had the white noise aids for three years now and they're a Godsend.
I don't need them everyday, but when I do use them, they really help dealing with the damned hissing.

[Afterguard]

This is interesting to me because I think I may finally be developing tinnitus almost 30 years after my Navy career of more than 5000 flight hours in and around big turbo-prop aircraft. Very mild at the moment, basically just white noise now. We’ll have to see (hear) as time goes by, I guess. Good to know there may be solutions out there.

[Red Badger]

Mine started when I was a young man in my twenties, right after I got out of the USMC. I’m now 64. It got progressively worse until it’s practically all I can hear now.......

[M Kehoe]

Sometimes it gets so bad that I think my wife can hear it too.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

5.56mm

[Buttons12]

My dad has tinnitus. He doesn’t care, says it’s just his sound, and hopes when he gets to the next world, it doesn’t annoy the other souls.