Posted on 11/18/2022 12:46:04 PM PST by Red Badger
The ringing, rushing sound of tinnitus is a complex condition. It's caused by a range of factors, so there's no known one-size-fits-all treatment. But researchers are reporting excellent results with a combination treatment in a smartphone app.
Some 5% of people experience tinnitus at some point in their lives – I'm one of them. It can develop after repeated exposure to loud noise; that's probably where I picked it up, thanks to a long association with drums, live music and loud motorcycles. But it can also arise thanks to wax buildup, the effect of medication, inflammation due to illness, the growth of tumors, or even circulatory system issues.
Sometimes it's barely noticeable, other times it can be impossible to ignore. This phantom noise can go away and come back, it can change from a high-pitched ring in your left ear, like the sound when an old TV is turned on with no sound, to a high-pitched hiss in your right, as if somebody's left a high-powered guitar amplifier on over your shoulder somewhere. It can make it hard to sleep, intruding upon the silence of the night, or it can flare up and make it hard to hear conversations. This is because, whatever the initial cause of tinnitus, the symptom itself is generated by the brain. It can cause stress and anxiety, and it can worsen in response to them in a vicious cycle.
There have been many treatments proposed, and some have shown promise in certain types of tinnitus patients, but a team of researchers at the University of Auckland has found it's getting strong results with a smartphone app that takes a kitchen-sink approach, combining a number of different treatments in one.
The "digital polytherapeutic" combined "goal-based counseling with personalized passive and active game-based sound therapy."
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2022.958730/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2022.958730/full
There are days I wish had that “hat”!
Tell me when they get something that works. Not experimental and maybe in six months we’ll know something.
I live with it and 90% of the time I forget its there, but unless and until they have a surgery or drug to make the ringing STOP, I'm fine as is.
It’s definitely stress and sinus related for me. I’m sure at some point there will be a treatment, and I’m considering acupuncture as an option. I always thought acupuncture was junk-science, but watching the scientific community’s behavior during COVID made me open to look at alternatives.
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Unfortunately, I can’t prove the app is publicly available, which means it isn’t something that can immediately help anyone.
Thanks for the pings, though!
I just went thru an inflammation bout and mine are still pounding. 105mm cannon in the right ear. The hydraulic pump on the M-1 tank screaming in the left. FT-4A gas turbine roar at my 6 o’clock. I don’t get a migraine unless I can’t escape. If I can’t get away from the crazy and crawl in my hole for a while the frustration and anxiety start snowballing. It gets FUBAR after that.
Tinnitus is closely associated with intracranial idiopathic hypertension (IIH), or high pressure inside the skull. According to me the most common cause is inflammation emanating from the fourth ventricle. The inflammation is caused when undigested lumen travels via a porous vagus nerve from the small intestine. The initiator of this complex is ingestion of fructose and harmful proteins like wheat gluten.
The Battlefield Accupuncture at the VA works for my lower back and sciatic pain for about 6-10 days. All acupuncture works. Ive been recommending it for almost a decade.
Like everything else it won’t help the ringing directly, but they can touch on most of the things that cause it and settle it down some.
That must be why my ears ring when I eat grapes!
As a 26 year F-16 avionics mechanic, I suffer greatly from tinnitus.
It did not help I am a gun enthusiast and enjoy rock concerts.
But ear ringing is driving me nuts.
I have posted this before but there are some new readers.
Till we get the magic bullet these pressure points may provide some help for some! Put the heel of your hands in front of your ears but behind your jaw. Lace your hands back until both of your middle fingers meet at the base of your skull and top of your spine. Take your index fingers and tap them on the back of your middle fingers at the back of your head where your middle fingers meet, maybe 30 second or a minute. It will help reduce the ringing for a while for some people.
Also, press your thumbs between the ear and the jaw and your index fingers on the soft spot at the top of your skull. This might also help.
There may be other pressure points. Check the internet. Good luck!
I’ve had Tinnitus since 2014. It just came on slowly over a period of two weeks and is still with me. Went to an ENT and he said there nothing outwardly wrong and that time there was no cure. My girlfriend has it for very brief periods of time then it goes away. Go figure.
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Thank you. “The initiator of this complex is ingestion of fructose and harmful proteins like wheat gluten.” I shall research ‘wheat gluten.’ Tinnitus is so bad that all options of healing are welcome.
Long time 11B here. I’m with you on all points.
I have a bit of it too. Mostly from walking from my car, to the tower, with them dang tweets taxiing by. They were like a 6,000 pound dog whistle.
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