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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That must be why my ears ring when I eat grapes!
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Very interesting, but you should know that sucrose (table sugar) is half glucose and half fructose. If it tastes sweet, it’s got fructose.
Exactly!
tweets
I am familiar with them.
T37
Here’s a link to my search of Dr. Jack Kruse’s blog for “fourth ventricle”. There’s lots to absorb.
https://jackkruse.com/?s=fourth+ventricle
https://jackkruse.com/?s=vagus+nerve
I’m not in lock step with some of Kruse’s farther-out treatments, like infrared helmets, but you might be. It’s hard to find a search engine on Kruse’s site, but you can replace words in the above URL’s and search with your browser.
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Thanks
Years of gunfire, helecopters, and jet aircraft, throw in some rocket and mortar attacks and voila, lifelong cicadas singing inc my head.
The Tweets were really bad, when coming at you, not as bad, going away. But, I am convinced, that it was the Tweets that damaged my hearing. 👎
I got timmitus long time ago. It started about one month after starting a medication. Once I saw the connection,I discontinued the drug...my doc didn’t believe me...but it went away completely after one month. It is listed as one of the rare side effects of the drug....but the timeline of the effects correlation was very suggestive of the drug being the cause.
One consideration should probably be to examine what things has changed in the sufferers life in last 2 or 3 months. There could be a clue in there. ear infection, antibiotic use?...blow to the head, bug in the ear canal...etc...
High fructose corn syrup is basically sucrose (table sugar), but with a little more fructose. Sucrose is 50-50 fructose-to-glucose. HFCS ranges from 50-50 fructose-to-glucose to as high as 85-15, but most lies under 65-35. The problem is fructose. Avoid sucrose and HFCS and you avoid the fructose problem.
I admit that I have more problems with fructose and alcohol than most people because of a suspected ALDH2 mutation (Asian flush from American Indian heritage). I consider myself to be a canary in the coal mine.
When I was a kid, in the 50’s and 60’s, soft drinks still used cane sugar for sweeteners and so did everything else.
We had relatively few obese kids in school, only two in my class of 30+, and they were from obese families.
I live near a Middle School and a High School, so I see them walk to school, and most of the kids look overweight..............
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