Re:Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
by novok on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @09:00PM
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I went to an audiologist and an MD for my spontaneously developed tinnitus in my 30s. They did a hearing test, asked a couple of questions that didn't apply to me and they both said "I dunno why you have it" and were fairly useless.
The only hint was a dip in a hearing chart, which wasn't big enough to be considered hearing loss or otherwise. This list alone is a better list of potential causes than those useless doctors.
Re:Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
by tim333 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:10AM
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Tinnitus sufferer here who's read up a bit. I think the situation is no one knows rather than "those useless doctors" in particular. Still trial and error on possible treatments may get somewhere. I've found for me ear plugs when sounds go much over 90db help - I've got a db app on the phone.
Re:Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
by iv42 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:57AM
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Standard audiometry, usually, only produces a test that goes up to 8 kHz (functional speech recognition). An extended high frequency audiometry may, or may not be more revealing as it can go higher. It would have no bearing on your medical treatment though.
- Hearing loss and/or age
- Blood pressure
- TMJ (jaw/dental issues)
- Posture issues
There's a company in Ireland (Neuromod, I think) that has a product like this that seems to be able to work for some tinnitus sufferers, but not all - possibly owing to the differing types. FX322 is a hearing-loss drug that works via stem cells and has shown promising results in treating the hearing loss angle.
If yours is TMJ or blood pressure, though... you need an entirely different plan of attack.
Posting this comment mostly because I really get tired of reading threads where this isn't acknowledged; no one cure fits all. I've had it since I was a child and while habituation does factor in slightly, I think wider understanding of this all needs to be out there.