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Re:Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy by shrubble on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:26PM (#31042139)
My personal albeit anecdotal evidence is that certain foods, or possibly too much sodium, can cause tinnitus. When I have tinnitus I drink a lot of water and reduce my sodium intake - I think that acesulfame postassium (NutraSweet) can cause it for me as well.

You might want to experiment with changing your diet, drinking more water, etc.

Re:Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy by samstave on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:55PM (#31042533)
I'm pretty sure you are spot on with Sodium:

I do eat a lot of sodium, but here is an interesting anecdote:

A friend's husband had Lyme Disease - and had very bad veritgo from it which was exacerbated by a high sodium intake (I assume the ear works on the sodium potassium pump in some manner?)

but she used to have to make a very careful diet for him so as to remove sodium as much as possible, which would prevent his vertigo.

Re:Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy by jus101 on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:58PM (#31045752)
The vertigo could be due to Ménière‘s disease. I had it for a year or so in my 20s - reducing salty snacks sorted it out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ménière%27s_disease

Re:Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy by Terry_Roll on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:54PM (#31047906)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2655085/

"Where an inflammatory component is suspected in bilateral Ménière’s disease, short courses of systemic glucocorticoids may be appropriate. It recently has been shown that glucocorticoids not only influence inflammatory process in Ménière’s disease, but also alter fluid dynamics via an interaction with the sodium pumps in the semicircular canals (Ponduglula et al 2004). Intra-tympanic application of corticosteroids appears to have only temporary effects (Dodson 2004) and is probably not recommended"