Likewise, I'm sure.

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No, Francis, I am not a Dr. However I have my MS degree in Biomedical
Sciences and have worked in the medical/dental field for 20+ years and I
know what I am talking about.  But, I don't expect you to listen to me or to
anyone else who tries to give you advise.
Afterall, this has been your treatments thus far:

T sufferers simply eat A LOT OF black beans.  According to what I have
found out, not only do black beans help them cure T, some of the
sufferers have had their white hair turned black again.  The theory is
this: black beans invigorate the kidney, which in turn invigorates the
rest of the body.

The day i dislodged myself from diurectics was the day of liberation for me
as far as my
tinnitus was concerned.

In each and every one of these occasions, I experienced a 'stedio'
effect of ringing on both ears from my tinnitus.  Without any of these
products, the ringing takes place in one ear only.

The funny thing is: after taking Dyazide, the ringing
seems to shift to the middle

That is a good suggestion but unfortunately 2 doctors of mine do think
cleaning up the blood vessels is part of the solution to tinnitus, the
other one, who is a herbalist, obviously disagrees.  So in order to
figure out who is revealing the 'truth', i have to judge each of them
by the results of taking the medication they prescribe to me.  So far
the herbalist makes most sense.  His prescribed medicine has turned
the ringing sound into the sound of water flowing through a pipe.

Thank you for the soothing words.  Currently i am trying everything.
It seems to be my tinnitus comes from hidden anxiety inside my system.

To improve it as much as possible.  I used to suffer from somatic
discomfort in my head about 2 months ago but now it is under control
with the use of Lasix on an as needed basis.

I have discovered that out of the 7 days in a week, 4 are
'consistently' good while 3 'consistently' bad days.  Regardless of
the kind of medication I put on, I could have the bad days improved in
degree but not in kind.  That is to say, it is still the solid 3 days
in which things are annoying.

I have discovered that not only high salt diet could affect tinnitus,
high sugar diet could do that also.  Both high salt and sugar diet
affect the inner ear fluid concentration which could result in an
aggravated T.

Though i am no doctor and no scientist, i would nevertheless venture>to say
that there is at least a correlational if not a casual>relationship
between  alcohol intake and tinnitus sound.

I am no longer dealing with the sound but am dealing with the somatic
discomfort that comes with the sound.  I will be talking to my doc
about using carbonic dehydrase inhibitor soon.

Betahistine mesilate and hyperbaric oxygen chamber seem to have worked
a bit in terms of bringing about 'vertical' progress.  And somewhere
they seem to have reached their limits.

When I had my T onset
at first, i was constantly given the herbs that were meant to look
after the kidney.  The herbs did produce some silence.  But in order
for the silence to continue, one has to boil the herb tea daily and it
was a laborious exercise.

The doctor in the neurology department concluded that my T is due to
some nerve conditions inside the brain and in my view is similar to
T-7 cause of tinnitus as described in T-Gone website.

When it rang on my left side of the head, it triggered fast heartbeats but
when it
rings on the right hand side, there has never been any fast
heartbeats.  Currently, after both the intravenous injection and
hyperbaric oxygen treatment, the ringing on the left side no longer
bothers me.

I have found ATIVAN and on one occasion prochlorperazine helpful in
terms of making the noise go away.  I heard that in the US the
tinnitus victims are on Xanax for long term treatment.

My tinnitus came out in the process of changing my high blood pressure
medication from exclusively calcium channel blocker to a combination
approach which included diurectics, beta-blocker and calcium channel
blocker.

Go for a hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment.  Half of the people in
the chamber here I am go there because of hearing problems.

I have discovered that if I take all the needed high blood pressure
medicine at one time in the morning, such an action could trigger the
inner ear and the inner ear, once triggered, rings for the whole day.
On the other hand, if i divided the needed regimen into two portions
that are to be taken two times, the inner ear is less likely triggered
and the subsequent ringing becomes smaller.

Yesterday(Jan 28), i did away with Dyazide but replaced it with 2.5 mg
of Plendil.  The noise was 60% reduced and confined to the left side
of the ear/brain in the form of low frequency buzz.  I took 10 mg of
Zestril and 2.5 mg of Plendil in the morning.  From 10am to 3pm, it
was quite tolerably quiet.

I didn't.

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(?.??    (?.*? ?.??  `?-*  * Patty *     `?-*

fyfpoon@hotmail.com (francispoon) wrote in part:

Actually, for myself, *I'm* the final say.