About a year ago, tinnitus surfaced in a setting of an emotional
turmoil I was going through.  The ill was maddening.  Like Jennifer
Bell in this group, life was no longer worth living to me.  I recall
in one instance in which I told my GP that if he could have cured my
tinnitus, I would have given him whatever I had, even though whatever
I had could have been a billion US$...

Today, I am experiencing 'normal' silence more than half of the time
in a week.  Though this is not a 'total' victory, I think I have had
the upper hand over my t.

The most painful and annoying part of my T experience was the 'brain
ring' or ringing inside the centre of my head. I went to many doctors
of various kinds and tried different treatments and meds.  My first
liberation came from the cessation of hydrochloridethiade, then with
the replacement of HCTZ with Lasix and betahistine.  But it was
finally, at the end of my experimentation, gingko biloba that helped
'move' the ring out or transformed the brain ring into ringing in the
ear drum. And it was an acupuncture operation that short-circuited the
Zeeeeeeeeee sound which feels like electrical spark releasing.

For almost an entire year while I was working as an expat in China, I
was never willing to try gingko biloba and acupuncture.  The reason
was that I was constantly under the influence of those 'controlled'
studies findings reported in alt that show both of these two
treatments do nothing for the t patients, and that whatever good
results reported by the t patients were just 'imaginary',
'unscientific', 'unreal', etc..

I think there comes a time in which as patients we have to define
clearly what *truth* is.  In my view, *truth* is what we perceive.
After all, the t sound could also be said to be 'imaginary'!  If we as
patients had found something that forms a cause-and-effect
relationship with our ill, that to me would be the *truth* to us as
individuals.

In science, we seek *truth*.  Being *logical* does not _neccessarily_
mean being *true*!

FP